Old (very old) rulebooks

[StewartQSutton]

When I started as a tournament director the official rulebook was the “Official Chess Rulebook”, written by Kenneth Harkness and published by McKay in 1970.

There seems to be an earlier edition of the “Official Chess Handbook”, written by Harkness in 1967 and also published by McKay.

What rulebook(s) were used to direct USCF rated events prior to either of these two books being published?

[rfeditor]

@StewartQSutton

When I started as a tournament director the official rulebook was the “Official Chess Rulebook”, written by Kenneth Harkness and published by McKay in 1970.

There seems to be an earlier edition of the “Official Chess Handbook”, written by Harkness in 1967 and also published by McKay.

What rulebook(s) were used to direct USCF rated events prior to either of these two books being published?

The first edition of the Harkness “Blue Book” was published in 1956.