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About The Problemist
The Problemist, founded in 1926, is the bi-monthly magazine of the BCPS, and includes the following regular features:
- Original (previously unpublished) compositions. There are sections for directmates, selfmates and reflexmates, studies, helpmates, fairies, and retros, with annual solving championships in each section.
- Synthetics. A column which lets the reader test his composing skill. A full or partial solution is given, from which the solver attempts to construct the original problem.
- Selected Problems. Split into sections along the lines of the originals, and featuring high-class problems from other sources.
- In the Library. An item from the BCPS library is reviewed at length.
- Awards. Judgments of The Problemist informal tourneys (for the original problems published each year) and other composing tourneys organized by the BCPS.
- Book reviews.
- Reports on BCPS lectures, and on BCPS and overseas meetings.
The Problemist Supplement, begun in 1992, is aimed at newcomers to chess problems. The originals section contains a mixture of all types, chosen to provide easier solving (normally, though there are exceptions!) than the main magazine.
In this section we present sample issues of our magazines, reviews of all issues since 2002, an index of volumes 1 to 6 and an errata. Use the 'The Problemist' menu on the left to navigate.
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