Description: This is the original 1920 version! It's extremely rare. I could not find another copy online. Only mention of one located at the National Library of Australia. Binding is intact. Pages are clean. It is also signed by Walter Korn. He was an Austro-Hungarian writer of books and magazine articles about chess. Korn was the writer of Modern Chess Openings (MCO) (revised editions 7 through 12, 13th revised by Nick de Firmian), which was considered an authoritative work on the openings of chess. Review: THE POCKET GUIDE TO THE CHESS OPENINGS. By R. C. Griffith and J. H. White, joint authors of "Modern Chess Openings." With a Summary of the Laws of Chess and General Principles of Play. (London, G. Bell and Sons, Ltd. 1920. 3s. 6d.) A new Chess Pocket Guide has been long overdue; Messrs. Griffith and White in co-operation with their publishers. have provided an ideal book for the purpose. Measuring 63 by 3 inches and weighing 3.5 ounces, it yet contains 116 very clearly printed pages, in which some guidance is given on practically every opening. Nearly all the variations are carried to the tenth move (the twelfth or fifteenth in the Ruy Lopez and Queen's Gambit Declined), and many of them a few moves further by means of notes. The arrangement of openings, columns, and notes is that familiarised by Modern Chess Openings. There are also a summary of the Laws of Chess, a page on the value of pieces, a pregnant introduction to chess-play in general, a page of maxims, a summarised introduction to the Openings, and a few illustrative games. The player who wants direction as to the Riga and Breslau defences to the Ruy Lopez, or the Buda Pesth defence to the Q.P. Opening, will find a column given to each; but the follower of the old style of play has not been forgotten; he may find here how some of Greco's ideas are treated nowadays. Can more be required of a "Pocket Guide?" -December 1920 British Chess Magazie page 388
Price: 44.99 USD
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
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Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: London
Language: English
Signed by: Walter Korn
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Signed: Yes
Author: R. C. GRIFFITH AND J. H. WHITE
Publisher: G. Bell & Sons
Topic: Chess
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1920
