with the bookcases numbered 1 to 49.
And a key to the present subject arrangement.
READING ROOM AND OFFICE
1-2 History, 3-6 Game Collections, 7-10 Openings
11-14 English Periodicals 15 Office Use
16-17 Middle Game 18 Endgame 19 Problems
20 Variants 21-22 Archive
ROOM 8
23-25 Introductory Books 26 Office Use
27 Russian 28-30 East European 31 Multilingual
32-34 German 35 Braille 36 Library Catalogues
37-38 West European 39 French
40 Chess Handbooks 41-42 Reference
43 World Championship 44 UK Regional
45 Year Books 46-49 Tournaments.
Have I tracked the BCVS collection correctly: it was transferred to the ECF, where it had a temporary home with U Brighton at Hastings, now at ECF in Battle?
ReplyDeleteAn update would be helpful here:
https://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=7429
https://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=7115&start=30
Other mentions I found:
http://www.mayhematics.com/s/s.htm
https://www.englishchess.org.uk/national-chess-library/
The BCVS collection is now part of the NCL whoch is housed at the ECF offices in Battle. I tried contacting you via the Chess Variants pages but could not decode the email address.
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