Chess Review Annual: The Picture Chess Magazine, Volume 31
Chess Review Annual: The Picture Chess Magazine, Volume 31
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Chess Review Annual: The Picture Chess Magazine, Volume 31

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Author: Israel Albert Horowitz [1907-1973] editor

Year: 1963

Publisher: Chess Review

Place: New York

Condition:

Twelve monthly issues 384 pages with pictures, diagrams and photographs. Quarto (11 1/4" x 8 3/4") Volume 31, bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Volume 31. (Betts: 7-76) First edition.

The Chess Review was a monthly magazine which started in 1933. The cover of the first issue featured a chess problem composed by Otto Wurzburg (1875–1951), a Grand Rapids, Michigan, postal worker. Kashdan was one of the world's premier problem solvers of the 1920s and 1930s. His interest in compositions influenced the magazine for years after he left, and the cover would feature a chess problem every issue until May 1941. Wurzburg served as problem editor and contributed a monthly column. The magazine staff also included art director Bertram Kadish who contributed cartoons and illustrations. An unusual feature of the first issue was a bridge column written by George Reith. Horowitz and Reinfeld were contract bridge devotees, but the column was dropped after three issues. The first editors were Isaac Kashdan (1933-1934); Israel Albert Horowitz (1935-1969). Volume 1, number 7-8 were not published, a book of the Folkestone International Team Tournament was produced in their stead. Co-editors include Kenneth Harkness, Jack Straley Battel. Merged with Chess Life in 1969.

Condition:

Corners bumped, spine sunned, spine ends and corners moderately rubbed, some stains to covers. About a very good copy lacking jacket.

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