List of chess periodicals
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Below is a list of chess periodicals. Publications are included only if they accept contributions from multiple authors and their content focuses primarily on some aspect of chess
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| Name | Date | Frequency | Published | Subject | Website |
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| 64 64 (chess magazine) The magazine 64 is a Russian chess and draughts publication, published in Moscow. Its name refers to the number of squares on a chessboard. The magazine awards the Chess Oscar annually.-History:... |
1924- | Twice per month | Russia | General | http://www.64.ru/?/en/magazine/ |
| American Chess Bulletin American Chess Bulletin The American Chess Bulletin was a chess periodical that was published monthly and bi-monthly from 1904 to 1963. The editor was Hermann Helms , who founded the magazine and edited it until his death, at which point publication ceased... |
1904–1962 | Monthly | United States | General | |
| American Chess Journal | 1879–1881 | seven issues | United States | ||
| American Chess Magazine | 1846-1847 1897-1899 |
Monthly | United States | General | |
| Baltische Schachblaetter | 1889-1893 1898-1908 |
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| Black & White | 2004 | 4 times a year | India | General | http://www.blackandwhiteindia.com/ |
| Brüderschaft Bruderschaft Bruderschaft is an electronic music artist's collective led by New York City-based DJ Rexx Arkana. Conceived as a charity project focused on cancer research and treatment in the wake of Arkana's father's death from the disease, Bruderschaft brought together a large number of artists from the... Deutsches Wochenschach |
1885-1888 1889-1925 |
Weekly | Germany | General | |
| British Chess Magazine British Chess Magazine British Chess Magazine is the world's oldest chess magazine in continuous publication. First published in January 1881, it has appeared at monthly intervals ever since. It is frequently known in the chess world as BCM.... |
1881- | Monthly | England | General | http://www.bcmchess.co.uk |
| Chess Express/Schach Express | 1968-? | Twice per month | Switzerland | Current games | |
| Chess Informant Chess Informant Chess Informant is a publishing company from Belgrade that periodically produces a book of the same name, as well as the Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings, Encyclopaedia of Chess Endings, Opening Monographs, other print publications, and software Chess Informant (Šahovski Informator) is a... |
1966- | 3 times a year | Serbia | General | http://www.sahovski.com/index.php |
| Chess Life Chess Life Chess Life is a monthly chess magazine published in the United States. The official publication of the United States Chess Federation , it reaches more than a quarter of a million readers every month. A subscription to Chess Life is one of the benefits of Full Adult, Youth, or Life membership in... |
1946- | Monthly | United States | General | http://beta.uschess.org/frontend/section_7.php |
| CHESS magazine CHESS magazine CHESS magazine , also called CHESS and previously called CHESS Monthly, is a chess magazine published monthly in the UK by Chess and Bridge Limited. CHESS was founded by Baruch Harold Wood in 1935 in Sutton Coldfield. Wood edited it until 1988, when it was taken over by Pergamon Press and changed... |
1935- | Monthly | England | General | http://www.chess.co.uk/ |
| Chess Player's Chronicle Chess Player's Chronicle The Chess Player's Chronicle, founded by Howard Staunton and extant from 1841–56 and 1859–62, was the world's first successful English-language magazine devoted exclusively to chess. Various unrelated but identically or similarly named publications were published until 1902.The earliest chess... |
1841-56 1859-75 1877-1902 |
Monthly | England | General | - |
| Chess Review Chess Review Chess Review is a U.S. chess magazine that was published from January 1933 until October 1969 . Until April 1941 it was called The Chess Review. Published in New York, it began on a schedule of at least ten issues a year but later became a monthly... |
1933–1969 | Monthly | United States | General | - |
