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(Lusis: 1353.1) Second printing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1969, Boris Spassky, the Russian grandmaster, defeated Tigran Petrosian to become the World Champion, thus avenging his narrow defeat three years earlier. Like his 1972 challenger Bobby Fischer, Spassky is a superb attacking player, one of the outstanding grandmasters of the century. Spassky's twenty-year fight to the top is magnificently recorded in this fully annotated collection of his 100 best games. Beginning with his victory in the 1949 Leningrad Junior Championship at the age of eleven, Spassky's chess-playing career is divided by Bernard Cafferty into five main periods: the years of \"Continuous Success\" (1949-57). \"Failure and Improvement\" (1949-57). \"Failure and Success\" (1958-61) \"The Road Back\" (1962-65), \"Second Time Round\" (1966-69) and \"Worth Champion\" (1069-70) - with a final section devoted to later events. There is also a complete career record and a fascinating selection of winning practice positions for analysis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInitials in small print on back pastedown. 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Octavo (8 1\/4\" x 5 3\/4\") bound in black cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover, head end pages gilt. (Betts: 29-135) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilhelm Steinitz was born at Prague, Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) on May 18, 1836, that is, he was a year older than Paul Morphy. They never played against each other. He moved to Vienna, Austria, as a young man and worked as a journalist. Steinitz turning point as a Chess player started in Vienna at the end of 1858, just when Morphy was finishing his triumphal trip to Europe. On 1861, he was considered the Austrian Champion. His international career starts with the strong tournament of London, 1862. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e He won the Vienna city championship, and later that year he took sixth place at an international tournament in London, England. He then settled in London and made Chess his primary occupation. The London tournament was won by Anderssen that, after Paul Morphy disappearance and Staunton retirement, was considered the best player in the world. Steinitz was sixth, after Anderssen, Paulsen, Owen, MacDonnell and Dubois. We can infer therefore that, at that time, his strength was far weaker than Morphy's. Steinitz was known at that time as a strong and very creative combinative player. In London, he played one of his best games against Mongredien, one of Morphy's rivals. Nobody could expect the turn that his style would take in a few years. In the following years, Wilhelm Steinitz play improved steadily. In 1863 he defeated Englishman Joseph Blackburne and Dubois. In 1866 he defeated both Adolf Anderssen of Germany and Henry Bird of England. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e His defeat of Anderssen, then recognized as the world's best player, marked the beginning of Steinitz's reign as unofficial world champion. Although the next years were unfortunate for him, neither in the tournament of Paris, 1867 nor in Baden-Baden, 1870, he was able to obtain first prize. In this last tournament, Adolf Anderssen was first. It is around this moment that Wilhelm Steinitz style starts a revolutionary transformation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From being mainly a tactical Chess player, he changed to become the first strategic player in chess history. His new idea was that victory can not be obtained just by the will of power, creating attacks when there are no justified reasons to do so. Instead, attack is the logical consequence of the accumulation of small advantages obtained in the previous moves. This advantages included better development, more space, better pawn structure, pair of bishops, etc. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Steinitz was the first one that understood that Chess has important constrains to creativity, it has a rigid internal logic, and only by understanding this logic is possible to win a game against strong players. He demonstrated the importance of these points of view both in his substantial writings and in his games. Steinitz's development marks the starting point of chess systematics. Before Steinitz, Chess theory was just at most a collection of tricks, especially tactical opening variations. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With Wilhelm Steinitz and his followers, the theory underlying not only opening, but also middle game and endgame and, most important, the logical connection between the different parts of the game, began to be understood. Although Steinitz theories have been demonstrated to be only guidelines, not to be followed with closed eyes, the rules that he developed are still the backbone of modern Chess strategy. This new and, for his contemporaries, totally strange style, brought him successes, as he never had before. Wins at London, 1872 and Vienna, 1873, easy victories in matches against Zukertort, 1872 (+7-1=4) and Blackburne, 1876 (+7-0=0). This was the highest point of Steinitz's career. His superiority over the rest of players was unquestionable. However, during the next six years after his match with Blackburne, he did not play at all. After living in London for more than 20 years, Steinitz immigrated to the United States, where he continued to dominate the Chess world. However, his loss to Polish player Johann Zukertort in a London tournament in 1883 caused some to argue that Zukertort was world champion. The debate was settled in 1886 when the two played a championship match. What made this match particularly interesting is that they decided that the winner was to be considered officially \"World champion\", a title until then in-existent. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The match was very exciting, with Zukertort taking a strong lead in the first games, played in New York. However, Steinitz recovered in the next series, played in St. Louis, and in the last one, played in New Orleans, he definitively dominated. The final result was +10-5=5. Steinitz won easily and was crowned world champion. Wilhelm Steinitz was the first chess world champion. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e After winning the title, Steinitz concentrated in his writings, he made important contributions to the literature of Chess, primarily by editing numerous Chess publications. One of his most prominent posts was with The International Chess Magazine from 1885 to 1891. In the next eight years, he only played matches. He won quite convincingly against Tchigorin (1889, +10-6=1) and Gunsberg (1890-1, +6-4=9). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The publication of Steinitz's \u003ci\u003eModern Chess instructor\u003c\/i\u003e, where several tactically doubtful opening lines were recommended because of their apparent strategic logic, led to a cable match against Tchigorin, that Steinitz lost. Tchigorin had his opportunity to be world champion in 1892, but he lost in dramatic fashion (final result, +10-8=5 for Steinitz). Steinitz was 56 already and it was clear however that his best chess was in the past. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e He remained the official world champion until 1894. He played a match, in New York and Montreal, against a practically unknown player called Emanuel Lasker. Lasker won easily (+10 - 5 = 4). After this match, Steinitz's chess play clearly declined. He played still in some important tournaments (Hastings, 1895; St. Petersburg, 1895-6; Nuremberg, 1896) without success. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A second match against Lasker (Moscow, 1896-7) was arranged, but Wilhelm Steinitz lost overwhelmingly, +2-10=5. After a poor performance in London in 1899, Steinitz went insane and died a year later on August 12, 1900 at Wards Island, N.Y. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePage head margin stained, rebound in black cloth with gold lettering to spine and cover else very good.