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CHESS Magazine – June 2025

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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.

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In this issue:

Editorial ...................................................................................................................................4

Malcolm Pein on the latest developments in the game

60 Seconds with... GothamChess ...............................................................................8

IM Levy Rozman was on excellent form when we caught up with him

Forthcoming Events...........................................................................................................9

Tournaments in Barrow, Belfast, Dundee, Scarborough, Stroud, etc.

Manx Liberty retake the 4NCL title........................................................................10

Andrew Ledger reports on the final rounds as The Sharks stole the show

She Plays To Win Roar To Success!...........................................................................16

Lorin DCosta charts the rise of the thriving SPTW teams in the 4NCL

How Good is Your Chess?.............................................................................................18

Daniel King pays tribute to Ju Wenjun after she retained her world title

Playing Away......................................................................................................................22

Ben Graff and family thoroughly enjoyed the Menorca Open

What a Month! ..................................................................................................................24

Vasyl Ivanchuk was back to his best as he played non-stop in April

Find the Winning Moves................................................................................................26

Can you do as well as the players at the 4NCL and the English Seniors?

Up for the Cup...................................................................................................................30

John Henderson reveals Crystal Palaces chess connections

Even the Masters Make Mistakes! ...........................................................................34

Neil Hickman on two games that ought to have been Memorable

Colossus ...............................................................................................................................36

FM Julian Way explains the enduring legacy of Jonathan Penrose

Never Mind the Grandmasters... ...............................................................................38

Carl on defence and a hard fight between Bernstein and Smyslov

The Golden Oldies............................................................................................................41

Chris Baker reports from the European Senior Team Chess Championship

How to Beat a Grandmaster........................................................................................44

Paul Littlewood presents a game by the The Strategist from Chess Masters

The English Seniors..........................................................................................................45

A personal view of the action in Kenilworth from Paul Littlewood

Home News.........................................................................................................................48

Success for Bogdan Lalic, Danny Gormally and Jose Camacho Collados

Overseas News..................................................................................................................51

Magnus Carlsen racked up a whopping 9/9 at the Grenke Freestyle

Solutions ..............................................................................................................................54

This Months New Releases..........................................................................................54

Sean Marsh examines recent books on imbalances and the London System

Saunders on Chess...........................................................................................................58

John presents a couple of shocking blunders