CHESS Magazine – December 2013

All the regular features of the UK’s best-selling CHESS magazine plus more! Regular features such as: How Good is Your Chess? Saunders on Chess, Studies, Home & Overseas News, Find the Winning Moves, Calendar, Book Reviews. In this issue:

• Peter the Great …………………………………………………………………………………… 8

  Steve Giddins on Svidlers seventh Russian title

• Youth Prevails…………………………………………………………………………………….14

  Yochanan Afek reports from the Univ tournament in Hoogeveen

• SOCAR Czechmated in Rhodes……………………………………………………….20

  David Navara and Jan van de Griendt annotate

• Opening Trends ………………………………………………………………………………….25

  The Slav is at no.1, but the Schlechter Slav is not to be feared

• Anand vs. Carlsen ………………………………………………………………………………26

  The latest from the big match as of going to press

• The Race for the Super Sixteen ……………………………………………………..30

  Matt Lunn on an unusual feature at this years London Classic

• League Chess in the 1980s……………………………………………………………..34

  John Saunders used to be a London League captain

• Positional Sacrifices………………………………………………………………………….38

  James Coleman supplies further guidance for the club player