If you like to read about chess as much as you like to play it, Assembling Chess I will be ofinterest to you. The Editor has been playing and reading about chess for 50 years. He is aSenior International Master (SIM) of the International Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF).Table of Contents: Maxims and Hints For A Chess Player; The Magic Chessmen; Unrivaled Performances By Paul Morphy; Chess And War; The Automaton Chess-Player; Blindfold Chess; The Game Of Chess By Anonymous; Smoke and Chess; The Chess-Board, Covent Garden Inspiration; Dinner And Chess; Stakes At Chess; The Nineteenth Century; The Ten Advantages Of Chess; Steinitz And Other Chess-Players; No Napoleonic Chess Player On An Air Cushion Zangwill's Idea Is False--Why Chess Playing Stunts Genius; The Chess-Board Problem; General Rules and Observations; The History of Chess; An Argument In Favor of Correspondence Chess; The Correspondence Chess Player's Creed; Interview With 10th US CC Champion Jon Edwards; Correspondence Chess in the Year 2010 A vision of the future?!; Hot Off The Wire...By Frederick Bishop; The New Correspondence Chess Annotation Symbols By Frederick Bishop; The New Chess Dictionary; The Secret Chess Code; The Chess Quest Adventure (Interactive Fiction).