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    AMERICAN CHESS-NUTS
    A COLLECTION OF PROBLEMS
    BY COMPOSERS OF THE WESTERN WORLD.
    EDITED BY
    E. B. COOK, W. R. HENRY, AND C. A. GILBERG.
    [ 1868 ]
    “Sweetest nut hath sourest rind.”
    An Electronic Edition
    Anders hulin, Malmö · preliminary version
    AMERICAN CHESS-NUTS
    INTRODUCTION
    he most appropriate prelude to an opening of the Nuts, seems to
    be an account of how these leaves have grown and borne their fruit.
    In February, 1859, the writer received a very interesting anonymous
    letter, calculated to excite the desire of becoming better acquainted
    with its author. “I do not know,” said the unknown, “whether you are a
    collector of Chess Curiosities. I hope you are not. And yet, I inconsis-
    tently enclose title and specimen pages of a Chess book that was neither
    printed nor published, and of which the only copy is to be found in my
    Chess library (eighty volumes, with prospects of a speedy increase to
    one hundred and thirty—all modern works of practical value.) his
    work is intended to consist of a pretty complete collection of such
    problems as have appeared in newspapers, etc. It now contains about
    four thousand positions; but whether I shall have the patience to make
    any great addition to this number, I cannot undertake to say, although
    my notation is concise enough to enable me to copy in one evening
    sometimes as many as a hundred problems and their solutions.” he
    title page referred to was in print, and read : “Chess-Nuts; a Collection
    of Problems and End Games.” In the Correspondence of the Problem
    Department of the
    Chess Monthly
    was inserted a notice to “Cryptograph,
    New York,” in which he was told that the writer “would be delighted to
    see —— at his residence.” his led to a second missive, signed by the
    real name of the mysterious correspondent. A reply to this brought a
    third letter, in which an ofer was made to loan the “Chess-Nuts.” In
    answer to a suggestion, the writer says :—“If I wonder whether a large
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