The Chess Monthly (American magazine)

*The Chess Monthly*
Discipline	Chess
Language	English
Edited by	Daniel Willard Fiske; Paul Morphy
Publication details
History	January 1857 – May 1861
Publisher	P. Miller and Son (U.S.)
Frequency	monthly
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Chess Mon.
Indexing;
OCLC no.	1554064

The Chess Monthly was a short-lived monthly chess magazine produced from January 1857 and May 1861 in the United States.^[1]^[2] Edited by professional diplomat and linguistics professor Daniel Willard Fiske, it was co-edited for a time by Paul Morphy.^[1]^[2] The magazine was based in New York City.^[3]

Eugene B. Cook (1830–1915) and Sam Loyd edited the chess problems section. Running for only five volumes,^[2] the magazine is perhaps best remembered today for a series of articles written by Silas Mitchell regarding The Turk, the chess-playing machine that perished in a fire in Philadelphia prior to the publication of the magazine.

References

^ ^a ^b "Fiske, Daniel Willard". Chess. 7 August 2007. Archived from the original on 2015-10-30. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c Gino Di Felice (15 September 2010). Chess Periodicals: An Annotated International Bibliography, 1836-2008. McFarland. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-7864-5739-7. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
^ "A New Morphy Game?". Chess Archaeology. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

Korn, Walter (1978). America's Chess Heritage. David McKay. pp. 6–7, 42. ISBN 0-679-13200-7.
Tom Standage, The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine. Walker and Company, New York City, 2002. ISBN 0-8027-1391-2
Gerald M. Levitt, The Turk, Chess Automaton. McFarland and Company Inc. Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2000.
Moravian Chess Publishing House Volume Listing.
Chess Monthly, Volume 3, 1859
Chess Monthly, Volume 4, 1860
The Chess Monthly archive at HathiTrust

[chess-1] "Fiske, Daniel Willard". Chess. 7 August 2007. Archived from the original on 2015-10-30. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

[gino-2] Gino Di Felice (15 September 2010). Chess Periodicals: An Annotated International Bibliography, 1836-2008. McFarland. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-7864-5739-7. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

[3] "A New Morphy Game?". Chess Archaeology. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

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