Echo by Frantisek Dedrle (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. lxvi+136 pages with frontispiece portrait, diagrams and index. Royal Octavo (9 3/4" x 7") bound in original red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. A C White's Christmas series with Christmas greeting tipped in. (Betts: 31-13) First edition. Parallel Czech, English and German text. This work deals with echo mates. M Havel contributes an essay on the subject "The charm of return" emphasizing the aesthetic features. An article by Dedrle follows, in which he explains the varieties to be found in the field of echoes and gives 28 examples. The main part of the book is made up of 674 specimens, classified according to the nature of the mates. A diagram at the top of each page shows the type of mate which is worked into the positions following on that page, enabling the reader to see how different composers treat the same theme. Included are direct mates of varying lengths, self-mates, various Fairy problems and composed end games. Condition: Cover and spine embossed with protective over lay, boards faded, spine sunned, spine ends rubbed and bumped, hinges starting, previous owner's embossed stamp to front end paper, and book plate on front paste down, cover stained else a good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Frantisek Dedrle: Echo. - Vydal Sachovni Klub Dobrusky v Praze z vydavatelského fondu Vaclava Kautského. /A.C. White Christmas Series 33./ Praze (Prague), 1927. Sachovni Klub Dobrusky. - Alois Lapácek. 1 t. (A. C. White portrait) [4] LXV. [7] (6 blank) 134 [2] p. with chess diagrams. Publisher's full cloth binding, carefully repaired on spine. On the first page inscribed by Béla Várday (1869 - 1945) Hungarian chess composer to Dr. Leo Lazarus (1891 - 1941) Hungarian chess composer. - -- - The book begin with 2 articles by M. Havel and F. Dedrle, each written in Czech, English and German. Follow 674 problems on the theme, in Czech notation, classified according to the nature of mates. Index of composers. - The Moravian composer and analyst Frantisek Dedrle (1878- 1957) was an all-rounder whose interests embraced problems, studies, and endgame theory. - Publisher of the series was chess composer and enthusiast Alain Campbell White (1880-1951). A. C. White sent most books of the series to his friends as Christmas gifts. But they were offered for sale, too. The series consists from 44 books on problem chess and one pamphlet from 1912. Most books are hard covers, bound in red cloth with gold lettering, usually written in English, sometimes in German and French and one was partially in Czech. Most books have printed Christmas wish slip by White, usually bound in after a title page. It appears that a part of edition of some books has wish slips and a part does not. Number of copies published of separate volumes is not known.