Chess Columns
by Bill Wall
On July 9, 1813, the first chess column appeared in the Liverpool Mercury, edited by Egerton Smith (1774-1841). Smith was the publisher and founder of the Liverpool Mercury. The column ended on August 20, 1814.
In 1820, a chess column appeared in the Liverpool Kaleidoscope. (see http://www.chessarch.com/excavations/excavations.php?a=1&source=Liverpool_Kaleidoscope)
On October 19, 1823, the earliest known chess column to appear in a periodical was in the weekly medical journal The Lancet, edited by 20-year-old George Walker (1803-1879). Due to the lack of popularity, it disappeared after less than a year. (see http://www.chessarch.com/excavations/item.php?a=1&source=London_Lancet&date=1823.10.19)
In 1826 and 1827, a chess column (chess news) appeared in the Macon Telegraph.
In June 1834, George Walker began writing a chess column in the Sunday edition of Bell’s Life in London. It survived until 1873.
In 1836, a chess column appeared in the Montreal Transcript.
In 1839, a chess column (news) occasionally appeared in the New Orleans Daily Picayune.
In May 1840, a chess column appeared in the London New Court Gazette, edited by Howard Staunton (1810-1874). He remained chess editor until December 1840. He then became chess editor of the magazine British Miscellany. His chess column developed into a separate magazine, the Chess Player’s Chronicle.
In 1841, a chess column appeared in the Newry Commercial Telegraph in Ireland, the first Irish chess column. (source: http://www.chessmail.com/research/irish-columns-chrono.html)
On June 25, 1842, a chess column appeared in the Illustrated London News. The column was published in Saturdays.
In 1845, Howard Staunton started writing a chess column in the Illustrated London News, which became the most influential chess column in the world. Staunton remained chess editor until he died in 1874. He wrote over 1,400 weekly articles. The chess column survived until 1878.
From February 1845 to June 1848 a chess column appeared in the Pictorial Times.
On March 1, 1845, a chess column appeared in the New York Spirit of the Times, edited by Charles Stanley (1819-1901). It was the first American chess column and contained the first chess problem published in America. Stanley’s column ran until October, 1848.
In 1847, Serafino Dubois (1817-1899) edited the first chess column in Italy in the Italian magazine L’Album.
In 1848, the first chess column in a woman’s magazine appeared in the Ladies Newspaper, London.
In November 1848, a chess column appeared in the New York Albion, edited by Charles Stanley. He was the editor until 1856.
In 1849, Howard Staunton advertised the new chess set designed by Nathaniel Cook, now known as the Staunton design. Staunton first advertised the set in his Illustrated London News chess column.
In 1852, a chess column appeared in the South Jersey Times in Vineland, NJ. (source: http://njscf.org/historic-nj-chess-columns/)
Between the 1850s and 1914, chess problems made up most of the chess columns in print.
In January 1853, a chess column appeared on the London Field.
In December 1853, a chess column appeared in the New York Clipper.
In February 1854, a chess column appeared in the London Era, edited by Johann Löwenthal (1810-1876). He remained chess editor until 1857.
In August 1854, a chess column appeared in the Illustrated New York Journal, edited by Charles Stanley.
On February 3, 1855, a chess column appeared in the New York Saturday Courier, edited by Miron James Hazeltine (1824-1907).
In 1855, a chess column appeared in Frank Leslie’s New York Journal and Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, edited by Thomas Frere (1820-1900).
In 1855, a chess column appeared in The New York Times.
In 1856, Frederick Perrin (1813-1889) and Young edited the chess column in the New York Albion.
In August 1856, a chess column appeared in the New York Clipper, edited by Napoleon Marache (1818-1875), then Miron James Hazeltine. He did not miss an issue in more than 50 years, from 1856 to 1907, until shortly before his death.
In 1856, a chess column appeared in Porter’s Spirit of the Times.
In 1857, a chess column appeared in the Daily Alta in California.
