The Chessmen Speak

Cyril Henry Stanley "CS" Kipping (1891-1964) from the library of Kenneth S Howard

Verlag: The Chess Amateur, Stroud, 1932

Beschreibung

[4]+7-180 pages with frontispiece portrait and diagrams. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. Christmas salutations tipped in. Edited by George Hume. Whites Christmas series number 40. From the library of Kenneth S Howard.(Betts: 38-5) First edition. Contains 147 of Kipping's Problems (3 movers) with solutions. Hume contributes and introduction and notes on the solutions. Cyril Kipping was an International Judge. He composed more than 7,000 problems, most of which were three movers (he sometimes used the pseudonyms C. Stanley, S. Henry and S. Mere). He collaborated with the most important magazines of the 20th century: Chess Amateur, Chess, The Problemist (whose editor he was during 32 years) and also wrote many books: 300 Chess Problems (1916), Selected Gems (1922) and The Chessmen Speak in the White Christmas series (1932), which included 147 three movers. Kenneth Samuel Howard (1882-1972) one of the founders of the Marshall Chess Club and chess problem composer. He wrote several books about chess composition: The enjoyment of chess problems (1943), How to solve chess problems (1945), and One hundred years of the American two-move chess problem; a collection of 212 compositions by United States problemists (1962). Condition: Kenneth Howard's signature to front pastedown. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed, spine sunned with gilt dulled else a very good copy. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers JBC034

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Chessmen Speak

Verlag: The Chess Amateur, Stroud

Erscheinungsdatum: 1932

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition