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There's no such thing as an "old" CHESS REVIEW The issues of CHESS REVIEW may get worn and ye llow with age- but the contents never grow old! The games that were played in the matches and tournaments of last year and other years are ~ just as important, just as interesting as they were at the time they were played. The annotations by leading mas­ ters are just as instructive. Chess problems, end_game studies, articles on theory and practical play, analyses of openings, pic­ tures and personality sketches of the masters, features by Reuben Fine, Kashdan, Reinfeld, Marshall, Horowitz, Cherney and other masters- these things never grow old. They make as good reading now as on the day they were published. Handsomely bound in cloth, each volume of CHESS REVIEW is a treasure of entertainment and instruction, a constant source of reference. Each volume i; com­ pletely indexed. The 1942 volume, published in a special bind­ ing, is the first complete year in our new format. With pictures and diagrams galore, this volume con. tains the record of such important events as the U. S, Championship Tourney, the Open Federation Tour. ney, the Rapid Chess Championship Tourney and Ventnor City Tourney. There are eight '"Game of the Month" features by Reuben Fine, 8 PLAY THE MASTERS, Chess Thrillers, End.games and other oddities by Irving Chernev, a book_fuJI of chess prob. BOUND VOLUMES lems, serials by Frank Marshall and Fred Reinfeld, OF CHESS REVIEW the scores of 131 games! As the years go by, the bound volumes of CHESS 1935. 1936 or 1937. $2.50 R EVIEW become more and more valuable. We bind Each ...... .... only a limited number each year , Some volumes are now out of print and book dealers sell them at a 1941 Volume . .... .. $3.00 high premium. The volumes still avai lable are listed in the box at the left. At these low prices they re o 1942 Volume ....... present value you cannot duplicate, an opportunity $3.50 you cannot afford to miss. 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No.8 Octobel'. 1943 NEW SERIES can easily mistako the Knight S irs : and King squares and their OFFICIAL OltGAN OF THI~ li eu ben FiTTe's new series is moves. U. S. CHESS FEDEHATION undoubtedly the best i"eature that In CHESS REVIEW, March BDITon CHESS HEVIEW has ever had. 1943, page 65, a letter from Mr. 1. A. Horowitz The magnificent analysis of Robel·t McCoy states '·On Page MANAGING EDITOR LaskCl"g chess psychology is ab­ 268 ill the Steinmeyer-Handy Keuueth Harkness solutely i"ascinating, and the an· game. 11 Kt·K5 is impOSSible. DEPARTMENT EDITOHS notations to the game itself are Should this be 11 Kt·l(t57" If Hcuben Pine- Game of the Month as near perfection as possible. the letter' ·'N" would be used P, L. Hothenberg- Problems K eep up the good work! instead of the lettel'S "Kt" I Irving Chernev- Oddlties SAMUEL SHAPIBO believe such errors would be Jack S. Battell - Postal Chess New York, N. Y. eliminated. A. S . Pinkus- Questions L. F. 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