50th anniversary Europe-Echecs
Not many chess magazines can boast about such a longstanding history as the French monthly Europe Echecs. The January 2009 issue celebrates half a century of chess news and stories in the French language, with 100 pages of looking back.The monthly French chess magazine Europe Echecs was founded in 1959 by Raoul Bertolo, who died in 1991 and who was at the time president of the F?ɬ©d?ɬ©ration fran?ɬßaise des ?ɬ©checs. It is the oldest chess magazine in France (and no doubt in many other countries) still running, and is now edited by the French GM Bachar Kouatly. From 1985 to 1997, it was run by Jean-Claude Fasquelle, then P.-D.G., ?ɬ©ditions Grasset.
Robert Fontaine interviews Bachar Kouatly:
Peter Doggers joined a chess club a month before turning 15 and still plays for it. He used to be an active tournament player and holds two IM norms.
Peter has a Master of Arts degree in Dutch Language & Literature. He briefly worked at New in Chess, then as a Dutch teacher and then in a project for improving safety and security in Amsterdam schools.
Between 2007 and 2013 Peter was running ChessVibes, a major source for chess news and videos acquired by Chess.com in October 2013.
As our Director News & Events, Peter writes many of our news reports. In the summer of 2022, The Guardian’s Leonard Barden described him as “widely regarded as the world’s best chess journalist.”
In October, Peter's first book The Chess Revolution will be published!
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