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72 pages with 2 tables and index. Octavo (8" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to cover. Cordingley limited editions of tournament books number 18. (Betts: 25-197) First edition.Typescript. Limited edition of 360 copies of which this is number 335. The first candidates' Tournament in the newly inaugurated series of world championship qualifying tournaments. All 90 games are given, most with notes from various sources. Includes an introduction and indexes of players. Re-issued Nottingham, The Chess Player, 1967. After the FIDE World Championship Tournament (1948) was held, the International Chess Federation (FIDE) began a series of cycles that would select a challenger to Mikhail Botvinnik. The tournament was held from April 9 through May 16 (and the subsequent play-off was held in July and August) . The world was divided into various Zones, from each of which one or more players would qualify for an Interzonal tournament. The highest finishers in this, combined…
Read More The Next Move is . . .: Studies in Chess Combinations by Edgar George Reginald Cordingley (1905-1962) - 1944
by Edgar George Reginald Cordingley (1905-1962)
The Next Move is . . .: Studies in Chess Combinations
by Edgar George Reginald Cordingley (1905-1962)
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- Hardcover
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88 pages with diagrams and index. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with black lettering to spine. Introduction by Alain White. (Betts: 20-12) First American edition. This book is a comprehensive, up-to-date treatise on the popular three-move chess problem, written in response to a wide demand for a work on the subject. After a short introduction by Alain White, the well-known connoisseur, the reader is conducted in successive chapters throughout the play, from the first move to the mate; while the ideas of composers, based on a great variety of stratagems, brilliant, subtle and amusing, are fully revealed in the commentaries on 267 diagrams, many of them masterpieces of ingenuity. Jacket corners and spine ends chipped, spine sunned else a very good copy in like jacket.
- Bookseller The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (US)
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition Very good
- Quantity Available 1
- Edition First
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher David McKay Company
- Place of Publication Philadelphia
- Date Published 1944
- Keywords Chess, Ajedrez, Schach, Echecs
- Size Small octavo