John Brown

John Brown was a chess composer

John Brown (30 May 1827-17 November 1863), who published under his pseudonym J.B. of Bridport and is described by Breuer as a ‘worthy successor to d'Orville’, was an active in Loveday's ‘gold-digger period’, in which many chess problem ideas that were later intensively worked on found their earliest representations. In 1865, a selection of his compositions comprising 174 chess problems was published posthumously under the title ‘Chess Strategy’ - today a sought-after collector's item.