| ChessBase News ChessBase ChessBase GmbH is a German company that markets chess software, maintains a chess news site, and operates a server for online chess. Set up in 1998, it maintains and sells massive databases, containing most historic games, that permit analysis that had not been possible prior to computing... |
2001- | Daily | Online | General | http://www.chessbase.com/ |
| ChessCafe.com ChessCafe.com ChessCafe.com is a website that publishes endgame studies, book reviews and other articles related to chess on a weekly basis. It was founded in 1996 by Hanon Russell, and is well known as a repository of articles about chess and its history.... |
1996- | Weekly | Online | General | http://www.chesscafe.com/ |
| Columbia Chess Chronicle | 1887-91 | ?? | United States | General | http://madcat.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=7131878 |
| Computerschach und Spiele | 1983–2004 | Bimonthly | Germany | Computer Chess | http://www.computerschach.de/ |
| Der Schachfreund | 1898–1901 | ?? | Germany | ?? | |
| Die Schwalbe Die Schwalbe Die Schwalbe is the German chess composition society and issues the bimonthly magazine Die Schwalbe.- Society :Die Schwalbe was founded on 10 February 1924 in Essen as Vereinigung von Problemfreunden zur Förderung der Aufgabenkunst... |
1924- | 6 times per year | Germany | Chess problem Chess problem A chess problem, also called a chess composition, is a puzzle set by somebody using chess pieces on a chess board, that presents the solver with a particular task to be achieved. For instance, a position might be given with the instruction that White is to move first, and checkmate Black in two... s |
http://www.dieschwalbe.de/ |
| Deutsche Schachzeitung Deutsche Schachzeitung Deutsche Schachzeitung was the first German chess magazine.Founded in 1846 by Ludwig Bledow under the title Schachzeitung der Berliner Schachgesellschaft, it took the name Deutsche Schachzeitung in 1872... |
1846–1988 | Monthly | Germany | General | - |
| EG (magazine) EG (magazine) EG is a magazine that publishes endgame studies and discusses various aspects of the endgame in chess. The letters "EG" stand for "End Game."... |
1965- | 2 to 4 times per year | Netherlands | Endgame studies | http://www.gadycosteff.com/eg/eg.html |
| Europe Échecs Europe Échecs Europe Échecs is a monthly French-language chess magazine.Founded in 1959 by Raoul Bertolo, who died in 1991 and who was at the time president of the Fédération française des échecs, it succeeded l'Échiquier de Turenne. It is the oldest chess magazine in France still running, and is now edited by... |
1959- | Monthly | France | General | http://www.europe-echecs.com/ |
| ICGA Journal ICGA Journal The ICGA Journal is a quarterly academic journal published by the International Computer Games Association. It was renamed in 2000, its previous name was the ICCA Journal of the International Computer Chess Association, which was founded in 1977.... |
1977- | 4 times per year | Netherlands | Computer chess Computer chess Computer chess is computer architecture encompassing hardware and software capable of playing chess autonomously without human guidance. Computer chess acts as solo entertainment , as aids to chess analysis, for computer chess competitions, and as research to provide insights into human... |
http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/icga/journal/ |
| International Chess Magazine International Chess Magazine International Chess Magazine was a chess magazine established in 1885 by World Chess Champion Wilhelm Steinitz until 1891.-External links:* * * *... |
1885–1891 | Yearly | ?? | General | - |
| Jaque Jaque Jaque is a Spanish chess magazine that is published twice a month in Valencia. It started in San Sebastian in 1970 and has been the Spanish leading chess magazine since. Some of the best chess players in the world write in Jaque.... |
1970- | Monthly | Spain | General | http://www.jaque.tv |
| Kingpin Kingpin (chess magazine) Kingpin is a chess magazine published intermittently in the UK. Its editor is Jonathan Manley. Among contributors are GMs Stuart Conquest, James Plaskett, Nigel Davies, Jonathan Rowson, Aaron Summerscale, Glenn Flear, Chris Ward and Anthony Kosten.Kingpin was founded in 1985... |
1985- | 3 times per year | England | General | http://www.chesscenter.com/kingpin/Kingpin/ |
| La Strategie | 1867-1940 | Monthly | France | General | - |
