one of the very few chess publications that call a chess spade a chess spade

combines an amusing style with solid instruction

A great English chess favourite

a new kind of whiteness I never thought possible with my old Chess Magazine – and without boiling

Scurrilous, funny, sometimes serious, sometimes libellous

the magazine I most enjoy . . . Gary Lane’s agony column is a must for all chess addicts

Both serious and funny, I recommend it to anyone who wants to smile as he reads

an entertaining, irreverent chess magazine that takes you over to the lighter side with verve and panache

Utterly irreverent . . .  genuine wit . . . good instruction for club players

uses impiety and parody to hew down the conventions of publishing, even including mock testimonials