the ‘Private Eye’ of the chess world

Publication of the British magazine Kingpin is always an eagerly-awaited event

If more people read this magazine then it would have a higher circulation

I actually paid good money for No.9

Kingpin is a very, very nice magazine

very, very entertaining . . . some of the back issues of Kingpin were instant classics

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

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

Its rather coarse satirical manner may not appeal to everyone – just the majority of us who enjoy sharp games and low humour

The joy of chess is nowhere celebrated to such climactic excesses as in Kingpin