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01-01 September Cover_Layout 1 20/08/2017 21:23 Page 1 02-02 New in Chess Advert_Layout 1 20/08/2017 21:22 Page 1 03-03 Contents_Chess mag - 21_6_10 20/08/2017 21:21 Page 3 Chess Contents Founding Editor: B.H. Wood, OBE. M.Sc † Executive Editor: Malcolm Pein Editorial.................................................................................................................4 Editors: Richard Palliser, Matt Read Malcom Pein on the latest developments in the game Associate Editor: John Saunders 60 Seconds with... IM Craig Hanley.........................................................7 Subscriptions Manager: Paul Harrington We caught up with one of the star performers from the British Twitter: @CHESS_Magazine Twitter: @TelegraphChess - Malcolm Pein Personal Bests ...................................................................................................8 Website: www.chess.co.uk Wojtaszek triumphed at Dortmund and MVL shone in St. Louis Subscription Rates: Radjabov Returns...........................................................................................16 United Kingdom Steve Giddins on a small upset at the Geneva Grand Prix 1 year (12 issues) £49.95 2 year (24 issues) £89.95 An Appeal from IM Mike Basman............................................................19 3 year (36 issues) £125 Find the Winning Moves .............................................................................20 Europe Can you do as well as the players at the South Wales International? 1 year (12 issues) £60 2 year (24 issues) £112.50 Keeping up with the Joneses....................................................................24 3 year (36 issues) £165 Gawain Jones won an enthralling speed play-off in Llandudno USA & Canada Making Your Own Fortune.........................................................................26 1 year (12 issues) $90 Craig Hanley certainly made the most of his return to the board 2 year (24 issues) $170 3 year (36 issues) $250 Best of British.................................................................................................30 Luke McShane & Gawain Jones on their best games from the British Rest of World (Airmail) 1 year (12 issues) £72 A Close-Run Thing.........................................................................................33 2 year (24 issues) £130 Roger Emerson reports on the hard-fought British Over-65s 3 year (36 issues) £180 That Missed Draw..........................................................................................34 Distributed by: Jonathan Speelman spotted a draw in a famous bishop endgame Post Scriptum (UK only), Unit G, OYO Business Park, Hindmans Way, How Good is Your Chess? ..........................................................................36 Dagenham, RM9 6LN - Tel: 020 8526 7779 Daniel King presents a fabulous attacking gem by Ray Robson LMPI (North America) 8155 Larrey Street, Montreal (Quebec), Forgetting Our Intention ...........................................................................40 H1J 2L5, Canada - Tel: 514 355-5610 Amatzia Avni on a peculiar type of error and how to avoid it Views expressed in this publication are not Falling Into It...................................................................................................42 necessarily those of the Editors. Contributions to Matthew Lunn on why we might want to fall into an opening trap the magazine will be published at the Editors’ discretion and may be shortened if space is limited. Never Mind the Grandmasters................................................................44 Carl Portman always enjoys playing in a chess tournament No parts of this publication may be reproduced without the prior express permission of the publishers. Which World Champion Are You?...........................................................46 All rights reserved. © 2017 Like many, Milos Pavlovic has his favourite world champion Chess Magazine (ISSN 0964-6221) is published by: Forthcoming Events .....................................................................................48 Chess & Bridge Ltd, 44 Baker St, London, W1U 7RT Tel: 020 7288 1305 Fax: 020 7486 7015 Home News.......................................................................................................49 Email: [email protected], Website: www.chess.co.uk Agon founder and former ECF President Andrew Paulson has died FRONT COVER: Overseas News ...............................................................................................50 Cover Design: Matt Read Hour Yifan and Wei Yi have been making headlines Cover photography: Arnold Lutton Solutions............................................................................................................53 US & Canadian Readers – You can