Saturday 14 March 2020

Some vintage (online) chess magazines

While diving into the Internet Archive I came across a collection of old Chess Review magazines. The earliest issues are from the 1930's and provide an insight into the American chess scene of the 30's, 40's and 50's. Of particular interest are the first reports on Bobby Fischer in the 1955 issues.
You can find the magazines at https://archive.org/details/magazine_rack?and%5B%5D=chess&sin=
If you are interested in vintage software and early computer chess developments, the link will also bring up a number of computer magazines with computer chess software articles.

2 comments:

pwa said...

The full archives of Chess Review and Chess Life are at

https://new.uschess.org/chess-life-digital-archives/

Months of great browsing there.

Victor Bokulic said...

Some old publications from NZ chessplayer dating back 1938 to more recent. These chess magazines can be found http://www.newzealandchess.co.nz/nzchessmag-older.html

Victor