Correspondence chess in Britain and Ireland, 1824-1987
By: Tim Harding
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 433
ISBN-13: 9780786445530
Description: "Details the history from 1824 into the 1980s, the development of postal chess, dawn of game-changing technologies (telegraphs, telephone, radio, fax); earliest transatlantic matches between the U.S. and the U.K.; the founding of the International Correspondence Chess Association in 1945. Appendices list tournament champions; I.C.C.F. title holders; known club matches; and excerpts from primary documents"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.