New In Chess Magazine 2015 6

Dagens magasin handler mest om annet og andre enn Carlsen, Caruana & co. Toppsjakken er her fra Kina mot Russland og fra Biel. Historisk om den amerikanske mesteren Herman Steiner med vennen Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable og andre Hollywood-stjerner.

Innholdet denne gang:

The beauty beneath 0.00 On silly online kibitzers and more

Top Gear Tesla-owner Magnus Carlsen is taking driving lessons

NIC’s Café New computer game: Alekhine’s Gun. ‘Four moves in, we all are blind’. Taxing poker to fund chess. Revisited: the notorious game Marcel Duchamp – Ms Eve Babitz!

Your Move GM Michalchishin asks: would Hans Ree like to see Ivanchuk and Ponomariov (who got draft notices for the Ukrainian army) killed?

Mr. Biel Strikes Again Maxime Vachier-Lagrave: how I won Biel, an exclusive report. Navara annotates his instant classic king march against Wojtaszek.

Infographic Earning the GM title at 15 is now almost commonplace

Fair&Square What F.Scott Fitzgerald, Denis Diderot, Brian Sewell and others said about chess.

Herman Steiner The story of a charismatic man whose legendary Hollywood Chess Group was only one of his contributions to American chess.

Ding Liren China’s number one, the third of The Three Musketeers, explains why he is (not) studying law at Beijing University, why no one has more potential than Wei Yi and how he beat Gelfand in their recent match in Wenzhou

China beats Russia An exclusive report with annotations by Bu Xiangzhi and Shen Yang

Chess Pattern Recognition Improve your middlegame technique with Arthur van de Oudeweetering’s training column

Finding Bobby Fischer How good is Tobey Maguire in the long-awaited movie Pawn Sacrifice? By Joe Ponterotto, author of A Psychobiography of Bobby Fischer

Maximize Your Tactics Train your tactical skills with Russian expert Maxim Notkin.

Greek Gift You proudly queen a pawn and then you lose. A masterclass by Contributing Editor Anish Giri

Dr Short, I presume? Nigel Short orders a beer in Cape Town that is specially brewed ‘for freaks, gypsies and international chess superstars’

Parimarjan’s Chess Gym Parimarjan Negi explains how to avoid the opening trap that almost every player falls into: trying to memorize moves

S.O.S. A crude and early attack in the Queens Indian

Sadler on Books Matthew Sadler reviews ‘Positional Decision Making’ by Gelfand and Aagaard, ‘Meet the Nimzo Insian’ by Kasimdzhanov, ‘Power Strategy’ by Marin, ‘The Ragozin Defence’ by Ramirez and ‘Chess Endgames for Kids’ by Müller

Crying and Self-Despair Hans Ree on grandmasters that cry.

Danish Delight Jan Timman looks at the key games of the Politiken Cup and shows highlights from his lecture on endgame studies.

Just Checking What was the best game Radoslaw Wojtaszek ever played?

Contributors to this issue

Jeroen Bosch, Anish Giri, Ding Liren, Dylan McClain, Bruce Monson, David Navara, Parimarjan Negi, Maxim Notkin, Arthur van de Oudeweetering, Joe Ponterotto, Hans Ree, Matthew Sadler, Nigel Short, Jan Timman, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Radoslaw Wojtaszek, Bu Xiangzhi, Shen Yang, Jilin Zhang