Chess Volume 23
Chess Volume 23
Chess Volume 23
Chess Volume 23
Chess Volume 23
Chess Volume 23
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Chess Volume 23

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Author: Baruch Harold "B H" Wood (1909-1989) editor

Year: 1957-1958

Publisher: Chess

Place: Sutton Coldfield

Description:

[i-viii]+370 pages with diagrams, photographs, tables, plates and index. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's brown boards with gilt lettering to spine. Twelve issues with index. Volume 23 numbers 301-322. (Betts: 7-91) First edition.

Incorporated The Social Chess Quarterly, July 1936 and the Canadian Chessner, August 1937. The later was continued as Canadian Supplement, published in Montreal in typescript and inserted in Canadian members subscribers' copies of the Chess (edited by Dudley M Leain).

Baruch Harold Wood was born in Sheffield, England. He founded CHESS magazine in 1935 and was its editor until 1988, when it was sold to Pergamon Press. He was also a FIDE Arbiter, a correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, and also wrote an interesting weekly column for Illustrated London News from 1949 to 1979. He co-founded the Sutton Coldfield Chess Club.

Condition:

Some light edge wear, corners and fore edges, bumped some occasional pencil notations a very good copy issued without jacket.