Thinking and guessing
Thinking and guessing: magazine for puzzle enthusiasts; Rätsel, Schach, Skat, Bridge was a weekly from August Scherl's newspaper publisher . The first issue appeared on October 7, 1928. With No. 13 of March 27, 1935, the magazine stopped its publication.
The puzzle magazine was divided into several parts with subtitles for puzzles, chess, skat and bridge. Articles with instructions for puzzles, card and board games appeared regularly. The most prominent author was Emanuel Lasker . At the beginning of the 1930s, like other magazines, even detective stories appeared in serial series. After that, the scope was reduced and the price from 30 to 20 Reichspfennig.
The chess part with the subtitle Das Deutsche Schach reported on current chess events in a few pages. In addition to original prints and reprints of more demanding chess compositions , the editor Karl Helling selected easier tasks and endgames for the less experienced solver in the category Easy Tasks . Small theoretical articles by Kurt Richter , Hans Klüver , Kurt Laue and Kurt Laib, among others , also appeared occasionally.
In addition to various forms of crossword puzzles , search images, brain teasers , such as jumper walks on generalized chessboards in connection with knight jump tasks , checkers' tasks and other things in recent years were also part of the offer.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Die Schwalbe , No. 12, 1928, p. 150.