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When Wim Andriessen founded
Schaakbulletin in 1968 and shortly thereafter gave up his secure job at the college, many were quick to call him insane. Berry Withuis, a veteran of chess journalism, openly mocked him: If you want to throw away your money in the Netherlands, you either waste it on women or create a chess magazine. After all, the local chess community was way too small to allow for a second publication to survive beside
Schakend Nederland, the official magazine of the local chess association.
And indeed,
Schaakbulletin never really made any profit. However, Andriessen s advertising in the magazine helped him to sell a considerable numbers of chess books, which he also published. He later advertised his newly established chess store and mail-order products, as well. In 1984,