Mario Velucci, 13 Mar 1995
I seek (originals - or photocopies if legal for Out-Off-Print) these Books: SEND ME, PLEASE, INFORMATION / OFFERS / LISTS / ADDRESSES / ESTIMATE COST. THANKS.
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// WANTED LIST://///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// MATHEMATICS CHESS: / 'Chess Pie' 1/Aug 1922, 2/July 1927, 3/Aug 1936 / Andrews W.S. 'Magic squares and cubes' Dover / Belman 'On the application of dynamic programming to the determination of optimal play in chess and checkers' (Proceedings of the National Academy of science of the USA - 1965) / Blasley J. 'Mathematics of games' Oxford University Press 1989 / Bonsdorff, Fabel, Riihimaa 'Schach und Zahl' 3 ed W.RAU - 1978 / Gik E. 'Mathematics on the Chessboard' 1ed 1976 (Russian text) [english traslation] / Golomb S.W. 'Polyominoes' Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1965 [Polyominoes and Checkerboards - cap 1] / Hedlung A. 'Unending Chess, symbolic dinamics and a problem in semigroups' (Duke mathematical Journal 1944, p. 1) / Jaenisch C.F. von 'Traite des applications de l'analyse mathematique au Jeu des eches ...' 3 or 4 tomes 1862 / Lanzi 'Schemi di programmazione del gioco degli scacchi', (Bologna scacchi 1968) / Obermaier 'Denkspiele und Mathematische Ratsel auf d. Schachbrett' Munchen 1982 [or english traslation] / Okunev L.Y. 'Combinatorial Problem on the ChessBoard' 1935 [or english traslation] / Perkins, Steven Barrett 'Chess, metaphysics and mathematics' San Francisco 1986 / Row Thur 'Chess Unlimitates HandBook' 1983 St.Louis MO [or more late] / Sbrana 'Il dominio del Re' 2 vol Roma 1979 (private edition) / Ujvari, Ist. 'Sakkmatematika' Budapest, Pest Megyei Pedagsgial Intizet 1990 [or english traslation] RETROGRADE ANALYSIS CHESS PROBLEMS: / Alden B.E.P. 'An Expert System Approch to Retrograde Analysis' PhD Thesis - The Open University - Faculty of Mathematics UK - 1986 / Baird W.J. 'The Twentinth century retractor, Chess Fantasies ...' London 1907 / Blasley J. 'Some Flights of Chess Fancy' 1989 / Dawson 'Five Classics of Fairy Chess' Dover 1973 / Dawson 'Retro-Opposition' (P.Jelliss 1990) / Diagrammes numero special 6 (octobre-dicembre 1990) / Dickins 'Alice in RetroLand' in Problemist, September 1973 / Fabel K. 'Am Rande des Schachbretts' Hamburg 1947 / Fabel K. 'Rund um das Schachbrett' Berlino 1955 / Hoeg Niels 'On retraction chess problems' 1927 / Kislijak Alexander A. 'Powerschennii Monarch' 1993 [or english traslation], containing 64 SPGs / Plaksin N., Savin P. 'The art of chess composition' / Smullyan 'The Chess Mysteries of the Arabian Knight's' Knopf [or more late] / Toft J.P. 'Hoegs skakproblemer' Kobenhavn 1982 [or english traslation] / Wilts Gerd, Frolkin Andrey 'Shortest Proof Games (The Rubic's Cube of a Chess Player)' November 1991, Karlsruhe, containing 175 SPGs [versione elettronica pronta fine 1995] CHESS STAMPS: / Gerlinger 'Echecs En Philatelie' 1993 [or more late] MORE: / 'Fairy Chess' The Press Q 1973 [Catalogo di Fairy Chess Books e opuscoli donati alla Biblioteca universitari di Cambridge da A. Dickens] / 'ProblŠme' luglio-agosto 1971 (Francia - speciale Chess Tasks) / ? '200 Classics Chess Puzzles' Sterling, NY 1993 / ? "BONUS SOCIUS, Jubileumuitgave voor Meindert Niemeijer", edito a cura della Biblioteca Reale di L'Aia 1977 / ? 'Le sottigliezze degli scacchi ...', Giusti 1831 Milano (Primo volume con l'equiparaz. del partito al problema - e uno dei primi in Italia con le posizioni in diagramma anziche in notazione) / Ainley S. 