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 Cover page of the British Chess Magazine January 2016 issue | |
| Editors | Milan Dinic and IM Shaun Taulbut |
|---|---|
| Staff writers | Luke McShane, David Howell, Nick Pert, Andrew Martin, Yang-Fan Zhou and Gary Lane |
| Photographer | David Llada |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Circulation | 1,200+ |
| Publisher | British Chess Magazine Ltd. |
| Founder | John Watkinson |
| Founded | 1881 |
| First issue | January 1881 |
| Company | British Chess Magazine Ltd. |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Based in | Wokingham, Berkshire, England |
| Language | English |
| 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.
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.
- ^ "List of chess periodicals". Gambiter. Retrieved 13 December 2016.