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Current price : | €290,00 |
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Location: | Russian Federation |
Started: | 2019-12-21 12:00:00 |
Ended: | 2019-12-22 21:46:42 |
Seller: | Problemist67 (675) |
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Ilya Schoumoff, Sobranie skahograficheskih i drugih schachmatnych sadach i polnyj schachmatny bukvar, Saint-Petersburg, 1867, 1st edition, 182 pages with 84 problems. Blue leather cover with gold inscription on title. Without frontispiece.
This book is first russian book on chess composition!
Russian chess master and composer Ilya Schumow (1819 - 1881) was an officer of the Russian Baltic fleet and in the naval Ministry. He was considered one of the strongest Russian chess players of his time and played several competitions against Urusov, Jänisch, Winawer and Petrov. In 1869 he was involved in the founding of the St. Petersburg chess society.
Schumow created about 200 chess compositions, some with entertainment or political connotations. The present edition is the first Russian book about chess problems. Text in Russian and Frenchand New beautifully bound.
Condition: some yellowed from time spots on page.
Very rare and very scarce item.
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