In 1857, Ernest Falkbeer (1819-1885) wrote a chess column for the London Sunday Times. He wrote the column until 1859.
In September 1857, a chess column appeared in the Syracuse Daily Standard.
In October 1857, a chess column appeared in the New York Daily Tribune.
In 1857, Johann Löwenthal wrote a chess column for beginners in the Family Herald.
In October 1857, a chess column appeared in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
In 1858-1860, a chess column appeared in the New York Saturday Press, edited by Williard Fiske (1831-1904).
In April 1858, a chess column appeared in the New Orleans Sunday Delta, edited by Charles Amedee Maurian (1838-1912).
In 1858, a chess column appeared in Harper’s Weekly, edited by Charles Stanley. He remained chess editor until June 1859.
In 1858, a chess column appeared in the New York Saturday Press.
In 1858, a chess column appeared in the Illustrated News of the World, edited by Johann Löwenthal until 1876.
In 1858, a chess column appeared in Porter’s Spirit of the Times, edited by Napoleon Marache.
In 1858, a chess column appeared in the Evening Bulletin in Philadelphia.
In 1859, a chess column appeared in the Houston Weekly Telegraph.
In January 1859, a chess column appeared in The Davenport Daily Gazette in Davenport, Iowa. It lasted until 1867.
In March 1859, a chess column appeared in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, edited by Thomas Frere.
In 1859, a chess column appeared in the New York Musical World, edited by Sam Loyd (1841-1911).
In 1859, a chess column appeared in The Family Journal, a Southern illustrated weekly published in Richmond, Virginia.
On August 6, 1859, Paul Morphy (1837-1884) began a chess column in the New York Ledger, published by Robert Bonner. Morphy’s column ended in August, 1860. Morphy perhaps received $1,000 for his chess column, but Sam Loyd published a statement that Bonner paid Morphy $3,000 for the chess column. (source: The Philadelphia Times, Oct 18, 1885, p. 7; Nov 8, 1885, p. 7; Jan 10, 1886) (see http://www.chessarch.com/excavations/item.php?a=1&source=New_York_Ledger&date=1859.08.06)
In 1860, Napoleon Marache edited a chess column for the Wilkes’ Spirit of the Times.
In 1860, a chess column appeared in the Manchester Express and Guardian, edited by Charles Stanley. He remained editor until 1862.
In 1860, the United States had 87 chess columns.
In 1861, a chess column appeared in the London Dial.
In 1861, a chess column appeared in the Paris Le Monde Illustrie.
In 1862, a chess column appeared in the Dundee Courier and Argus in Dundee, Scotland, edited by George Brunton Fraser (1831-1905).
In 1864, a chess column appeared in the Philadelphia Daily Evening Standard and Philadelphia Daily Evening Bulletin, edited by Gustavus C. Reichhelm (1839-1905). Reichhelm sometimes wrote under thename Garibaldi.
In 1865, Samuel S. Boden (1826-1882) began a chess column in The Field, which lasted over 11 years.
In 1866, George Henry Mackenzie (1837-1891) became editor of the chess column in the New York Albion.
In 1865, a chess column appeared in the New Orleans Sunday Star.
In 1866, a chess column appeared in the Georgia Weekly Telegraph.
In 1866-67, a chess column appeared in the Freeport North-West in Freeport, Illinois.
In 1867, a chess column appeared in the Sydney Mail.
In 1869, a chess column appeared in the New York Round Table, edited by Charles Stanley.
In 1870, a chess column appeared in the New York Turf, Field and Farm, edited by George Mackenzie. He edited the chess column for 8 years.
In 1870, Land and Water had a chess column edited by Johann Löwenthal (1810-1876).
In 1870, The Harford Weekly Times began a chess column.
In 1872, a chess column appeared in the London Births, Marriages and Deaths newsletter, edited by Francis Healey (1828-1906).
In 1872-73, a chess column appeared in the English Mechanic and World of Science, first edited by J.W. Abbott (1840-1923).
