Chess Notes
Chess Notes is a chess magazine for chess historians.
Chess Notes was published eight times between January 1982 and December 1989. The editor was Edward Winter . In a total of 1933 small articles ("notes"), chess historians discussed various topics from chess history. Much emphasis was placed on the sources, so that these articles had a scientific character.
The topics discussed were broad. They looked for lost games of old chess masters, asked about their relatives and acquaintances and pointed out old literature references in which chess was mentioned. The magazine also contained (mostly very critical) reviews of recent chess literature .
The magazine appeared for the last time as an independent publication in 1989. From 1993 Edward Winter continued his Chess Notes as a column in various magazines, including the German Chess Report . From 1998 to 2001 the Chess notes (No. 2188–2486) appeared exclusively in the magazine New In Chess , since 2002 only online on the Internet.
The best articles from the Chess Notes have been published in four anthologies so far:
- Chess explorations , 1996, ISBN 1-85744-171-0 .
- Kings, commoners and knaves , 1999, ISBN 1-888690-04-6 .
- A chess omnibus , 2003, ISBN 1-888690-17-8 .
- Chess facts and fables , 2005, ISBN 0-7864-2310-2 .
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As early as 1925, the Frenchman Gaston Legrain ran a comparable section "Les Curiosités de L'Échiquier" in the chess magazine Les Cahiers de L'Échiquier Francais . Since 1994, Harald E. Ballo has published the column “Schach-Zettel” in the Schach-Report and later in Schach . Ken Whyld edited “Quotes and Queries” for British Chess Magazine from 1978 to 2003 .