České melodie. Eine Sammlung von 202 Schachaufgaben von Josef Pospíšil

Author: Josef Pospíšil (1961-1916) Selected by A C White and W H ThompsonYear: 1908Publisher: A Stein's VerlagsbuchhandlungPlace: PotsdamDescription: lxxviii+errata+229+[3 ad] pages with diagrams. Duodecimo (6 3/4" x 4 3/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with black lettering to spine and cover. Introduction by B G Laws and J W Allen. Translated by M Henneberger. (Betts:33-68) Volume six in the A C White Christmas series. First edition. A general introduction on "The Bohemian theory of the Chess problem" and "The work of Josef Pospíšil, by Laws and Allen, is given both in German (translated by M Henneberger), pages vi-xliii, and in English pages xliv-lxxviii. This is followed by 200 of Pospíšil's problems, comprising 19 two-movers, 157 three-movers and 24 four-movers, with solutions (pages 201-229). Josef Pospíšil was one of the masters of the Bohemian school. In 1887 he published "České úlohy šachové́" which included 320 Bohemian problems and an article about Bohemian composi