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“ e Charm”

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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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 explana-

tion. 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 dis-

tinctive 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 al-

ways felt an especial interest in the composition and solution

of problems. For ten persons who take up a magazine or news-

paper to examine a game, probably a hundred may be found

who only look to the problems. How often do we see a man of

powerful brain devoting a spare half hour to the careful scru-

tiny 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

forwarded to the Era, the Illustrated London News, the Field,

and many other newspapers, all agree with one consent in the

same story, viz., the increasing popularity of problem making

and solving.

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

imagination, the same quick perception of the beautiful, the

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