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSOLD 2022\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Chess Collector","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39500962037960,"sku":"C4120","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0529\/9899\/6168\/products\/tcc72tcc.jpg?v=1618133779"},{"product_id":"75","title":"Charousek's Games of Chess: With Annotations and Biographical Introduction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eSergeant, Philip Walsingham (1871-1952)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYear: \u003c\/b\u003e1919\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eGeorge Bell \u0026amp; Sons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlace: \u003c\/b\u003eLondon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003exi+220+[2 ad] pages with frontispiece, diagrams and indices. Small octavo (7 1\/4\" x 5\") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. (Betts: 29-30) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Contains all known games played by Charousek, 146 including consultation games, annotated from various sources. Rudolf Charousek was a Czech born Hungarian chess player. One of the top ten players in the world during the 1890s, he had a short career, dying at the age of 26 from tuberculosis. Reuben Fine wrote of him \"Playing over his early games is like reading Keats's poetry: you cannot help feeling a grievous, oppressive sense of loss, of promise unfulfilled\". He learned to play chess in his early teenage years, and his international debut came at the Nuremberg Tournament of 1896. Although he failed to win a prize, he defeated World Champion Emanuel Lasker in their individual encounter. Later that year he tied Mikhail Chigorin for first place at Budapest, and then took clear first place in the Berlin tournament of 1897. After these and other successes, Lasker remarked, \"I shall have to play a championship match with this man someday.\" This did not happen, however, due to Charousek's death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Page one gutter taped, name stamped at back paste down, spine ends rubbed, back hinge rubbed, gilt dulled, edge wear else good to very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSOLD 2020\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Chess Collector","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39500962169032,"sku":"5239","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0529\/9899\/6168\/products\/tcc75tcc.jpg?v=1618133795"},{"product_id":"80","title":"Weltgeschichte des Schachs: Lieferung 14; Jose Raul Capablanca","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eCapablanca (Gilchrist, John (1907- ) and David Vincent Hooper [editors])\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYear: \u003c\/b\u003e1963\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eVerlag Dr E Wildhagen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlace: \u003c\/b\u003eHamburg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eunpaginated with diagrams. Octavo (8 ¾” x 6 7\/8”). Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Supplement laid in. 1st edition. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJose Raul Capablanca was born in Havana, Cuba on the 19th of November 1888. He learned chess at the age of four by watching his father play and in 1901, at the age of 12, he beat Juan Corzo, the Cuban champion. Capablanca was regarded as the most naturally talented chess player anyone had ever seen. He was educated in America, studied engineering at Columbia University and spent much of his free time playing masters at the Manhattan Chess Club in New York City, where he achieved a sensational win in a match against US Champion Frank Marshall crushing him by 8 wins to 1 with 14 draws in 1909 when he was 20 years old. Frank Marshall had unsuccessfully played Lasker in a World Championship match only two years earlier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1911, on the insistence of Marshall, Capablanca played in San Sebastian, Spain at one of the strongest tournaments in the world at that time. He astounded everyone by taking first place at this tournament with a score of 6 wins, 7 draws and 1 loss ahead of Rubinstein, Schlechter and Nimzovitsch. This was his first major tournament, an achievement he shares only with Pillsbury.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1911 Capablanca challenged Lasker for the world championship. Lasker agreed to the challenge but imposed 17 conditions for a future match. Capablanca disagreed with these conditions and the match did not take place.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn September 1913 Capablanca secured a job in the Cuban Foreign Office. He had no specific duties but to play chess.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1914 at a tournament in St. Petersburg Capablanca met Lasker over the chessboard for the first time. Capablanca took the lead by one and a half points in the preliminaries but lost to Lasker in the finals. Capablanca finished second to Lasker with a score of 13 points to Lasker's 13.5. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the ten years after this tournament (from 1914 to 1924) he lost only one game and the chess world was beginning to think he was invincible. However, Capablanca had to wait another seven years until he could prove he was the world champion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe war interrupted European chess for four years. After the war Lasker's heart was not really in chess. His efforts to secure proper financial rewards for chess masters had failed and great players were still dying in poverty. He agreed to defend his title against Capablanca in 1920 but resigned his title in favor of the challenger as he no longer felt like struggling. He told Capablanca, \"You have earned the title not by the formality of a challenge, but by your brilliant mastery.\" However, there was pressure from the chess world for Lasker to play Capablanca and when Capablanca found sponsors in Cuba who were prepared to finance the match for twenty-five thousand dollars of which half would go to Lasker whether he won or lost he decided to go ahead with the match. However, Lasker maintained that as he had resigned the title already it was he who was challenger to Capablanca.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Havana in 1921 the match went ahead but it was a great disappointment to chess fans. Although thirty games had been planned the match lasted for only fourteen after which Lasker was losing by four games to none with ten draws. He resigned the match on grounds of ill health. Capablanca was now the new World Champion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn December 1921 he married Gloria Simoni Beautucourt. They had a son, Jose Raul in 1923 and a daughter, Gloria in 1925.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt this time in the history of chess there was an increasing number of strong chess players and it was felt that the world champion should not be able to evade challenges to his title as has been done in the past. In London in 1922 the greatest players of the time including Alekhine, Bogolyubov, Maroczy, Reti, Rubinstein, Tartakower and Vidmar, met to discuss rules for the conduct of future world championships. Amongst other things, one of the conditions, which was imposed by Capablanca, was that the challenger would have to raise at least ten thousand dollars for the prize money.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the following years, Rubinstein and Nimzowitsch challenged Capablanca but were unable to raise the necessary ten thousand dollars. Then came Alekhine's challenge backed by a group of Argentinean businessmen and the president of Argentina who guaranteed the funds. However, Capablanca imposed another condition. He replied that if Alekhine wanted to be considered as a challenger then he would have to play in a tournament in New York. The winner of this tournament would play Capablanca in the next world championship. This outraged Alekhine who had gone to a lot of trouble to find sponsors to back him. Capablanca had put another hurdle in his way. Beside this, it seemed that Capablanca had selected players for the tournament who had never before beaten him in even one game. They were Nimzowitsch, Vidmar, Spielmann and Marshall. Capablanca easily won this tournament and Alekhine came second. Alekhine had qualified to challenge the world champion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps because Capablanca had won this tournament so easily he had became dangerously complacent. The World Champion match was held in Buenos Aires in 1927. The first to win six games would be the new World Champion. This match was the longest World Champion match there had ever been. It lasted thirty-four games and seventy-three days but eventually Alekhine achieved a score of six wins to three to secure the title of World Champion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA personal feud had grown between Alekhine and Capablanca with Alekhine refusing to play in the same tournaments as his old rival. At the Nottingham tournament in 1936 when the two men did meet they were never seen seated together at the board for more than a few seconds. Each man made his move and then got up and walked round. Capablanca died of a stroke in New York in 1942. Upon Alekhine's death four years later it was discovered that he had been working on a collection of Capablanca's best games and in the introduction he had written, \"With his death, we have lost a very great chess genius whose like we shall never see again.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCorners bumped, lightly soiled. 