New In Chess Magazine 2014 8

Korrekt, et nytt framifrå nummer av det ledende sjakkmagasinet i verden. Av unik interesse er vel bl.a. Anish Giris grundige kommentarer til fem av VM-partiene i Sotsji. Selv om bredden og det uventede alltid gleder mest med dette bladet.

Utgiverens omtale i innholdsfortegnelsen:

NIC’s Café

Your Move

Fair & Square

Carlsen retains world title If Vishy Anand didn't repeat the mistakes from Chennai, he might have a chance in his second match against Magnus Carlsen. But the Norwegian was superior again and won 6½-4½.

When Magnus met Vladimir President Vladimir Putin attended the prize-giving ceremony in Sochi. Has chess become a matter of national importance again in Russia?

Harvard Square Where oddballs, hustlers and masters meet.

Grischuk on the Rampage Playing with abandon, Alexander Grischuk won 4 of his 7 games at the Petrosian Memorial in Moscow. In the process he crossed the 2800 barrier and rose to third place in the world rankings.

Our Man in the Isle of Man With a brilliant tournament victory our columnist Nigel Short fought his way back into the Top-100.

The next generation Lu Shanglei is the new U-20 World Champion.

S.O.S. in the Scotch

FIDE Grand Prix Caruana and Gelfand won in Baku, Andreikin in Tashkent.

Beware: Brilliancy!

Return matches Hans Ree is still not reconciled to Euwe's loss to Alekhine in 1937.

Sadler on Books

Predictably unpredictable Jan Timman on Baadur Jobava, one the most original GMs of our day.

Just Checking What was the most exciting chess game Alexander Khalifman ever saw?

Contributors to this issue

Yochanan Afek, Dmitry Andreikin, Jeroen Bosch, Fabiano Caruana, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Boris Gelfand, Anish Giri, Alexander Grischuk, Alexander Khalifman, Ashot Nadanian, Hans Ree, Matthew Sadler, Nigel Short, Jan Timman, Olimpiu G. Urcan, Tim Wall