Chess Periodicals

This comprehensive reference work presents detailed bibliographical information about worldwide chess periodicals past to present. It contains 3,163 entries and many cross-references. Information for each entry includes year and country of publication, frequency, sponsors, publisher, editors, subject, language, alternate titles, mergers, continuations, and holdings in chess libraries. Includes an index of periodicals by country and a general index of periodical titles.

Gino Di Felice is the author of numerous reference books on chess. He works in the food industry and lives in Mosciano Sant’Angelo, Teramo, Italy.

Gino Di Felice
Format: softcover (7 x 10)
Pages: 357
Bibliographic Info: indexes
Copyright Date: 2010
pISBN: 978-0-7864-4643-8
eISBN: 978-0-7864-5739-7
Imprint: McFarland

Introduction      1
Sources      3
Abbreviations and Symbols      6

Part I. Magazines, Bulletins, Newsletters      7
Part II. Miscellaneous Publications      239

Index of Periodicals by Country      265
General Index of Periodicals      308

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