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Octavo (8 3\/4\" x 7\"). Issued in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTal was variously described as a sorcerer, a calculating machine, the Magician of Riga. He could conjure up fantastic combinations in the most placid of positions, find a sacrifice where none imagine possible, produce activity in the most complex collection of pieces. \"It was scarcely credible; here was the mighty, impassive Smyslov, ex-Champion of the World, torn to pieces in just twenty six moves.\" This game is stunning, magnificent, full of the most incredible complications and sacrifices. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCorners bumped. 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Addendum laid in. Octavo (8 3\/4\" x 7\"). bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. First edition. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLasker represented the link between Steinitz and the modern chess world. He ensured that the principles of Steinitz were given maximum reward. Together with Steinitz, positional play in chess was well and truly introduced, elevating the game to a new level.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLasker's game philosophy from a psychological perspective, is extremely interesting because he uniquely put human frailty into the equation for being an effective chess player. Through the examples of his games which were for a long time not understood, he taught players to respect the psychological elements of chess. Examples of psychological factors affecting Lasker's choice of plan: He would tempt defensive opponents onto the attack, he would create a very tactical unclear climate for his positional opponents. He was clearly aware that a bad move against one player, might be a very effective move against another player of different playing style. Basically he was a psychological nightmare to play against! Perhaps Lasker would have been a great anti-computer chess player if he had been alive today, using for example very closed positions devoid of tactics, to remove the metal monster's counter play completely before doing anything active to win!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on end papers, previous owner's name on front end paper, lightly soiled, gilt dulled. 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Translated by A S Russell. First published in German in 1971. First American Edition. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Czech grandmaster, prolific writer, coach, teacher, composer, passed away on March 6, 2003 in Passau, Germany. Born on May 11, 1924 in a small Czech town Bela pod Bezdezem. Pachman had to walk for his first title to a nearby village Cista (population 900) that had a chess club with 110 members. Pachman became their champion in 1940. Pachman's first break came in 1943, when he was invited to an international tournament in Prague at the last moment. Alekhine dominated the event, Keres was second. Pachman finished in the middle (9th place among 19 participants). Alekhine paid him a compliment in an article in the \"Frankfurter Zeitung\" and from the fifth round on invited him every evening to analyze games and opening variations. \"I don't have to tell you how a beginner from a village chess club felt at that time,\" Pachman wrote. It might have triggered Pachman's interest in the openings and in 1950s he became world's leading opening expert, publishing his four-volume \"Theory of Modern Chess.\" In December 1954, shortly after I learned how the chess pieces move, I called Pachman, the leading Czechoslovak grandmaster at that time, and challenged him to a game of chess, explaining him my plan to defeat him. Of course, Pachman laughed at the proposition of a 11-year old boy, but did not forget about me. Four years later, after I became one of Prague's strongest players, he invited me to analytical sessions with members of the Czechoslovakian Student Olympiad team. This was unusual since they were at least five years older, but I was very happy to get the first glance how a professional player works. Only later I learned that Pachman had a similar experience in his youth with Alekhine. Pachman won the Czechoslovakian championship seven times (the first time in 1946, the last in 1966). He became German champion in 1978. He played in six Interzonal tournaments (first time in Saltsjobaden 1948, last time in Manila 1986). and represented Czechoslovakia on Chess Olympiad (1952-1966). In 1962 he coached in Cuba and in 1967 in Puerto Rico. By his own count he won 15 international tournaments, but considers sharing second place in Havanna 1963 with M. Tal and E. Geller, behind V. Korchnoi, his best tournament success. His most productive year seems to be 1959. After winning the Czechoslovakian championship he went on South American tour, winning tournaments in Mar del Plata (togheter with M. Najdorf), Santiago de Chile (with Ivkov) and Lima (again with Ivkov). On this tour he defeated 16-year-old Bobby Fischer twice. In the same year he finished \"Modern Chess Strategy,\" a fine book he thought to be his best. Pachman published some 80 books in five languages. Politics always played a major role in Pachman's life and interrupted his chess career several times. He was a passionate speaker and writer whatever cause he defended, pro-communist early in his life or against communism after 1968. It was hard to predict whether Pachman considered you to be his friend or his enemy. He loved to argue and often changed his mind about people. At the 1964 Chess Olympiad in Tel-Aviv I played the Steinitz variation of the King's gambit against the Soviet champion Leonid Stein in the last round. Pachman became furious watching my king's march on the board full of pieces and told me: \"You have insulted the Soviet school of chess and you will see the consequences after we return to Prague.\" I didn't know at that time that Pachman pre-arranged draws on the first three boards with the Soviets, guaranteeing them the gold medals. My gambit play threatened to blow the deal. In 1967 Pachman began to change his beliefs, fully confronting the communist regime after the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968. In October we went together to the Olympiad in Lugano, where the Soviets threatened to expel South Africa from FIDE. We argued that the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries that invaded Czechoslovakia should be expelled. The Soviets took their proposal back. In December 1968 Pachman won a tournament in Athens, but after his return to Prague his life took another turn. He was soon imprisoned and even tried to commit suicide. I had a long correspondence with prof. Max Euwe, who tried to help Pachman at that time. In the night of November 28, 1972, Pachman was allowed to leave Czechoslovakia and arrived in Munich with his wife and their cat. Grasping the idea of freedom the cat soon disappeared into hotel hallways and it took us some time to find him. I never understood why Pachman would try to steer conflict with people who tried to help him, whether it was prof. Euwe or Egon Evertz, who arranged Pachman's move from Prague to Solingen and helped him to acquire German citizenship. After his arrival in Germany Pachman was often boycotted by East-bloc countries, but he prevailed and they ended their harassment after Pachman qualified for the 1986 Interzonal in Manila. After the Velvet revolution in November 1989 Pachman acquired back the Czechoslovakian citizenship, but in 1998, after being disillusioned with the Czech government, he gave it back and settled in Passau. (Chessbasse News)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePage ends soiled, corners bumped. Dust jacket spine sunned, price clipped, light edge wear with rubbing to points. 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Octavo (8\" x 5 3\/4\") issued in stiff boards and cloth spine with gilt lettering. Translated by Robert Ejuri. First American edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMikhail Nekhemievich Tal was born in Riga, Latvia in 1936. His father was a physician and the young Tal became interested in chess when he saw the game played in his father's waiting room. However, it was not until he was in his teens that he began to study the game seriously. Tal soon became obsessed with the game and played as often as he could. He could even be seen playing a game or two of blitz chess between rounds at tournaments.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor much of his life he suffered from ill-health but his obsession with chess was made apparent when, prior to an operation, he talked about chess until the mask was placed on his face and when recuperating he had to be taken back to hospital on several occasions after making his escape to a local chess club. He defeated Mikhail Botvinnik in 1960 at the age of 24 to become the youngest grandmaster to hold the world champion title until then.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTal was an attacking genius at the board. His attacks often looked like sheer madness but later analysis would show that his intuition had been correct. Botvinnik is quoted as having said, \" I was surprised by his ability to figure out complex variations. Then the way he sets out the game; he was not interested in the objectivity of the position, whether it's better or worse, he only needed room for his pieces. All you do then is figure out variations which are extremely difficult. He was tactically outplaying me and I made mistakes.