Yes, I think I remember that !Ian Thompson wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2019 12:02 amI probably saved them 50p three years ago by declining to annotate a game of mine from a recent tournament in return for a free copy of the magazine the game appeared in.John Upham wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2019 11:33 pmHave a guess at the total budget we were allowed for monthly magazine production...
From this minuscule budget we had to pay (or not !) contributors, source photographs, typesetting, etc etc.
I recall going to a 4NCL weekend at Sunningdale, talking to John Nunn. I mentioned I had started taking photographs for BCM and was told that Petra had not been paid for a photograph of ? despite asking more than once. I was so embarrassed by this I paid Petra from my own pocket and then grovelled around attempting to put it in on expenses !