Author: Gilbert Dobbs (1867-1941) and Edward Hanna (editors)
Year: 1936
Publisher: G Dobbs and E Hanna
Place: Carrollton, GA & Chicago
Description:
36 pages with portrait in the text and 25 diagrams. Octavo (8 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's pictorial stapled wrappers. (Linde - No. 2781. Betts 33 - 27) First edition number 303.
The present edition is a tribute to George R. Emery, who died in 1936, compiled by his friends. It includes, among other things, a short biography and 24 problems.
George Reginald Emery (1902-1936) took up chess as a hobby and intellectual pastime only during the last few years of his life. He became an inveterate problem enthusiast. His name first appeared as a solver in the columns of the Grand Rapids Herald under Otto Wurzurg, the Cincinnati Enquirer under P G Keeney and the Atlanta Journal under r G Pfferkorn and the Chess Review Bulletin and various newspaper columns. So fast was his progress in the study of the problem art, he was invited to conduct the Problem Department of the Mid-West Chess News. In this chess weekly he ran both composing and solving tourneys. Hid analytical mind was able to unravel the most difficult and intricate problems, direct mates, sui-mates and "fairy" compositions alike, and the great "Fairy King" T R Dawson testifies to Emery's growing enthusiasm for this bizarre branch of the problem art. As a composer he made no pretensions, and left only one or two graceful samples of his budding talent in this direction.
Condition:
Problem tourney gift inscription to front wrapper verso. Some spots. Slight rust to staples and light edge wear else very good.