''Fairy Chess Review'' () was a magazine that was devoted principally to

fairy chess Fairy chess is the area of chess composition in which there are some changes to the rules of chess. The term was introduced by Henry Tate in 1914. Thomas R. Dawson (1889–1951), the "father of fairy chess", invented many fairy pieces and new c ...

problems, but also included extensive original results on related questions in mathematical recreations, such as

knight's tour A knight's tour is a sequence of moves of a knight on a chessboard such that the knight visits every square exactly once. If the knight ends on a square that is one knight's move from the beginning square (so that it could tour the board again im ...

s and

polyominoes A polyomino is a plane geometric figure formed by joining one or more equal squares edge to edge. It is a polyform whose cells are squares. It may be regarded as a finite subset of the regular square tiling. Polyominoes have been used in po ...

(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. 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 The British Chess Problem Society is considered the oldest chess problem society in the world. The inaugural meeting of the British Chess Problem Society took place on 10 August 1918 at St George's Restaurant, 37 Martin's Lane London WC at 3pm. The ...

(BCPS) as an offshoot of their magazine ''

The Problemist ''The Problemist'' is a bimonthly chess problem magazine which has been in publication since January 1926. It originally had the subtitle "Proceedings of the British Chess Problem Society" but the words "Proceedings of" were dropped in January 1 ...

'' which began in 1926. The first two volumes were supported financially by the Falmouth businessman

Charles Masson Fox Charles Masson Fox (9 November 1866 – 11 October 1935) was a Cornish businessman who achieved international prominence in the world of chess problems and a place in the homosexual history of Edwardian England. Masson Fox was born into a Quake ...

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 Thomas Rayner Dawson (28 November 1889 – 16 December 1951) was an English chess problemist and is acknowledged as "the father of Fairy Chess". He invented many fairy pieces and new conditions. He introduced the popular fairy pieces grassh ...

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 Dennison may refer to: Places ;In the United States * Dennison, Illinois * Dennison, Minnesota * Dennison, Ohio * Dennison Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania Other uses * Dennison (surname) * Dennison Manufacturing Company See also * Av ...

(April 1952 to April 1956) and C. E. Kemp (June 1956 to April 1958).

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{{Chess variants Defunct magazines published in the United Kingdom Fairy chess Magazines established in 1930 Magazines disestablished in 1958 Bi-monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom Chess magazines published in the United Kingdom