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

Fourth time’s the charm: NODIRBEK ABDUSATTOROV finally conquers Wijk aan Zee

HASTINGS CHESS CONGRESS UNDER A SHADOW OF UNCERTAINTY • GOLDING AND KOVCHAN SHARE FIRST AS HASTINGS EDGES TOWARD A FRAGILE CENTENARY.

CAN BAD OPENINGS BE GOOD FOR YOU?

NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY QUEEN OF CHESS CHRONICLES JUDIT POLGAR'S RISE IN THE SPORT • The new documentary “Queen of Chess” tells the story of Judit Polgár’s rise from Budapest child prodigy to one of the strongest players in chess history. The film is directed by Rory Kennedy and runs about 95 minutes. It is now available worldwide on Netflix after a premiere at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.

The champion the crown never found • 110 YEARS SINCE THE BIRTH OF THE ETERNAL SECOND, PAUL KERES

PROBLEM WORLD

REMEMBERING BOB WADE

CARL SCHLECHTER on the road from Munich to Ostend • For a few years at the start of the new century, Carl Schlechter was almost always at the board. Munich, Nuremberg, Vienna, Monte Carlo, Ostend. He travelled, played everyone who mattered, and left behind a trail of quiet but stubborn masterpieces.

THE FIDE WORLD CUP