CHESS Magazine - October 2023

Editorial....................................................................................................................4
Malcolm Pein on the latest developments in the game
A Full Haul ...............................................................................................................8
Magnus Carlsen finally won a FIDE World Cup as Praggnanandhaa shone
Teenage Vampires Run Riot In Newcastle ..............................................16
Tim Wall reports from a norm-laden Northumbria Masters
How Good Is Your Chess? .............................................................................22
Daniel King presents the game of the FIDE World Cup
60 Seconds With... Nikita Vitiugov...........................................................25
We discover a little about the new English number one
Find the Winning Moves.................................................................................26
Can you do as well as the players in Baku and Leicester?
The Joy of Watching Humingbirds Fly .....................................................30
Eduardo Bermúdez Barrera revisits Bent Larsen’s creativity
A Life of Chess...................................................................................................33
Pioneer organiser Stewart Reuben chronicles his early chess career
Jewels Remain Still Gleaming.......................................................................36
Danny Rosenbaum tells the story of Frederick Hamilton-Russell
Never Mind The Grandmasters... ...............................................................38
Carl rediscovered his love for correspondence chess with a wild Tromp
Euwe’s Return to Weston ..............................................................................40
Brian Gosling explores Max Euwe's success at Weston in 1926
Politika Again! ....................................................................................................44
Peter Hornsby reports from the 2023 World Chess League.Live
Forthcoming Events.........................................................................................45
Where will you be playing this autumnal month?
How to Beat a Grandmaster.........................................................................46
Paul Littlewood reveals that even grandmasters can have a bad day
Home News..........................................................................................................47
Yichen Han and Keith Arkell have been in excellent form of late
Readers’ Letters ................................................................................................49
Correspondence relating to misreading the time and the front cover
Overseas News...................................................................................................50
Aleksandra Goryachkina was a slightly fortuitous winner in Baku
Solutions ...............................................................................................................54
This Month’s New Releases ..........................................................................55
Sean Marsh examines two new publications from Everyman Chess
Saunders on Chess............................................................................................58
John has been busy researching some important British simuls