British Chess Magazine

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British Chess Magazine
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Cover page of the British Chess Magazine January 2016 issue
EditorsMilan Dinic and IM Shaun Taulbut
Staff writersLuke McShane, David Howell, Nick Pert, Andrew Martin, Yang-Fan Zhou and Gary Lane
PhotographerDavid Llada
FrequencyMonthly
Circulation 1,200+
PublisherBritish Chess Magazine Ltd.
FounderJohn Watkinson
Founded1881 (1881)
First issueJanuary 1881
CompanyBritish Chess Magazine Ltd.
CountryUnited Kingdom
Based in Wokingham, Berkshire, England
LanguageEnglish
Website https://www.britishchessmagazine.co.uk/
ISSN 0007-0440

British Chess Magazine is the world's oldest chess journal in continuous publication. First published in January 1881, it has appeared at monthly intervals ever since. [1] It is frequently known in the chess world as BCM.

Contents

The founder and first general editor of the magazine was John Watkinson (1833–1923). He had previously edited the Huddersfield College Magazine, which was the British Chess Magazine's forerunner. From the beginning, the magazine was devoted to the coverage of chess worldwide, and not just in Great Britain.

BCM is an independent and privately owned magazine; it is not owned or run by the former British Chess Federation (now the English Chess Federation), with which its name was occasionally confused, apart from the period August 1981 – July 1992.

Apart from being given a new look, the reloaded January 2016 BCM, now in collaboration with Chess Informant, offers more content, more pages and more writers, among them some of the top UK chess grandmasters.

General editors

Columnists

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Cover of a 1923 issue

Feature articles

Regular items

Associated publications

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References

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