Bignold, Hugh B The Australian Chess Annual. First Year, 1896. George Robertson & Co, Sydney. Printed by Edward Lee & Co., Excelsior Printing Works, Sydney.
(Betts 8-12) # Issued October, 1896 (Sydney Mail 31 October, 1896). No further volumes issued. Contains chapters on Australian (editor) and State Chess:- N.S.W. & Tasmania (editor), Victoria (T.Harlin), South Australia (H.Charlick), Queensland (H.W. Apperley), Western Australia (W. Siebenhaar), New Zealand (J.C. Andersen), a 23 page chapter by William Crane Jr. on the games of the 1895 match between Wallace & Esling, the Charlick Counter Gambit by “Hobart”, the Problem Art by J.J. Glynn and a final 6 pages by the editor on forming a chess club, handicap tourneys & odds, the Sectional Principle in Tourneys, Forsyth notation and odds giving and rules for solution and problem Tourneys, solutions and L’envoi. 168 pages.# (43)
2895. Australian Chess-Annual. First year, 1896 Annual. Editor Hugh B. Bignold. Publisher George Robertson & Co.; printed by Edward Lee & Co., Excelsior Printing Works. Sydney. Australia. 168 p., diagrs., 16.5 cm. Yearbook. English. Note Contains accounts of chess activity in each state, with historical notes by the editor and other contributors; a list of clubs; articles (including “The problem art in Australia,” by J.J. Glynn, with 20 problems); and 16 games with brief notes. Includes New Zealand. No further issues have been traced. Sources Betts 8-12; Van Manen 191; KB; CPL; SLV. Availability Koninklijke Bibliotheek—(1896); Cleveland Public Library—(1896); State Library of Victoria—(1896).
(Betts 8-12) # Issued October, 1896 (Sydney Mail 31 October, 1896). No further volumes issued. Contains chapters on Australian (editor) and State Chess:- N.S.W. & Tasmania (editor), Victoria (T.Harlin), South Australia (H.Charlick), Queensland (H.W. Apperley), Western Australia (W. Siebenhaar), New Zealand (J.C. Andersen), a 23 page chapter by William Crane Jr. on the games of the 1895 match between Wallace & Esling, the Charlick Counter Gambit by “Hobart”, the Problem Art by J.J. Glynn and a final 6 pages by the editor on forming a chess club, handicap tourneys & odds, the Sectional Principle in Tourneys, Forsyth notation and odds giving and rules for solution and problem Tourneys, solutions and L’envoi. 168 pages.# (43)
2895. Australian Chess-Annual. First year, 1896 Annual. Editor Hugh B. Bignold. Publisher George Robertson & Co.; printed by Edward Lee & Co., Excelsior Printing Works. Sydney. Australia. 168 p., diagrs., 16.5 cm. Yearbook. English. Note Contains accounts of chess activity in each state, with historical notes by the editor and other contributors; a list of clubs; articles (including “The problem art in Australia,” by J.J. Glynn, with 20 problems); and 16 games with brief notes. Includes New Zealand. No further issues have been traced. Sources Betts 8-12; Van Manen 191; KB; CPL; SLV. Availability Koninklijke Bibliotheek—(1896); Cleveland Public Library—(1896); State Library of Victoria—(1896).
