A terrific collection of two of the great American chess magazines! The complete run of Chess Review from 1933-1969 and 30 years of Chess Life (1946-1975) are now available in PDF format at an unbelievable price! Every page of every issue!

In January 1933, a group of American chessplayers led by I.A. Horowitz and Isaac Kashdan released the first issue of The Chess Review. With Kashdan as its editor and Horowitz as an associate editor, it soon became America’s premier chess magazine.

In the years 1933-1955, there were regular contributions to Chess Review by some of the greatest names in American chess: Isaac Kashdan, I.A. Horowitz, Fred Reinfeld, Reuben Fine, Irving Chernev, Sam Reshevsky, Hans Kmoch, Jack Collins, Walter Korn and many, many more! Regular Chess Review departments included Chessboard Magic, Chess Caviar, Chess Quiz, Games from Recent Events, How to Win in the Ending, Morphy Masterpieces, Postal Chess, Solitaire Chess, Spotlight on Openings and World of Chess.

In the years 1956 to 1969, there were regular contributions to Chess Review by some of the greatest names in American chess: I. A. Horowitz, Arthur Bisguier, Irving Chernev, Jack Collins, Max Euwe, Ted Dunst, Hans Kmoch, Walter Korn, Fred Reinfeld and many, many more! Regular Chess Review departments in this period included Chessboard Magic, Chess Caviar, Chess Movies, Games from Recent Events, How to Win in the Ending, Problemart, Readers’ Games, Postal Chess, Solitaire Chess, Tournament Calendar, and Spotlight on Openings.

In the fall of 1969, Chess Review was absorbed by Chess Life and for a few years, the integrated magazine was known as Chess Life & Review.

In 1946, the United States Chess Federation, which had itself been founded in 1939, began a regular publication it called Chess Life. Smaller and not as “slick” as its older brother Chess Review, for the first 15 years of its run it was published as a newspaper. That is, until 1961, when it changed to a regular magazine format. A few years later, Chess Life moved into what many consider its Golden Age. Burt Hochberg assumed the editorship of Chess Life at the end of 1966 and it was not long before Chess Life was recognized as one of the best English-language chess magazines in the world.

If you were able to purchase these actual issues of Chess Life and Chess Review, the cost would be in the thousands (assuming you would even be able to acquire every issue).

Now, for the first time, you can have the complete run of Chess Review from 1933-1969 and 30 years of Chess Life (1946-1975) on 4 DVDs. Presented in PDF format, you may scroll through chess history at your own pace and at an exceptionally low cost.

System requirements: DVD Drive, Adobe Reader (available free from Adobe.com).