Sunday, December 9, 2007

The origin and history of Exclam!

J. Ken MacDonald has put together a complete collection of back issues of Exclam! (the Manitoba chess publication that inspired the title of this weblog) and made the following remarks over at ChessTalk:

EXCLAM! started as "Manitoba Chess Association Newsletter" in December/1987 with volume 1, # 1. January/1988 began again with volume 1, # 1. This format seems to have been an "offset type printing" of 3-10 pages per issue. It ran this format (I think, as these earliest issues are photocopies) until volume 2, # 2, February/1989. (15 issues had been published up to that point.) Then, I have originals which begin with volume 2, issue # 1 again, dated April/1989. The format at this point is a large size thin magazine with a paper cover and approximately 20pp. Thereafter, it ran approximately 6 issues per year with varying dates during the year. Less and less issues were published as the magazine matured. Volume 7 (1994) had two issues. 1995 had had a single small format issue. 1996 had two and then a final issue in 1999.


Ken's remarks can be found over at ChessTalk until they scroll off into oblivion:

J. Ken MacDonald

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