Roget chess problems

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Francis Fields
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Roget chess problems

Post by Francis Fields » Thu Mar 21, 2019 6:28 pm

Roget author of the first thesaurus use to compose chess problems for the London Illustrated News. You use to be able to see them but now you have to subscribe. Does anyone know of any?

Geoff Chandler
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Re: Roget chess problems

Post by Geoff Chandler » Thu Mar 21, 2019 7:11 pm

Edward Winter has page on Peter Mark Roget.

http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/roget.html

There is a problem plus background info there.

Simon Rogers
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Re: Roget chess problems

Post by Simon Rogers » Fri Jun 12, 2020 10:07 pm

Thanks for the link Geoff. I enjoyed reading it.