From: hwr@intercal.com (Hanon W. Russell)
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
Subject: Chess Life, 2/93
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:10:27 GMT
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                            CHESS LIFE
                          February, 1993

The latest issue of "Chess Life" has hit the streets and it is 
another fine production from the staff at New Windsor. The 
regular columns are, for the most part, quite good, and the 
features interesting. We particularly like the coverage given to 
various accomplishments and tournament results by the younger 
generation of chessplayers - Seeing their names and pictures in 
"Chess Life" can only serve to encourage them. How many times 
have we all seen a promising junior player simply fade away in 
the chess world?

The regular columns are spearheaded by the World Champion's 
second instalment, this month featuring his eleventh game from 
the last title match. The annotations and insight provided are 
simply splendid. We do have the same criticism, however, with 
this column as we did last month: The English text needs to be 
edited so that it reads more smoothly - It still smacks of a 
mechanical translation from Russian in parts.

The "Chess Bloodhounds of Broadway" series continues in this 
issue. We have not hidden our sentiments over this one. We did 
not like it when it started and we still don't like it. Sorry. 
In what has become an otherwise super magazine, this continuing 
saga is underwhelming. On the other hand, Frank Skoff's venture 
into chess trivia and history has definite possibilities. Still 
a ways from being in the same class as the column written by Ken 
Whyld in the "British Chess Magazine," it is nice to see this 
kind of item regularly in "Chess Life."

The wrap-up of the Fischer-Spassky match is presented in a 
series of articles. Rob Huntington has reworked some material 
which originally appeared in the regional magazine "Chess 
Horizons." It still reads well. James Schroeder has the first 
complete explanation of the Fischer clock, while a selection of 
quotes from Bobby's press conferences rounds out the coverage.

Is chess in the United States on the upswing? We don't know, but 
the last twenty pages of this month's issue of "Chess Life" 
contains almost five hundred tournament announcements. All in 
all, a nice issue - whose crowning touch is, of course, Larry 
Evans' "Best Question" - :)

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CHESS LIFE, Official Publication of the U.S. Chess Federation, 
    186 Rt. 9W, New Windsor, NY 12553
    Editor: Glenn Petersen
    Assistant Editor: IM Elliott Winslow
    Frequency of publication: Monthly
    Page size: 8.5"x11"
Regular departments:
    Letters to the Editor
    Letter from Europe by IM Bjarke Kristensen
    Chess to Enjoy by GM Andy Soltis
    Larry Evans on Chess by GM Larry Evans
    Game of the Month by GM Michael Rohde
    Endgame Laboratory by GM Pal Benko
    Solitaire Chess by Bruce Pandolfini
    The Check Is in the Mail by Alex Dunne
    Key Krackers by David L. Brown
    Theoretically Speaking by Joel Benjamin and Patrick Wolff
Subscription information (U.S. subscriptions):
    1 year, (without membership) 12 issues, $33
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This review reflects the opinion of and is proprietary to Hanon 
W. Russell. Copyright 1993 Hanon W. Russell, All Rights Reserved