Í uppnámi - 01.06.1901, Page 4

í UPPNÁMI.
, present (Illd) number of this Icelandic chess
■ial contains portraits and biographical sketches of
; two principal living Icelandic chess-players—one
whom is the champion of British North America—
with games by both; the beginning of an outline sketch of
the history of chess, based upon the latest and most authentic
researches of distinguished European scholars—the only
absolutely trustworthy compend of the kind yet published in
any language; some rhymed chess-riddles translated from
hitherto inedited English origínals; the usual number of an-
notated games, problems and end-games; news items from
the fields of Icelandic and foreign chess, and solutions to
the problems in the Ild issue.
Subsequent numbers, it is hoped, will include unpub-
lished problems bySamuel Loyd, and other eminent composers
of the day; a sketch of the remarkable chess-playing island,
Grimsey, situated many miles to the North of Iceland, and
in part beyond the Arctic Circle; a few novel notes and
anecdotes relating to Paul Morphy, the hero of modem chess
history; a full description of the remarkable collection of
works on chess—the most extensive in the Scandinavian
North—in the possession of the Icelandic National Library
(Landsbókasafn) at Reykjavík; and one or two new chess
tales of a high character.
The title of the publication is an Icelandic phrase, used
as far back as the I3thcentury (in the “Sturlunga Saga”) as
a' technical chess expression. It is the equivalent of the
French en p.rise — which the modern chess-playing nations
have been content to borrow, having no vernacular method
of representing, with sufficient conciseness and exactness, the
idea of a piece or pawn exposed to capture.
The four numbers of “I Uppnámi” issued during the
present year cost two shiliings (half a dollar), with title-page
and index; remittance may be made by postal order (with the
subscriber’s address very plainly written) to Pétur Zopho*
níasson, Secretary of the Chess Club, Reykjavík, Iceland.
July 1901.