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H. J. C. Andrews

ENGLISH CHESS PROBLEMS

edited by

James Pierce and W. Timbrell Pierce

[ 1876 ]

“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

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.