CHESS Magazine - January 2012, London Chess Classic 2011 Souvenir Issue!

UK's most popular CHESS Magazine

Magazine, 60 pages

UK's most popular CHESS Magazine - established 1935! All the regular features of the UK's best-selling CHESS magazine plus more!

• London Chess Classic- A fully illustrated, in-depth report by editor John Saunders on themain event at Olympia, won by former world champion VladimirKramnik, plus fine performances by Hikaru Nakamura and LukeMcShane.
• Cartoon Time - More oldies but goldies, mainly from the 1960s, some brought up todate. We’ll have more from our back pages next month...

• Tal Memorial, Moscow - Steve Giddins on the Moscow mega-tournament. Too many draws,a few sparks but no real fire on board! Another success for MagnusCarlsen, on tie-break from Levon Aronian.

• Christmas Quiz Solutions - Steve Giddins reveals the solutions to his seasonal questions. Andfind out how the super-GMs at Olympiad fared when they tried theXmas picture quiz!

• Contrasting Chess and Poker - Stewart Reuben looks at the differences between his two favouritegames. You’ll raise your eyebrows about what he has to say aboutplaying for money, cheating - and death at the card table.

• Whose Threat Is It Anyway? - Peter Lalic shows us how to call the opponent’s bluff, with a bit ofhelp from Mikhail Botvinnik and a positively surreal game from the1970s, played by the great Bent Larsen.

• Gormally on Chess - Danny Gormally lays the ghost of ‘Drawnik’ - new, improvedKramnik was a revelation at Olympiad. His audience sessionsimpressed and depressed the English GM in equal measure!

Plus more!