The Chess Life (& Review) Archives

Chess Life magazine digitized its back issues and uploaded them to its Web site for chess enthusiasts to peruse.

All of the issues of Chess Life and Chess Review contained reports of contemporary American and international tournaments, frequently with some annotated games. So, if you wish to read about a major tournament you've heard of, just look for an issue published a month or so after the event. And, obituaries of renowned grandmasters provided interesting biographical information along with the players' best-known games. The magazines' various feature articles can, usually, be found through the annual indexes, published in the December issues.

The magazines also contained a number of monthly columns by titled chess writers. I've gone through the archives and made note of the more notable ones. Below, organized by theme and date, you'll find an index of these columns. I've also made some studies which contain the games discussed.

Instruction

• I.A. Horowitz' "How to Win in the Opening/Middlegame/Ending," Chess Review 1949-1956
• Edmar Mednis' "Practical Endgame," Chess Life 1971-1979, and "Opening Forum," Chess Life 1991-2000
• Larry D. Evans, Julio Kaplan, and Bruce Pandolfini's "ABCs of Chess," Chess Life 1977-1984
• Pal Benko's "Endgame Lab," Chess Life 1981-2013
• Jeremy Silman's "Art of Making Plans/Amateurs' Mind/Understanding Chess," Chess Life 1990-2000
• Gabriel Schwartzman's "Master the Combination/Power of Thinking," School Mates/Chess Life for Kids 1996-2002, Chess Life 2003-2004
• Susan Polgar's "Opening Secrets," Chess Life 2003-2006

Anthologies

• Reuben Fine's "Game of the Month," Chess Review 1941-1949
• Max Euwe's "Game of the Month," Chess Review 1951-1965
• Fred Reinfeld's "Past Masterpieces," Chess Review 1951-1961, w/ Battell 1964
• William Lombardy's "Tidbits of Master Play," Chess Life 1957-1963
• Svetozar Gligoric's "Game of the Month," Chess Review, Chess Life 1966-1975
• Paul "Keres Annotates," Chess Life 1968-1975
• Michael Rohde's "Game of the Month," Chess Life 1992-2006
• Robert Byrne's "65th Square," Chess Life 1995-2006
• Susan "Polgar's Picks," Chess Life 2006-2008

Profiles

• Isaac Kashdan's "My Best Games of Chess," Chess Review 1936
• Frank Marshall's "My Fifty Years of Chess" (Excerpts), Chess Review 1941-1942, w/ Chernev 1944
• Savielly Tartakower's "From My Chess Memoirs," Chess Review 1951-1956
• Fred Reinfeld's "Morphy Masterpieces," Chess Review 1954-1958
• Reuben Fine's "My Best Games of Chess," Chess Review 1955-1958
• Sammy Reshevsky's "How Chess Games Are Won," Chess Life 1957-1963
• Garry Kasparov's "Fighting Chess," Chess Life 1993-1994

Lore and Curiosities

• Irving "Chernev's Chess Corner," Chess Review 1949-1956
• Andy Soltis' "Chess to Enjoy," Chess Life 1979-Present

(You'll need to be able to read descriptive notation for the issues published before the late '70s.)