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For the BRITISH CHESS VARIANTS SOCIETY
Site updated 1 October 2010
The British Chess Variants Society was formed in 1997 by contributors and subscribers to the magazine
Variant Chess, which was begun in January 1990 and is now published by the Society. The most recent (and final) issue of the magazine
is VC64, published August 2010 and should have been received at UK
addresses by 9 August, overseas a little later.
Following the AGM held on 25 September, the society was wound up as no further editor for the
magazine volunteered after the resignation of J.D. Beasley.
The present office-holders of the Society are:
President: George Jelliss
Editor and Secretary: John Beasley
Treasurer and VC distribution: Peter Fayers
Librarian: George Jelliss
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Postal Chess Organiser: Jed Stone
Endings Editor: Paul Byway
Webmaster: Sue Beasley
Web Site: www.bcvs.ukf.net |
Other pages on this site:
Variant Chess Magazine, Subscription details, Publication history, Availability of back issues, etc
Articles on particular chess variants with rules, illustrative problems, and example games.
Contents List of all articles published in VCM
LIB: List of contents of the BCVS Library, available to members. Now maintained on the mayhematics site September 2010
Links to other sites of Variant Chess interest. Updated September 2010
Obituaries/Appreciations, Various friends and members of the Society
News and Notices: Update 29/9/10
Downloadable PDF files of all 64 issues of VCM
Now available on the mayhematics web site.
Variants tournament at Hastings.
Mike Adams says he will be organising a Variants tournament at Hastings this year as per usual.
(Unfortunately he was unwell so couldn't do it last year.)
It will take place 28th, 29th or 30th Dec, details to follow.
Andrew Perkis hopes to get there to record some Jump Chess games.
VC64 (the final issue of VC) is now available - UK members should have received
their copy by the early August 2010. Overseas subscribers possibly mid to late August.
Note that the email address given for the Treasurer in VC54 has changed - he has moved to @googlemail.com
and is now fayers.peter, and NOT "fayers@freeuk.com".
David's Encyclopedia. Update 3 April 2007 The second edition is now available from Chess Direct, P O Box 18,
Mexborough, South Yorks S64 9AR or logon to
Chess Direct Price £15.99 plus postage and packing.
Errors and omissions in ECV2.
I have been using “Variant Chess” to report errors and omissions in the
second edition of David Pritchard’s Encyclopedia, and it occurs to me that the relevant sections might usefully
be posted here as PDF files so that holders of the Encyclopedia who do not see VC can download them.
There are currently six of these files:
The text has sometimes been edited to remove or replace references to material appearing elsewhere in the magazine.
JDB
David Pritchard’s Encyclopedia files
Now that work on the Encyclopedia has finished and the immediate claims of error and omission have been fielded,
David Pritchard’s files have been prepared for transfer to the Musée Suisse du Jeu, where they will be kept in
the Ken Whyld Library and made available to future researchers. If anyone with an interest in the subject will
be travelling that way with a car and would care to take them on behalf of the Musée, would he or she please be
so kind as to contact us? Sue doesn’t drive on the Continent and I don’t drive at all, and we would far rather
see this irreplaceable material go in the charge of a trusted courier than rely on a commercial carrier.
The Musée is at La Tour-de-Peilz, on the lake side between Vevey and Montreux, and is well worth a visit both
for itself and for its lovely setting. The material is stored in six boxes each roughly the size of a
12-bottle wine case (one is a little larger), and weighs around 70 kilogrammes in total.
Update 19 August2010
David Pritchard's Encyclopedia files have now been collected by Michael Jameson for onward transmission to the
Musée Suisse du Jeu. Our thanks to Michael for his help with this.
This site was started by George Jelliss in June 2001
and from January 2006 maintained by Sue Beasley, comments and suggestions welcome to vcm using domain suebeasley .co.uk. |