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Discipline | Chess |
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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 | Chess Mon. |
Indexing | |
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.