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The Chess Monthly (American magazine)

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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

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]

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

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  1. ^ a b "Fiske, Daniel Willard". Chess. 7 August 2007. Archived from the original on 2015-10-30. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "A New Morphy Game?". Chess Archaeology. Retrieved 2 January 2016.