British Chess Magazine April 2025 Retour à l'édition précédente

The April issue of BCM explores the enduring challenge of promoting women’s chess, featuring a powerful editorial and an in-depth historical retrospective on how world champions from Vera Menchik to Ju Wenjun shaped the game. We also bring you an exclusive interview with super-coach GM Vladimir Potkin, a behind-the-scenes architect of modern elite chess. This edition includes tournament reports from the Wightlink International Masters, where fierce competition unfolded on the Isle of Wight, and coverage of the FIDE Social Chess Research Conference, which presents cutting-edge insights into the cognitive benefits of chess. Fiction fans will enjoy “Double Nelson” — a Faustian tale of a young prodigy’s bargain for chess mastery.