The chess player's chronicle volume II,1842 Add to Watch List Watching View Watchlist >

Moravian Chess, Olomouc, reprint of the original edition, hardback, spine and upper cover lettered, 432 pp., 690 grams, condition:NEW, never read. 

One of the earliest chess magazines ever was published in London by Howard Staunton from 1841. The magazine consists of games, articles (many of them concern more general topics and are excellent) and problems. 

Howard Staunton (born 1810—died June 22, 1874, London, England) was a British chess master who was considered to be the world’s leading player in the 1840s. In 1841, Staunton founded the first successful English chess magazine, and in 1851 he took the lead in organizing the first modern international chess tournament in London, where, however, he came in only fourth. 

Little is known about Staunton’s early life. He apparently began as an actor and subsequently wrote on William Shakespeare, publishing an edition of his plays in monthly installments. After he won most of a series of 21 games against the top French player, Pierre Saint-Amant, in 1843, he was proclaimed Europe’s leading player, but he refused a match with Paul Morphy in 1858 with the excuse that he was preparing a Shakespeare edition.