| Le Courrier des Échecs | 1947- | 8 times per year | France | Correspondence chess Correspondence chess Correspondence chess is chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, usually through a correspondence chess server, through email or by the postal system; less common methods which have been employed include fax and homing pigeon... |
http://ajec-echecs.org/CDE/ |
| Le Palamède Le Palamède Le Palamède was the world's first periodical devoted to the game of chess. It was founded in France in 1836 by Louis-Charles Mahé de la Bourdonnais, who is often considered to have been an unofficial world chess champion. It ceased publication in 1839, but was revived in December 1841 by Pierre... |
1836–1847 | ? | France | General | - |
| L'Italia Scacchistica | 1911- | 8 times per year | Italy | General | http://www.italiascacchistica.com |
| Messaggero Scacchi | 2000- | Weekly | Online | General | http://www.messaggeroscacchi.it |
| New In Chess New In Chess New In Chess is a chess magazine that appears eight times a year with chief editors International Grandmaster Jan Timman and Dirk Jan Ten Geuzendam. It contains notes by top players and chess prodigies on their own games... |
1984- | 8 times per year | Netherlands | General | http://www.newinchess.com/Magazine/Default.aspx?PageID=100 |
| Northwest Chess | 1947- | 12 times per year | USA Washington Oregon | General | http://www.nwchess.com |
| Peón de rey | 2001- | 12 times per year | Spain | General | http://www.peonderey.com/ |
| Probleemblad | 1943- | 6 times per year | Netherlands | Chess problems | http://www.probleemblad.nl/En/ |
| Schaak Magazine | 1893- | Monthly | Netherlands | General | - |
| Schach | 1961- | Monthly | Germany | General | http://www.zeitschriftschach.de/ |
| Schach-Magazin 64 | 1979- | Monthly | Germany | General | http://www.schuenemann-verlag.de/schach-magazin/ |
| Shakhmatny Bulletin Shakhmatny Bulletin Shakhmatny Bulletin was a Russian chess magazine. It was published monthly from 1955–1990 and published about 2,500 complete games per year. Yuri Averbakh was an editor. The circulation was 20,000. Bobby Fischer called Shakhmatny Bulletin "the best chess magazine in the world."... |
1955–1990 | Monthly | Soviet Union | Current games | - |
| Shakhmaty v SSSR Shakhmaty v SSSR Shakhmaty v SSSR was a Russian chess magazine published 1931-91. It was edited by Viacheslav Ragozin for several years. Yuri Averbakh was also an editor. From 1921 or 1925 through 1930 it was titled Shakhmatny Listok and edited by Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky. The circulation was 55,000.... |
1921–1991 | Monthly | Soviet Union | General | - |
| StrateGems | 1998- | 4 times per year | United States | Chess problems | http://www.strategems.org/ |
| Schweizerische Schachzeitung | 1900- | Monthly | Switzerland | General | http://schachbund.ch/presse/ssz.php |
| Tidsskrift for Skak | 1895- | Monthly | Sweden | General | - |
| The Chess Monthly The Chess Monthly The Chess Monthly was a short-lived chess magazine produced from 1857–1861 in the United States. Edited by professional diplomat and linguistics professor Daniel Willard Fiske, it was co-edited for a time by Paul Morphy. Eugene B. Cook and Sam Loyd edited the chess problems section... |
1857–1861 | Monthly | United States | General | - |
| The London Chess Fortnightly | 1892–1893 | Bimonthly | England | General | - |
| The Philidorian | 1837–1838 | Six issues | England | General | - |
| The Problemist The Problemist The Problemist is a chess problem magazine which has been in publication since January 1926. It originally had the subtitle "Proceedings of the British Chess Problem Society" but the words "Proceedings of" were dropped in January 1985.... |
1926- | 6 times per year | England | Chess problems | http://www.bcps.knightsfield.co.uk/problemist.html |
| The Week in Chess The Week in Chess The Week in Chess is one of the first, if not the first, Internet-based chess news services.TWIC has been edited by Mark Crowther since its inception in 1994. It began as a weekly Usenet posting, with "TWIC 1" being posted to Usenet group rec.games.chess on 17 September 1994... |
1994- | Weekly | Online | Chess news | http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic.html |
| Torre & Cavallo Scacco! | 1987- | 11 times per year | Italy | General | http://www.messaggeroscacchi.it |