In 1872, a chess column appeared in the Bayonne Herald in Bayonne, New Jersey, edited by Miron J. Hazeltine.
In 1872, The Hawaiian Gazette began a chess column.
In 1872, the Neue Illustrirte Zeitung had a chess column edited by Adolph Schwartz, Ernst Falkbeer, and O. Gelbfuhs.
In 1873, a chess column appeared in the Watertown Re-Union.
In November 1873, Wilhelm Steinitz (1836-1900) began conducting a chess article in the London Field. He was the regular chess columnist until August, 1882.
In 1873, Eugene Delmar (1841-1909) of Brooklyn began a chess column in the Golden Age.
In 1873, George Walker ended his chess column in Bell’s Life after 38 years.
In 1874, a chess column appeared in the Meriden Daily Republican.
In 1875-1877, a chess column appeared in the Buffalo Globe, edited by George Howard Thornton (1851-1920).
In 1875, a chess column appeared in the Newark Sunday Call.
In 1875, the Detroit Free Press published its first chess column.
In 1875, the first Croatian chess column appeared in the Hrvatska lipa.
In 1875, a chess column appeared in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, edited by Max Judd (1851-1906).
In 1875, a chess column appeared in the Chicago Daily Tribune, edited by T.D. Brock.
In 1875, the Lebanon Herald was the only newspaper in the South that had a chess column. (source: Nashville Union and American, Jul 16, 1875, p. 4) It was the first newspaper chess column in Tennessee. The chess column was run by John G. Nix and Dr. Robert L.C. White.
In May 1876, a chess column appeared in the Cleveland Leader.
In 1876, James Pierce (1833-1892) took over the chess column in the English Mechanic. He edited the chess column right up to his death in 1892.
In 1876, James Mason (1849-1905) edited a chess column for the Wilkes’ Spirit of the Times.
In 1876, Steinitz began a chess column in the London Figaro, which lasted until 1882. The magazine was owned by Napoleon III.
In 1877, a chess column appeared in the Atlanta Sunny South. Chess column editors included S.M. Joseph, I.E. Orchard, J.B. Redwine, W.G. Robinson, and A.F. Wurm.
In 1877, Ernest Falkbeer wrote a chess column for the Neue Illustrierte Zeitung. He wrote the column until he died in 1885.
In 1877, Alfred P. Barnes edited a chess column for the Illustrated New Yorker. He later edited the Brentano’s Chess Monthly.
In 1877, a chess column appeared in the Scientific American Supplement, edited by Sam Loyd.
In 1878, a chess column appeared in the Washington Post, edited by James Adams Congdon (1835-1902).
In 1878, Benjamin Milnes Neill (1853-1922) edited a chess column for The Progress.
In 1878-79, a chess column appeared in the Cincinnati Commercial, edited by F.W. Miller.
In 1879, the Charleston Weekly News of Charleston, SC included a chess column.
In 1879, the Boston Weekly Globe had a chess column, edited by W.W. Curran. The newspaper boasted that it contained the largest, best and cheapest Checker and Chess column ever published. (source: The Boston Weekly Globe, May 27, 1879, p. 4)
In 1879, a chess column appeared in the New York Sun.
In 1880, a chess column appeared in the Union Republican in Winston-Salem, NC.
In 1880, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle called the Cincinnati Commercial one of the best chess columns in the country. (source: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Mar 19, 1880, p. 2)
In 1880, Gustavus C. Reichhelm became editor of a chess column in The Philadelphia Times.
In 1880, General Ben R. Foster edited a chess column in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
In 1880-1881, a chess column appeared in Brentano’s Monthly in New York, edited by H.C. Allen.
In 1880, a chess column appeared in the Baltimore American, edited by Alex G. Sellman. In 1899, M. Schapiro edited the column.
In the 1880s, Dr. Luke D. Broughton (1859-1947) began a chess column for The Sun newspaper in New York. He wrote his chess column for more than 60 years. (source: The New York Times, Dec 7, 1947, p. 78) He also wrote for other publications.
