Adventures in Composition - The Art of The Two-Move Chess Problem

Mansfield, Comins (edited by Alain White)

Published by Daily Post Printers, Liverpool, 1948

About this Item

1948. First UK edition. xiii, 200pp. including many chess-board diagrams. Comins Mansfield (1896-1984) was an English chess problem composer. In 1936, he published A Genius of the Two-Mover, which included 100 of the 300-or-so problems that Mansfield had composed over the past 20 years. The present work was originally published in a limited edition in the USA in 1944, and contains new problems, except for a few which are essential to illustrate particular points. The book is bound in the original red paper covered boards with a green cloth spine. There is black titling on the spine and a paper title label and an illustration of a knight chess piece on the front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with some shelf wear and light soiling to the boards and three small white marks near the fore edge of the front board. The top front and bottom rear corners are lightly bumped and there is a little fading on the bottom edge of the front board. The contents are tight and clean with partial browning to the free endpapers and a chess supplier's label near the bottom spine corner of the front fixed endpaper. A name and date has been written near the top corner of the front fixed endpaper.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Adventures in Composition - The Art of The Two-Move Chess Problem
• Publisher: Daily Post Printers, Liverpool
• Publication Date: 1948
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: First UK Edition
• Condition: Very Good
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  • Chess