Chess Life JANUARY
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LOOKS AT BOOKS / PAWN STRUCTURE CHESS Pawn Structure Chess By GM Ben Finegold
CHESS TO ENJOY / ENTERTAINMENT See Features listing to the right
BACK TO BASICS / READER ANNOTATIONS
A Sicilian Battle at the World Open By GM Lev Alburti
SOLITAIRE CHESS / INSTRUCTION The Boot A Pest Gambit By Bruce Pandolfini
Endgame Lab ended in the December 2013 issue due to GM Pal Benko’s retirement.
DEPARTMENTS 3
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10 46 50 70 71 72
JANUARY PREVIEW / THIS MONTH IN CHESS LIFE AND CLO COUNTERPLAY / READERS RESPOND
FIRST MOVES / CHESS NEWS FROM AROUND THE U.S. FACES ACROSS THE BOARD / BY AL LAWRENCE USCF AFFAIRS / NEWS FOR OUR MEMBERS KNIGHT’S TOUR / TOURNAMENT TRAVEL TOURNAMENT LIFE / JANUARY CLASSIFIEDS / JANUARY SOLUTIONS / JANUARY MY BEST MOVE / PERSONALITIES
14 Chess to Enjoy / Entertainment COLUMN NUMBER 420 BY GM ANDY SOLTIS Time Control Reached: Chess Life readers have been devouring “Chess to Enjoy” for 35 years now. We celebrate this milestone with a look back.
18 Cover Story / Chess in Popular Culture
POPCHESS BY FM MIKE KLEIN
Chess surrounds our daily lives in both obvious and surprising ways. 28 Instruction / GM Advice
BEYOND THE BASICS BY CHRIS WAINSCOTT WITH COMMENTARY BY GM LEV ALBURT A class player sets the goal of reaching master and in a special feature-length version of GM Lev Alburt’s “Back to Basics” column, our popular columnist provides his thoughts on the author’s methods and journey.
34 Correspondence Chess / 2009 Electronic Knights/2011 Absolute
CORRESPONDENCE CHESS ROUNDUP BY FM ALEX DUNNE Recapping the 2009 Electronic Knights and 2011 Absolute correspondence chess events.
39 Problems / Benko
HOW IS IT POSSIBLE? BY GM PAL BENKO A New Year’s puzzle offering from GM Pal Benko.
ON THE COVER “The Game Is Rigged.” Chess is an irresistible subject for artists of all stripes. FM Mike Klein, the 2012 Chess Journalist of the Year, explores chess imagery in various segments of pop culture in our cover story beginning on page 18.
ART BY STEVE CHELLIS,
WWW.CHELLISART.COM AND
WWW.BLUETAN.COM
4 January 2014 | Chess Life
LEGO® Chess, Collection of the World Chess Hall of Fame
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