The Chess Monthly

The Chess Monthly was a short-lived monthly chess magazine produced from January 1857 and May 1861 in the United States.[1][2] Edited by professional diplomat and linguistics professor Daniel Willard Fiske, it was co-edited for a time by Paul Morphy.[1][2] The magazine was based in New York City.[3]

The Chess Monthly
DisciplineChess
LanguageEnglish
Edited byDaniel Willard Fiske
Paul Morphy
Publication details
HistoryJanuary 1857 – May 1861
Publisher
P. Miller and Son (U.S.)
Frequencymonthly
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Chess Mon.
Indexing
OCLC no.1554064

Eugene B. Cook (1830–1915) and Sam Loyd edited the chess problems section. Running for only five volumes,[2] the magazine is perhaps best remembered today for a series of articles written by Silas Mitchell regarding The Turk, the chess-playing machine that perished in a fire in Philadelphia prior to the publication of the magazine.

References

  1. "Fiske, Daniel Willard". Chess. 7 August 2007. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
  2. Gino Di Felice (15 September 2010). Chess Periodicals: An Annotated International Bibliography, 1836-2008. McFarland. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-7864-5739-7. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
  3. "A New Morphy Game?". Chess Archaeology. Retrieved 2 January 2016.


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