John Knudsen

Assembling Chess I John Knudsen

If you like to read about chess as much as you like to play it, Assembling Chess I will be of interest to you.


The Editor has been playing and reading about chess for 50 years. He is a Senior International Master (SIM) of the International Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF).

Assembling Chess I Chapters:

Maxims and Hints For A Chess Player
The Magic Chessmen
Unrivaled Performances By Paul Morphy
Chess And War
The Automaton Chess-Player
Blindfold Chess
The Game Of Chess By Anonymous
Smoke and Chess
The Chess-Board
Covent Garden Inspiration
Dinner And Chess; Stakes At Chess
The Nineteenth Century
The Ten Advantages Of Chess
Steinitz And Other Chess-Players
No Napoleonic Chess Player On An Air Cushion Zangwill's Idea Is False--Why Chess Playing Stunts Genius
The Chess-Board Problem
General Rules and Observations
The History of Chess; An Argument In Favor of Correspondence Chess
The Correspondence Chess Player's Creed
Interview With 10th US CC Champion Jon Edwards
Correspondence Chess in the Year 2010 A vision of the future?!
Hot Off The Wire... By Frederick Bishop
The New Correspondence Chess Annotation Symbols By Frederick Bishop
The New Chess Dictionary
The Secret Chess Code
The Chess Quest Adventure (Interactive Fiction).