''Le Palamède'' was the world's first periodical devoted to the game of

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. David Hooper and

Kenneth Whyld Kenneth Whyld (6 March 1926 – 11 July 2003) was a British chess author and researcher, best known as the co-author (with David Hooper) of ''The Oxford Companion to Chess'', a single-volume chess reference work in English. Whyld was a st ...

, ''

The Oxford Companion to Chess ''The Oxford Companion to Chess'' is a reference book on the game of chess written by David Vincent Hooper and Kenneth Whyld. The book is written in an encyclopedia format. The book belongs to the Oxford Companions series. Details The first ed ...

'' (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 Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1795 – December 1840) was a French chess master, possibly the strongest player in the early 19th century. Early life La Bourdonnais was born on the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean in 1795. He w ...

, who is often considered to have been an unofficial

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. It ceased publication in 1839, but was revived in December 1841 by

Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant (12 September 1800, Monflanquin – 29 October 1872) was a leading French chess master and an editor of the chess periodical '' Le Palamède''. He is best known for losing a match against Howard Staunton i ...

, 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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