chessvariants.org

A. M. Dickins: A guide to fairy chess

Dickins book on fairy chess, out of print for much too long time, is a classic book. It describes hundreds of fairy chess pieces and fairy chess rules, that are used in problems, often with exciting examples of problems and with historical comments.

Cover of `A guide to fairy
chess'

The book contains many chess variants. This book has an emphasis on fairy chess problems, i.e., problems in chess variants. The first print was in 1967, by Q Press, Richmond, Surrey. Later, the book was printed by Dover (1971). The book may be hard to find. There is also a German translation:

Anthony Dickins,
Märchenschach,
Hesse Becker, 1986,
ISBN 3-8036-3008-8.

Buy This Book on Amazon

Page written by: Hans Bodlaender and Fergus Duniho.

WWW page created: November 10, 2000. Last modified: March 10, 2003.

Credits

Author: Anthony Dickins.

Comments

A Guide to Fairy Chess. Book first published in 1967.

Christine Bagley-Jones wrote on Fri, Jan 13, 2012 05:14 AM CET:Excellent ★★★★★

This out of print book is on amazon at the moment, 12 used copies from $9.00 up and a new copy selling at $344.00.

Number of ratings: 1, Average rating: Excellent, Number of comments: 1

List all comments and ratings for this item.

Add a comment or rating for this item.

https://www.chessvariants.org/books.dir/dickins.html
First Created: Friday, November 10th, 2000
Last Modified: Sunday, July 8th, 2018
File Timestamp: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 23:37:27 +0200
[info] [links] [edit]