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He also served as endgame study editor from 1931- 1974 for British Chess Magazine. IM Irina Krush (“Looks at Books,” p. 11) is a three-time U.S. women’s champion and a regular contributor to Chess Life. Chess Festival Begins in Orlando The last days of July marks the beginning of the U.S. Open (July 30-August 7), U.S. Girls Junior Open, Denker Tournament of High School Champions and a FM Mike Klein new event, the Barber Tournament of K-8 Champions. Check uschess.org for (“Cover Story,” p. 16) is, to his standings and pairings and CLO for updates. students, a chess teacher; to top professionals, he is a chess journalist; and to old friends, he is a semi-retired chess player. He likes the international appeal of the game and appreciates all World Open the chess players that have shunned the money, fame and Break out the fireworks and free drinks of the poker table. popcorn. The biggest open tournament of the year hits Philadelphia on Independence Christopher Kerrigan Day weekend. Keep Damrosch uschess.org/clo bookmarked (“Chess Business,” p. 36) aka for U.S. Chess Scoop video “Bird,” is a writer, math teacher, coverage and reportage by graduate from Emory, and Jamaal Abdul-Alim. probably the guy you tripped over as he slept under a table at the World Open. Al Lawrence (“Remembrance,” p. 42) is a former executive director of both USCF and the World Chess Hall of Fame. His latest book, with GM Lev Alburt, is Chess Training Pocket Book II. Cadets Return to USCF Base For the third year in a row, the U.S. Miriam Morris Cadet (Under 16) Championship will take (“Chess Art,” p. 48) facilitates place in Crossville, Tennessee, the home exhibitions, lectures, and of the USCF. Favorites include Aleksandr writes about the life of her Ostrovskiy and Michael Bodek from New Greg on Chess father David Friedmann. York and Atulya Shetty from Michigan. She continues to search for Follow the tournament, an eight-player IM Greg Shahade’s 2007 his portraits of chess masters, round robin from July 11-15 and look for editorial on flaws in the among other lost artwork. updates by Alan Kantor on CLO. Swiss pairing system was one of the most BETSY DYNAKO BETSY commented CLO articles BY in history. Greg is back with controversial monthly Follow Chess Life and Chess Life Online on Facebook®! Get regular pieces on various topics updates as part of your newsfeed, post comments, and easily from round-robins to communicate directly with the editorial staff. promoting chess. GREG SHAHADE uschess.org Chess Life — July 2011 3 CL_07-2011_TOC_AKF_r6.qxp_chess life 6/9/11 11:56 AM Page 4 July Chess Life Columns 11 LOOKS AT BOOKS Play Like A Girl? Yes! By IM Irina Krush 12 CHESS TO ENJOY Jeepers, Creepers: Who Needs Those Peepers? By GM Andy Soltis 14 SOLITAIRE CHESS The Pragmatic Dr. Fine By Bruce Pandolfini 52 BACK TO BASICS Blitzed! 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