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  • Collection: Compositions 

Overbrook Press Chess Problems Books

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4 pages publisher folder

C. Mansfield : Adventures in Composition. The art of the two-move chess problem. By Comins Mansfield. Edited by Alain White.

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limited Edition of 400 copies, 250 printed on Flemish Book laid paper and 150 on W&A rag paper, this copy is one of the 150 ones.

Variation Play. A Study in the Mechanisms and Relationships of Black Moves in the Two-Move Chess Problems.

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limited edition of 225 copies, with a dedication from R. Cheney to Reuben Fine

SUOMI

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Title 42 of the famous A.C. WHITE "CHRISTMAS SERIES". 150 problems with solutions at the end. Indexes of composers and problems. Original red cloth edition with gold-embossed print on cover and spine. 140 + (1) + (3 blank) pages, with Christmas wish…

Das Schachproblem

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1 plate with the portrait of J. Berger, 278 pages and many diagrams. Cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. This copy was owned by Hugo von Reininghaus as you can see from his Exlibris.

THE GOOD COMPANION TWO-MOVER

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TITLE 28 of the famous A.C. WHITE "CHRISTMAS SERIES". Altogether 912 problems by 174 members of the Good Companion Chess Problem Club of Philadelphia (the club had over 600 members worldwide). The problems explain 175 problem terms and were…

ALPINE CHESS

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TITLE 27 of the famous A.C. WHITE "CHRISTMAS SERIES". More than 200 problems (100 of them in full-page diagrams) and also a few endgames by 37 Swiss composers. Some biographical notes. Index of composers. Original red cloth edition with gold-embossed…

VALVES AND BI-VALVES

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Title 38 of the famous A.C. WHITE "CHRISTMAS SERIES". 124 problems by various authors, all in full-page diagrams. About 20 more problems are within solutions, foreword and one as a frontispiece. There is also an appendix of problems from a tournament…