In 1881, a chess column appeared in New York World.
In 1881, there were 8 chess columns in Australia, and several chess clubs in New Zealand and Tasmania. (source: The Philadelphia Times, Mar 20, 1881, p. 6)
In April 1881, Captain Mackenzie edited the chess column in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
In 1881, John G. Nix began writing a chess column in the Herald in Lebanon, Tennessee.
In 1881, the New York Weekly World advertised that it had the best chess column in the world for amateur players.
In 1881, there was a chess column in the Milwaukee Sunday Telegraph. It ended in 1887.
In 1881, a chess column appeared in Knowledge.
In 1882, there were perhaps 150 chess columns in the world.
In 1882, a chess column appeared in the Charleston Sunday News, perhaps edited by I.E. Orchard.
In 1882, the New Orleans Times-Democrat began a chess column, edited by James D. Seguin (1853-1916) and Charles Maurian. Maurian continued to co-edit the chess column until 1890, when he moved to Paris.
In 1882, a chess column appeared in the Sheffield Independent, edited by Henry Edward Bird (1830-1908).
In 1882, a chess column appeared in the Enganeo, a newspaper in Padua, Italy.
In late 1882, the publisher of The Field closed down the chess column edited by Steinitz. After London 1883, the publisher brought back the chess column, but under the authorship of Leopold Hoffer (1842-1913) and Zukertort.
In 1883, Ashore Or Afloat had a chess column written by Wilhelm Steinitz.
In 1883, a chess column appeared in The Fireside of Ireland.
In 1883, a chess column appeared in the New York Herald.
In 1883, a chess column appeared in The San Francisco Argonaut, edited by J. Fennimore Welsh.
In 1884, a chess column appeared in the Sedalia Weekly Bazoo.
In 1884, a chess column appeared in the Nashville Daily American.
In 1884, the Daily American had a chess column edited by A.B. Hodges.
In 1884, a chess column appeared in the Wilmington Sunday Morning Star.
In 1884, the Mirror of American Sports had a chess column edited by K.D. Petersen.
In 1884, the Saint Paul Daily Globe in Minnesota began a chess column.
In 1884, the Quebec Morning Chronicle had a chess column, edited by M.J. Murphy. (source: http://chess.ca/historical-canadian-chess-columns)
In 1885, a chess column, called “Knights and Rooks,” appeared in the New York Evening Telegram.
In 1885, a chess column appeared in the Nashville Union.
In 1885, a chess column appeared in The Weekly News and Courier in South Carolina.
In 1885, a chess column began in the Norristown Register in Pennsylvania.
In 1885, there was a chess column in the Baltimore News, edited by C.E. Dennis.
In 1885, a chess column appeared in the New York Daily Graphic.
In 1886, a chess column appeared in the Montreal Gazette.
In 1886, a chess column appeared in the New York Tit-Bits, edited by Sam Loyd and T.P. Bull.
In 1886, a chess column appeared in the Brooklyn Union, edited by Captain Mackenzie.
In 1886, a chess column appeared in the Kings county Gazette.
In 1886, the Bristol Mercury had a chess column edited by T.B. Rowland.
In 1886, the New Orleans Sunday Times Democrat advertised that it had the best chess column in the United States.
In 1886, the Newark Sunday Call had a chess column.
In 1886, a chess column appeared in the Sunny South, edited by J.B. Redwine of Atlanta, Georgia. It ended in 1888 but was revived in 1891.
In 1886, Mr. Cunningham was the editor of a chess column in Providence Journal.
In 1886, a chess column appeared in the Baltimore Weekly Herald and the Baltimore Sunday Herald, edited by Alexander Sellman.
In 1887, a chess column appeared in the Sontag Abend in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. It was edited by M.F. Wendell.
In 1887, a chess column appeared in the Scranton Truth, edited by General James A. Congdon.
In 1887, Rosenthal edited two chess columns in Paris, one in Le Monde Illustre, and the other in the Republique Francaise.
