British Chess Magazine

The September issue of British Chess Magazine looks back at the Chess Olympiad as chess’s true world stage - from London 1927 and the Hamilton-Russell Cup to Samarkand 2026, where nearly four hundred teams gather and FIDE elects its next president. GM Aleksandar Colovic traces how medals, boycotts and diplomacy have travelled with the boards for a century, while Alan Smith’s Quotes and Queries uncovers Caro-Kann, Nimzo-Indian and Four Knights games played before those names existed. Closer to home, Shaun Taulbut reports Eldar Gasanov’s victory at the Sussex University Masters and Harry Grieve’s 5/5 at Manchester’s Harry Lamb Memorial, with the usual BCM mix of miniatures, problems and endgame studies.

British Chess Magazine

Chess Olympiads: A sports cap on a diplomatic event

GENS UNA SUMUS: How the Chess Olympiad became the game’s true world stage • When chess and history shared the same table How power shifted across the map England’s near-miss and the golden generation

New British Chess Forum launched

A victory for ELDAR GASANOV

HARRY GRIEVE ON 5/5!

SIMPSON'S SUBORNED

BEAUTY IN MINIATURE

PROBLEM WORLD

QUOTES AND QUERIES CARO KANN, NIMZOINDIAN AND THE FOUR KNIGHTS • before Caro, Nimzowitsch and Rubinstein

Endgame Studies