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Geistreiche Schachpartien alter und neuer Zeit. Fünftes Bändchen.

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Original green cloth binding with embossed title on front cover and back. 2 leaves. (title + foreword), IV (overview of games), XX (introduction), 178 pages.

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…

PROBLEMS BY MY FRIEND

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A selection of 185 problems of various types dedicated to Alain C. White on his 50th birthday in 1930. Besides 7 portraits of composers there is one more photo of A. C. White in frontispiece (so ACW has 2 photos in the book). Index of composers. 251…

A GENIUS OF THE TWO-MOVER. C.MANSFIELD

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114 two-movers by C. Mansfield (1896-1984). 118 + (1) + (1 blank) pages. Red cloth. 19 cm. (Description by Karel Mokry from chessbookshop.com, last visited 18.12.2017). Former owners André Cheron and Lothar Schmid.

YEAR BOOK OF THE AMERICAN CHESS FEDERATION 1935

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"Year Book of the American Chess Federation. Volume 1, 1935". Comprising sixty games from the Milwaukee Tournament selected and annotated by Isaac Kashdan. Milwaukee, The American Chess Federation, 1935. Original publisher softback edition. (6)…

YEAR BOOK OF THE AMERICAN CHESS FEDERATION 1937

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THE CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT OF THE AMERICAN CHESS FEDERATION PHILADELPHIA 1936

"Year Book of the American Chess Federation. Volume 2, 1937". Title in front cover: "The Championship Tournament of the American Chess Federation. Philadelphia 1936".…

YEAR BOOK OF THE AMERICAN CHESS FEDERATION 1938

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THE MORPHY MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT OF THE AMERICAN CHESS FEDERATION CHICAGO 1937

"Year Book of the American Chess Federation. Volume 3, 1938". Title in front cover: "The Morphy Memorial Tournament of the American Chess Federation. Chicago 1937".…

Chess Lyrics

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Mackenzie, A. F.: Chess Lyrics: A Collection of Chess Problems by A. F. Mackenzie 1887-1905. Edited by A. C. White. New York, J. H. Graham, 1905. XCIV + 476 + (4) p. A Supplement to Chess Lyrics (Prescott, J. H. Graham, 1906, 18 pages numbered as…

Schachjahrbuch 1900

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VIII u. 224 S. kl. 8°, eleg. geb. 2 Mark