Kingpin (chess magazine)
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Kingpin is a chess
magazine
published intermittently in the UK. Its editor is Jonathan Manley. Among contributors are GMs Stuart Conquest
, James Plaskett
, Nigel Davies
, Jonathan Rowson
, Aaron Summerscale
, Glenn Flear
, Chris Ward
and Anthony Kosten
.
Kingpin was founded in 1985. To date there have been 40 issues, the most recent having been published in 2009.
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published intermittently in the UK. Its editor is Jonathan Manley. Among contributors are GMs Stuart Conquest
Stuart Conquest
Stuart Conquest is an English chess Grandmaster.-Chess career:In 1981, at the age of 14 he won the World Youth Chess Championship in the under-16 category. Conquest was British Rapidplay Chess Champion in 1997...
, James Plaskett
James Plaskett
Harold James Plaskett was British Chess Champion in 1990, awarded the International Grandmaster title in 1985, and is also a writer, blogger, sometime explorer/cryptozoologist and legal campaigner...
, Nigel Davies
Nigel Davies (chess player)
Nigel Davies is an English chess Grandmaster, chess coach and writer.Davies won the British Boys Championship in 1979 and the British Rapidplay Chess Championhship in 1987.-External links:* Nigel Davies' own website...
, Jonathan Rowson
Jonathan Rowson
Jonathan Rowson is Scotland's third chess Grandmaster, after Paul Motwani and Colin McNab, and has played first board at recent Chess Olympiads. He is also a chess author.-Career:...
, Aaron Summerscale
Aaron Summerscale
Aaron Summerscale is an English chess player who holds the title Grandmaster.Summerscale was joint British Rapidplay Chess Champion in 2000. His current FIDE rating is 2449.-External links:...
, Glenn Flear
Glenn Flear
Glenn Curtis Flear is a British chess grandmaster now living in Montpellier, France. He is the author of several books, some on chess openings and some on the endgame....
, Chris Ward
Chris Ward (chess player)
Chris G Ward is a British chess Grandmaster , chess coach, and author. He won the British Championship in 1996, earning the GM title in the process. He is the author of two well-received books on a variation of the Sicilian Defence known as the Dragon Variation, in addition to a number of other...
and Anthony Kosten
Anthony Kosten
Anthony Cornelis Kosten is an Englishman who lives in Clermont-Ferrand, France,now naturalized French and registered on the French Elo list as a French chess Grandmaster....
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Kingpin was founded in 1985. To date there have been 40 issues, the most recent having been published in 2009.