Caissa magazine

Curious fact

Arnoldo Ellerman, the editor of Caissa, was an exceptionally prolific chess composer. He crafted a staggering 5820 chess problems and secured 120 first-place prizes, along with approximately 100 second-place awards in various composition competitions

The Argentinian chess magazine Caissa was published in Buenos Aires from 1936 to 1955. Throughout most of its existence, the editor was Arnoldo Ellerman, a renowned Argentinian international master and chess composer. This periodical stood as one of the prominent South American chess magazines, with a particular emphasis on chess within the Latin American context.