PHILODORIAN, The

The first English magazine, founded in 1837 by G. Walker, was devoted to chess and other scientific games. Had only six numbers (December to May) and disappeared the following year. The content was mainly chess but also contained material on whist, ecarte and Polish draughts.

Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders. Savielly Tartakower
Time trouble is blunder time. Alexander Kotov
We must finish once and for all with the neutrality of chess. We must condemn once and for all the formula “chess for the sake of chess”, like the formula “art for art’s sake”. We must organize shock brigades of chess-players, and begin immediate realization of a Five-Year Plan for chess. Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko
it would have been a debacle if Karjakin had become the 17th World Champion. Garry Kasparov
2016
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another. Marcel Duchamp

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