In 1888, a chess column appeared in the Ha’Zfira, the Warsaw-based Hebrew-language newspaper. It published the first chess problem in the Hebrew-language press.
In 1888, a chess column appeared in the Evening News in Plainfield, New Jersey.
In 1888, a chess column appeared in The Galveston Daily News.
In 1889, a chess column appeared in the Kirksville Weekly Graphic in Kirksville, Missouri.
In 1889, a chess column appeared in the Sacramento Themis, edited by F.L. Griffin.
In 1889, a chess column appeared in the Yenowine’s News.
In 1889, a chess column appeared in the St. Petersburg Novoe Vremya in Russia.
In 1889, a chess column appeared in the Baltimore Evening News and the Baltimore Sunday News, edited by William H.K. Pollock (1859-1896). Pollock announced his retirement from the chess column in 1896 due to ill health.
In 1889, a chess column appeared in the Boston Herald, edited by F.K. Young.
In 1889, a chess column appeared in the London Evening News and Post, edited by I. Gunsberg.
In 1889, there was a chess column in De Groene Amsterdammer, edited by Rudolf Loman.
In 1889, a chess column appeared in the Worthing Gazette in England.
In the 1890s, Frederick William Womersley (1839-1911) edited a weekly chess column in the Hastings Observer.
In 1890, a chess column appeared in The Pittsburg Dispatch.
In 1890, a chess column appeared in the Illustrated Sport of Milan in Italy, edited by Beniamino Vergani (1863-1927).
In 1890, a chess column appeared in the New York Illustrated American.
In 1890, William Steinitz began a chess column in The Sunday Tribune of New York. It ended in 1893.
In 1890, a chess column appeared in the Kansas City Journal, edited by William R. Lighton.
In 1891, the Western Morning News (England) started a chess column, edited by Carslake Winter-Wood. The chess column ended in 2014. (source: http://www.keverelchess.com/tag/chess-columns/)
In 1891, I. Gunsberg began editing a chess column for the Sunday World in London.
In 1891, the Courier-Journal of Louisville began publication of a chess column.
In 1891, a chess column appeared in the Covington Commonwealth, edited by Dr. E.W. Keeney.
In 1891, the chess column in the Sunny South was revived by I.E. Orchard, who edited the column.
In 1891, Louis Uedemann edited a chess column in the Chicago Times.
In 1891, a chess column appeared in the Saturday Review in Des Moines, Iowa, edited by C.S. Jacobs.
In 1891, a chess column appeared in the Washington Evening Star.
In 1891, a chess column appeared in the Kingston Daily Gleaner.
In 1892, Henry Chadwick was the chess editor in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
In 1892-1894, a chess column appeared in the Brooklyn Daily Standard-Union, edited by L.D. Broughton, Jr.
In 1892, a chess column appeared in the Montreal Herald, edited by Joseph Ney Babson.
In 1893, a chess column appeared in the Boston Evening Transcript.
In 1893, a chess column appeared in the London Black and White, edited by L. Hoffer.
In October 1893, Hermann Helms (1870-1963) started a chess column for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. His chess column was discontinued by the management of the newspaper in November 1907. Helms resumed his chess column on March 23, 1911. He continued his chess column until the demise of the newspaper in 1955.
In 1893, a chess yearbook published by J. Berger showed that there were 288 chess columns in the world. This included 124 chess columns in the British Empire, 34 columns in Germany, 47 in the USA, 12 in Austria, 15 in Russia, 18 in France, 7 in Italy, 9 in Holland, 5 in Switzerland, 6 in Sweden, and 11 in other countries. (source: Philadelphia Times, May 21, 1893, p. 7)
In 1893, a chess column appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle.
In 1893, a chess column appeared in the New York Recorder.
In 1893, William Steinitz edited a chess column in the Baltimore Sunday Herald.
In 1894, the Sunday States had a chess column edited by John A. Galbreath.
In 1894, a chess column appeared in the Washington Evening Star.
