Chess Informants - Issue 125 Gift Ideas for Beginners entertaining and – last but

entertaining and – last but not least – successful chess games

If you are tired of suffering on the black side of the Queen's Gambit

It is an echo of when the opening was first introduced: Botvinnik

Forcing a Pawn Weakness

ball finials and Queen's crenellations normally found in conventional Staunton chessmen

Chess Informants - Issue 125 Gift Ideas for Beginners entertaining and – last butChess Informant 125 Enigma PROUDLY PRESENTS: THE BAD FRENCH BISHOP Thanks to the ever innovative outlook of Baadur Jobava, the old dxe4, Bd7 c6 plan in the French Defence with its reputation for being a fast track to equality has recently come under the spotlight of top level tournaments. However the Georgian GMs enthusiastic backing of this line for Black is now being seriously challenged by an equally creative opening analyst, GM Alexander