New In Chess Magazine 2016#8

The complete magazine

Into the human light

NIC’s Café

Your Move

Infographic

Fair & Square

New York

Magnus Carlsen strikes in extra time with a brilliant finish – 50.♕h6– on his 26th birthday.

Celeb 64

John Urschel

Secret Yalta Conference

Did you know that in 2003 Nigel Short played a secret training match against Ruslan Ponomariov?

Maximize Your Tactics

Having fun in St. Louis

Vishy Anand was on a roll at the Champions Showdown.

Judit Polgar’s column

The Queen of Chess has always felt attracted to the King’s Gambit.

‘What would Mark think?’

Jacob Aagaard remembers Mark Dvoretsky, a great trainer, a brilliant author and a dear friend.

The pawns are coming

Parimarjan Negi shows that it makes sense to keep a clear head when you’re faced by connected passed pawns.

Russian Super Final

In Novosibirsk, Alexander Riazantsev and Alexandra Kosteniuk became the new Russian champions.

S.O.S.

Play like Carlsen and Grischuk in the Queen’s Gambit.

Bohemia as a luxury

As he was reading Timman’s Titans, Hans Ree took a walk down memory lane.

Chess Pattern Recognition

Bishops that don’t budge.

Sadler On Books

Experience prevails.

Hoogeveen

Jan Timman explains why Nigel Short and Ivan Sokolov defeated Hou Yifan and Jorden van Foreest in Hoogeveen.

Just Checking

Who is Richard Rapport’s favourite chess player?