Author: Alain Campbell White (1880-1951)
Year: 1914
Publisher: The Chess Amateur
Place: Stroud
Description:
212 pages with diagrams and index. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/8") bound in original publisher's red cloth with lettering to spine and cover with Christmas greetings tipped in. (Betts 31-9) Christmas series volume XIX for 1914. First edition.
A Collection of 300 problems in each of which a main feature is the activity of the white king in the solution. The examples, by various composers, are grouped by 27 thematic classifications, with solutions and elaborations by the editor. Mates are chiefly in two, three and four moves with some longer problems. Includes an index of composers.
Condition: Notes in pencil throughout. Some staining to edges, spine ends rubbed, corners bumped else a good to very good copy.