CFC Magazine

The colour of each square is the colour of the cover. I tried to follow a pattern so that a subscriber would know pretty much every year which issue was which colour. On the other hand, the same colours could get boring.

Milestones

• 1 CFC Bulletin (ISSN 0317-8064), Les Bunning, Editor; Bonnie Bunning, Associate Editor (both through issue 12); 40 pages plus covers, small (5.5 x 8.5 inch) format.
• 10 Larry Kirstein joins staff as Associate Editor, through issue 12.
• 13 Jonathan Berry becomes Editor, through issue 61.
• 34 Name addition: Chess Canada Echecs
• 41 New number (ISSN 0225-7351) appears on cover.
• 47 François Dorion joins as French editor (through issue 49)
• 51 R.V. Mohan joins as Associate Editor (through 57)
• 58 Robert Zuk joins as Associate Editor (through 59)
• 61 Stephen Ball joins as Associate Editor
• 62 Stephen Ball becomes Editor. Name change to En Passant (ISSN 0822-5672). Both Bulletin and Chess Canada Echecs are dropped from the cover.
• 67 Jacques Dubé is Editor of the Section Française (through issue 91).
• 90 around here, Deen Hergott joins as Assistant or Associate Editor, though he is not mentioned on the masthead.
• 93 Michel Gagné is Editor of the Section Française (through issue 115).
• 95 John Coleman joins as Editor.
• 96 Stephen Ball is Editor again (through 98), Coleman and Hergott leave.
• 99 Gordon Taylor becomes Editor, through 112.
• 113 Hal Bond becomes Editor.
• 114 Magazine ceases to have a clear colour as it goes to a design, predominantly in Black. There is a highlight colour which often varies from issue to issue, but I haven't tracked that.
• 116 Brad Thomson is Copy Editor and Troy Vail, Layout & Design (through issue 152).
• 131 Brad Thomson becomes Editor (through 144); Deen Hergott becomes Chess Editor (through 135).
• 136 Tom O'Donnell becomes Chess Editor.
• 137 Magazine goes to large (8.5 x 11 inches) format.
• 145 Tom O'Donnell becomes Editor (through issue 150). Kristine Gravelle is Copy Editor for this issue.
• 146 Deen Hergott is Copy Editor for this issue.
• 147 Stephanie Powers is Copy Editor for this issue.
• 152 Knut Neven joins as Editor (through 182).
• 153 Knut Neven does Layout + Design; Troy Vail, Covers and Technical (through 161)
• 162 David Miriguay does Covers + Technical (through 166).
• 167 Chris Collins does Technical (through 170).
• 171 Serge Archameault does Technical (through 174).
• 175 Gerry Litchfield does Technical (through 186 )
• 182 Hans Jung joins as Editor. Someday I'll record the various staff changes that followed !?
• 184 name returns to Chess Canada Echecs.
• 193 Robert Hamilton becomes Editor. Issue numbers disappear.
• 194 Échecs is dropped from name on cover, which now shows as simply Chess Canada.
• 200 October 2006 would have been issue 200, but the cover date was changed to November and the magazine goes from 6 to 4 issues per year. Sic transit.

CFC Magazine Cover Photos

Other Magazines

Special thanks to CFC, Hugh Brodie, and John Donaldson in what follows.

Canadian Chess Chat

Canadian Chess Chat was founded by Dan MacAdam as Maritime Chess Chat. Due to other pressures--for all editors, Chess Chat was a labour of love--Chess Chat often slipped publication dates, and unless the accompanying explanatory letter has been saved, a subscriber (now a collector) might not know if an issue is missing. This table (a work in progress) attempts to track all the issues by comparing the cover date with the period covered. Where a year is skipped, I have arbitrarily assigned the first issue of the second year to begin with January of that year.

Chess Chat Chief Editors

Daniel Alexander (Dan) MacAdam (1885-1985) Editor for 10 years 1947-1956.

Daniel Abraham (Abe) Yanofsky (1925-2000) was editor from 1956 in Winnipeg. Confusingly, the volume numbers were restarted at 1.

Nathan Divinsky (1925- and Elod Macskasy (1919-1990) were editors at January 1960. From January 1962, Nathan Divinsky only was listed as editor.

R.C. (Bob) Eldridge added as associate editor from June 1965 through June 1966.

Eldridge and Jonathan Berry listed under Divinsky, June-December 1972.

Elod Macskasy listed along with Divinsky as editor, Jan-June 1974. Macskasy as problems editor August-October.

Frank Szarka listed as co-Editor Jan-Aug 1975; as publisher from Sept 1975. Also as Editor from April 1976.

Szarka listed as the editor in chief from the beginning of 1979. No more Divinsky.

A Szarka insert in 1985 mentions that the July-Dec issues would be published at a later date.

March-April 1988 was the first issue under Michael D. Sharpe as Editor and Publisher

Chess Canada

Walter (Vlad) Dobrich and Ray Lee were the editors on the first issue of this Toronto-based magazine, arguably the best chess publication in Canada's history. From May 1971, only Dobrich's name appeared. For January 1972 the revamped masthead added Grant Treller (Associate Editor), Lawrence Day (Games Editor), and Larry Buchan (Features Editor). In October 1972, Buchan went up to Associate Editor, replacing Treller. From October 1973, Paul Janicki joined Buchan as Associate Editors, Angela Julian and Ben Paul (to Dec 1973) as Production Assistants, Ken Field as Advertising Manager, and Peter Chatterton for Book Sales. In April 1974, Robert Rubenstein replaced Buchan, Chin-Hua Chen replaced Julian, and David Lavin replaced Chatterton. In June 1974, a revamped masthead showed Dobrich as Publisher, Rubenstein as Editor, Day as Games Editor, Janicki and Chen as Associate Editors, Therese Gallagher over Production, Field in Advertising, and Lavin in Book Sales. Next issue, the Associate Editors were gone, with Janicki taking over from Day as Games Editor, Cindy Lacroix in charge of Production, Field gone, and Gallagher moved over to Book Sales. January 1975 saw another revamp with Dobrich remaining as Publisher, and everybody else as Staff: Gallagher, Janicki, Rubenstein, and Don Heeney. The July-August 1975 final issue showed Frank J. Szarka as Publisher, Paul Janicki as Editor, and Lawrence Day, Raymond Keene, Bent Larsen and Leonid Shamkovich as contributors. In fact, Bent Larsen had been a contributor as early as August 1970, and his monthly column was the highlight of the magazine. Another was drawings by George Kuprejanov, chess master and caricaturist extraordinaire.

Québéchecs

Thanks to Hugh Brodie for this and for much of the info on Chess Chat. Québéchecs has three series, which consisted of perhaps only one issue, then twelve issues, then ...

First series editors: Jacques Labelle, Jean-Pierre Beauchamp, Silvio Morissette, Serge Lacroix, Robert Martin, Marc Hébert, Gilles Brodeur, D. Labelle.

Second series editors: André Boisclair, Gilles Brodeur, Jacques Labelle, Henri Tranquille (all 12 issues). In addition, these served for one or more issues: R. Lavallée, Bernard Ouimet, Gilbert Delisle, Leo Williams, Milan Cuchanski, C. Gaulin, Pierre Lemyre, Roger Pageau, Jean-Pierre Rhéaume, André Leriche.