''The Chess Monthly'' was a short-lived monthly
chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...
magazine produced from January 1857 and May 1861 in the United States.
Edited by professional diplomat and linguistics professor
Daniel Willard Fiske
Daniel Willard Fiske (November 11, 1831 – September 17, 1904) was an American librarian and scholar, born on November 11, 1831, at Ellisburg, New York.
Biography
Fiske studied at Cazenovia Seminary and started his collegiate studies at Hamil ...
, it was co-edited for a time by
Paul Morphy
Paul Charles Morphy (June 22, 1837 – July 10, 1884) was an American chess player. He is considered to have been the greatest chess master of his era and is often considered the unofficial World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he was c ...
.
[ The magazine was based in ]New York City
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.
Eugene B. Cook (1830–1915) and Sam Loyd
Samuel Loyd (January 30, 1841 – April 10, 1911), was an American chess player, chess composer, puzzle author, and recreational mathematician. Loyd was born in Philadelphia but raised in New York City.
As a chess composer, he authored a numb ...
edited the chess problem
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s section. Running for only five volumes,[ 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
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prior to the publication of the magazine.
References
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* Tom Standage, ''The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine''. Walker and Company, New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the Un ...
, 2002.
* Gerald M. Levitt, ''The Turk, Chess Automaton''. McFarland and Company Inc. Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina
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History
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, 2000.
* Moravian Chess Publishing Hous
Volume Listing.
''Chess Monthly'', Volume 3, 1859
''Chess Monthly'', Volume 4, 1860
The Chess Monthly archive at HathiTrust
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