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCorners bumped and rubbed. 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Small duodecimo (5 3\/4\" x 5 1\/2\") bound in original publisher's pink wrappers with black lettering to cover and spine and black and grey pictorial to cover. With a reprint of the obituaries by J du Mont, E J Diemer and Feodor Bohatischuk. Covers 100 games. (Lusis: 1235) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEfim Dmitrievich Bogoljubow, born April 14, 1889, was a theology student in Kiev destined for a Russian Priesthood before enrolling in a poly-technical college. He became enamored with chess at the age of 15, reaching national prominence at Vilna in 1912. He had little desire for the usual vocations of life electing the uncertain existence of a chess professional which forced him to live under spartan conditions for most of his career. His international debut came at Mannheim in 1914 where he was interned with other Russian masters upon the outbreak of the war first in Baden and later in Triberg. His years of captivity were not wasted as he developed his own theories of chess partially on his own and to some extent due to the influence of Alehine, also a prisoner of war. After the war Bogoljubow remained in Tribert, married a local girl and eventually became a German citizen although he remained loyal to his Russian heritage. Towards the close of his career he suffered more privation during the second war including unfounded accusations of being a Nazi collaborator which led to partial ostracism particularly by Russian federations. It has been stated that his games resemble those of Alekhine due to their complications. Oddly enough he did not seek intricate positions as he was unable to induce surprises in simple situations with the ease of Alekhine. Even as he did not relish tangled situations he did not avoid them, seeking only to distill them towards simplification. While Alekhine sought the surprise Bogoljubow merely endeavored to find further simplicity. He lacked the native talent of Alekhine but applied study became a true artist and is considered a pioneer of enlightenment during a crucial period of chess history. After the second war he confined his play mainly to German events, winning several national championships and visiting England in 1950 and again in 1951. A few months before his death from a heart attack on June 18, 1952 he played at Belgrade, collecting six points in the first eight rounds before the rigors of a long tournament took their toll.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLightly soiled, light edge wear. 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Octavo (8 3\/4\" x 6\") issued in grey cloth with black and white cover and black lettering to spine and white and red lettering to pictorial cover. \u003cspan color=\"blue\" style=\"color: blue;\"\u003esigned\u003c\/span\u003e First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c!-- x-tinymce\/html --\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaul Keres was born in Narva on 7 January 1916. At the University of Tartu, he studied mathematics from 1938 to 1941. In 1935, he became the Estonian chess champion for the first time. In the years 1936-1940, Keres was the editor-in-chief of the journal \"Estonian Chess\". Paul Keres first appeared in the international chess arena in the mid-1930s, and remained a prominent figure there for years. In 1938, he shared the first place with Fine in the memorable AVRO tournament, but after additional calculations Paul Keres was announced the winner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHowever, the title match with Alekhine did not follow. After the war, he was eclipsed by Botvinnik, though still retaining his place among the world's top class players. By the end of the 1950s, he was the strongest chess player in the world (at least, as revealed by the performance ratios calculated post factum, by the ELO ratings). He fell short, by a whisker, of the chance to compete for the title of World Champion. That right was snatched away, in sequence, by Tal and Petrosian. Chess Olympics in Helsinki in 1952 Chess Olympics in Helsinki in 1952. Paul Keres playing for the Soviet Union team on the first board. In the years 1953-1962, Keres shared second and fourth place once, and placed second three times. This earned him the droll title \"Forever Second\". Keres remained among the world's best competing chess players until the mid-1960s. And even after that, he was still able to achieve remarkable results. In 1959 and 1962, Paul Keres wasnamed Estonia's best sportsman of the year. At the Chess Olympics, Paul Keres received a team gold medal seven times. At the Chess Olympics in Nice in 1974, a prposal was made to set up Paul Keres as the candidate for FIDE president. One of the initiators, the well-known chess-player Milunka Lazarevi� asked Keres, \"How much can you independently, without Moscow, make decisions?\" The answer was, \"Independently, I can only write books�\". In the Soviet Union time, sports, just like the arts were politicised. This meant that an athlete's (or chess player's) career was very dependent upon the opinions and decisions of Party and government bureaucrats. Keres's funeral 1975 Paul Keres's funeral in 1975 In 1975, the great Estonian grandmaster Paul Keres died suddenly at the age of 59.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis perennial world championship contender, was, for the remarkably long span of thirty years (c 1936-1965), among the top ten chess players in the world. Since the year 1969, an annual chess tournament named after Keres has been held in Tallinn. Starting in 1976, it has been called the Paul Keres Memorial. There are also a number of chess clubs and festivals named after him. Paul Keres was one of the greatest players in chess history, a leading contender for the World Championship for a third of a century, and perhaps the strongest player to have never played a match for the World Championship. Thanks to his modesty, honesty, and open-minded approach to chess, Keres was respected and loved by not only his fellow Estonians, but also by chess enthusiasts the world over. 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Edited and translated from the Russian \u003ci\u003eIzbrannye partii\u003c\/i\u003e, Moscow 1957, by Jimmy Adams. (Lusis: 1236) First British edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncludes a brief biography, tournament and match records 1936-1970 with 180 games.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIsaac Yefremovich Boleslavsky (1919-1977) was a Soviet chess grandmaster. Boleslavsky taught himself chess at age nine. In 1933, Boleslavsky became schoolboy champion of Dnipropetrovsk. Three years later, he won third prize in the 1936 USSR All-Union Junior Championship, held in Leningrad. In 1938, at nineteen, he won the Ukrainian Championship; the following year, he won the Ukraine SSR championship, qualified to play in the USSR Chess Championship at the age of 20, and gained his national chess master title. He earned a degree in philology at Sverdlovsk University. In 1940, Boleslavsky played in the 12th USSR championship final in Moscow. He won eight of his last ten games and tied for fifth\/sixth place with Mikhail Botvinnik, but lost their personal meeting. At the end of 1940 he won the Ukrainian Championship for the third consecutive year. In March 1941, he took part in the match-tournament for the title of Absolute Champion of the USSR, finishing fourth of six participants. On the eve of the match-tournament, he had to pass an examination at the University, and his preparation for the chess event proved to be inadequate. In 1945 he took second place in the 14th USSR championship, behind Mikhail Botvinnik. He won nine games, drew six, and lost two. He was awarded the Grandmaster title in the USSR. He made his international debut on third board of the USSR–USA radio match. He drew his first game with Reuben Fine and defeated him in the second game, winning a prize for the best game of the match.[1] Boleslavsky secured a clear advantage in the opening thanks to his superior pawn structure and won without allowing Fine much counterplay. The Soviets regarded Fine as possibly the strongest American player, based on his international results in the pre-World War II era. In the 1951 World Championship cycle, Boleslavsky qualified from the first-ever Interzonal at Saltsjöbaden 1948 into the Candidates Tournament two years later in Budapest. In the Candidates tournament -- the winner of which would play a World Chess Championship match against Mikhail Botvinnik -- he was the only undefeated player, and led for most of the tournament, but in the last round he was caught by Bronstein, who later won a playoff in Moscow later that same year (+3−2=9). This turned out to be Boleslavsky's last chance as a serious contender for the world championship. 