Tasks & Echoes: The Cumulative Principle in Problem Composition by White, Alain C - 1915

ix+221 pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to spine and decorative stamp on front cover in pictorial dust jacket with a black and red globe with chess pieces on it and white lettering. Signature card laid-in (Betts:24-46) First edition.A vivid record of activities in the leading chess centers of the world (1953) with fifty examples of brilliant games played by modern chess-masters. The games include masterpieces by Alekhine, Botvinnik, Euwe, Fine, Horowitz, Kashdan, Keres, Najdorf, Pinkus, Reshevsky, Smyslov, Stahlberg and other experts. Each game is profusely illustrated. Introductions and explanatory notes to moves provide the reader with both entertainment and instruction (front flap)Condition:Signature card laid in with date 9 Nov 1959 on verso. Spine ends and points rubbed, corners bumped. Dust jacket spine ends and corners chipped, edge wear with some chips and tears. Over all a very good copy in a very good dust jacket.

[viii ad]+287+[1 ad] pages with frontispiece, tables and diagrams. Octavo (8 1/4" x 6") rebound with original wrappers tipped to front and back boards. (Bibliotheek Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5229) First edition.The 6th Deutscher Schachkongress took place in Breslau in 1889. It included the 6th Meisterturnier (master's tournament) organized by the Deutscher Schachbund (DSB) since its first in Leipzig (1879). As in the previous four editions the round robin tournament was an international event, pitting German masters against the best of Europe at the time. Germany was represented by its usual field of strong masters, including Louis Paulsen, Siegbert Tarrasch, Alexander Fritz, Max Harmonist, Johannes Metger, Jacques Mieses, Emil Schallopp, Curt von Bardeleben, Johannes von Minckwitz, and Johann Bauer who had won his spot by winning the Frankfurt Hauptturnier (1887) master title. The German masters were joined from Great Britain by Joseph Henry Blackburne, who was the winner of DSB's 2nd… Read More

xlviii+204 pages with tables and diagrams. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") beige with original wrappers laid on front with spine in gilt. (Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5259) First edition.The thirteenth Congress of teh German Chess Association is to take place this year at Hanover, from July 19th to the middle of August, in connection with the 25th anniversary of the Hanover Chess Club's foundation. We have received the programme from which we learn that there will be first, an International Masters' Tourney, with 18 entrants at 25 marks each, the entries to be made to Herr W. Ottemann, of 7 Gretchenstrasse, Hanover, at latest by July 1st. Another 25 marks must also be paid as caution money, which will be returned if the player carries out all his games. Each competitor to play one game daily with every other, at a time-limit of 30 moves in the first two hours, and 15 moves an hour afterwards. Adjourned games must be finished before the close of the tournament. There will be eight prizes, the… Read More

xii+399+[3 ad] pages with diagrams, illustrations, tables and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in blue cloth binding with white lettering to spine. Volume 20 (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 6047) First edition.Deutsche Schachzeitung was the first German chess magazine. Founded in 1846 by Ludwig Bledow under the title Schachzeitung der Berliner Schachgesellschaft, it took the name Deutsche Schachzeitung in 1872. (Another magazine used the title Deutsche Schachzeitung from 1846 to 1848.) When it ceased publication in December 1988 it was the oldest existing magazine in the world, having been published regularly since its founding in 1846 except for a five-year break (1945-1949) during World War II. Since January 1989, the Deutsche Schachzeitung was merged in the Deutsche-Schachblatter - Schach-Report which was edited in Hollfeld. The resulting magazine appeared with the names of both former magazines on its cover till December 1996. Since January 1997, this magazine again was merged… Read More

