John Saunders' Chess Blog

BCM's editor is back in Blighty. The journey took 47 hours, from 4am on Tuesday in Gib, to 3am on Thursday in Kingston-upon-Thames. I wo...

An announcement: from 1 May 2010, the British Chess Magazine will be known as the Gibraltar Chess Magazine . This is because the editor, Jo...

This month's issue of British Chess Magazine is now out, a little (well, OK, a lot) later than usual. We were keen to inclu...

I don't know what effect it had on blog readers, but the phenomenal London Chess Classic earlier this month at Olympia seems to have re-...

A recent newspaper interview indicates that Vishy Anand is to have Magnus Carlsen as one of his seconds for the World Championship match wit...

While I was working as press chief at the London Chess Classic in London, many thousands of miles away one of my oldest chess friends was do...

I'm still suffering from chess blogger's cramp. I have to do so much chess writing in other contexts that the blog occupies a rather...