About eighteen months ago, down at the pub, one of my chess-playing friends, who has in recent years developed an interest in chess problems and endgame studies, showed me a page from an issue of the British Chess Magazine from the late 70s. He had a question about something in the studies column. After we had talked about his question, I took the time to read that column, which had been written by Mike Bent. I was delighted to discover that it seemed to me as good as I had thought it to be when I had first read it all those years ago. Immediately I decided to do what I could to republish Mike’s study columns from the BCM on my website.