In 1894, a chess column appeared in the New York Evening Post.
In 1894, a chess column appeared in the New York Literary Digest.
In July 1894 through October 1896, a chess column appeared in the Province in Victoria, Canada, edited by Thomas Piper and Peter Schwengers.
In 1894, a chess column appeared in a new periodical called Walden’s Monthly. The chess column was edited by Charles A. Gilberg.
In 1894, a chess column appeared in the Frank Leslie’s Weekly in New York, edited by Adolf Albin.
In 1894, a chess column appeared in the Los Angeles Herald.
In 1895, a chess column appeared in the Minneapolis Journal, edited by Emmet Hamilton.
In 1895, a chess column appeared in the Birmingham Age-Herald in Birmingham, Alabama.
In 1895, a chess column appeared in the Boston Post.
In 1895, a chess column in the Weekly Citizen (Glasgow), edited by G.E. Barbier, printed the Saavedra position. (source: http://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/chess/saavedra.htm)
In 1896, a chess column appeared in the Westminster Budget.
In 1896, Great Britain had 150 chess columns. (source: The Westminster Budget, May 1, 1896, p. 33)
In 1896, three new chess columns appeared in the USA, in the Illustrated American, one in the St. Louis Sunday Journal, and one in the Wilkes Barre Kodac (edited by F. Wendel).
In 1896, the Rev. W. Wayte was the chess editor of the Illustrated London News.
In 1896, a chess column was started in the South African Review.
In 1897, the County Express in England had a chess column, edited by G.E.H. Bellingham.
In 1897, a chess column appeared in the Manufacturers and Farmers Journal.
In 1897, a chess column appeared in the Omaha Daily Bee.
In 1898, a chess column appeared in the Jewish Der Neuer (The New Spirit), edited by Max Ginsburg.
In 1898, a chess column appeared in the Sacramento Daily Record-Union.
In 1898, a chess column appeared in the Pawtucket Evening Times in Rhode Island.
In 1899, a chess column appeared in the Portland Pacific Monthly, edited by E.C. Protzman.
In 1899, a chess column appeared in the Ilford Recorder. A chess column appeared in that newspaper until 2002.
In 1899, Britain had 130 chess columns and the USA had 58 chess columns. (source: The Westminster Budget, May 12, 1899, p. 26)
In 1900, Leopold Hoffer began a chess column that appeared in the Field magazine.
In 1900, there was a chess column in the Pittsburg Dispatch, edited by William Napier (1881-1952).
In 1900, a chess column appeared in the Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette.
In the 1900s, Maximilian Henry Peiler conducted a chess column and contributed articles for Forest and Stream.
In 1913, there were 1,000 chess columns.
In 1913-1915, a chess column appeared in the Daily News Advertiser in Vancouver, British Columbia, edited by Bertram Yates,
In 1913, Amos Burn (1848-1925) edited a chess column in The Field. It lasted until his death in 1925. He was analyzing a chess game for his chess column when he died of a stroke.
In 1914, there was a chess column in the Rigasche Rundschau, edited by J. Behting.
In 1916, Isidor Gunsberg (1854-1930) sued the London Evening News for libel when its columnist said that Gunsberg’s chess column in the London Daily Telegaph contained blunders and unsound chess problems. Gunsberg won the suit and 250 pounds in damages after the British High Court accepted a submission that in chess matters, 8 oversights did not make a blunder.
In 1916, a chess column appeared in the Daily Colonist in Victoria, Canada, edited by Cyril Davie.
In 1917, a chess column appeared in the Easton Free Press in Easton, Pennsylvania.
In 1918, there was a chess column in the Baltische Zeitung, edited by Aron Nimzowitsch.
In 1918, there was a chess column in the Vossische Zeitung, edited by Emanuel Lasker.
In the 1920s, Jacques Mieses had regular chess columns in a variety of European newspapers.
In 1921, a chess column appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, edited by E.J. Clarke.