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Octavo (8 3\/4\" x 5 3\/4\") issued in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Translated from the French by Harry Golombek. (Betts: 29-150) First American edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e100 games and 27 game positions, fully annotated with indexes of players and openings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCorners bumped and rubbed, spine sunned. 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Octavo (8 3\/4\" x 5 3\/4\") issued in red cloth with black lettering to cover and spine. A posthumous work arranged and completed by William Winter; edited by W H Watts with appreciations of the late author by Emanuel Lasker, Frank J Marshall, Sir George A Thomas, W Winter, E G Twitchett and W H Watts. (Betts: 29-155) First American edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYates was working on this collection of his games when he died in 1932. The work actually contains 109 games, with 30 annotated by Yates and the remainder by Winter. Also includes a table of his tournament and match results, a biographical introduction by Winter and the five appreciations. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCorners bumped, extremities rubbed. 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(Betts: 24-51) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFifteen annotated games; with indexes of players and openings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCorners bumped and rubbed, spine ends rubbed, some sunning to edges else about very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSOLD 2021\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Chess Collector","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39500983173320,"sku":"C0797","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0529\/9899\/6168\/products\/tcc2541tcc_2nd.jpg?v=1618132086"},{"product_id":"1490","title":"Schachzauberer Tal, Ausgewahlte Partien","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eHajtun , Jozsef (1924-1937)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYear: \u003c\/b\u003e1968\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eWalter Rau Verlag\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlace: \u003c\/b\u003eDusseldorf\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e190 pages with diagrams. Octavo (8 1\/4\" x 5 3\/4\") issued in wrappers. First published in English and German in 1968.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMikhail Nekhemievich Tal was born in Riga, Latvia in 1936. His father was a physician and the young Tal became interested in chess when he saw the game played in his father's waiting room. However, it was not until he was in his teens that he began to study the game seriously. Tal soon became obsessed with the game and played as often as he could. He could even be seen playing a game or two of blitz chess between rounds at tournaments. For much of his life he suffered from ill-health but his obsession with chess was made apparent when, prior to an operation, he talked about chess until the mask was placed on his face and when recuperating he had to be taken back to hospital on several occasions after making his escape to a local chess club. He defeated Mikhail Botvinnik in 1960 at the age of 24 to become the youngest grandmaster to hold the world champion title until then. Tal was an attacking genius at the board. His attacks often looked like sheer madness but later analysis would show that his intuition had been correct. Botvinnik is quoted as having said, \" I was surprised by his ability to figure out complex variations. Then the way he sets out the game; he was not interested in the objectivity of the position, whether it's better or worse, he only needed room for his pieces. All you do then is figure out variations which are extremely difficult. 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(Betts: 29-89) 5th edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis work supersedes Lowenthal's, but closely follows its arrangement, with first a biography, followed by part 1 of the games, part 2 simultaneous and consultation games, part 3 blindfold games, part 4 casual games and part 5 games at odds. The biography has been rewritten, the annotations, overhauled, and the number of games, here numbered consecutively, increased from 206 to 300. the preface carries a note on Lowenthal. Includes indexes of players and openings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCup stain on back cover, previous owner's name on front paste down. 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Duodecimo (6 1\/4\" x 4\") issued in original publisher's decorative blind stamped boards with gilt-decorated and lettered spine. (Hagedorn: 51) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe second part of this book contains many clever problems selected from those which competed in a tournament arranged by Frere, the chess editor of \u003ci\u003eFrank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper\u003c\/i\u003e. The first part was published without the sanction or approval of Morphy, and comprises games with notes copied form the \u003ci\u003eChess Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Era\u003c\/i\u003e and other sources, without any special acknowledgment. The collection was evidently hurriedly and incompetently made to take advantage of the demand created by Morphy's success in Europe. (Hadgedorn).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn on 8th December 1820 in Brooklyn of a French Creole father and a mother of Irish descent, Thomas Frere's interest in chess is sparked in 1827 on seeing \"the Turk\", Maelzel's automaton chess player, at Tammany Hall. The story leaps forward to 1854 with Frere, a married man with three children, working for the Home Life Insurance Company in Wall Street whilst also operating a printing, engraving and publishing business. He witnesses the start of public chess in New York when the owner of Limberger's saloon at the corner of Fulton and Nassau Streets, decides to replace the decrepit chess equipment used by two patrons with several new sets and boards. Within three years, in excess of fifty players are frequenting the establishment. Moving from Limberger's saloon to Brooklyn in 1856, Frere starts the Brooklyn Chess Club. Frere becomes involved with organizing and running the First American Chess Congress held in New York. 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Octavo (9\" x 6 1\/4\") issued in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Edited by Robert G Wade, Kevin J O'Connell with contributions by Leonard Barden, Arthur Bisguier, L S Blackstock, Harry Golombek, and Paul Keres. (Lusis: 1264.1) First American edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume records every serious game accessible to the editors (some previously unpublished) that Bobby Fischer has played since 1955, when as a boy of twelve his games began to appear in print. A large proportion of the 660 complete games included have notes on critical variations and twenty of Fischer's most important encounters have been annotated in depth by Bob Wade; these are supported by over 700 diagrams of key positions. The book also contains numerous tournament tables and records, as well as an index of total results against every opponent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCorners gently bumped, page ends lightly soiled. 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Royal octavo (9 1\/2\" x 6 1\/2\") issued in black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Edited by Robert G Wade, Kevin J O'Connell with contributions by Leonard Barden, Arthur Bisguier, L S Blackstock, Harry Golombek, and Paul Keres. (Lusis: 1264.1) Second edition revised and enlarged.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume records every serious game accessible to the editors (some previously unpublished) that Bobby Fischer has played since 1955, when as a boy of twelve his games began to appear in print. A large proportion of the 660 complete games included have notes on critical variations and twenty of Fischer's most important encounters have been annotated in depth by Bob Wade; these are supported by over 700 diagrams of key positions. The book also contains numerous tournament tables and records, as well as an index of total results against every opponent. This second edition of this monumental volume has been updated to include every traceable serious game (nearly 700 in all) that Bobby Fischer has played from 1955 to the 1972 World Championship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFront end paper clipped. 