CHESS magazine
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CHESS magazine also called CHESS and previously called CHESS Monthly, is a chess
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 magazine published monthly in the UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 by Chess and Bridge Limited. CHESS was founded by Baruch Harold Wood
Baruch Harold Wood
Baruch Harold Wood MSc OBE was an English chess player, editor and author. He was born in Sheffield, England.-Playing career:...

 in 1935 in Sutton Coldfield
Sutton Coldfield
Sutton Coldfield is a suburb of Birmingham, in the West Midlands of England. Sutton is located about from central Birmingham but has borders with Erdington and Kingstanding. Sutton is in the northeast of Birmingham, with a population of 105,000 recorded in the 2001 census...

. Wood edited it until 1988, when it was taken over by Pergamon Press
Pergamon Press
Pergamon Press was an Oxford-based publishing house, founded by Paul Rosbaud and Robert Maxwell, which published scientific and medical books and journals. It is now an imprint of Elsevier....

 and changed its name to Pergamon Chess. It became Macmillan Chess in 1989 and Maxwell Macmillan Chess Monthly in 1991.

Staff

  • John Saunders
    John Saunders (chess player)
    John Cameron Saunders is a British chess player, writer and magazine editor.-Chess career:...

     (Acting Editor)
  • Jimmy Adams (Editor)
  • International Master (IM) Malcolm Pein (Executive Editor)
  • Regular contributors include Grandmaster (GM) Jacob Aagaard
    Jacob Aagaard
    Jacob Aagaard is a Danish-born Scottish Grandmaster of chess who won the 94th British Championship in 2007. He is Scotland's second highest ranked player as of January 2010, with an Elo rating of 2538. In 2004, he took second place in the Scottish Chess Championship. In 2005, he took first place...

    , GM Danny King
    Daniel J. King
    Daniel John King is an English chess grandmaster, writer, coach, journalist and broadcaster.-Chess career:...

    , IM Andrew Greet, IM Richard Palliser
    Richard Palliser
    Richard David Palliser is an English chess player and chess writer who holds the title International Master.Palliser was joint British Rapidplay Chess Champion in 2006. He writes regularly for Everyman Chess who also employ him as an editor and advisor.His handle on the Internet Chess Club is...

    , IM Yochanan Afek, Amatzia Avni, Chris Ravilious and Gareth Williams.

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