1001 Problemas

Author: Ellerman, Arnoldo (1893-1969)Year: 1945Publisher: Editorial GraboPlace: Buenos AiresDescription:308 pages with diagrams. Octavo (8" x 5 3/4) bound in black cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. Preface by Alain White. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 2890) First edition.From White's Preface: This collection of problems is the largest ever published; representing the creation of a single composer and most surprising is that it consists almost exclusively of problems in two movers (only 42 problems in three movers and two in four). Such a collection would have been impossible thirty or forty years ago, but Ellerman has been one of the specialists, whose works, along with those of Guidelli, Mansfield, Gamage, Mari, Barulin and others, have managed to revive the problem of two plays in last quarter century. And of all the great composers of problems in two movers, Ellerman has been the most prolific and the one that has obtained more successes in problem competiti