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I was unpacking boxes from my move recently and Inside Chess Volume 1, Issue 8, April 20, 1988 literally fell into my hands. Judith Polgar at age 11 is on the front cover. (see the Bohdana thread, post #3 for Judith's picture.) The issue covers her IM norm result from the New York International titled Miracle on 33rd Street and has all the best games. There is a picture of IM Igor Ivanov with the caption" Grandmaster without the title". Another article: "The Wizard in Wonderland" Tal Visits the USA. Yasser Seirawan writes about Space: The Most Misunderstood Element. Also: Kasparov Clips US Juniors where Kasparov beats the cream of US juniors 4-2 in a simul but loses to Patrick Wolff in a shocking miniature and a final article by Danny King.
IM Donaldson gives a great report on the New York International including: "Soviet IM Vassilly Ivanchuk did the unthinkable. Winning his first five games he effectively won the tournament with two rounds to go. That's with 36 GM's in the field." (that was 40 yrs ago!)
Also Jeremy Silman gave a great several page interview of Misha Tal.
Michael Rohde gives great coverage of Kasparov's feat.
And Daniel King sounds almost as good as he does now a days and he's been doing his unique commentary for 40 years.
All of it is gripping reading after 38 years! What a magazine it was! After 14 years it folded and I remember the memory was worse than the passing of a good friend.
and I almost forgot, this is the year that the former 11 year old wunderkind Judith Polgar turns 50!
I had the same experience about a month ago. I had to downsize a collection of Inside Chess and Chess Life. I saved two copies of issue number one and one copy of the final issue. Couldn't part with those.
It really was a great magazine, I subscribed from 96 until they closed. Yasser’s style on annotating was so accessible to all strengths of players. I remember looking at a Kramnik game from I think Linares in 97 and just being completely blown away by the precision of his play. Seirawan’s notes allowed me to appreciate a truly positional masterpiece rather than the tactical slugfests I was usually drawn to. Unfortunatley a basement flood destroyed most of my Inside Chess collection.
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