Correspondence chess in Britain and Ireland, 1824-1987

"Details the history from 1824 into the 1980s, the development of postal chess, dawn of game-changing technologies (telegraphs, telephone, radio, fax); earliest transatlantic matches between the U.S. and the U.K.; the founding of the International Correspondence Chess Association in 1945. Appendices list tournament champions; I.C.C.F. title holders; known club matches; and excerpts from primary documents"--Provided by publisher.