The Chess Monthly (American magazine) explained

The Chess Monthly
Editor:	Daniel Willard Fiske Paul Morphy
Discipline:	Chess
Abbreviation:	Chess Mon.
Publisher:	P. Miller and Son
Country:	U.S.
Frequency:	monthly
History:	January 1857 – May 1861
Oclc:	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

• Book: Korn, Walter. Walter Korn. America's Chess Heritage. David McKay. 1978. 0-679-13200-7. 6–7, 42.
• Tom Standage, The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine. Walker and Company, New York City, 2002.
• 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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Fiske, Daniel Willard. Chess. 2 January 2016. 7 August 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20151030174730/http://www.chess.com/chessopedia/view/fiske-daniel-willard. 2015-10-30. dead.
2. Book: Gino Di Felice. Chess Periodicals: An Annotated International Bibliography, 1836-2008. 2 January 2016. 15 September 2010. McFarland. 978-0-7864-5739-7. 55.
3. Web site: A New Morphy Game?. Chess Archaeology. 2 January 2016.