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Royal octavo (9\" x 6 1\/2\") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Translated by Christo Iovev. First edition in English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoris Vasilievich Spassky (1937- ) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was the tenth World Chess Champion, holding the title from 1969 to 1972. Spassky played three world championship matches: he lost to Tigran Petrosian in 1966; defeated Petrosian in 1969 to become world champion; then lost to Bobby Fischer in a famous match in 1972. Spassky won the Soviet Chess Championship twice outright (1961, 1973), and twice lost in playoffs (1956, 1963), after tying for first place during the event proper. He was a World Chess Championship candidate on seven occasions (1956, 1965, 1968, 1974, 1977, 1980, and 1985). In addition to his candidates wins in 1965 and 1968, he reached the semi-final stage in 1974 and 1977. Spassky emigrated to France in 1976, becoming a French citizen in 1978. He continued to compete in tournaments but was no longer a major contender for the world title. He lost an unofficial rematch against Fischer in 1992. In 2012 he left France and returned to Russia. He is the oldest living former world champion. Soloviov collected 400 of the best Spassky games from 1948 until 2002, and it is especially the games from 1960 until he lost his title to Fischer in 1972 that are the most interesting. Before that Spassky was of course a very talented player, but he had problems taking the final step to the top. After 1972 where he already was on the decline, he of course was a great player but I think he needed the motivation to get to the top again. Nearly half the games are from his best period which I think was a good choice. One of my colleagues said that after 1980 the only thing he could do was to make a draw! 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Edited, with a biographical sketch and a brief history of blindfold chess by P Anderson Graham.(Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana 3036; Betts 29-15) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlackburne's international tournament career spanned an impressive fifty-two years from London 1862 to St Petersburg 1914, a total of 53 events in which he played 814 games scoring over 62%. Although he rarely won international events, he generally finished in the top half of the table and his fierce competitive spirit coupled with his great combative ability earned him the pleasant nickname of \"the Black Death\". His most notable successes were = 1st with Steinitz at Vienna 1873 (Blackburne lost the play-off match). 1st at Berlin 1881 ahead of Paulsen, Schallop, Chigorin, Winawer and Zukertort and 2d to Tarrasch at Manchester 1890. Blackburne won the BCA championship in 1868 and for many years was ranked as Britain's foremost player. 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Octavo (8 3\/4\" x 5 3\/4\") bound in black with gilt lettering to spine. Signed by \u003cspan color=\"blue\" style=\"color: blue;\"\u003eViktor Korchnoi\u003c\/span\u003e. (Lusis: 1312) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eViktor Lvovich Korchnoi (Russian: Ви́ктор Льво́вич Корчно́й, IPA: [kɐrt͡ɕˈnoj]; born 23 March 1931) is a professional chess player, author and until recently the oldest active grandmaster on the tournament circuit. He is widely considered the strongest player to have never become World Chess Champion. Born in Leningrad, Soviet Union, Korchnoi defected to the Netherlands in 1976, and has been residing in Switzerland for many years. Korchnoi played three matches against Anatoly Karpov. In 1974, he lost the Candidates final to Karpov, who was declared world champion in 1975 when Bobby Fischer refused to defend his title. He then won two consecutive Candidates cycles to qualify for World Championship matches with Karpov in 1978 and 1981, losing both. Korchnoi was a candidate for the World Championship on ten occasions (1962, 1968, 1971, 1974, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1985, 1988 and 1991). He was also a four-time USSR chess champion, a five-time member of Soviet teams that won the European championship, and a six-time member of Soviet teams that won the Chess Olympiad. In September 2006, he won the World Senior Chess Championship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSigned by Korchnoi on front end paper. Corners gently bumped. 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Small folio (11 1\/4\" x 8 3\/4\") bound in maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine and covers. Foreword by Alex A Aljechin. First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is by a large degree the most comprehensive accounting of the games of this brilliant chess player. Presented are 2,543 of Alekhine's games, in an exhaustive catalog that is the result of many years of digging-an effort unparalleled in the history of chess game collections. Many of the games are annotated by Alekhine and 1,868 diagrams appear overall. The book includes games from his earliest correspondence tournaments in 1902 through his final match with Francisco Lupi at Estoril, Portugal, in January 1946. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlexander Alekhine was a Russian and French chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest chess players of all time. By the age of 22, Alekhine was already among the strongest chess players in the world. During the 1920s, he won most of the tournaments in which he played. In 1921, Alekhine left Soviet Russia and emigrated to France, which he represented after 1925. In 1927, he became the fourth World Chess Champion by defeating Jose Raul Capablanca. \u003cbr\u003eIn the early 1930s, Alekhine dominated tournament play and won two top-class tournaments by large margins. He also played first board for France in five Chess Olympiads, winning individual prizes in each (four medals and a brilliancy prize). Alekhine offered Capablanca a rematch on the same demanding terms that Capablanca had set for him, and negotiations dragged on for years without making much progress. Meanwhile, Alekhine defended his title with ease against Efim Bogoljubov in 1929 and 1934. He was defeated by Max Euwe in 1935, but regained his crown in the 1937 rematch. His tournament record, however, remained uneven, and rising young stars like Paul Keres, Reuben Fine, and Mikhail Botvinnik threatened his title. Negotiations for a title match with Keres or Botvinnik were halted by the outbreak of World War II in Europe in 1939. Negotiations with Botvinnik for a world title match were proceeding in 1946 when Alekhine died in Portugal, in unclear circumstances. Alekhine is the only World Chess Champion to have died while holding the title. Alekhine is known for his fierce and imaginative attacking style, combined with great positional and endgame skill. He is highly regarded as a chess writer and theoretician, having produced innovations in a wide range of chess openings and having given his name to Alekhine's Defence and several other opening variations. He also composed some endgame studies. (Wikipedia).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA near fine copy issued without jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSOLD 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Chess Collector","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39501024067784,"sku":"C0909","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0529\/9899\/6168\/products\/tcc2708tcc_2nd.jpg?v=1618132478"},{"product_id":"3035","title":"Bobby Fischer's Games of Chess","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eRobert James \"Bobby\"Fischer (1943-2008)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1959\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eSimon and Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlace: \u003c\/b\u003eNew York\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003exix+97 pages with tables and diagrams. Octavo (8 1\/4\" x 5 1\/2\") bound in original publisher's grey cloth with black and red lettering to spine and chess piece pictorial to cover in original pictorial jacket. (Betts: 29-41) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt contains an introduction by Fischer with an account of his chess career from May 1955 to May 1958. Fourteen annotated games (thirteen from the 1957-58 United States Championship and one from the 1956 Rosenwald Tournament) and his twenty one games, without notes, from the 1958 Portoroz Intentional Tournament.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert James Fischer was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. Many consider him to be the greatest chess player of all time. Fischer showed great skill in chess from an early age; at 13, he won a brilliancy known as \"The Game of the Century\". At age 14, he became the US Chess Champion, and at 15, he became both the youngest grandmaster up to that time and the youngest candidate for the World Championship. At age 20, Fischer won the 1963-64 US Championship with 11 wins in 11 games, the only perfect score in the history of the tournament. His book \u003ci\u003eMy 60 Memorable Games\u003c\/i\u003e (1969), is regarded as a classic work of chess literature. He won the 1970 Interzonal Tournament by a record 3 1\/2 point margin, and won 20 consecutive games, including two unprecedented 6-0 sweeps, in the Candidates Matches. In July 1971, he became the first official FIDE number-one-rated player. Fischer won the World Chess Championship in 1972, defeating Boris Spassky of the USSR, in a match held in Reykjavik, Iceland. Publicized as a Cold War confrontation between the US and USSR, it attracted more worldwide interest than any chess championship before or since. In 1975, Fischer refused to defend his title when an agreement could not be reached with FIDE, chess's international governing body, over one of the conditions for the match. Under FIDE rules, this resulted in Soviet GM Anatoly Karpov, who had won the qualifying Candidates' cycle, being named the new world champion by default.