chess-The Oxford Companion to Chess - First Edition by David Hooper & Kenneth Whyld

224 NEW YOR( VAzuATION
,an.a in 1823. although a gamc had bccn given in
lJt22 The e,rlie.r on rhe .onrinenr vere I),r
Berlinet Stalfek kon 1828, the Russian /l6rdrs44
,(om 1845, and thc Dutch Asno.lee fton
1847. and in America the NeN lotk Spitu of the
Im€s fron 1845, writlen by srsLEY. By the end of
the enlury nore than a thonsand periodicals had
included a chess.oltrmn at one lime or anothei.
af,datthcpeak morc rhafl ahnndredcolunnswere
adive althesametimeinBrilainalone. Allogether
there bave been nore than 3,000 colunns. Many
are tnvial, onlaining only a problem copied lron
some other soure and seping only to balnc
unskillcd playcrs. Other .olnm.s have provided
both o.iginal Dalerial fron the catchment area ot
tbe publication and important ilens froB exchanBes.
A few have been of erceptional impor
tan@. Tte dcvelopment ol srErN[zt ideas 6rst
took place in the pages of two London journals,
The Field n