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Location: | Sweden |
Starts: | 2024-06-01 01:00:00 |
Ends: | 2024-06-10 18:42:00 |
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Schoumoff. Sobraniye skakhograficheskikh i drugikh shakhmatnykh zadach
v tom chisle polnyy shakhmatnyy bukvar'...Recueil de problèmes scacchographiques et autres positions curieuses, comprenant la représentation complète des lettres de l'alphabet, ainsi que divers mats politiques, humoristique et phantastique. With 1 lithographed colored plate and many diagrams. 120 unn leaves. Sakharov 85. L/N 2408. van der Linde II, 100. Original covers bound in. St. Petersburg, Röttger und Schneider, (1867).
The Russian chess master and composer Ilya Shumov (1819 - 1881) was an officer in the Russian Baltic Fleet and worked in the Navy Ministry. He was considered one of the strongest Russian chess players of his time and played several competitions against Urussov, Jänisch, Winawer and Petrov. In 1869 he was involved in founding the St. Petersburg Chess Society. Shumov created around 200 chess compositions, some with entertaining or political overtones. This edition is the first Russian book on chess problems. Text in Russian and French.
From the Rimington-Wilson Library.
Condition: Some spots inside. Paper yellowed.
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