July Chess Life Columns


11 LOOKS AT BOOKS Play Like A Girl? Yes! By IM Irina Krush


12 CHESS TO ENJOY Jeepers, Creepers: Who


Needs Those Peepers? By GM Andy Soltis


14 SOLITAIRE CHESS


The Pragmatic Dr. Fine By Bruce Pandolfini


52 BACK TO BASICS


Blitzed! By GM Lev Alburt


54 ENDGAME LAB


Saint Louis Endings By GM Pal Benko


Departments 3


PREVIEW


6 COUNTERPLAY 8 FIRST MOVES 10 USCF AFFAIRS 58 TOURNAMENT LIFE 78 CLASSIFIEDS 79 SOLUTIONS


The U.S. Championship closing ceremony. Photo courtesy of St. Louis Chess Club.


16 COVER STORY


The Amadeus of Chess By FM Mike Klein


GM Gata Kamsky repeats as U.S. Champion. 28 COVER STORY On The Cover


We whistle a happy tune with our cover this month, offering a nod to the Broadway classic The King and I, itself based on the novel Anna and the King of Siam. With Kamsky’s third title and Zatonskih’s fourth, this is truly a royal couple.


We offer 20 pages of U.S. Championship coverage by Mike Klein beginning on page 16, along with bonus coverage on page 54 in GM Benko’s “Endgame Lab.”


Cover photos courtesy of Saint Louis Chess Club; Design by Shirley Szymanek


4 Chess Life — July 2011


996 Moves By FM Mike Klein IM Anna Zatonskih wins her fourth U.S. Women’s Championship title.


36 CHESS BUSINESS


Hedging Genius By C.K. Damrosch


In an age of the “Madoff Mate,” a hedge fund company uses chess heavily in its promotional material to sell themselves. Chess Life investigates.


42 REMEMBRANCE


“I must tell you ... ” By Al Lawrence


Remembering Larry Parr, 1946-2011. 48 CHESS ART


The Chess Master Portraits of David Friedmann By Miriam Friedman Morris


We update an article from the September 1996 issue of Chess Life. uschess.org


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