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Adventures in Composition: The Art of the Two-Move Chess problem
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Adventures in Composition: The Art of the Two-Move Chess problem

by Comins Mansfield (1896-1984)

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xiii+216 pages with diagrams and glossary. Royal octavo (10" x 7") bound in original quarter red cloth with gilt lettering to spine over blue designed boards with gilt lettering in red label to cover. Edited by Alain White. From a total edition of four hundred copies printed in Centaur and Lutetia types, with handset chess diagrams, this is one of only one hundred and fifty copies printed on rag paper and specially bound. (Betts: 34-12) First edition.This book attempts to illustrate the composer's mind at work in problem construction. In four sections (nineteen chapters): Introductory material (fundamental conventions). Composition of single problems (a. The composer's aim centered in the play; b. The composer's aim centered in the key-move). The composition of related problems. Modern trends in composition. Each section contains chapters author's work.Condition:A fine copy in original publisher onion skin jacket with a tear..
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Internationales Kaiser-Jubilaums-Schachturnier Wien 1898
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Internationales Kaiser-Jubilaums-Schachturnier Wien 1898

by Hugo Fahndrich (1851-1930) and Georg Marco

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xix+351 pages with diagrams and table. Quarto (10 1/4" x 7 1/4") bound in brown cloth with brown lettering to spine and original wrapper cover tipped to front cover. Laid in postcard with "Kaiser Anniversary Chess Tournament in Vienna 1898". Card 3 3/4" x 5 1/2") with the participants of the tournament. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5250) First edition.
Postcard. Vienna 1898 is mounted to sturdy card 5 3/4' x 5 1/2" . * The front shows a group photo of the participants in the tournament in Vienna, lined up in two rows in a semicircle with two chess tables at the end: Seated: Tarrasch, Blackburne, Pillsbury, Steinitz, Tschigorin, Janowski, Schiffers, Lipke. Standing: Black, Bad, Fähndrich, Caro, Maróczy, Showalter, G. Marco, Alapin, Halprin, Baird, Burn. Postcard from the Vienna Chess Club publishing house.1898 was highlighted by the great Imperial Jubilee Tournament, organized to commemorate the 50 year reign of Emperor Franz Josef I and to mark the 25th anniversary of the first… Read More
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Seven Hundred Chess Problems
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Seven Hundred Chess Problems

by Baird, Mrs William James (Edith Elina Helen Wood) [1859-1924]

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unpaginated (418) with frontispiece portrait and column diagrams. Quarto (11 1/4" x 8") issued in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and decorative gilt cover, page ends in gilt, decorative flower gilt end papers, beveled edges. The text is printed in blue, the diagrams in blue and red. (Betts: 33-5) First edition.630 direct mates (286 two-movers, 315 three-movers, 24 four movers, 5 five-movers) and 70 self-mates, with solutions at the end. 2 large diagrams are given to each page. In the mid 1880s, Baird started composing chess problems and within a few years had gained a reputation in the field. In 1888, she took third prize in a Sheffield chess-composition tournament, the first of over two dozen subsequent prizes. Her most celebrated success came in 1893 when she won an international chess-composition tournament against a number of the most notable chess composers of the day. She became the most prolific composer of chess problems in the world, with over 2000 problems to her credit. These were… Read More
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Das Internationale Schachmeisterturnier in Karlsbad 1907
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Das Internationale Schachmeisterturnier in Karlsbad 1907

by Marco, Georg (1863-1923) and Carl Schlechter

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vii+426 pages with frontispiece and 3 other plates, diagrams and tables. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 7") issued in yellow wrappers with black lettering to spine and front wrapper. (Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5284) First edition.There were 4 famous Carlsbad tournaments, under the excellent supervision of Victor Tietz, president of the Carlsbad chess organization. the first one in 1907 (August 20 - September 17) did not have Lasker or Tarasch, but the younger generation (Rubinstein, Nimzowitsch, Vidmar) did establish itself and the middle-aged (Maroczy, Schlechter, Teichmann, Marshall, Janowski) had to make room for them. Rubinstein (15) won ahead of Marcoczy (14 1/2), Leonhardt (13 1/2), Nimzowitsch (12 1/2), Schlechter (12 1/2) and Vidmar (12). This work by Marco and Schechter, is a treasure house of insights, ideas and annotations. (Divinsky) The authors have created a masterpiece of chess literature. The book not only presents the games with unusually detailed notes, it also portrays the mood and feeling of… Read More
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VI Gran Toreneo Internacional de Ajedrez Ciudad de las Palmas (Program)
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VI Gran Toreneo Internacional de Ajedrez Ciudad de las Palmas (Program)

