Found: two old Fred Reinfeld chess books and a mystery notecard

These were found in my grandmother's house:

Improving your Chess by Fred Reinfeld (printed 1955)

Second Book of Chess: The Nine Bad Moves by Reinfeld (printed 1960)

Inside the Second Book of Chess, I found an old postcard that appeared to be from a correspondence chess game between "Paul Jordan" and "Fernando Herrera" with some strange text on it, typed out below:

7-16-75

75-e-575

H  (A)   J

3. B-N5 P-QR3 7/11

4. B-R4

J   (B)   H

2. N-KB3 P-Q3

3. P-q4 PxP

Records
Ferdi

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I also looked up the two players who were playing correspondence (probably) through this postcard and found a lot of stuff, but no clear leads as to who they are. Anyone have any ideas here?

     maybe the address on the post card would help...

Ah, I'd sort of hesitate to give that out on the internet. But the Paul guy is from Pennsylvania, and the Fernando guy is from New York. I think this is probably from 1975, given what looks like a date on the card.

The card is perfectly understandable:

Herrera mailed the moves (his 4th as White, 3rd as Black) July 16, 1975. He received Jordan's moves five days earlier. The two games are part of a Class E postal event that began in 1975, perhaps the 575th such event that year.

Game A is clearly a Spanish Opening.

Game B could be a Sicilian or Philidor's Defense, or some unusual opening.

For my part I'd like to know which 9 moves Mr. Reinfeld thought were so bad that they required a book on the subject. I have always felt that Nf4 is a bad move along with Rg2 but then again there are so many other potentially bad moves that it's hard to single out just 9 of them....

Then again with a title like "The Nine Bad Moves by Reinfeld" it's possible that this is a discussion of blunders committed by Mr. Reinfeld but in that case the readership would likely be quite low among chess players. But the title could be confusing and someone could buy it thinking it is a book on bad pick-up lines or something.

Ah, thank you Ziryab. That clears up a lot of the confusion I was having over the postcard, I haven't physically played correspondance chess with anyone and I'm not familiar with the notation they were using.

horcrux - the "nine bad moves" of the book are very general topics: neglecting development, exposing the king, too many queen moves in the opening, grabbing pawns without thinking, weakening a castled position, getting pinned, not guarding against captures, underestimating threats, and losing a won game.

I played by postcard in one event in 1979-1980, and thene again for several years beginning in 1996. I written many postcards similar to the one here.

Last night, I found the "Records" at the end a bit confusing. But, perhaps you've misread the handwriting. Perhaps it says, "Regards." I still sign emails that way. Yes, I still play email chess (which replaced postcards), but very little. Sites such as Chess.com have almost entirely replaced traditional forms of correspondence chess in my activity.