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Looked through the July 2010 edition of CHESS magazine.

I'm very impressed and the new look is refreshing.

The diagrams (from ChessBase?) are much clearer (in my opinion).

The editorial mentions that Jimmy Adams is unwell. Let us all hope for a speedy recovery!

So a challenge for the new editor of BCM!

Intrigued about this "new look" - anybody got a pic??

Re the BCM - it is fair to say there is some disquiet about the new appointment (eg the latest piece in the Streatham/Brixton blog)

I must admit also it is extremely impressive I also have this 2010 Chess Magazine, it is definitely worth getting.

Kind Regards Matt.

Best wishes to Jimmy Adams. It would be helpful, I imagine, if Steve Giddins could stick something (anything) on the website. Now we know why the site wasn't updated!

I mean the BCM Website - sorry

Sounds interesting - I allowed my subscription to laps last year, because a felt the mag was getting a little stale, might give it another pop.

Thanks for the kind comments about the new look of the magazine... We really welcome the feedback.

If members of this forum who don't subscribe to CHESS would like to check out the new look then they can get a free sample copy if they email me - [email protected]

Has anyone actually seen the July BCM yet? Both of the previous issues have been extremely late, and the website has gone cold. Mr Giddins will have some catching up to do when he takes over.

I have not had July BCM yet. On another thread, John S said that July would be his last issue.

The July BCM has been printed and should be with subscribers any day now. It's not my last as editor - that will be the August issue.

Matt Read wrote:Thanks for the kind comments about the new look of the magazine... We really welcome the feedback.

If members of this forum who don't subscribe to CHESS would like to check out the new look then they can get a free sample copy if they email me - [email protected]

Sorry, have to say that I do not like the new look. De gustibus non est disputandum.

PB

I have subscribed to CHESS all my life and have every back number going back to Volume 1, September 1935.

The latest is crude, lacks figurines, branishes over-sized photos, seemingly lacks artistic variety. It reminded me of the first efforts when Maxwell bought the mag from BH Wood. It has been reducing page content for a while now, though naturally quality is here.

Naturally with Jimmy Adams ill they may be under pressure. I'll wait and see.

James Pratt wrote:I have subscribed to CHESS all my life and have every back number going back to Volume 1, September 1935

Lucky man - to get a whole run of the BHW issues is a long-standing dream of mine

To tell the truth, the mag had been going downhill in the last few years before Barry called it a day, as his age and infirmity finally took their toll. But nothing prepared one for the "new look" mag that started in spring 1988. It was AWFUL, both in design and content (which was dominated to a truly unhealthy extent by - surprise, surprise - a certain rotund, self-publicizing British GM and his cronies )

It did actually pick up within a year or two - but by then many people I suspect (myself certainly amongst them) had given up getting it regularly, never to return. Let that be a warning

Look forward to the latest BCM - thanks John. It will take a lot more than a new look Chess to make me change my allegiance.
James, do you have BCM going back to the year dot? I have only got as far back as around 1969, except 1972 of course, which for some reason never comes up for sale. Long may it continue, new editor or not.