Hi chess-lovers! This is my second chessbook scan for you!
I had bought this book in 1989, its probably out-of-print now!
TITLE : Seven is the Limit
SUBTITLE : Miniature Chess Problems
AUTHORS : Niharendu Sikdar
PUBLISHER : Naya Prokash, Calcutta, India
YEAR : 1989
ISBN : 81-85109-90-7
GENRE : Chess Problems
PAGES : xvi + 88 pages
FORMAT : Scanned PDF with OCR, bookmarks & covers.
ABOUT THE BOOK : The Miniature in chess parlance is a setting where the
maximum number of chessmen has to be seven.
In a chess problem the desired conclusion has to be
reached in the stipulated number of moves, the rules
being similar to the over-the-board play, unless otherwise stated.
This collection contains 225 Miniatures—all two movers.
The overall order followed in presenting problems is that
of increasing number of white pieces. When two problems
have exactly the same material, the older one comes first.
The chess terms used in this collection have been defined
as exhaustively as possible, some after the introduction
and others in the body of the text where they first appear.
There is also an index at the end, alphabetically giving
authors' names with problem numbers.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR : The author of this Collection of chess Problems is himself a composer
of some standing in the field, as his Problems here will testify. The Collection
is the first of its kind brought out by an Indian.Shri N. Sikdar was born on 16th July, 1937
in a village near Khulna, now in Bangladesh.His interest in the area of composing s
tarted developing in the early sixties.On 1st October,
1961, this column published Sikdar's first ever chess Problem—a two-mover.
Since then, he has published all types of chess Problems, besides writing
articles on chess, in newspapers and magazines in India, Britain, Germany,
the USSR, etc. He is probably the first Indian to publish End-Game
Studies. His was the only name from India included in a 1966 Russian
compilation, 'Gallery of 15000 Chess Artistes (i.e. Study Composers)'.
Right from 1960, he started collecting chess Problems and Studies and
today his collection includes more than 20,000 compositions. His fouryear
stay in Moscow from 1979 to 1983 helped enormously to swell his
collection. It was in Moscow that the manuscript for this book was largely
completed. One appreciates the dedication needed to give shape to a
Collection of this kind.
