Fifty years ago the other US printed (letterpress) magazines were
Chess Review, Chess Correspondent, and American Chess Bulletin.
Mr. Wood's magazine (UK) was called, simply, CHESS.

My point of comparison was meant strictly between Chess Life of fifty
years ago and Chess Life as of recent date. I think the current issue
has one annotated game, which is pitifully little current chess
content.

David Ames

ospam (Jerome Bibuld) wrote in message ...
Dear Mr. Croxen,

Heil Dubya!

I'll bite. To what two "other quality chess magagazines" do you refer? There
was Al Horowitz's CHESS REVIEW, period. (Did the USCF have it's mimeographed
newsletter then?) Are you thinking of Barney Wood's British Chess Magazine?
But it was a UK publication, although I used to pick it up in a Times Square
"foreign periodicals" market.

Subject: Chess Lite
From: (Kevin Croxen)
Date: 2003-10-20 9:31 AM Eastern Daylight Time
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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.


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Jerome Bibuld
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