CHESS Magazine - April 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. DOWNLOAD A FREE PDF SAMPLE OF THIS ISSUE-> In this issue: Editorial ...................................................................................................................................4 Malcolm Pein on the latest developments in the game 60 Seconds with... David Navara.................................................................................9 We learn a little about the popular 13-time Czech Champion Czechmate!.........................................................................................................................10 Round 5 of the Prague Masters saw David Navara triumph in style Another for Abdusattorov...........................................................................................12 Jorden van Foreest’s late collapse helped Nodirbek to triumph at Prague To the Far North!..............................................................................................................14 Simon Williams enjoyed the Arctic Chess Power Solutions Open Forthcoming Events........................................................................................................21 American Success.............................................................................................................22 Yochanan Afek watched Andy Woodward win the Tata Steel Challengers The Secrets Behind Brilliant Brevities.....................................................................24 David LeMoir explains how to win a pretty miniature Find The Winning Moves ...............................................................................................26 Can you do as well as the players at Prague, Wijk and the Isle of Wight? Jan Timman’s Final Endgame .......................................................................................30 John Henderson looks back on the colourful life of the Dutch legend The Fine Art of Jan Timman.........................................................................................34 Yochanan Afek pays tribute to the world-class player and study composer Playing by New Rules .....................................................................................................36 Stewart Player looks at the parallel lives of Flohr and Lilienthal The Mystery Story versus Chess..............................................................................38 Roger Williamson on the connections between chess and detective fiction Reader’s Letter..................................................................................................................40 An enlightening contribution on chess, checkers and Edgar Allan Poe How Good is Your Chess?.............................................................................................42 Daniel King assesses Anish Giri’s chances at the Candidates Never Mind the Grandmasters... ...............................................................................45 Carl Portman presents an impressive win by Jovanka Houska How to Beat a Grandmaster........................................................................................48 Paul Littlewood looks at a how a South American reader defeated a GM Home News.........................................................................................................................49 The latest results from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Overseas News..................................................................................................................50 Frederick Waldhausen Gordon and Jonah Willow have been busy abroad Solutions ..............................................................................................................................53 This Month’s New Releases..........................................................................................54 Sean Marsh reviews the best book he has seen so far this year Saunders on Chess...........................................................................................................58 John spotted a rolling maul on one of the boards at the Varsity match