CHESS COLUMN
A problem, game or article or all of them published in a magazine or newspaper.
The first chess column was in The Liverpool Mercury which appeared in England in 1813 and ran until 1899. In America, the first column appeared in 1845 in The New York Spirit of the Times. The Field was the most prestigious at the end of the 19th century. Those days R. Byrne had the oldest chess column with a weekly feature in the New York Times which has started in 1973 and finished a few years ago.
Among the popular columnists, we have Keene in The Times, Pein in The Telegraph, Lubomir Kavalek in the Washington Post/Huffington Post, John Hendersson in the Scotsman, Leontxo Garcia in El Pais, Arun in the Time of India, Gert Ligterink in the Volkskrant, Nigel Short in the Sunday Telegraph…The longest chess column appeared in The Illustrated London News in 1842 and run for more than a century.
