[Signed] [First Edition] 1234 modern end-game studies...

Sutherland, M.(aurice) A. and H(arold) M(aurice) Lommer: 1234 modern end-game studies - With appendix containing 24 additional studies. Compiled by - -. Introductions by André Chéron and Dr. J. C. A. Fischer. London, [1938] Printing-Craft Limited. 383 p. with chess diagrams. First edition. Publisher's full black cloth binding, inscription on spine. Signed by H. M. Lommer. Harold Maurice Lommer (1904-1980.) International Judge of Chess Compositions (1958), International Arbiter (1962), International Master for Chess Compositions (1974), the greatest British study composer. Born in Islington of German parentage, he moved to Switzerland when he was four and returned to England 18 years later. Inspired in his youth by the Saavedra study, he became the leading specialist on promotion tasks, and in 1933 was the first to show allumwandlung in a study, which Rinck had declared was impossible. Lommer also showed in studies six consecutive promotions to rooks (1935) and a minimal with concurrent promotions to queen, bishop, and knight. After the Second World War he became proprietor of a Soho club, where players and composers often met; in 1949 the club organized a small international tournament, won by Bernstein, Lommer retired in 1961 and went to live in Valencia, where he died. In 1939 Lommer and the English player Maurice A. Sutherland (d.1954), who backed the project, published 1,234 Modern End-game Studies. In 1975 Lommer compiled a sequel, 1,357 End-game Studies. These two collections, catholic in taste, made by a composer who was above all an artist, have become standard works. Besides his studies, the best of which are in these books, he composed fairy problems. ( O,O ) /)__) , ,

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