by Juan Marrero (President Chess Federation of Las Palmas) signed by Mikhail Tal, Jan Timman, Bent Larsen, Artur Pomar, Anatoly Karpov, Sergio Cabrera and Vasily Smyslov

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24 unpaginated pages with tables and photographs. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial stapled wrappers. Signed by the following contestants: Mikhail Tal, Jan Timman, Bent Larsen, Artur Pomar, Anatoly Karpov, Sergio Cabrera and on the back wrapper by Vasily Smyslov. First edition.The sixth Torneo Internacional Ciudad de Las Palmas was organized in Las Palmas, Spain in May of 1977. Sixteen chess masters and grandmasters, including the world champion, competed in the round robin format. The participants were (in order of ELO): Anatoli Karpov (2690), Mikhail Tal (2620), Bent Larsen (2615), Jan Timman (2590), Anthony Miles (2555), Walter Shawn Browne (2545), Andras Adorjan (2530), Stefano Tatai (2480), Roman Hernandez (2435), Juan Manuel Bellon Lopez (2415), Roberto Debarnot (2405), Fernando Visier Segovia (2355), Gabriel Cabrera (unrated), Jose Garcia-Padron (unrated), Angel Martin-Gonzalez (unrated), and Arturo Pomar-Salamanca (unrated). The average of the combined… Read More
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A Chess Silhouette: One Hundred Chess Problems by the Reverend Gilbert Dobbs
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A Chess Silhouette: One Hundred Chess Problems by the Reverend Gilbert Dobbs

by Richard Eugene Cheney (1908-1967), Otto Wurzburg, Vincent Eaton and Alain Campbell White (editors)

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133 pages with diagrams. Duodecimo (6 3/4" x 4 3/4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and deckle edges. Overbrook chess series number 4. (Betts: 33-23) First edition limited to 150 copies.9 three-movers and 3 two-movers with solutions at the end.Giblert Dobbs (1867-1941) had composed an astonishing number of 2,500 problems, great numbers of them very charming and attractive pieces. He loved the simpler combinations of pure or model mates in three-move form, and turned out literally hundreds of examples, which one could always counted upon to be well worth the solving. Dobbs went on to become a minister in Georgia. (ACB: 1941)Condition:Lightly soiled else a very good to fine copy.
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Practical chess grammar: or, an introduction to the royal game of chess, in a series of plates:...
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Practical chess grammar: or, an introduction to the royal game of chess, in a series of plates: designed to instruct the learner, remove the difficulties of this elegant and scientific game, and render it attainable by the lowest capacity

by KENNY, William Stopford

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1818 Practical CHESS Grammar Kenny Instruction Game Strategy Rules Illustrated

William Kenny was an accomplished chess player and teacher, as well as the author, editor, or compiler of numerous instructive books, including this popular manual, 'Practical Chess Grammar.' His 'Practical Chess Grammar' was published in 1817 and gives an overview on instruction and information including:
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Illustrations and guides to the march of the pieces and pawns
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The opening of the game
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General maxims and rules
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Laws of chess
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Observations on the conclusions of games
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Power of pieces and their relative value
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Examples of various openings, mates and situations
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Opinions and anecdotes respecting the game of chess
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This 1818 edition includes 10 illustrated plates throughout.

