CHESS Magazine – May 2012
CHESS Magazine – May 2012Gawain Jones to play FIDE World Cup and London Chess Classic!Magazine, 60 pagesUK’s most popular CHESS Magazine – established 1935! All the regular features of the UK’s best-selling CHESS magazine plus more! European Championship, Plovdiv – World Cup qualifier Gawain Jones annotates while Mamedyarov fellfoul of the Draconian rule book and is out. John Saunders reports Interview: Andrey Filatov – The man behind the Moscow World Championship answersquestions put to him by CHESS editor John Saunders 4NCL, Penultimate Weekend – IM Simon Ansell on the British Team League’s March matches Fall and Rise of a Chess Tourist – Mike Yeo travelled to Moscow, only to break his hip. Unlucky – but Mike’s story had an extraordinarily happy ending in Slovenia… Tribute to Hugh Courtney – CHESS’s much-cherished Christmas quizzer is no more. We payhomage to an all-time great contributor and a lovely man Chess in the 1970s – John Saunders with another dip in our archive, finding a less thandiplomatic Max Euwe, plus a black sheep of the British chess flock e2e4 Dublin International – Steve Giddins reports on veteran Mark Hebden’s Irish success Symmetry: Lurking Dangers – Angus Dunnington warns us: a symmetrical set-up is not innocuousPlus more!*IN STOCK NOW!*