Excerpt from Chess Lyrics: A Collection of Chess Problems
It Is now three years since the idea of making a collection of Mr. Mackenzie's problems first came to me. I had recently, after some difficulty, obtained a copy of "Chess, Its Poetry and Its Prose," and the study of this work brought home very clearly to me the need of a supplementary volume which should carry the record of Mr. Mackenzie's career up to date. His own inability to undertake the work moved me to attempt it, and when, after writing to obtain his permission, I had received his warm encouragement in the task, I entered upon it with an eagerness and anticipation of pleasure which have only increased as the collection approached completeness.
At first I had a very slight conception of the size my collection would reach. The fact that Mr. Mackenzie had kept no trace of many of his problems, made the work largely one of exploration. When the resources of my own library failed, I turned to the files of papers and magazines in the British Museum and New York Public Libraries; and further help was warmly tendered by friends and correspondents everywhere.
Out of these varied channels has grown the collection that I now lay before the reader. In it I have tried to bring together in convenient form the later productions of the man who is undoubtedly the greatest chess-problem artist now living. I have added all that seemed to me of value in the immense amount of critical matter dealing with his problems which has been published in tourney reports or periodicals, or communicated to me in manuscript. I have included very few opinions of my own, save where a few words seemed necessary by way of explanation or otherwise. Many problems, especially of course Mr. Mackenzie's less known ones, have consequently been left without any critical remarks whatever; while in other cases the notes are of considerable length. Although this has resulted in depriving the work of any pretense to uniformity of treatment, I have preferred to publish it just as it stood in my manuscript rather than try to fill in the gaps with made-to-order criticisms of my own. I am responsible, however, for all the unsigned portions of the notes.
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