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Modern Analysis Of The Chess Openings
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Modern Analysis Of The Chess Openings

by Frank James Marshall (1877-1944) inscribed by the author

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82 pages with frontispiece, diagrams and photographs. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5") bound in original publisher's grey cloth with lettering in black to cover and edges in black cross-hatch. Inscribed by Marshall. (Betts: 14-7) First edition. The author commences with some general remarks on the openings and goes on to analyse some of his favourite lines in answer to 1. P-K4. The basic defence recommended is the Petroff, with additional analysis of the lines by which white avoids the Petroff (Tree Knights' Game, Max Lange and others). Includes a few illustrative games played by Marshall.Frank James Marshall was the U.S. Chess Champion from 1909 to 1936, and one of the world's strongest chess players in the early part of the 20th century. He won the 1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress (scoring 13/15, ahead of World Champion Emanuel Lasker) and the U.S. congress in 1904, but did not get the national title because the U.S. champion at that time, Harry Nelson Pillsbury, did not compete. In… Read More
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Basic Chess Endings
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Basic Chess Endings

by Fine, Ruben (1914-1993) signed

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xiv+573 pages with diagrams. Small Octavo. bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering and stamping to spine and cover issued without jacket. Signed and limited to 500 copies of which this is 187. First edition.Fine had an exceptionally brief but fruitful international career before changing from grandmaster to psychiatrist. Within three years, 1935-8, he developed from an unknown American master into co-winner of AVRO 1938, one of the highest-rated events ever held. Yet when chess revived after the second World War Fine was too busy with his studies to accept an invitation to the World Championship tournament of 1948. After AVRO 1938. Fine concentrated on writing chess books. Altogether he wrote more than a dozen works. (Golombek: 116p)Condition:Light rubbing to spine ends, previous owner's presentation inscription to the Boston City Chess Club ion front end paper else very good copy.
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A Selection of Games at Chess Played at the Westminster Chess Club Between L. C. de la...
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A Selection of Games at Chess Played at the Westminster Chess Club Between L. C. de la Bourdonnais and an English Amateur of First Rate Skill bound with Fifty Games at Chess, Which Have Actually Been Played, Most of Which Occurred Between the Author and Some of the Best Players in England, France and Germany; to Which is Added Some Account of the Village of Stroebeck, in Germany, With the Three Games132 pages; iv+108 lacking the 2 ad pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in half leather with decorative gilt to spine with red label in gilt lettering over marbled boards and marbled page ends. (Whyld and Ravillous 1835: 3 and 1832: 4) First editions.La Bourdonnais came to London and encountered the great Irishman Alexander McDonnell in 85 games lasting all through the Summer (La B. 46, McD. 26, Drawn 13). These games were unevenly split between six matches, but the conditions of play were very loose – there were no seconds, there was no time-limit, the stakes were "very small" and, amazing to relate,… Read More
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Le Palamede de revue mensuelle des Echecs et Autres Jeux (Second Series, Volume VI)
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Le Palamede de revue mensuelle des Echecs et Autres Jeux (Second Series, Volume VI)

by Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant (1800-1872)

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576 pages with foldout facsimile letter, diagrams, illustrations and index. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 6 3/4") bound in red cloth reproduced wrapper to cover and label to spine. . Volume Six (VI) of the second era. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 6013) First edition.
In 1836, fans of Cafe de la Regence at the French Place du Theatre in Paris, and friends of Louis Charles Mahe De La Bourdonnais, decided to create a magazine, named Le Palamede, which would show the beauty on the game of chess. The French, recognized as the best players in the world; since, in 1834 La Bourdonnais met Irish master Alexander MacDonnell in a series of six matches, with La Bourdonnais winning (+45, =13, -27) overall, and created a fervor for the game not only in England but France as well. The publication began in 1836 and the premature death of the Bourdonnais in 1840, interrupted for two years the publication of Palamedes, before it was revived in December 1841 by Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, his successor… Read More
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Le Palamede de revue mensuelle des Echecs et Autres Jeux (Second Series, Volume VII)
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Le Palamede de revue mensuelle des Echecs et Autres Jeux (Second Series, Volume VII)

by Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant (1800-1872)

