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Sam Loyd

Samuel Loyd was an American chess player, chess composer, puzzle author, and recreational mathematician. Loyd is widely acknowledged as one of America's great puzzle writers and popularizers, often mentioned as the greatest. -- Wikipedia

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American chess player, chess composer, puzzle author, and recreational mathematician (1841–1911)

Born 30 January 1841
Died 10 April 1911

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  • Cover of: Mathematische Rätsel und Spiele: Denksportaufgaben für kluge Köpfe : 117 Aufgaben und Lösungen

    Cover of edition mathematicalpuzz00loyd First published in 1959 — 10 editions
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  • Cover of: More Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd

    First published in 1960 — 8 editions
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  • Cover of: Sam Loyd's cyclopedia of 5,000 puzzles, tricks and conundrums : with answers

    Cover of edition samloydscycloped00loyd_438 First published in 1914 — 7 editions
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  • Cover of: Sam Loyd's Book of Tangram Puzzles: 700 Tangrams by Sam Loyd

    First published in 1968 — 6 editions
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  • Cover of: Mathematical puzzles

    First published in 1959 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Chess Strategy: A Treatise Upon the Art of Problem Composition

    First published in 2018 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Sam Loyd's Best Picture Puzzles

    First published in 2005 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Mathematical puzzles.

    First published in 1959 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Sam Loyd and his puzzles: an autobiographical review.

    First published in 1928 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Sam Loyd's Picture Puzzles Wth Answers

    First published in 2000 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: 100 Headachingly Hard Mate in Two Chess Puzzles Composed by Sam Loyd: Improve Your Ability to Calculate Variations and Finding Checkmate

    First published in 2021 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Sam Loyd's Greatest Puzzles

    First published in 2012 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The Puzzle King: Sam Loyd's Chess Problems and Selected Mathematical Puzzles

    First published in 1996 — 1 edition
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American chess player, chess composer, puzzle author, and recreational mathematician (1841–1911)

Born 30 January 1841
Died 10 April 1911

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Puzzles, Mathematical recreations, Chess problems, Dammen, Denkspiel, Games / Puzzles, Matemàtica, Matemàtica recreativa, Mathematics, Mathematics textbooks, Problemes, exercicis, Puzzles & quizzes, Recreation, Recreations & Games, Riddles, Tangram (chinese puzzle), Tangrams, Textbooks, Trencaclosques, Unterhaltungsmathematik

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Alternative names

  • Sam Loyd
  • Samuel Loyd
  • Loyd, Samuel

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December 2, 2022 Edited by Stew Reorder name.
December 2, 2022 Edited by tmanarl dob
December 2, 2022 Edited by tmanarl merge authors
June 6, 2012 Edited by VacuumBot Removed period from death date
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import