''Le Palamède'' was the world's first periodical devoted to the game of chess. David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld, '' The Oxford Companion to Chess'' (2d ed. 1992), p. 56. . H. J. R. Murray, ''A History of Chess'', Oxford University Press, 1913, p. 886. . 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 Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, who continued publishing it until the end of 1847.According to H. J. R. Murray, the magazine was "abandoned in 1839; a second series was started in 1842 and in its turn came to an end in 1847". H. J. R. Murray, ''A History of Chess'', Oxford University Press, 1913, p. 886. . The magazine was named after Palamedes, the inventor of

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in Greek mythology.

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