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CHESS Magazine - November 2026
All the regular features of the UK's best-selling CHESS magazine and more! Regular features include: How Good is Your Chess? by GM Daniel King, Saunders on Chess, Find the Winning Moves, Never Mind the Grandmasters..., Studies, Home & Overseas News, Forthcoming Events Calendar and Book Reviews.
In this issue:
Editorial
Malcolm Pein on the latest developments in the game
Going for Gold
Uzbekistan and China won gold at a hard-fought Samarkand Olympiad
How Good Is Your Chess?
Daniel King features one of WGM Bodhana Sivanandan’s recent wins
On England Duty
Luke McShane reports from the England camp; Michael Adams annotates too
One Vote Short of Certainty
Vlad Ghita was on the floor of the FIDE General Assembly in Samarkand
Find The Winning Moves
Can you do as well as the players in Uzbekistan?
On and Off the Board
Ben Graff chatted with Simon Ansell and Simon Williams
Never Mind the Grandmasters
Carl remembers the late IM and acclaimed author Colin Crouch
How to Beat a Grandmaster
Paul Littlewood places his win over Szabo under Stockfish’s microscope
Crushing a Giant
Neil Hickman presents a strategic masterclass by Tony Miles
Arjun the Innovator
Junior Tay has been impressed by Erigaisi’s dangerous opening repertoire
60 Seconds with...Vlad Ghita
We meet the Romanian chess trainer, FIDE Arbiter and freelance journalist
Overseas News
A fine win for Luke McShane and more from the Olympiad
Home News
Impressive results for Eldar Gasanov and Jacob Boswell
Solutions
This Month’s New Releases
Sean Marsh on two very different books by Gawain Jones and Nikita Vitiugov
Forthcoming Events
Will you be playing at the Isle of Wight, Oban or the London Chess Classic?
Saunders on Chess
John on the Open Games and the latest additions to Britbase
