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ENGLISH CHESS PROBLEMS
edited by
James Pierce and W. Timbrell Pierce
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“Look what is best; that best I wish in thee.”
Shakspeare
“Keen to track
“Suggestion to her inmost cell.”
Tennyson
An Electronic Edition
Anders Thulin, Linköping · 1999-04-12
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DEDICATION
To FRANK HEALEY, Esq.
Dear Sir,
You have, by so many masterpieces of Chess strategy,
rendered your name, and thereby English Chess Problem Composi-
tion, famous all over the world, that we feel there is a peculiar fitness
in availing ourselves of your kind permission to dedicate such a work
as this to yourself. Without your support we should certainly not have
undertaken the task, but we have received such ample and cordial help
both from you and from others almost equally distinguished, that we
feel sure that the work will be of great value, not only to living compos-
ers, but also to those who may come after, marking as it unmistakably
does the character which the art has assumed at the present time. The
most superficial student may see in what striking contrast it stands to
the composition of previous periods, and without question this is due
mainly to yourself, as the pioneer of new and suggestive ideas, as re-
markable for their depth and beauty, as for their neat and elegant con-
struction.
We are, Dear Sir,
Yours faithfully,
THE EDITORS.
February 1876.
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PREFACE TO ELECTRONIC EDITION
The present edition of English Chess Problems follows the original edi-
tion, published by Longmans, Green & Co., London, in 1876, as closely
as possible as far as contents is concerned. The layout has been modi-
fied to place six problems on a page instead of one, in order to reduce
the number of pages required, and solutions have been translated into
algebraic notation, using ‘S’ to indicate knights.
The only change to the solutions has been to change over-general
statements (e.g. ‘Q mates’ or ‘Anything’