Chess magazine
A chess magazine is a regular printed product (more rarely an electronic publication ) on the subject of chess . Monthly issues of printed magazines are common; An exception was Die Schachwoche , the world's only chess magazine that was published weekly.
content
Chess magazines largely consist of reports on major and national chess tournaments as well as the processing of the chess games played. A certain chess notation is used to represent the games , which enables the reader to play the games on a chessboard . Particularly interesting encounters are often analyzed or commented on by well-known masters ( international masters , grandmasters ) .
Additional content includes, for example - depending on the thematic focus of the magazine - sections on chess composition , articles on opening theory , endgame studies , player portraits, reviews of new chess literature or historical and chess-cultural articles.
Chess magazines with tradition
The first chess magazine was the magazine Le Palamède , founded by Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais , which appeared from 1836 to 1847 with an interruption of several years (1839/42). In England, Howard Staunton founded The Chess Player's Chronicle (published from 1841 to 1876). In Germany there was the chess newspaper of the Berliner Schachgesellschaft since 1846 , which was continued under different names until 1988. The Swiss Friedrich Capraez (born February 7, 1830 in Chur; † June 5, 1890) published the Swiss chess newspaper in 1857, 1858 and 1860 , a forerunner of today's paper of the same name. The Wiener Schachzeitung , published by Ernst Falkbeer , first appeared in 1855, but only survived a few months. It was followed by various later foundings under the same name, including under Georg Marcos leadership (1898-1916).
The oldest magazine still published today is the British Chess Magazine (1881 ff.).
The most popular publications in German-speaking countries include the magazines Schach (founded in April 1947, took over Schach-Report in 1996 , which previously had successively taken over Deutsche Schachblätter , Deutsche Schachzeitung and Der Schachspiegel ), Schach-Magazin 64 (took over Schach-Echo in 1992 ) and the castling Europe , the official announcement organ of the majority of the German state associations. In many cases, only the group of subscribers was passed on during the takeovers, traditional lines of content were either not continued at all or only continued in individual areas.
The Swiss Chess Newspaper has been published since 1900; it has also existed as an electronic edition since 2000 (see web link). In Austria since 1981 acts that the Austrian Chess Federation published (ÖSB) Chess active as official organ of the Chess Federation.
Appearance | Name of the magazine | subtitle | alternative titles | country |
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1906 – today | Československý šach | Czech Republic, Slovakia | ||
1959 – today | Europe Échecs | France | ||
1911 – today | L'Italia scacchistica | Organo ufficiale del Circolo scacchistico fiorentino, dell'Accademia scacchistica di Viareggio e del circolo scacchistico di Bologna | Italy | |
after 1945 – today | Magyar Sakkélet | Sakkélet | Hungary | |
1925-1929 | Revista de Şah | Romania | ||
1930 – today | Revista Română de Şah | Romania | ||
after 1945 – today | Shachmatna Misl | Шахматна мисъл | Bulgaria | |
1959? –1991? | Shahs | Шахматы | Latvia | |
1921-1930 (1931?) 1931-1991 |
Schachmatny Listok Schachmaty w SSSR |
Шахматный листок Шахматы в СССР |
Soviet Union | |
1905 – today | Skakbladet | Denmark | ||
1932-1970 | Arbejder Skak | Organ for Dansk Arbejder-Skakforbund | Denmark | |
Suomen Shakki | Finland | |||
Tides for Schack | Sweden | |||
until 10/1935 | Tijdschrift van de NSB | Netherlands | ||
11/1935 to? | Tijdschrift van de KNSB | Netherlands | ||
1984 until today | New In Chess | Netherlands | ||
1946 until today | Chess Life | United States |
More chess magazines
While the aforementioned magazines are mainly devoted to reporting on current tournaments and the analysis of the games played there, there are other regularly appearing papers that are devoted to special aspects of the game of chess. Examples from the German-speaking area include computer chess and games (now discontinued in print), Karl and Kaissiber (not published since 2010).
A well-known electronic magazine is The Week in Chess .
literature
- Michael Negele: (Not) a serenade for a birthday - A foray through the German chess magazine landscape , in: Schach , No. 6/2006, pp. 36–44.
See also
- Karl ("The cultural chess magazine")
- Chess Notes (journal on chess history)
- Die Schwalbe (magazine on chess composition)
- EG (magazine about the chess study )
Web links
- Harald E. Balló: Bibliography of mainly German-language chess magazines