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One of Steinitz's finest playing years (he beat Zukertort in the first universally recognised World Championship match) is also a vintage year for his magazine, as he not only gives detailed notes to all the games from the match, but also conducts a energetic editorial campaign against the hapless chess editor of the New Orleans Times-Democrat, a certain James Seguin. The saga of how Mr. Seguin came to incur the great man's displeasure results in a lengthy (and lively) correspondence which would have present-day American litigation lawyers licking their lips. Amongst the regular correspondents are the notorious author and would-be master G.H. Gossip, who was at that time inflicting himself on the Australian chess community, and the player known simply as C.D. who reports from England. 388 pages