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The November 2012 issue of the British Chess Magazine has just popped through the letter slot. It is a month or more late.
The magazine has gone through a rough period lately
http://streathambrixtonchess.blogspo...-magazine.html
Long-time subscribers have spoken of letting their subscriptions run out
http://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2823
I have noticed a decline in the quality of the journal for two years now, a Quotes and Queries column with neither quotes nor queries and book reviews that were the best in the world, gone.
An article entitled “Remembering P H Clarke” stretching over three issues prompted me to ask after the second installment when Clarke had died, which elicited the answer, “Peter and Margaret Clarke are very much alive and we do regret failing to make that clear”.
I have a run of BCM from 1881 to present, only missing the WWI years 1914-1918. I would drop my subscription with the greatest reluctance. I have been considering that but decided to give them one more year of support and then decide.
The good news is that the staff seems to pulling the contents together. It is more cohesive but still not the magazine it was in its heyday.
The Lawrence Day interview is just over four pages long. His exact birthday is given, thoughts on Bohatirchuk, the Big Clamp, Chess Canada and a chess commune, his memoirs and Nick’s Best. There are two games, Prins v Day, 1968 Olympiad and Day v Martin, Toronto 1966.
Interesting reading but I regret to say that the text is not online
http://www.britishchessmagazine.co.uk/
but, by going to the site you could download the entire contents of the November issue for Amazon Kindle, iPad or iPhone for 60% of the price of the physical magazine.
I would really like to know if other readers find the interview as enjoyable as I do – especially the Chess Canada time at Wychwood.
The magazine has gone through a rough period lately
http://streathambrixtonchess.blogspo...-magazine.html
Long-time subscribers have spoken of letting their subscriptions run out
http://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2823
I have noticed a decline in the quality of the journal for two years now, a Quotes and Queries column with neither quotes nor queries and book reviews that were the best in the world, gone.
An article entitled “Remembering P H Clarke” stretching over three issues prompted me to ask after the second installment when Clarke had died, which elicited the answer, “Peter and Margaret Clarke are very much alive and we do regret failing to make that clear”.
I have a run of BCM from 1881 to present, only missing the WWI years 1914-1918. I would drop my subscription with the greatest reluctance. I have been considering that but decided to give them one more year of support and then decide.
The good news is that the staff seems to pulling the contents together. It is more cohesive but still not the magazine it was in its heyday.
The Lawrence Day interview is just over four pages long. His exact birthday is given, thoughts on Bohatirchuk, the Big Clamp, Chess Canada and a chess commune, his memoirs and Nick’s Best. There are two games, Prins v Day, 1968 Olympiad and Day v Martin, Toronto 1966.
Interesting reading but I regret to say that the text is not online
http://www.britishchessmagazine.co.uk/
but, by going to the site you could download the entire contents of the November issue for Amazon Kindle, iPad or iPhone for 60% of the price of the physical magazine.
I would really like to know if other readers find the interview as enjoyable as I do – especially the Chess Canada time at Wychwood.