In article , David Ames wrote:
"Donna Walters" wrote in message ...
My Chess Life arrived today. It looks like a NY Times insert. And it had an
insert! Which almost doubled the total number of pages.

It is a good thing that the USCF only has 90,000 members. If they had a
monopoly they would probably go bankrupt.

Fifty years ago they had two issues a month and probably about three
annotated games per issue. The November 2003 issue, I think, does not
match up.

David Ames

Fifty years ago there were at least two other quality US chess magazines
to choose from. Other than member newsletter value, CL was pretty much
irrelevant. Now that the USCF and CL really do have essentially a
US monopoly, these November 2003 fiascos hurt even worse.