Die Schwalbe Volume 5

Author: Eduard Adolf Heinri Birgfeld 91887-1939 and Wilhelm Maßmann. Anton Trilling (editors)Year: 1928Publisher: Die SchwalbePlace: EssenDescription: [ii]+152 pages with diagrams. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") 12 issues bound in original publisher's stapled wrappers. (Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5365) First edition. Die Schwalbe is the German chess composition society and issues the bimonthly magazine Die Schwalbe. The magazine appeared the first time in July 1924. Since that date it issues bimonthly. Only between 1943 and 1946, the appearance had been broken by the war. The then president of the society Wilhelm Karsch bridged that time by sending all members Mitteilungen der Schwalbe (notes of the society). In the magazine chess compositions and solutions are published, composition tournaments announced and articles about chess compositions published. Die Schwalbe was founded on 10 February 1924 in Essen as Vereinigung von Problemfreunden zur Förderung der Aufgabenkunst (Soc