In 1925, the chess column in the Daily Colonist in Victoria, Canada was edited by Thomas Piper.
In 1926, there was a chess column in the New York Evening Post, edited by H.R. Bigelow.
In 1929, a chess column appeared in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
In 1929, Harold Meek (1885-1954) edited the world’s first daily chess column, in the London Evening Standard. He later transferred to the London Evening News.
In 1930, a chess column appeared in the Vancouver Sun in Vancouver, British Columbia, edited by Bertram Yates.
In the 1930s, Samuel S. Heinemann wrote a chess column for a newspaper in Berlin and contributed chess articles to German newspapers and magazines.
In 1934, Jose Capablanca proposed writing a chess column for the New York Times, but it was turned down due to space conditions in the newspaper.
In 1945, a chess column appeared in the Los Angeles Times, edited by Herman Steiner (1905-1955). He edited the column until his death in 1955.
On May 9, 1948, George Koltanowski wrote his first chess column for the San Francisco Chronicle. George Koltanowski (1903-2000) wrote more than 19,000 chess columns for the San Francisco Chronicle. His chess column appeared every day without interruption for 51 years and 9 months, until his death in February 2000, making his chess column the longest-running daily chess column in history. Initially it was a weekly chess column. (source: http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Grandmaster-Of-Chess-George-Koltanowski-3239902.php)
In the 1950s, Heinrich Fraenkel (1897-1986), who wrote under the name Assiac, conducted a chess column in The New Statesman and Nation.
In 1955, Isaac Kashdan (1905-1985) began editing a chess column in the Los Angeles Times. He continued to edit the chess column until 1982.
In June 1956, Leonard Barden began his first chess column in the London Evening Standard. It was a daily (Monday-Friday) column that continued in the newspaper until July 30, 2010. Since then, it has been published exclusively on-line. (see http://www.standard.co.uk/staticpage/chess/)
On April 16, 1962, I.A. (Al) Horowitz began writing a chess article in the New York Times. It appeared every Monday, Thursday, and Sunday.
From 1966 to 1969, Bobby Fischer had a chess column called “Checkmate” that appeared in Boys Life. (see http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/fischer2.html)
From August 1971 to August 1973, Bill Wall wrote a chess column for the High Flyer newspaper, published at Beale AFB in Marysville/Yuba City, California.
In 1971, Larry Evans (1932- ) wrote his syndicated chess column, called “Evans on Chess.”
On August 27, 1972, I.A. Horowitz wrote his last chess column for the New York Times. He was too ill to write any more chess articles and died in January 1973.
In 1972, Robert Byrne began writing a chess column in the New York Times. It ran until 2006.
In 1975, a chess column called “Pawn Power” appeared in the Statesville Record & Landmark in North Carolina, edited by Bill Wall. I edited the column from 1975 to 1979.
In 2002, Ken Whyld published Chess Columns. A List. It was a hadcover book published by Moravian Chess, with 587 pages.
In 2004, I edited a chess column on chess miniatures and trivia for Black & White, a chess magazine printed in India.
In 2006, Dylan Loeb McClain succeeded Robert Byrne, who retired after 34 years of writing chess columns for the New York Times.
Tim Harding wrote an article called “Kings and Queens at Home: A Short History of the Chess Columns in Nineteenth-Centru English Periodicals,” published in the Victorian Periodics Review, Vol. 42, No. 4, Winter 2009.
In January 2010, the Washington Post ended its chess column, written by Lubosh Kavalek. He had written 760 columns in 23 years. (see http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/03/30/LI2005033001223.html)
From 2010 to 2012, Bill Wall edited several chess columns for the White Knight Review chess magazine. (see http://offthewallchess.weebly.com/white-knight-review.html)
On October 14, 2014, the New York Times ended its chess column, print edition and online edition, written by Dylan Loeb McClain. The bridge column was kept until April 2015.
In 2015, The Boston Globe decided to cancel its weekly chess column, written by Harold Dondis and FM Chirs Chase.
