Ajedrez. Revista. Magazine New in Chess 2017/2

The Club Player's Magazine

Contents

108 pages of the best in chess:

Jakarta Street Life

A Women Grandmaster playing chess in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of the night

NIC's Café

No pants chess on Union Square. Houston, we have a chess problem. Volodya Putin's 'dangerous sympathy'. The Chess Super Bowl.

Your Move

Readers write about Carlsen's mate, the future of blitz, Gareyev's blindfold record and Taimanov's chess table.

Infographic

Is Wesley So's unbeaten streak of 56 games anywhere near the record in elite competition?

Fair & Square

What Werner Heisenberg, Homer Simpson, Nicolas Chamfort, Peter Thiel and others said about chess.

Living the dream

As if he is casually checking off dream goals on a bucket list, Wesley So is going from strength to strength. In Wijk aan Zee the 23-year-old American reached a new milestone as he claimed another super-tournament, for the first time finishing ahead of the World Champion. A remarkable report by Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam, with crucial games annotated by So, Aronian, Giri, Adhiban and Wei Yi.

Interview: Adhiban Baskaran

Meet 'the next big thing from India'. He tells about his Augmented Destiny and how he beat Karjakin and reached a winning position against Carlsen.

Judit Polgar's Column

A masterclass on what she learned from Bent Larsen.

Maximize Your Tactics

Train your tactical skills with Russian expert Maxim Notkin

A fresh Bird's view

In his career, which spanned five decades, Henry Bird (1829-1908) was a tireless promotor of the game. His victims included Staunton, Steinitz and Lasker. An intriguing portrait by Hans Renette.

Tata Steel Challengers

Gawain Jones qualified for the 2018 Masters and happily shares his adventures in a chess-crazy village. He annotates a crucial win, with additional game annotations by Ragger and Hansen.

Miguel Najdorf

Hans Ree on the memoir written by Don Miguel's daughter Liliana. A remote but omnipresent father.

Rock 'n' Roll

Hikaru Nakamura and Ju Wenjun were the big winners in the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival. A special report with masterclasses by Nakamura, MVL, Giri and Hou Yifan.

Celeb 64

Benny Andersson, chess player

Chess Pattern Recognition

Arthur van de Oudeweetering on explosive pawn blocks.

Nigel Short

Our columnist cannot believe why hardly anyone wants to see what is there for everyone to see: Agon Ltd is bad for chess (and for your blood pressure).

S.O.S.: Tromping the Slav

Jeroen Bosch presents a tricky early deviation

Jan Timman's Column

A good look at two very young talents that debuted in Wijk aan Zee: Ramesh­babu Praggnanandhaa (remember that name!) and Lucas van Foreest

Sadler on Books

Matthew Sadler reviews five books: 'The Fianchetto Solution' by Neiman and Shoker, 'Opening Repertoire: The English' by Cummings, 'A Simple Chess Opening Repertoire for White' by Collins, 'Chess Strategy for Kids' by Engquist and 'Najdorf x Najdorf'.

Just Checking

What is Anna Rudolf's greatest fear?

Contributors to this issue

Levon Aronian, Adhiban Baskaran, Jeroen Bosch, Anish Giri, Eric Hansen, John Henderson, Gawain Jones, Dylan McClain, Hikaru Nakamura, Maxim Notkin, Arthur van de Oudeweetering, Judit Polgar, Markus Ragger, Hans Ree, Hans Renette, Anna Rudolf, Matthew Sadler, Nigel Short, Wesley So, Jan Timman, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Wei Yi, Hou Yifan

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