A Chess Silhouette: One Hundred Chess Problems by the Reverend Gilbert Dobbs

Published by Overbrook Press, Stamford, 1942

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133 pages with diagrams. Duodecimo (6 3/4" x 4 3/4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and deckle edges. Overbrook chess series number 4. (Betts: 33-23) First edition limited to 150 copies. 9 three-movers and 3 two-movers with solutions at the end. Giblert Dobbs (1867-1941) had composed an astonishing number of 2,500 problems, great numbers of them very charming and attractive pieces. He loved the simpler combinations of pure or model mates in three-move form, and turned out literally hundreds of examples, which one could always counted upon to be well worth the solving. Dobbs went on to become a minister in Georgia. (ACB: 1941) Condition: Lightly soiled else a very good to fine copy.

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Title
A Chess Silhouette: One Hundred Chess Problems by the Reverend Gilbert Dobbs
Author
Richard Eugene Cheney (1908-1967), Otto Wurzburg, Vincent Eaton and Alain Campbell White (editors)
Publisher
Overbrook Press, Stamford
Publication year
1942
Condition
Near Fine
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition
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