British Chess Magazine  |  September 2026
The September issue of British Chess Magazine looks back at the Chess Olympiad as chess’s true world stage - from London 1927 and the Hamilton-Russell Cup to Samarkand 2026, where nearly four hundred teams gather and FIDE elects its next president. GM Aleksandar Colovic traces how medals, boycotts and diplomacy have travelled with the boards for a century, while Alan Smith’s Quotes and Queries uncovers Caro-Kann, Nimzo-Indian and Four Knights games played before those names existed. Closer to home, Shaun Taulbut reports Eldar Gasanov’s victory at the Sussex University Masters and Harry Grieve’s 5/5 at Manchester’s Harry Lamb Memorial, with the usual BCM mix of miniatures, problems and endgame studies.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in British Chess Magazine September 2026.