Chess (magazine)
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| description | German chess magazine |
| publishing company | Excelsior Publishing House |
| First edition | April 1947 |
| Frequency of publication | per month |
| Web link | exzelsior.de |
| ISSN (print) | 0048-9328 |
Schach is a German-language magazine on the subject of chess that has been published since April 1947. Chess was offered twice a month until 1961 and monthly since 1962. It has been published by the in-house Exzelsior Verlag since 1999. It is one of the most important German chess magazines .
history
The magazine was first published in 1947 under the title Schach-Express by Express-Verlag in Berlin, and from July 1950 under the current title. From 1953 it was the only chess magazine published in the GDR. Before that, Kurt Richter published the magazine Deutsche Schachblätter until the end of 1952 , which had to be discontinued due to the limited paper contingent.
Chess cost 1.20 marks from 1962 to 1990. In the last few years up to 1990 there was a modified edition for the German-speaking area outside the GDR, adapted to the usual price level, with a better dust jacket and without the pages on domestic and regional issues. The magazine's subtitle has changed several times since 1990, from “The royal advisor for everyone” to “The magazine with tradition and aspiration”. It is currently published with the subtitle "Deutsche Schachzeitung". The German Chess Newspaper existed from 1846 to 1988. The title and subscribers were included in the 1989 chess report . The chess report in turn was taken over by Schach in 1996 .
An additional floppy disk offer for subscribers under the name Schach plus , on which current tournaments were completely recorded, was discontinued after Internet databases became widespread.
Staff and content
In 1991, Raj Tischbierek replaced the former world chess champion Horst Rittner , who had been editor-in-chief since 1961. Since then, Sibylle Heyme and Dirk Poldauf have helped shape chess .
In the Tischbierek era from 1991 onwards, the magazine focused more on chess as a top sport. Former sections such as “Children's and Youth Sports”, “ Go ” or reports on regional chess events disappeared or were severely restricted. The magazine has around 82 pages with the main focus on reports on selected tournaments and leagues, in particular the Bundesliga , which are mostly written by participating players, with other players also presenting their own game analyzes , at least for longer articles . Permanent rubrics are the corner founded by Berthold Koch under the name “We teach chess”, which flourished under Kurt Richter and the title “Chess teaches chess - high school of combination” ( Wolfgang Weber ). Other editors of this series were Werner Golz and from 1975 to 2017 Albin Pötzsch was very successful . Michael Prusikin has been designing this part of the magazine with his own concept since November 2017 . Current tournament announcements take up a lot of space. Letters to the editor, however, are only printed in some issues. Book reviews are published regularly. Starting on page 64, there has been a short interview with a chess personality since the 2000s, asking the same questions not only to players, but also to organizers and patrons.
On the website, chess provides training with grandmasters and international masters, among other things .
Chess composition
Well-known chess personalities designed the composition section “Problems and Studies”, which has existed in Schach from the very beginning . In the past, Herbert Grasemann , Gerhard Kaiser , Hans Vetter , Manfred Zucker and Udo Degener were responsible for them. Since April 2015 she has been supervised by Franz Pachl . Masters like Yochanan Afek published episodically with game examples and studies illustrated separate articles on topics of chess composition for chess , which have achieved resonance with a number of game players.
Web links
- Homepage of the magazine Schach
- Mario Ziegler: "Focused on top chess" - The chess magazine SCHACH. Review in Glarean magazine