Searching for Old Chess Publications

 

       Sunday posts are rare, but after the Alberta Clipper went through this neck of the woods last night and most of the city is moving at a crawl, it's a good time to check out the Hathi site.

     HathiTrust was founded in 2008 as a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries now preserving 19+ million digitized items. They offer access to the extent allowed by U.S. and international copyright laws. 

    If you sign on HERE and search for "chess' a lot of stuff comes up and a lot of scrolling will be required, but you can find old publications on chess problems or old copies of the British Chess Magazine or if you get really lucky, something like Smyslov’s Best Games. 

    Some other title you might find are Chess News Jan-Nay 1916 or a selection of games played in the international tournament at Bradford, England in 1888. 

    Most of this material won't find anywhere else and it is entertaining browsing. Of course, you must be able to read Descriptive Notation.