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]
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| Discipline | Chess |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Daniel Willard Fiske Paul Morphy |
| Publication details | |
| History | January 1857 – May 1861 |
| Publisher | P. Miller and Son (U.S.) |
| Frequency | monthly |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Chess 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 edit
- ^ a b "Fiske, Daniel Willard". Chess. 7 August 2007. Archived from the original on 2015-10-30. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ "A New Morphy Game?". Chess Archaeology. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
- Korn, Walter (1978). America's Chess Heritage. David McKay. pp. 6–7, 42. ISBN 0-679-13200-7.
- Tom Standage, The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine. Walker and Company, New York City, 2002. ISBN 0-8027-1391-2
- Gerald M. Levitt, The Turk, Chess Automaton. McFarland and Company Inc. Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2000.
- Moravian Chess Publishing House Volume Listing.
- Chess Monthly, Volume 3, 1859
- Chess Monthly, Volume 4, 1860
- The Chess Monthly archive at HathiTrust