Since the autumn of 2006, Michael Adams has been writing a chess column in the Saturday Daily Telegraph. (see http://www.michaeladamschess.co.uk/wordpress/telegraph/)
Jacob Ascher (1841-1912) wrote a chess column for the New Dominion Monthly in Canada.
Alexander Baburin writes a chess column for the Sunday Independent.
N. Dwight Barnette wrote a chess column for the Bluefield Daily Telegraph. (see http://people.cs.vt.edu/~barnette/dbchess.html)
Jonathan Barry wrote a chess column for the Globe and Mail.
Frideswide Beechey-Rowland (1843-1919) was the first woman to write a chess column.
Henry Chadwick (1824-1908) wrote a chess column in his own newspaper, the American Chronicle.
Chess.com has a daily chess column.
The ChessCafe at chesscafe.com has a variety of chess columns.
A chess column appears in chessvibes (see http://www.chessvibes.com/?q=columns)
Frederick Chevalier (1907- ) wrote a chess column for The Christian Science Monitor.
John Crum (1842-1922) edited a chess column in The Glasgow Weekly Herald.
Lawrence Day used to publish a chess column in the Toronto Star.
Marcel Duchamp edited a chess column in the Paris daily newspaper Ce Soir.
FIDE Master Alex Dunne writes a monthly chess column in Chess Life magazine, called “The Check is in the Mail.” (see https://www.uschess.org/content/view/7527/393/)
Since 2003, David Ellis has written a chess column for the West Australian newspaper.(see http://www.cawa.org.au/chesscolumn.html)
Harry Golombek wrote a chess column for The Times of London in the 1970s.
The Guardian has a chess column, written by Leonard Barden.
Dr. Tim Harding has put together of early British chess columns. (see http://www.chessmail.com/research/british-columns.html) He also put together a list of early Irish chess columns. (see http://www.chessmail.com/research/irish-columns.html)
Dan Heisman writes a chess column for ChessCafe.
The Huffington Post has a chess column, written by Lubosh Kavalek.
Alexander Ilyin-Genevsky (1894-1941) started and edited a chess column in the Red Army magazine K Novai Armii.
Maurice Judd, an older brother of Max Judd, edited a chess column in the Toledo Daily Commercial.
Ray Keene edits a chess column for the Times and Spectator.
Kerry Lawless has put together a list of California chess columns. (see http://www.chessdryad.com/articles/lawless/art_13.htm)
Shelby Lyman writes a chess column.
George MacDonnell (1830-1899) edited a chess column for the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.
Eric Morrow writes a chess column for the Muskogee Phoenix in Oklahoma. (see http://www.muskogeephoenix.com/news/lifestyles/chess-column/article_d17151bc-6fde-54e1-8cc1-3a57a126dd5e.html)
Jack O’Keefe put together a list of early chess columns in the United States. (see http://www.chessarch.com/excavations/holdings.php)
Kevin O’Connell writes a chess column for the East Anglia Daily Times (England), which began in 1990.
Reverend John Owen (1827-1901) wrote a chess column under the pseudonym “Alter.”
Jack Peters wrote a chess column for the Los Angeles Times and the Southern California Living newspaper.
The Rocky Mountain News had a chess column that first appeared in September 1993 (source: http://www.coloradomasterchess.com/rmnews.htm)
Walter Shipley (1860-1942) edited a chess column in the Philadelphia Inquirer for over 50 years.
Nigel Short used to write a chess column for the Guardian, but he got fired.
The Standpoint has a chess column, edited by Dominic Larsen.
Charles Tutton edited a chess column in the Buffalo Sunday Times in the 19th century.
Erwin Voellmy (1886-1951) edited a chess column in the Swiss paper Basler Nachrichten for 40 years.
Elijah Williams (1810-1854) edited a chess column in the Bath and Cheltenham Gazette and the Field.
A list of newspapers and their chess articles are published under the Jack O’Keefe Project. (see http://www.chessarch.com/excavations/excavations.php)