Kingpin (ISSN 0969-2150) is a chess magazine published three times a year in the UK. Jonathan "Jon" Manley is chief editor.
History and profile
Kingpin was founded in 1985. Among the contributors to its columns are Grandmasters Stuart Conquest, James Plaskett, Nigel Davies, Jonathan Rowson, Aaron Summerscale, Glenn Flear, Chris Ward, Anthony Kosten, and others. The magazine includes humorous articles about chess.
David Spanier, writing for The Daily Telegraph in 1989, described the magazine as "irreverent and entertaining", "full of off-beat chess and jokes to match".