British Chess Magazine

BCM has a unique focus on the British chess scene while covering major news and events internationally. Readers will enjoy coverage of the important annual Hastings and Gibraltar Masters tournaments and the British Chess Championship in particular. The chess world deserves a magazine like today’s BCM with its great content, great design, great photography, and simply great value. BCM will truly engage you and also provide real help to players eager to improve their play. We have deep authoritative analysis by leading GM and IM chess professionals. BCM's goal is to entertain, inform and offer the best in high-class chess insight, stories and research. And a touch of glamour!

BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE

THE CLASH OF CHALLENGERS • After a long time we have a match not between a defending Champion we’re used to seeing, but between two Candidates. In a way, we’re back in 1974 and the Karpov-Korchnoi match. But there is more to the Astana Match than meets the eye

IAN NEPOMNIACTHCHI: THE “SENIOR” PLAYER

DING LIREN: THE LUCKY ONE

I HAVE A LOT OF NEGATIVE EMOTIONS ABOUT THE MATCH. LOSING TO KASPAROV WAS A TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE

THERE WERE UPS AND DOWNS, BUT WE HAVEN’T REALLY SPOKEN SINCE 2018

GARRY WAS NOT PREPARED TO BECOME WORLD CHAMPION WHEN HE BEAT KARPOV

The run-up to the 1993 World Championship

EUROPEAN INDIVIDUALS 2023: YOUNG PLAYERS DOMINATE

SPACE, TIME AND DISTANCE IN THE CHESS ECO-SYSTEM • THERE ARE SEVERAL GOOD REASONS FOR REFLECTING ON THE ROLE OF THESE THREE CRITICAL AND INTER-RELATED ASPECTS AT THIS JUNCTURE IN WORLD AND CHESS HISTORY

Next Year in Jerusalem

The Chess Battles of Hastings

NIGHTMARES IN THE NAJDORF, PART IV ANOTHER UNEXPECTED SYSTEM

OXFORD UNIVERSITY V CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY: THE 141ST VARSITY CHESS MATCH

“FITS, STARTS AND CONTINUITIES: CHESS TOURNAMENTS IN THE USA” • A REVIEW OF “CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS 1904” BY ROBERT SHERWOOD, RUSSELL ENTERPRISES,NEW HAMPSHIRE, USA, 2022

SULTAN KHAN’S BRITISH CHESS LEGACY

PROBLEM WORLD

BOOK REVIEW

Endgame Studies