'Mathematical Puzzles' G.Bell 1977 - TASKS / Betts 'Annotated Bibliography 1850-1968' / Birbrager 'Chess:serious for fun Chess' / Chernev Irving 'Curious chess facts' The Black knight press 1937 / Chernev Irving 'Wonders and curiosities of chess' Dover 1974 / Cheron 'Le Joueur d'echecs au pays des merveilles' Diffusion Payot, Lausanne 1982 / Collins F. 'Selection of one hundred and seven chess problem' London 1885 / D.Norwood 'Chess Puzzles' EDC / Dickins 'Alice in Fairyland' Reprint from L 1976 / Dickins 'Fairy Chess Correspondence Circle' Q Press 1970 / Dickins 'Fairy Chess Problems' 2 ed 1980 / Dickins A., Erbert H. '100 Classics of the ChessBoard' Pergamon Press 1993 / Hermann Stapff 'Einfuhrung in das Marchenschach' 1948 / Karpov, Gik 'Chess Kaleidoscope' Pergamon 1981 [or Italian traslation] / Karsch W., Hagemann W. 'Figuren-rundlaufe im schachproblem' 1952 / Karsch W., Niemann J. 'Elemente des Marchenschachs' (by T.R.D) 1953 / Krabbi Tim 'Chess Curiosities' London, Alien & Unwin 1985 / Kraitchik Maurice 'Le probleme des Reines' Bruxelles 1926 / Lange Max 'Handbuch der schachaufgaben' Leipzing, von veit 1862 [1 libro didattico sulla composizione] / Loyd S. 'Chess strategy; a treatise upon the art of problem construction', 2 ed 1908-1909 / Lusio 'Chess: Annotated Bibliography 1969-1988' / Nemes T. 'Cybernetic Machines' ILIFFE Books 1969 / Nemes T. 'The Chess-Playing Machine' ACTA Thechnica, Acad.Sci..Hung., I, 3, 215-239 (1951) / Nemes T. 'Will Chess Be played by Machinery?" in The Fairy Chess Review 7 (11), 101 (April 1950) [An Eletronic Problem Solver] / Niemeijer 'Zo Spak Wolfgang Pauly' Wasse Naar 1948 / Petrovic N. 'Einzuger rekorde' aprile 1950 / Richey R. 'Blitz Chess puzzles' Richey 1976 / Santoy Claude 'Echecs and Mathematics ...' Marabout 1983 [??? Mistake ???] / Schaaf 'A bibliografy of recreational math 1,2,3,4' NCTM 1955 >> 1978 / Shinkman W.A. 'The Golden argosy' Stroud 1929 / Shinkman W.A. 'Useful, curious, puzzling' Grand Rapids, Hich 1896 / Singmaster 'Books on Recreational Mathematics - A supplement to Schaaf's Bibliographies' 19 pp. [Bibliographies and Index] / Singmaster 'Index of Dissected Chessboard Puzzles' 5pp. [Bibliographies and Index] / Singmaster 'Index to Loyd & Dudeney columns in Tit-Bits, 1896-1898' 6pp. [Bibliographies and Index] / Singmaster 'Loyd Material' 12 pp. [Bibliographies and Index] / Singmaster 'Sources in recreational mathematics' 6 preliminary ed 1993 [or more late] / Tomlinson, Charles 'Amusements in Chess I/II/III' J.W. Parker, London 1845 / Weinman P. 'Problems and puzzles' 3 ed Leed 1944 / Weiss '150 Exzentrische Schachaufgaben' (???) / Weiss Max 'Schachscherze, eine sammlung humorist schachaufgaben' Danner 1916 / Weiss Max (Problematicus) '150 Schachkuriositaten' Leipzing 1910 / Wenman Percy 'Problems and Puzzles' 3 ed. Leed, Whitehead & Miller 1944 [47 pag.]
I seek these articles:
DIE SCHWALBE 1. Vol. 54, Lindner's article pp. ? 2. Vol. 62, Lindner's article pp. ? 3. Vol. 127, Plaksin's article [about Ceriani Them] pp. ?
feenschach 1. Vol. 19 N. 75 (1985), Lindner's article pp. ?
The Problemist 1. Jan 1988 p. 379 2. July 1986 p. 196 3. Sept 1973 p. ? [Dickins article: 'Alice in Retroland'] 4. 1/1989 p. ? [Dickins article: Ceriani Them.]
Have You these papers? If so I wait, please, original issue or pages xerox] THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
News RETROS articles in nexts issues of SINFONIE SCACCHISTICHE:
N.3 1995 (NEXT) My article about Ceriani and legal Castling. (Mario VELUCCHI)
N.4 1995 Nikita Plaksin & C. : article about Ceriani Them. and My Mathematics Note. (Mario VELUCCHI)