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrevious owner's stamp to front end paper. 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Octavo (8 \/2\" x 5 3\/4\") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. \u003cspan color=\"blue\" style=\"color: blue;\"\u003eSigned\u003c\/span\u003e. First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGarry Kasparov is one of the most exciting players of all time, combining the will to win of Fischer with the tactical genius of Alekhine. His five epic matches with Karpov, during which he gained and successfully defended the world title, enthralled the chess world. Kasparov became the youngest ever undisputed World Chess Champion in 1985 at age 22 by defeating then-champion Anatoly Karpov.[5] He held the official FIDE world title until 1993, when a dispute with FIDE led him to set up a rival organization, the Professional Chess Association.[6] In 1997 he became the first world champion to lose a match to a computer under standard time controls, when he lost to the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue in a highly publicized match. He continued to hold the \"Classical\" World Chess Championship until his defeat by Vladimir Kramnik in 2000. In spite of losing the title, he continued winning tournaments and was the world's highest-rated player when he retired from professional chess in 2005. From 1986 until his retirement in 2005, Kasparov was ranked world No. 1 for 225 out of 228 months. His peak rating of 2851, achieved in 1999, was the highest recorded until being surpassed by Magnus Carlsen in 2013. Kasparov also holds records for consecutive professional tournament victories (15) and Chess Oscars (11).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJonathan Speelman is an English Grandmaster chess player, mathematician and chess writer. A winner of the British Chess Championship in 1978, 1985 and 1986, Speelman has been a regular member of the English team for the Chess Olympiad, an international biennial chess tournament organized by FIDE, the World Chess Federation. He has written a number of books on chess, including several on the endgame, among them \u003ci\u003eAnalysing the Endgame\u003c\/i\u003e (1981), \u003ci\u003eEndgame Preparation\u003c\/i\u003e (1981) and \u003ci\u003eBatsford Chess Endings\u003c\/i\u003e (co-author, 1993).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Graham Wade was a New Zealand and British chess player, writer, arbiter, coach, and promoter. He was New Zealand champion three times, British champion twice, and played in seven Chess Olympiads and one Interzonal tournament. Wade held the titles of International Master and International Arbiter. Wade earned the title of International Arbiter in 1958, and made much of his living from directing events. He defeated tournament winner Viktor Korchnoi at Buenos Aires 1960 in a tough game that went through a Queen and Rook middle game to a queen endgame to a final king and pawn endgame. In addition to staying active on the international circuit, Wade served as chess editor with the respected Batsford publishers in the 1960s and 1970s. He eventually retired to make way for Raymond Keene. He managed the Batsford Chess Library after this. Well respected as a chess coach and author, Wade helped Bobby Fischer prepare for his 1972 World Championship match with Boris Spassky by collating a special file of Spassky's games. He was awarded an OBE for services to chess in 1979. He was made an 'Honorary Member' of FIDE, the World Chess Federation. He declined to \"trade in\" his International Master title for that of honorary Grandmaster, considering his title, awarded in the days before title inflation, far more valuable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSigned by all three authors on title page. Corners bumped, slight crease to cover else a very good copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSOLD 2024\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Chess Collector","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39501024264392,"sku":"C2137","price":375.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0529\/9899\/6168\/products\/tcc3037tcc.jpg?v=1618133282"},{"product_id":"2745","title":"Emanuel Lasker, Chess Champion. Part 1: Master games of the World Championship Period 1894-1921","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJames Gilchrist (1894-1963)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYear: \u003c\/b\u003e1955\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eKen Whyld\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlace: \u003c\/b\u003eNottingham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e112 pages with tables and indexes. Quarto (10 1\/4\" x 10 1\/2\") type script spiral bound in original publisher's stiff boards. (Betts: 29-63) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmanuel Lasker was Chess Champion of the World for 27 years. He won the title in 1894 at the age of 25 in a match against Steinitz, who was then 57 and had been champion since 1866. Lasker also won a return match against Steinitz in 1896, and held the title until beaten in a match in 1921 by Capablanca, then 32. Volume I contains 283 games played in the period 1894\/1921; tow, however, do not count for the record, and are not numbered, Marco-Lasker and Chigorin-Lasker, Paris 1900. The rule in that tournament was that a drawn game had to be replayed. There are no notes to the games, as this record is intended to be purely factual. The reader is referred to the books and magazines of the period.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe date of publication is in disagreement with Betts who has it dated 1956. The stated date to the title is November, 1955.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Heavy foxing through out, corners gently bumped, some sunning to board edges else a good to very good copy.","brand":"The Chess Collector","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39501026459848,"sku":"C0966","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0529\/9899\/6168\/products\/tcc2745tcc_2nd.jpg?v=1618132552"},{"product_id":"2916","title":"Weltgeschichte des Schachs, Lieferung 26: Tigran Petrosjan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eTigran Vartanovich Petrosian (1929-1984) edited by Edward Wildhagen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYear: \u003c\/b\u003e1963\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eVerlag Dr E Wildhagen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlace: \u003c\/b\u003eHamburg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eapproximately 250 unpaginated pages with diagrams, photograph and index with 8 page supplement laid-in. Octavo (8 3\/4\" x 7\") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. Foreword by Tigran Petrosian. First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA series of books on the great players published in Germany as well as in German starting in 1958. There is a board diagram of the each game about every five black moves so it is easy to study even if you cannot read German. No annotations. L = bishop, S = knight, T = rook, D = queen and K = king.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTigran Vartanovich Petrosian (1929-1984) was a Soviet Armenian Grandmaster, and World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969. He was nicknamed \"Iron Tigran\" due to his almost impenetrable defensive playing style, which emphasized safety above all else. Petrosian was a Candidate for the World Championship on eight occasions (1953, 1956, 1959, 1962, 1971, 1974, 1977 and 1980). He won the World Championship in 1963 (against Mikhail Botvinnik), successfully defended it in 1966 (against Boris Spassky), and lost it in 1969 (to Spassky). Thus he was the defending World Champion or a World Championship Candidate in ten consecutive three-year cycles. 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Royal octavo (9 1\/2\" x 6 1\/2\") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Translated by A S Russell. (Lusis: 1173) First British edition. First published as \u003ci\u003eEntscheidungspartien\u003c\/i\u003e (1972).