I actually paid good money for No.9

In the chess satire stakes @KingpinEd are masters of the art form … a veritable feast: irony, sarcasm, hyperbole

the ‘Private Eye’ of the chess world

It seems to me that you haven’t quite achieved the manic, off-the-wall style of humour that Informator manages so well, but you run them a pretty good second

[its] satirical nature and penchant for sharp games makes it compulsive reading for the average club player

Kingpin is a very, very nice magazine

the gutter press of chess

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

some of the most varied, sometimes most interesting, and certainly least inhibited chess writing available today

Kingpin is not a chess magazine in the normal sense of the word