contact us via our American branch – Chess4Less based in West Palm New Books and Software...........................................................................55 Beach, FL. Call toll-free on 1-877 89CHESS (24377). Sean Marsh enjoyed two new works from Gambit You can even order Subscriber Special Offers online via www.chess4less.com Saunders on Chess ........................................................................................58 John reflects on the change to the format of the British Printed in the UK by The Magazine Printing Photo credits: Valera Belobeev (p.16), Maria Emelianova (pp.6, 37), James Essinger (p.49), Alina L’Ami Company using only paper from FSC/PEFC (p.53), Phil Makepeace (pp.7, 27-28, 30-33), Lennart Ootes (pp.4-5, 12-15, 22), Niki Riga (p.52), suppliers www.magprint.co.uk Georgious Souleidis (pp.8-11), Fiona Steil-Antoni (p.18), Paul Truong (p.50), Maria Yassakova (p.19). www.chess.co.uk 3 20-22 FTWM_Chess mag - 21_6_10 20/08/2017 21:12 Page 20 Find the Winning Moves Test your tactical ability with these positions grouped in rough order of difficulty. The games come from various recent events, not least the South Wales International in Cardiff. Don’t forget that whilst sometimes the key move will force mate or the win of material, other times it will just win a pawn. Solutions on page 54. Warm-up Puzzles (1) J.Jenkins-C.Gartside (2) R.Taylor-J.Menadue (3) R.Bates-D.Howell Gloucester 2017 Cardiff 2017 London (rapid) 2017 White to Play Black to Play White to Play (4) J.Rudd-J.Fathallah (5) M.Popov-R.Ovetchkin (6) A.Naiditsch-M.Warmerdam Cardiff 2017 Polugaevsky Memorial, Samara 2017 German Bundesliga 2017 White to Play White to Play and Draw White to Play 20 September 2017 29-29 Quality Chess advert_Layout 1 20/08/2017 21:07 Page 1 30-33 BestoftheBritish and Seniors_Chess mag - 21_6_10 20/08/2017 21:06 Page 30 Best of British Two pivotal encounters from Llandudno with notes by the winners, Gawain Jones and Luke McShane Notes by Gawain Jones 13...Ëd7 Played not so much with ideas to prevent b4-b5, but to control the a4-square, and so J.Houska-G.Jones to stop White bringing her queen into play. Round 7 13...Ìd7, getting on with things on the Modern Defence kingside, was a good alternative. 14 Îb1 Ìh5 1 d4 g6 2 e4 A surprise. I didn’t think Jovanka had played any 1 e4 set-ups in the past few years. 2...d6 3 g3 Ìf6 4 Íg2 Íg7 5 Ìe2 c5 6 c3 Now the game has more of a c3 Sicilian character. The knight on e2 has meant White is able to defend her e-pawn with the bishop and so hasn’t had to commit a knight to c3. The downside is the e2-knight isn’t on such a good route and lacks potential. 6...Ëc7 I wanted to avoid the queen swap. A high- powered blitz game continued 6...0-0 7 0-0 Ìc6 8 h3 (as in our main game, changing the Gawain Jones defeated Luke McShane in the structure with 8 d5 was critical) 8...e5 9 Íe3 cxd4 10 cxd4. Here in Karjakin-Carlsen, Moscow play-off final to become the British Champion! 15 b5 (blitz) 2009, 10...d5 would have at least equalised. Closing the queenside is not exactly ideal 7 0-0 0-0 8 h3 Ìc6 9 Íe3 11 Îe1?! for White as that’s where she needs to get Jovanka makes sensible developing moves I think this is too slow. This was Jovanka’s counterplay, but I thought there was a around here, but that gives me time to coordinate last chance to play 11 d5, harassing my knight. concrete reason for the move. Instead, 15 my pieces. During the game I thought 9 d5 either After 11...Ìa5 12 b3 Îae8 13 c4 e6 14 Ëc2 g4? would be premature: 15...cxb4! 16 cxb4 here or on the next couple of moves was critical. (and not 14 Ìc3?! Ìxd5!) 14...exd5 15 exd5 Íxe2! 17 Ëxe2 Ìf4 and White will have 9...b6 10 Ìa3 Íc8 White is probably slightly more comfortable problems on the dark squares. A critical line I had to check during the game with the extra space, but Black seems to have 15...Íb7 ran 10 e5 dxe5 11 dxe5 Îd8 12 Ëxd8+! (if enough room to manoeuvre. The out-of-play 15...Íc8!? was also interesting. This way I 12 Ëc1 Ìd5) 12...Ëxd8 13 exf6 Íxf6 14 Íxc6 knights on the a-file cancel each other out. would have more pressure on h3, but the a8- Íxh3 when material is roughly level. I decided that There’s also 11...Ìe5!? when I have to be rook is still out of play. I shouldn’t be worse with my lead in development careful that my knight doesn’t get trapped: 16 Ëd2? and White’s slightly vulnerable kingside. 12 f4 (12 b3!? c4 13 f4 Ìd3 is also very White cannot afford to give Black free play 10...Ía6 messy) 12...Ìc4 (side-stepping 12...Ìd3?! on the kingside. I thought 16 g4! had to be 13 c4!) 13 Ìxc4 Íxc4 14 b3 Ía6. White played. The big difference is I can no longer has grabbed a lot of space, but has to be capture on e2 so White retains control of the careful to keep control. It’s important that
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