The earliest known chess column appeared in the Lancet in 1823, but due to lack of popularity disappeared after less than a year.
[2] GM Nigel Short wrote a chess column for the Sunday Telegraph from 1995 to 2005, and then for The Guardian from 2005 to 2006.
Bill Cornwall's "Chess: A Knight's Tour" has been published by Tribune since 1993, and appears in the Sun-Sentinel and Los Angeles Times.
[5] A record of longevity has been achieved by Leonard Barden, who still writes weekly chess columns for The Guardian and has done since September 1955 (61 years as of August 2017), and daily columns for the London Evening Standard since June 1956 (61 years as of August 2017).
[6] As of June 2022 the writer for the New York Times chess column is Daniel Naroditsky.