New In Chess 2018/2: The Club Player's Magazine

This New In Chess 2018/2: The Club Player's Magazine is a chess magazine issue for club players and ambitious readers who want to stay close to the game’s biggest tournaments, leading names and current ideas. This edition contains 108 pages of tournament reports, interviews, columns and training material.

What’s inside this issue

The mix is broad, with coverage of major events, player profiles, opinion pieces and practical chess content. It gives you both a snapshot of what is happening in the chess world and material you can return to for study.

• Coverage of the 80th Tata Steel Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee, which ended with a blitz playoff between Magnus Carlsen and Anish Giri, won by the world champion for his sixth title.
• A look at Levon Aronian’s win at the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess after tiebreaks, plus a note on the women’s prize, which went to Pia Cramling.
• A feature on Garry Kasparov’s musical choices, from Mozart to Andrew Lloyd Webber, prepared for a BBC programme.
• A letters-page discussion on how to judge AlphaZero versus Stockfish fairly.
• Fischer Facts, reflecting on why Bobby Fischer still fascinates readers, even ten years after his death.
• Fair & Square, on the value John Maynard Keynes saw in chess.
• Nigel Short’s column, with his usual irony, on correspondence chess.
• An interview with Vidit Gujrathi, one of the most interesting young hopes in Indian chess.
• Vidit’s own account of his path to victory in the Tata Steel Challengers and his development as a player.
• Judit Polgar on how difficult it is to play after a loss — and after a win.
• Maximize Your Tactics, a training feature focused on finding the right moves.
• Maxim Dlugy on the Carlsen–Nakamura match and the appeal of Fischer Random.
• Secrets of Opening Surprises, with an aggressive answer to the English Opening on move two.
• NIC’s Café, with chess curiosities including an Armenian banknote featuring Tigran Petrosian and a Russian aircraft named after Mikhail Botvinnik.
• Chess Pattern Recognition, showing striking breakthrough motifs that help build positional understanding.
• Sadler on Books, in which Matthew Sadler discusses a strong book on the New York match, with interesting comments from Vladimir Kramnik.
• Hans Ree on the biography of Paul Felix Schmidt, a strong player who is now almost forgotten.
• Jan Timman on the way top-level games inspire study composers — and vice versa.
• Just Checking: Pia Cramling’s favourite film.
• Celeb64: Hugh Laurie.

Why this issue stands out

If you enjoy a magazine that combines tournament news with commentary, training and chess culture, this issue brings those strands together in one place.

Key details

• Product type: chess magazine
• Issue: 2018/2
• Page count: 108 pages
• Content: tournament reports, interviews, columns, training material, opening ideas and chess history
• Focus: top tournaments and well-known chess players
• Publication: chess magazine issue