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

HOME ADVANTAGE PAYS OFF FOR UZBEKISTAN while China secure seventh Women’s crown

TURLOV TAKES THE HELM AT FIDE - but the harder game is only beginning

PROBLEM WORLD

“I WANT TO KEEP MAKING HISTORY”: THE SCHOOLGIRL WHO BROKE HOU YIFAN’S RECORD • An 11-year-old from Harrow has become the youngest player in history to complete the requirements for the Woman Grandmaster title, doing it on England’s top board at the Chess Olympiad in Samarkand. Bodhana Sivanandan scored 8/11, with draws against Nana Dzagnidze and European champion Anastasiia Hnatyshyn, and the third and final norm came before the last round. She is 11 years, six months and 18 days, ahead of Hou Yifan, who was 12 when she took the title in 2006. Told by FIDE that she had made the record, she did not linger on it. “I’m happy to do it, but I want to keep going and keep making history as well, instead of just stopping here.”

EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON THE READERS • Josip Asik, 2026 Chess Journalist of the Year, on ten years of American Chess Magazine

ROYAL BECOMES THE YOUNGEST BRITISH CHAMPION

WARMING UP, OR WEARING OUT – THE CHALLENGES OF PREPARATION

IMMORTAL CAESAR

CHESS OLYMPICS