Chess gems: Some of the finest examples of chess strategy, by ancient and modern masters
Chess Gems, a late nineteenth-century chess problem collection compiled by John Augustus Miles and published in Fakenham, England, in 1878 for players and students of the game. Its pictures are bare chessboard diagrams drawn in black and white with hatched dark squares, showing endgame positions with few pieces and no text, so a designer could borrow the grid pattern and the crisp piece silhouettes for graphic work.
