Comings Mansfield MBE: chess problems of a grandmaster Add to Watch List Watching View Watchlist >

British Chess Problem Society, 1976, limited edition 750 copies, paperback, 18,5x24,5 cm, vi+38pp, 120 grams, condition: very good.

200 two-more problems by C.M. with commentaries and biographical notes by B.P.Barnes, international Master and Judge of the world chess federation for chess composition.

Mansfield (1896-1984) was born in the village of Witheridge, in England, the son of Herbert John Mansfield, who had long played correspondence chess for Devon. He attended Blundell's School in Tiverton and there began to take an interest in the game. He was inspired by a 1910 article in the British Chess Magazine that contained chess problems, and soon won first prize for a two-mover published in a Plymouth newspaper. After leaving school, he joined the tobacco company W. D. & H. O. Wills, which remained his employer for 45 years, firstly in Bristol and later in Glasgow. While still in Bristol, he won the Gloucestershire county chess championship every year from 1927 to 1934. In 1936, Alain C. White published A Genius of the Two-Mover, which included 100 of the 300-or-so problems that Mansfield had composed over the past 20 years; and, in 1944, White also published Mansfield's Adventures in Composition – The Art of the Two Move Chess Problem.