Author: Hermann von Gottschall (1862-1933)
Year: 1912
Publisher: Verlag von Veit & Company
Place: Leipzig
Description:
viii+553+[3 ad] pages with frontispiece, diagrams, plates and facsimiles. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's stiff boards. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 3034) First edition.
Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen (1818-1879) was born in Breslau. He was one of the strongest players of his day and was regarded by some to be the World Champion after his victory in the London (1851) tournament. He lost this honor in the Anderssen - Morphy (1858) match. One year later, however, Paul Morphy retired from international chess, and Anderssen was able to regain his reputation as the world's leading player, drawing Ignatz von Kolisch in Paris 1860 (+5 -5 =1),3 and winning the Anderssen - Kolisch (1861) match in London (+4 -3 =2). Anderssen also won the London International 1862 over Louis Paulsen, who finished second. He subsequently drew him in the Anderssen - Paulsen Match (1862) match (+3 -3 =2). In 1866, Anderssen narrowly lost a match with Wilhelm Steinitz (+6 -8 =0). He scored his final great success by winning the Baden-Baden (1870) tournament, ahead of Steinitz and Joseph Henry Blackburne.
Condition:
Corners bumped and rubbed, crack at front hinge, previous owners' names to front endpaper, some internal marginalia through out else a good copy.