FebruaryChess Life Columns
12 LOOKS AT BOOKS Small Scenes with Big Players Behind the Old Iron
Curtain By Al Lawrence
14 LOOKS AT BOOKS Still Going Strong: Yuri
Averbakh By Macauley Peterson
16 CHESS TO ENJOY Will You Walk Into My
Parlour? By GM Andy Soltis
18 SOLITAIRE CHESS
The Great Vera Menchik By Bruce Pandolfini
46 BACK TO BASICS
Corporal Aventura’s Borodino By GM Lev Alburt
48 ENDGAME LAB
A Master of the Endgame By GM Pal Benko
Departments 3
PREVIEW
6 COUNTERPLAY 8 USCF AFFAIRS 10 FIRST MOVES 52 TOURNAMENT LIFE 70 CLASSIFIEDS 71 SOLUTIONS
On The Cover
It is hard to believe that at one time the dominant image the public had of a chess player was an old man with a long, gray beard. Perhaps he had a pipe. My, how things have changed. The Hip Hop Chess Federation is the latest organization combining chess with pop culture elements, in this case hip hop and martial arts. Adisa Banjoko’s organization celebrates its fifth anniversary this month; our report begins on page 20.
Cover photo by Eric K. Arnold Design by Frankie Butler
4 Chess Life — February 2012
uschess.org
PHOTO: ERIC K. ARNOLD
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