Excerpt from Midget Problems: All the Ideas in Positions of 2 Vs. 2 Pieces in Checkers All the books, pamphlets and magazines on the game of checkers, and a large number of checker columns in newspapers, were over hauled for the material of this book. The findings were compared with problem indexes of other: collectors. The result in round num bers was a thousand 2 vs. 2 positions. The duplication of ideas was found to be large - astonishing. In this volume the problems are arranged in groups by themes, unimportant settings being omitted. Dr.

T. J. Brown, of Limerick, active about 1870, was the father of the 2 vs. 2 problem family. There were, of course, distinguished grandfathers. Dr. Brown was 'a problem scientist. He went to the bottom of things, delving for secrets.

He delighted in con quering the real antagonist in checkers - the board, not the individual opponent. His con temporaries and successors have done muchoriginal work in this department of the pas time. How much remains to be found is a matter of opinion. A new. Principle in 2 vs. 2 problems would be a triumph. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.

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