Three books bound together: 72 pages with frontispiece and tables. 39 pages with frontispiece and tables. 39 pages with frontispiece, diagrams and tables. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 3/4") bound in quarter cloth with gilt lettering to spine and marbled boards. From the library of Albert Becker. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5400; 5463; 5478) First edition.An international chess master tournament was organized and held at the Grand Hotel Panhas in the Semmering Pass south of Vienna from March 7th to the 29th, 1926. The event was organized by Ossip Bernstein, who invited 18 players to participate in the round robin tournament. Among those invited were the very best masters of the day, including Alexander Alekhine, Akiba Rubinstein, Aron Nimzowitsch, Siegbert Tarrasch, Milan Vidmar, Savielly Tartakower, Richard Réti, and Rudolf Spielmann. The hypermodern school was well represented, and in the first half of the tournament Nimzowitsch and Tartakower lead the field. However, toward the end of the… Read More

xiii+216 pages with diagrams and glossary. Royal octavo (10" x 7") bound in original quarter green cloth with gilt lettering to spine over lighter green boards with gilt lettering in green label to cover. Edited by Alain White. This is one of two hundred and fifty copies From a total edition of four hundred copies printed in Centaur and Lutetia types, with handset chess diagrams, printed on Flemish Book laid 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.

viii+392 pages with plates, diagrams, tables and index. Octavo (9" x 6 1/4") bound in blue cloth with red spine label in gilt lettering. Volume 63 (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 6047) First edition.Deutsche Schachzeitung was the first German chess magazine. Founded in 1846 by Ludwig Bledow under the title Schachzeitung der Berliner Schachgesellschaft, it took the name Deutsche Schachzeitung in 1872. (Another magazine used the title Deutsche Schachzeitung from 1846 to 1848.) When it ceased publication in December 1988 it was the oldest existing magazine in the world, having been published regularly since its founding in 1846 except for a five-year break (1945-1949) during World War II. Since January 1989, the Deutsche Schachzeitung was merged in the Deutsche-Schachbl�tter - Schach-Report which was edited in Hollfeld. The resulting magazine appeared with the names of both former magazines on its cover till December 1996. Since January 1997, this magazine again was merged in the Berlin… Read More

468 pages with diagrams, tables and plates. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5") Rebound. Volume 7 complete, with supplement Erstes Sonderheft, Erstes Extrablatt, Erstes Extra-Ausgabe, volumes 1, 1a, 1g, 2a, 2b and 2c. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:6073) First edition.Bernhard Kagan, Polish born German amateur who lived in Berlin and published Kagan's Neueste Schachnachrichten in the years 1917-32. This chess magazine first appeared as a quarterly and then monthly in the years 1921-32. It was published in Berlin and used as a vehicle for giving many master games and articles by such writers as Grunfeld, Tartakower, Tarrasch, Nimzowitsch, Reti and Spielman. Many of the great tournaments of the period appeared in supplements to the magazine. It died when Kagan himself died in 1932. (Golombek: 157)Condition:Rebound with the original wrapper from volume 4a bound in at front, an occasional pencil notation else very good.

viii+384 pages with plates, diagrams, tables and index. Octavo (9" x 6 1/4") bound in 1/2 cloth with marbled boards. Volume 50 (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 6047) First edition.Deutsche Schachzeitung was the first German chess magazine. Founded in 1846 by Ludwig Bledow under the title Schachzeitung der Berliner Schachgesellschaft, it took the name Deutsche Schachzeitung in 1872. (Another magazine used the title Deutsche Schachzeitung from 1846 to 1848.) When it ceased publication in December 1988 it was the oldest existing magazine in the world, having been published regularly since its founding in 1846 except for a five-year break (1945-1949) during World War II. Since January 1989, the Deutsche Schachzeitung was merged in the Deutsche-Schachblatter - Schach-Report which was edited in Hollfeld. The resulting magazine appeared with the names of both former magazines on its cover till December 1996. Since January 1997, this magazine again was merged in the Berlin magazine Schach. The… Read More

[4]+7-180 pages with frontispiece portrait and diagrams. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") 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. (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 and can be read and downloaded from here.Condition:Corners bumped and lightly rubbed. A very good copy issued… Read More