Old Chess Life & Review archives?

I've tried unsuccessfully to find old copies of Chess Life & Review magazine.  Surprisingly, most libraries around me do not subscribe to CL&R, and the one that does only has the previous 12 months (Austin).

Doing a google search, I can't find any scanned archives like many other magazines do.

Do most people save the actual magazine (or just throw them out)?  Is there not an interest for old issues?

try this:   http://www.uscfsales.com/chess-life-and-review-4-disk-dvd-collection.html

No need to check the pirated sites, as I'm not looking for illegal stuff.  Just thought that since it may not have been republished, it may have been available.  However, I see from schtoonkmeyer that it may actually exist to purchase.  That's what I was interested in!

I have a whole bunch that are heading to the recycling bin before someone calls the hoarder show people to drop by.

I have June 78 - Jun 86.  Only missing the May issues for 1980 and 1985.  Looking to sell them on eBay or elsewhere.

The first issue of Chess Life and Reivew appeared in November, 1969.  At that time, the magazine Chess Life merged with the magazine Chess Review and begame Chess Live and Review. 

In January of 1980 it became known simply as Chess Life. 

I own nearly a complete run.  The five months below are the only months I'm missing: 

July 1970, November 1970, December 1970
July 1971, September 1971

In all, this is about 547 issues of Chess Life (and Review) that I have.   They are currently resting on my bookshelf, in chronological order.

I also own over 43 issues of Chess Life and 72 issues of Chess Review all from the early to late 1960s, before these two magazines merged as noted above.

You can often find back issues on eBay, and now that these back issues are are available on DVD, the paper copies are not as expensive as they once were.

I wonder if that CD includes the old rating supplements of the time ?  The ratings used to be published in the magazine twice a year if I remember correctly .... 

I can't say for sure, but I think it does:

This 4 DVD Collection contains digital reproductions of every issue of...

Chess Review 1933-1969
Chess Life Magazine 1946-1969
Chess Life & Review 1969-1975

This massive collection, over 500 issues of the legendary publications of the US Chess Federation, has been painstaking digitized in high-resolution and every issue is complete - every article, picture and advertisement are shown exactly as they appeared when it was originally published.

I remember that microscopic font! They should have issued TDs a magnifying glass.

I recall the small font too and I did use a magnifying glass ! 

It's an impressive feat: publishing a huge list of all members, their ID number, expiration date, rating and if provisional, the number of games it is based on...all before the age of computers!

And now, you enter a weekend tournament, and then by twelve o'clock noon on Monday morning the tournament results are often posted online, with your new rating listed. 

I miss the old wall charts that used to be kept by hand during the tournies ..

Does anyone know if the text of the issues is searchable? Are they PDFs?

MrEdCollins: My first issue was about the same time - Walter Browne was on the cover after winning the US Open (may have been the October issue), I believe and they included the entire scoretable of the US Open.

I later lucked into an fairly complete collection for a quarter per issue, from the late fifties to about that time in a used book store.

A digital collection of Seirawan's Inside Chess is or was also available, and that was a good magazine (I had a fair number of the paper issues too).

They are PDF's.  After a search, I have discovered that there was a guy named Tim Tobiason who had scanned old "Chess Reviews" and was selling them online for years.  According to a John Donaldson column,  the USCF got him to undertake the scan of the issues in question in 2006 and describes his previous work as "high quality". 

the modern chesslife magazines suck.

5 pages of articles, 35 pages of donate to scholastic chess and product advertisements.

Sorry, owltuna, when I moved to Los Angeles in 1985, all my old Chess Life & Reviews went in a big duffle bag to the Boylston Chess Club.

BTW, I still keep track of the tournament with a paper wall chart. I can't remember the password to my pairing software.