The chess week
The chess week was a Swiss chess magazine published by the Caissa AG chess agency in Sarmenstorf in the canton of Aargau and the only one worldwide that was published weekly. This enabled current chess events to be reported promptly.
It was founded in 1979 by Yves Kraushaar and Werner Widmer under the name Chess-Press . The magazine's editors were Widmer (editor-in-chief), Heinz Wirthensohn and Peter Bolt (publishing representative for Germany). In November 1981 it changed its name to Die Schachwoche . In 2002 subscriptions fell massively, as did advertisements. The “bad payment behavior of many readers” resulted in a loss of 40,000 francs . The last edition was published in May 2003. The spread of the Internet made it no longer up to date.
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- ↑ Die Schachwoche, 46/1981, p. 2.
- ↑ quote from the editorial in the last issue in castling Europe 7/2003, S. 61st