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis original collection analyses the most decisive games played in the last 100 years. International Grandmaster Ludek Pachman has selected those encounters which have determined the results of the major championships and tournaments since 1870. The games chosen are mostly those between the strongest competitors, or games in the last round which both players must win. Some of these games are brilliancies, but the main importance of this collection is in the insights they provide into the psychology of chess under stress. Every chess player will find here games that are both dramatic and entertaining, but the reader will also come to understand tournament tactics and the psychological processes, bu which one player wears down his opponent's resistance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Czech grandmaster, prolific writer, coach, teacher, composer, passed away on March 6, 2003 in Passau, Germany. Born on May 11, 1924 in a small Czech town Bela pod Bezdezem. Pachman had to walk for his first title to a nearby village Cista (population 900) that had a chess club with 110 members. Pachman became their champion in 1940. Pachman's first break came in 1943, when he was invited to an international tournament in Prague at the last moment. Alekhine dominated the event, Keres was second. Pachman finished in the middle (9th place among 19 participants). Alekhine paid him a compliment in an article in the \"Frankfurter Zeitung\" and from the fifth round on invited him every evening to analyze games and opening variations. \"I don't have to tell you how a beginner from a village chess club felt at that time,\" Pachman wrote. It might have triggered Pachman's interest in the openings and in 1950s he became world's leading opening expert, publishing his four-volume \"Theory of Modern Chess.\" In December 1954, shortly after I learned how the chess pieces move, I called Pachman, the leading Czechoslovak grandmaster at that time, and challenged him to a game of chess, explaining him my plan to defeat him. Of course, Pachman laughed at the proposition of a 11-year old boy, but did not forget about me. Four years later, after I became one of Prague's strongest players, he invited me to analytical sessions with members of the Czechoslovakian Student Olympiad team. This was unusual since they were at least five years older, but I was very happy to get the first glance how a professional player works. Only later I learned that Pachman had a similar experience in his youth with Alekhine. Pachman won the Czechoslovakian championship seven times (the first time in 1946, the last in 1966). He became German champion in 1978. He played in six Interzonal tournaments (first time in Saltsjobaden 1948, last time in Manila 1986). and represented Czechoslovakia on Chess Olympiad (1952-1966). In 1962 he coached in Cuba and in 1967 in Puerto Rico. By his own count he won 15 international tournaments, but considers sharing second place in Havanna 1963 with M. Tal and E. Geller, behind V. Korchnoi, his best tournament success. His most productive year seems to be 1959. After winning the Czechoslovakian championship he went on South American tour, winning tournaments in Mar del Plata (togheter with M. Najdorf), Santiago de Chile (with Ivkov) and Lima (again with Ivkov). On this tour he defeated 16-year-old Bobby Fischer twice. In the same year he finished \"Modern Chess Strategy,\" a fine book he thought to be his best. Pachman published some 80 books in five languages. Politics always played a major role in Pachman's life and interrupted his chess career several times. He was a passionate speaker and writer whatever cause he defended, pro-communist early in his life or against communism after 1968. It was hard to predict whether Pachman considered you to be his friend or his enemy. He loved to argue and often changed his mind about people. At the 1964 Chess Olympiad in Tel-Aviv I played the Steinitz variation of the King's gambit against the Soviet champion Leonid Stein in the last round. Pachman became furious watching my king's march on the board full of pieces and told me: \"You have insulted the Soviet school of chess and you will see the consequences after we return to Prague.\" I didn't know at that time that Pachman pre-arranged draws on the first three boards with the Soviets, guaranteeing them the gold medals. My gambit play threatened to blow the deal. In 1967 Pachman began to change his beliefs, fully confronting the communist regime after the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968. In October we went together to the Olympiad in Lugano, where the Soviets threatened to expel South Africa from FIDE. We argued that the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries that invaded Czechoslovakia should be expelled. The Soviets took their proposal back. In December 1968 Pachman won a tournament in Athens, but after his return to Prague his life took another turn. He was soon imprisoned and even tried to commit suicide. I had a long correspondence with prof. Max Euwe, who tried to help Pachman at that time. In the night of November 28, 1972, Pachman was allowed to leave Czechoslovakia and arrived in Munich with his wife and their cat. Grasping the idea of freedom the cat soon disappeared into hotel hallways and it took us some time to find him. I never understood why Pachman would try to steer conflict with people who tried to help him, whether it was prof. Euwe or Egon Evertz, who arranged Pachman's move from Prague to Solingen and helped him to acquire German citizenship. After his arrival in Germany Pachman was often boycotted by East-bloc countries, but he prevailed and they ended their harassment after Pachman qualified for the 1986 Interzonal in Manila. After the Velvet revolution in November 1989 Pachman acquired back the Czechoslovakian citizenship, but in 1998, after being disillusioned with the Czech government, he gave it back and settled in Passau. 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An outstanding match player throughout his career, Reshevsky excelled at positional play, and could be a brilliant tactician when required. He took a long time over his opening moves, and often found himself in time pressure, but this sometimes unsettled his opponent more than it did Reshevsky. He was an accountant by profession, and a well-regarded chess writer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInscribed on the half title: \"To my wonderful friend Dave Schneider\" signed and dated 1949. 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Later that year he tied Mikhail Chigorin for first place at Budapest, and then took clear first place in the Berlin tournament of 1897. 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Small octavo (7\" x 5\") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover in original pictorial jacket. First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRudolf Spielmann was an Austrian-Jewish chess player of the romantic school, and chess writer. He was known as \"The Master of Attack\" and \"The Last Knight of the King's Gambit\". His daredevil play was full of sacrifices, brilliancies, and beautiful ideas. This was exemplified, for example, in the 1923 Carlsbad tournament, where he did not have a single draw (with five wins and twelve losses). Spielmann was inordinately fond of the King's Gambit and continued using this opening after most elite players had abandoned it; he was also the last master to make any serious use of the Center Game. By the late 1920s, his opening repertoire increasingly focused on 1.d4 openings as contemporary chess fashion dictated. Despite the strong opposition at that time, with players like Alexander Alekhine, José Raúl Capablanca, Emanuel Lasker, Siegbert Tarrasch, Akiba Rubinstein, Aron Nimzowitsch, and Savielly Tartakower, Spielmann managed to score well in numerous tournaments. He won 33 of the roughly 120 in which he played, including Abbazia 1912 (an event devoted to the King's Gambit), Stockholm 1919; Bad Pistyan 1922; and Semmering 1926. He is also remembered as the author of the classic book\u003cem\u003e The Art of Sacrifice in Chess.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGently bumped corners. 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His development was gradual: as he grew in knowledge and confidence so his games showed increasing mastery, until in recent years they had displayed that logical simplicity and clarity and, particularly, consummate end game technique which has brought comparison with Capablanca in his prime. Undoubtedly Smyslov's best games deserve to stand beside those of the other great masters, past and present. There is an account of Smyslov's career with an interesting discussion of his style by the Soviet master P A Romanovsky and an illuminating foreword by Smyslov himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCard with Smyslov's autograph and picture at the chess board affixed loose laid in. Light edge wear, spine heal bumped, Book plate to front pastedown. Dust jacket spine sunned, corners and spine ends moderately chipped, some soiling. 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