Fairy Chess Review (FCR) was a magazine that was devoted principally to fairy chess problems,[1] but also included extensive original results on related questions in mathematical recreations, such as knight's tours and polyominoes (under the title of "dissections"), and chess-related word puzzles. It appeared six times per year and nine volumes were published, from 1930 to 1958.[2]
Although they are often referred to under the title Fairy Chess Review, the first two volumes (August 1930 to June 1936) in fact bore the title The Problemist Fairy Chess Supplement. These were published by the British Chess Problem Society (BCPS) as an offshoot of their magazine The Problemist which began in 1926. The first two volumes were supported financially by the Falmouth businessman Charles Masson Fox who was also a problemist, who died in 1936.
From volume 3 onwards the FCR was independent of the BCPS, although most of its contributors were members. The editor from 1930 until August 1951 was Thomas Rayner Dawson who died in November that year. An "In Memoriam" issue was edited by C. E. Kemp in February 1952, and the magazine then continued under the editorship of Dennison Nixon (April 1952 to April 1956) and C. E. Kemp (June 1956 to April 1958).
^Cite error: The named reference Feather was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Gino Di Felice (15 September 2010). Chess Periodicals: An Annotated International Bibliography, 1836-2008. McFarland. p. 298. ISBN 978-0-7864-5739-7. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
and 24 Related for: Fairy Chess Review information
fairychess", invented many fairy pieces and new conditions. He was also problem editor of FairyChessReview (1930–1951). Although the term "fairy chess"...
A fairychess piece, variant chess piece, unorthodox chess piece, or heterodox chess piece is a chess piece not used in conventional chess but incorporated...
of unorthodox chess, from fairychess problems and chess variants (including historical and regional ones), and the six orthodox chess pieces. The columns...
addition to orthodox chess. In the context of chess problems, chess variants are called heterodox chess or fairychess. Fairychess variants tend to be...
Capablanca chess (or Capablanca's chess) is a chess variant invented in the 1920s by World Chess Champion José Raúl Capablanca. It incorporates two new...
regular chess. The origin of the game is unknown, dating from the mid-19th century. The variant is a popular problem theme, usually requiring a fairy mate...
won first prize in the first Grid chess problem tournament. It is by H. Ternblad and was published in FairyChessReview, 1954[citation needed]. It is a...
sometimes called Korean chess, is a strategy board game popular on the Korean Peninsula. The game was derived from xiangqi (Chinese chess), and is very similar...
Janus Chess is a chess variant invented in 1978 by Werner Schöndorf from Bildstock, Germany. It is played on a 10×8 board and features a fairychess piece...
Pages FairychessFairychess pieces Infinite chess (a class of chess games) Janggi variant List of abstract strategy games Outline of chess: Chess variants...
annual meetings of fairychess enthusiasts. It was during the 1993 meeting there that Andernach chess was introduced with a chess problem composing tournament...
results with the pieces of 1 to 6 squares were first published in FairyChessReview between the years 1937 and 1957, under the name of "dissection problems...
with progressive chess), but very often employed in composed fairychess problems. This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. These are...
notation to describe chess moves. Fischer random chess, also known as Chess960 ('chess nine-sixty'), is a variation of the game of chess invented by the former...
Losing chess is one of the most popular chess variants. The objective of each player is to lose all of their pieces or be stalemated, that is, a misère...
Bughouse chess (also known as exchange chess, Siamese chess (but not to be confused with Thai chess), tandem chess, transfer chess, double bughouse, doubles...
Marseillais chess (also called Double-Move chess) is a chess variant in which each player moves twice per turn. The rules of the game were first published...
players. In his review in Abstract Games Magazine, Kerry Handscomb stated: The first thing to note about Martian Chess is that it is not a chess-type game at...
Los Alamos chess (or anti-clerical chess) is a chess variant played on a 6×6 board without bishops. This was the first chess-like game played by a computer...
Dark chess (also known as Fog of War chess) is a chess variant with incomplete information, similar to Kriegspiel. It was invented by Jens Bæk Nielsen...
Crazyhouse (also known as drop chess, mad chess, reinforcement chess and turnabout chess) is a chess variant in which captured enemy pieces can be reintroduced...
Global Information