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Chessville
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Brooklyn Chess Chronicle Vol. 1 (1882-1883) Reviewed by Russell Miller
The hardcover book covers the issues October 1 1882 to September 15, 1883. There are 208 numbered pages plus an index under the headings of: Chess Papers, Correspondents’ Department, Fortnightly Budget, Games (notation used example “K to K3 Kt x Kt P x P), Obituary, Openings, Problems by, Solutions to Problems, Tournaments. One of things I really like about my chess hobby is the rich long history. One can play over games played a long time ago with your own set and board or now days using an Internet website of games. Moravian Chess is reprinting a number of old magazines. I have also recently purchased Volume 1 of American Chess Bulletin, June-December 1904. The book under review covers not only chess in Brooklyn, New York but the whole United States (nothing about play in the Pacific Northwest was found in this set of issues) and Europe also. The Chronicle came out fortnightly the first year but changed to monthly in October 1883. Some of the players covered include: Blackburne (8 games), Steinitz (22), Zukertort (7), Mackenzie (10), Blackmar (4), Tchigorin (4), Bird (1), Golmayo (4), Mason (2), Winawer (2) plus many more lesser players. The three tournaments in the index are: London International Chess Congress, Manhattan Chess Club 1882, and Nuremberg International Tournament of 1883. Editors of the Chronicle appeared to have tried to exchange publications with all the chess columns in newspapers plus chess publications the world over. The "Correspondents’ Department" was used to answer their mail. The printing of this reprint is quite good. The diagrams are large and the some of the games have a few notes. Seems like there were a lot more odds games played in 1882-83 than are played and reported today.
If you are looking
to add to your history of chess collection, this would be a good one,
although it appears you will have to order it from England as the US
resellers I checked did not stock the title.
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