B.C. Publications

Books

Diamond Dust by John Wright and Jonathan Berry. Seattle: International Chess Enterprises, 1991.

Pocket Guide to Chess by Jonathan Berry. Toronto: Master Point Press, 2005.

A review. Jonathan has been involved in various capacities with many other books, details here.

Unorthodox Chess by Some Loser. Trafford Publishing, 2005.

A review. And no, I am not making this up; Trafford is a legitimate (vanity) press, and this is how the author presents himself.

Chess on the Edge by Bruce Harper and Yasser Seirawan. Montreal: Chess 'n Math Association, 2008.

A review.

Bullet Chess: one minute to mate by Hikaru Nakamura and Bruce Harper. Milford: Russell Enterprises, 2009.

A review.

Kingwalks: paths of glory by Yasser Seirawan and Bruce Harper. Milford: Russell Enterprises, 2021.

Opening Repertoire: the Sicilian Najdorf by John Doknjas and Joshua Doknjas. Everyman Chess, 2018.

Opening Repertoire: the Ruy Lopez by Joshua Doknjas. Everyman Chess, 2019.

Opening Repertoire: the Modern Benoni by John Doknjas. Everyman Chess, 2020.

Magazines

B.C. Chess Magazine, in year two the Canadian Chess Magazine

Editor: John Ewing
Volume 1 - December 1918 - May 1919 (5 issues, monthly, April missing)
No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5
Volume 2 - October 1919 - January 1920 (4 issues, monthly - Canadian Chess Magazine)
No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4

B.C. Chess Bulletin

Editor: Wayne Crookes
From issue 1: "The B.C. Chess Bulletin was created at the 1968 Annual Meeting of the BCCF.... The BCCM [sic] will be published at least four times yearly, the next issue is scheduled for January 1, 1969. Thanks for help with this issue to Mr. Russ Vogler."
Issue 1 - November 4, 1968 ("Volume 1, number 1")
Issue 2 - January 31, 1969

B.C. Chess

Editor: Russ Vogler
Issue 1 - August 1969
Issue 2 - September 1969
Issue 3 - October 1969
Issue 4 - November 1969
Issue 5 - December 1969/January 1970
Issue 6 - Febuary/March 1970

Northwest Chess

This iconic publication served at times as the official organ for the BCCF in the 1970s, but since the magazine often contained B.C. material it is not easy to determine exactly when these times occurred. This is partly due to the changing political aspects of B.C. chess at that time: there were upto four different chess federations, each having to decide whether to affiliate with the CFC and its rating system and magazine, rely on Northwest Chess and its adjunct rating system, or use some other means of communication (Canadian Chess Chat or a self-produced publication). Around 1980 B.C. reports were appearing in the magazine on a bi-monthly basis, and a BCCF membership entitled subscribers to receive every other issue of Northwest Chess, i.e., just those containing the B.C. reports. Harold Brown was editor for the three years preceding 1980, then Dan Scoones took over the reins. Scanned back issues of Northwest Chess can be found here.

British Columbia Chess Report [1]

Editor: Brian McLaren
Began in December 1976, ran monthly (with the exception of February) until May 1977

Canadian Chess Chat: British Columbia Chess Report

Editor: Harold Brown
"The May issue of the B.C. Chess Report was the final one. All members will now receive our new Official Magazine: Canadian Chess Chat." [Canadian Chess Chat, September 1977]

"A number of people (including members of the executive) have expressed dissatisfaction with Canadian Chess Chat as official B.C. organ (e.g., mailing of two issues at once, and general lateness of B.C. news), and it has been proposed that we return once again to Northwest Chess" [The last report was in the June 1978 issue of Canadian Chess Chat]

British Columbia Chess Report [2]

Four issues, three untitled and with no specific date, but the second (British Columbia Chess Report) is dated November 1978. On the basis of content the other three issues were produced as follows:
Issue "1" - late July 1978
Issue "3" - late January 1979
Issue "4" - early March 1979

British Columbia Chess Reports

Editors: Bruce Harper for the first year, various interim personnel, Paul Burke in the later stages
Volume 1 - 1981 (6 issues)
Volume 2 - 1982 (5 issues)
Volume 3 - 1983 (4 issues)
Volume 4 - 1984 (4 issues)

Counterplay

The renamed British Columbia Chess Reports, retaining the same editor (Paul Burke) and numbering system:
Volume 4, no. 5 and no. 6 - November and December 1984
Volume 5 - 1985
Volume 6 - 1986
Volume 7 - 1987
Volume 8 - 1988
Volume 9 - 1989
Volume 10 - 1990 (Phil Coffey took over as editor, April 1990)
Volume 11 - 1991 (Jason Feng edited the August issue, Bob Holmes became editor in October)
Volume 12 - 1992
Volume 13 - 1993 (5 issues)
Volume 14 - 1994 (5 issues - Wilson Yeung became editor in May)
Volume 15 - 1995 (3 issues - Febuary, April, July - Jason Williamson edited in July)
Volume 16 - 1996 (2 issues - April and May - back to Wilson for April, then Karen Reid took over for the last three issues)
Volume 17 - 1996 (2 issues - July and November)

Newspaper Columns

intermittent columns between 7 July 1894 and 17 October 1896; several editors, including anonymous, Thomas Piper, and Peter Schwengers

by Edouard Lacaille, 16 December 1905 - 12 June 1906

by Bertram Yates, 2 February 1913 - 14 March 1915

"World's Chess Corner," 9 December 1915 - at least March 1917

by Cyril F. Davie, 27 February 1916 - 1925?
by Thomas Piper, 1925? - 24 May 1931

"World's Chess Corner," 4 February - 27 May 1922

by Bertram Yates, 12 April 1930 - 18 April 1931

by Dave Creemer, 2 August 1947 - 8 August 1953
by Dave Creemer and W.E. Frank Fillery, 15 August 1953 - 19 December 1953*
by W.E. Frank Fillery, 24 December 1953 - 30 November 1957

*ostensibly this was the last column under duel editorship, but Creemer underwent a serious operation at the beginning of December and subsequently died December 21; likely Fillery started writing the column alone sometime in November

by Steve Jackson, 1953

by Nathan Divinsky, 16 November 1963 - 23 May 1964 ("Chess charivari")

a chess column by Al Horowitz preceded and subsequently replaced Chess charivari; during the change-over periods some columns were unattributed, making it hard to determine who wrote what. After the reintroduction of Horowitz's column in late May, 1964, local news was sometimes appended - there is no indication of who provided/wrote these sections.

by Ray Kerr, 1968? - 1981?

by Bruce Harper, 21 July 1972 - 10 September 1976
by Peter Biyiasas, 17 September 1976 - 18 March 1977
by Bruce Harper, 25 March 1977 - March 1986?

by Mike Bateman, --1977-- (bi-weekly)

by Von Sarac, --1977-- (Wednesday)

Transcribed Lectures

The Suttles Tapes

Transcript of a lecture given by Duncan Suttles at the Central Chess Club, Vancouver on 11 September 1978

Peter's Principles

Transcript of a lecture given by Peter Biyiasas at the Central Chess Club, Vancouver on 22 February 1979

Harper's Horrors 1 2 3

Transcript of a lecture given by Bruce Harper at the Vancouver Chess Club on 21 December 1979. The three parts were orginally published in and are reproduced through the courtesy of Northwest Chess