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Conspiracy: A Selection of Help-mate Problems
Published by The Chess Amateur, Stroud, 1935
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 117 pages with diagrams and index. Small Octavo (7 1/2" x 5") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Christmas series volume XLIII for the 31st year. Edited by George Hume. From the library of Kenneth S Howard. (Betts: 39-14) First edition. Contains a short introduction to this genre and 100 compositions by various composers, in 2, 3, 4 movers, with adjacent solutions. Includes index of composers. Help mate chess is a form of problem chess in which the two sides, White and Black, collaborate to demonstrate a result, such as mate or stalemate. In one respect it is the most nearly mathematical form of the chess moves, for its essence is always the pure demonstration of a possibility. All idea of combat is eliminated and combat has nothing whatever to do with mathematics. Imagine a demonstration in Euclid in which every second step of the reasoning was in endeavor to thwart the step preceding! From another angle it may be argued that the Helpmate is a logical form of problem. For any chess problem is assumed to be a position which might have arisen in actual play, no matter how absurd the antecedent sequence of moves. In other words, the initial position of any orthodox chess problem may be considered as having been developed during a game conducted by Help-play. Kenneth Samuel Howard (1882-1972) one of the founders of the Marshall Chess Club and chess problem composer. He wrote several books about chess composition: The enjoyment of chess problems (1943), How to solve chess problems (1945), and One hundred years of the American two-move chess problem; a collection of 212 compositions by United States problemists (1962). Condition: Kenneth Howard's name and date to front paste down, corners bumped, spine ends rubbed, gilt to spine dulled else a very good copy.
