One hundred chess problems
A late-nineteenth-century London collection of one hundred chess problems compiled by Arthur Cyril Pearson and published in 1883 for chess players and solvers. The pictures are plain black-and-white chessboard diagrams drawn with crisp hatched dark squares, set against cream paper, with pieces rendered in clean outline and solid black. A designer could take from them the strong checkerboard grid, the high-contrast figure and ground of chess pieces, and a clear, almost typographic system for arranging geometric shapes.
