The author in his delightful book, which is illustrated by 200 diagrams, draws the veil aside, and shows us how he built up some of his most famous problems, step by step from the first simple ideas. Thus "Adventures in Composition" provides a practical guide, for both novices and experts, to the fascinating pursuit of chess problem construction. It is written in a clear and pleasant style, with great objectivity; for Mansfield is too fine an artist to possess an atom of conceit. The book should also be extremely useful to solvers of problems; for to know how to compose is to know how to solve.