In this issue:
Editorial.......................................................................................................4
Malcolm Pein on the latest developments in the game
Going for Gold.............................................................................................8
Uzbekistan and China won gold at a hard-fought Samarkand Olympiad
How Good Is Your Chess?...........................................................................16
Daniel King features one of WGM Bodhana Sivanandan’s recent wins
On England Duty.......................................................................................19
Luke McShane reports from the England camp; Michael Adams annotates too
One Vote Short of Certainty.....................................................................24
Vlad Ghita was on the floor of the FIDE General Assembly in Samarkand
Find The Winning Moves............................................................................26
Can you do as well as the players in Uzbekistan?
On and Off the Board................................................................................30
Ben Graff chatted with Simon Ansell and Simon Williams
Never Mind the Grandmasters..................................................................34
Carl remembers the late IM and acclaimed author Colin Crouch
How to Beat a Grandmaster......................................................................36
Paul Littlewood places his win over Szabo under Stockfish’s microscope
Crushing a Giant.........................................................................................38
Neil Hickman presents a strategic masterclass by Tony Miles
Arjun the Innovator...................................................................................40
Junior Tay has been impressed by Erigaisi’s dangerous opening repertoire
60 Seconds with...Vlad Ghita.....................................................................45
We meet the Romanian chess trainer, FIDE Arbiter and freelance journalist
Overseas News.........................................................................................46
A fine win for Luke McShane and more from the Olympiad
Home News...............................................................................................48
Impressive results for Eldar Gasanov and Jacob Boswell
Solutions...................................................................................................53
This Month’s New Releases........................................................................54
Sean Marsh on two very different books by Gawain Jones and Nikita Vitiugov
Forthcoming Events..................................................................................57
Will you be playing at the Isle of Wight, Oban or the London Chess Classic?
Saunders on Chess.....................................................................................58
John on the Open Games and the latest additions to Britbase
