The Chess Monthly (American magazine)

The Chess Monthly

Discipline	Chess
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 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM  · MathSciNet
ISO 4	Chess Mon.
Indexing CODEN  · JSTOR  · LCCN MIAR  · NLM  · Scopus
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

1. "Fiske, Daniel Willard". Chess. August 7, 2007. Archived from the original on October 30, 2015. Retrieved January 2, 2016.
2. Gino Di Felice (September 15, 2010). Chess Periodicals: An Annotated International Bibliography, 1836-2008. McFarland. p.  55. ISBN   978-0-7864-5739-7 . Retrieved January 2, 2016.
3. "A New Morphy Game?". Chess Archaeology. Retrieved January 2, 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