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A Collection of

TWO HUNDRED CHESS PROBLEMS

composed by

Frank Healey

including the problems to which the prizes

were awarded by the committees of the Era,

the Manchester, the Birmingham, and the

Bristol chess problem tournaments

ACCOMPANIED BY SOLUTIONS

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SBPE 003-00002-01-ENG

An Electronic Edition

Anders ulin, Malmö · $%%& - %" - %$

Henry Waite, Esq.,

THE LIBERAL PATRON OF CHESS,

this collection of chess problems

is respectfully inscribed by

the author

PREFACE

In o ering this collection of problems to the Chess community, I feel

that a few prefatory words are required by way of explanation. Several

previous composers have come before the public in the same manner,

among whom I may enumerate Mr. Kling, Mr. Brown of Leeds, and J.

B. of Bridport. eir example has given me con dence, and I venture

to hope that the present collection will be found to bear some features

especially distinctive of English problems, such as may justify my

publishing it in a separate form.

It is certain that the great body of Chess amateurs have always felt

an especial interest in the composition and solution of problems.

For ten persons who take up a magazine or newspaper to examine a

game, probably a hundred may be found who only look to the prob-

lems. How often do we see a man of powerful brain devoting a spare

half hour to the careful scrutiny of a diagram in the Illustrated London

News. is study is rewarded by that legitimate grati cation which the

successful exertion of the intellect always brings with it. But the same

man would not, and could not, have devoted the necessary time and

energy to a di cult contest over the board.

e innumerable solutions of those problems constantly forward-

ed to the Era, the Illustrated London News, the Field, and many other

newspapers, all agree with one consent in the same story, viz., the in-

creasing popularity of problem making and solving.

Problems are indeed the poetry of Chess. e same depth of imagi-

nation, the same quick perception of the beautiful, the same fecundity

of invention, which we demand from the poet, are to be found, under

a di erent form, in the humble labours of the problematist. Surely,

without pressing the analogy too far, we may say that the thirty-two

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