One Hundred Victorian Chess Problems - 2nd hand

Intended for chess players in search of an unusual challenge to their skills, One Hundred Victorian Chess Problems contains an expert's choice of problems published a century ago in the Illustrated London News, a journal famous for its weekly chess column.

In this introduction, the Editor discusses his selction of problems, and studies for philosophy which lay behind their composition and solution. He shows how Victorian problems were more closely game-orientated than their modern counterparts, and designed as a specific aid to competititve play. The pages of this book offer a representative coverage of openings, middle and end games and deal with a variety of practical situations which the chess player expected to face. Solutions to each problem are contained in an appendix, in which the original Victorian notation is preserved. 

This selection offers a fascinating insight into changing styles of strategy and tactics down the years, as well as many hours of varied and rigorous practice for the modern player.

• Casa editrice Wayland
• Code vcpw0707us
• Anno 1972
• Pagine p. 128