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576 pages with diagrams, illustrations and index. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 6 3/4") bound in red cloth reproduced wrapper to cover and label to spine. . Volume Seven (VII) of the second era. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 6013) First edition.
In 1836, fans of Cafe de la Regence at the French Place du Theatre in Paris, and friends of Louis Charles Mahe De La Bourdonnais, decided to create a magazine, named Le Palamede, which would show the beauty on the game of chess. The French, recognized as the best players in the world; since, in 1834 La Bourdonnais met Irish master Alexander MacDonnell in a series of six matches, with La Bourdonnais winning (+45, =13, -27) overall, and created a fervor for the game not only in England but France as well. The publication began in 1836 and the premature death of the Bourdonnais in 1840, interrupted for two years the publication of Palamedes, before it was revived in December 1841 by Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, his successor in the supremacy of… Read More
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The Chess Players’ Text Book: An Elementary Treatise on the Game of Chess. Illustrated by...
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The Chess Players’ Text Book: An Elementary Treatise on the Game of Chess. Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams Specially Designed for Beginners and Advanced Students.

by GOSSIP, G.H.D.

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1889 CHESS 1ed Players' Textbook Gossip Rules Strategy Opening Ending Gambit

"The Chess Players' Text Book" is a 19th-century introductory treatise on the game of chess written by American-English chess master George Hatfeild Dingley Gossip. This book provides a comprehensive guide to the game, with a focus on helping both beginners and advanced players to improve their skills. It is illustrated by numerous diagrams specially designed to aid in the learning process. The book covers the basics of the game, including the rules of play, the various pieces and their movements, and fundamental strategies and tactics. It also includes advanced techniques and tips for more experienced players looking to improve their game. Overall, "The Chess Players' Text Book" is a valuable resource for anyone looking to learn or improve their skills in the game of chess by studying 19th century thought and tactics.

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The clipper chess problem tournament. To which a large number of original, and a few selected...
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The clipper chess problem tournament. To which a large number of original, and a few selected positions have been added

by Miron James Hazeltine (1824-1907) inscribed

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216 pages with frontispiece and diagrams. Duodecimo (6 1/4" x 4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial cover. Handwritten dedication by Miron J. Hazeltine on a leaf tipped to the endpaper (Linden - N. 2398; Kiel Chess Catalog 6164; Betts 32 – 3) First edition.leaf mounted on the endpaper: Presented to Herr J. Löwenthal, with the kindest regards of his friend in chess Miron J. Hazeltine. July 4th 1865. With autograph signature of 19th century English chess book collector J.W. Rimington Wilson on inside cover and the note "From Lowenthals Chess Library.James Wilson Rimington-Wilson (1822-1877) was one of the great collectors of books about chess, as well as books about other games and sports. He was a strong amateur chess player and records of some of his games survive, including a victory over Wilhelm Steinitz, the first official world champion of chess. Rimington-Wilson developed an extensive gaming library, which was maintained and perhaps added to… Read More
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Transactions of the British Chess Association for the years 1866 and 1867
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Transactions of the British Chess Association for the years 1866 and 1867

by Johann Jacob Löwenthal and George Webb Medley from the library of Harold James Ruthven Murray

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164 pages with frontispiece, diagrams and indices. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to cover and blind-stamped embossed cover decoration. From the library of Harold James Ruthven Murray. (Betts 25-6; Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5193) First edition.
Includes the a selection of 37 games from the Congress of London 1866 (Challenge Cup: 1. de Vere; 2. MacDonnell. Handicap: 1. Steinitz and Green), 46 from the Dundee Congress in 1867 (Challenge Cup: 1. Neumann; 2. Steinitz. Handicap: 1. Steinitz and Fraser), 14 games in the Steinitz - Anderssen competition in 1866 (Steinitz won 8:6 and was then considered " "best player" in the world) and 64 problems.
The Dundee tournament is reckoned as the fourth ever international tournament of modern times. The first of modern chess is perhaps Madrid 1575, under the patronage of Phillip II, won by Leonardo ahead of Ruy Lopez. There is a match tournament at Paris in 1821 between Deschappelles,… Read More
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