New In Chess magazine is the best chess magazine in the world. I'm sure there are other good magazines, and there have been other good magazines in the past. (For example, I loved Yasser Seirawan's Inside Chess magazine, which was fantastic, especially its early incarnation as a bi-weekly.) But NIC is in a class by itself. The production values are outstanding, the content is incredible, and if you're a reasonably strong club player almost every page in the magazine has something worthy of note. The only downsides are that it is somehat expensive and comes out only 8 times a year, but personally I think the pluses outweigh those concerns.
I'd go into more detail, but I want to keep this short, especially since most people have probably seen a copy at some point. And the point is the same no matter the length: New In Chess magazine is an incredible product.
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Monday, November 16, 2015
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Attica! Attica!
The other day I posted the game Morozevich vs Vachier-Lagrave, Biel 2009. That game featured a rook trapped in prison behind its own pawns and king. Today I was looking at New In Chess 6/2015 and saw a new composition that Timman has just published. This problem also features a trapped piece, and it seems that freeing that piece is the key to winning the game.
Timman 2015 (after Simkhovitch)
White to play and win
4q3/4P3/4P3/4k1p1/p3BbP1/PpP2P2/1P6/QK3R2 w - - 0 1
Solution below.
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