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Retro Books and Articles

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.

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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.]

Mario Velucchi, 7 Apr 1995

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.

Mario Velucci, 26 May 1995

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)