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The Chess Correspondent

CCLA has produced The Chess Correspondent since 1940! It is currently issued quarterly and has won the Chess Journalists of America award for Best Postal Magazine seven times, in 1997 and 2001 - 2006. The magazine regularly reports on important national and international CC events, for example, World Championships, Olympiads, and US Championships. If you had received The Chess Correspondent in the last 12 months, you would have seen (among other things)...

Full rating list/rating updates and tournament results, both postal and email, in every issue
Up and Down the Chessboard by Dr. Victor Palciauskas, Xth World CC Champion
NEW! Bi-monthly instructional column by OTB-GM Nigel Davies
Readers' Games, including games from high-class ICCF and CCLA events, annotated by our players or Herb Hickman
An article on the rediscovered Hibbard Trophy, formerly given to winners of CCLA's Grand National, by CCLA Historian Bryce Avery
In-depth reports on Kramnik's and Kasparov's computer matches and on the first Email US CC Championship by Volker Jeschonnek

PLUS

Articles on top CCLA players by International Arbiter Ralph Marconi. Go to CCLA Portraits Menu to view the CCLA Portrait columns on-line.
Plenty of news from the International Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF), player photos and short player interviews
Book reviews ... and more!

Read a sample Chess Correspondent magazine (.pdf file) online:

The Chess Correspondent

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