The Chess Monthly (American magazine)

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]

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 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM · MathSciNet
ISO 4	Chess Mon.
Indexing CODEN · JSTOR · LCCN MIAR · NLM · Scopus · W&L
OCLC no.	1554064

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.