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Kimmo Välkesalmi



Social Chess Quarterly 1930-36 - Complete Set
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Current price : (GBP) £650,00
(EUR) €750,23
Starting bid: (GBP) £140,00
(EUR) €161,59
# of bids: 19
Closes: Auction is closed
Location: Great Britain (UK)
Started: 2021-04-08 21:25:59
Ended: 2021-04-18 17:55:00
Seller: 64squares (154)
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The Social Chess Quarterly. Vol.1 No.1 - Vol.6 No.23. (All published in this form.) Oct.1930 - Apr.1936.

Bound in one volume, contemporary cloth, spine discoloured otherwise good. pp 556, (94). With a hand-written title-page and index to openings and articles. Includes 184 games with notes, several hundred problems and studies, articles for improvement by Znosko-Borovsky and Vera Menchik, editorial and social club news.

The magazine of the Empire Social Chess Club formed in 1930 at Whiteleys department store in London, open to everyone at a nominal subscription. Total membership on the opening day was 400, which had increased to 1600 by the second year!  The magazine was incorporated into CHESS Vol.1 as a supplement in the July 1936 issue. Rare to find the complete set of 1-23. Betts 7-71.

 

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