Exploring a bygone aspect of intellectual sport, this book details
the history of British and Irish correspondence chess from the
first formal match between Edinburgh and London in 1824 through the
1980s, the most successful period in British correspondence chess.
It traces the development of postal chess, including the growth of
regional and national chess associations after World War I; the
dawn of game-changing technologies such as telegraphs, the
telephone, radio, and fax machines; the earliest transatlantic
matches between the U.S. and the U.K.; the founding of the
International Correspondence Chess Association in 1945; and the
breaking of the Soviet monopoly on the world team championship in
1982, the final act of the joint Great Britain team before Scotland
and Wales obtained separate membership in the International
Correspondence Chess Federation. Appendices list tournament
champions; I.C.C.F. title holders; known club matches; and excerpts
from rules and other primary documents.
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