The Chess Monthly (American magazine)
19th-century chess magazine
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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]
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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 |
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 two-part article ("The last of a veteran chess player") written by Silas Mitchell about the Turk, the chess-playing machine that had perished in a fire in Philadelphia.