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(Betts: 32-7) Second edition. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePROSPECTUS: Provided a subscription list can be obtained sufficient to pay the expense of publication, it is in contemplation to issue, during the present year, a large collection of Chess Problems by American Composers. The book will be under the editorship of Eugene B Cook and W R Henry; it will contain one thousand positions upon diagrams two and a half inches square, and the price will not exceed two dollars. The names of subscribers should be sent to W R Henry, Box 1129, New York City. Composers who wish their production to appear to the best advantage are requested to forward the latest versions to the same address. 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Tied for third and fourth were William Winter and Gerald Abrahams a full point behind Wood. Fifth through sixth was shared by C H O'D Alexander and Harry Golombek a half point behind them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHeal hinges beginning to crack, hinges rubbed, corners lightly bumped. 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Octavo (8 1\/4\" x 5 1\/2\"). Respined in quarter black leather with gilt stamping, original decorative gilt cloth board. (Betts: 13-18) First edition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Cook list also gives an edition published New York, 1880. In the above entry the preface date of 1877 has been used. A survey with original analysis by Bird averaging 12-15 moves in depth. Includes 58 illustrative games taken from his \u003ci\u003echess masterpieces\u003c\/i\u003e 1875; also some diagrammed \"noteworthy positions\" in various openings (positions from actual games), and 11 problems by various composers. The frontispiece has 3 problems by A P Barnes, which are letter problems forming the letters of Bird's initials, HEB.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBird was an English accountant. He played many tournaments and matches and an opening named after him. He played in the great London tournaments of 1851, 1883 and 1899 and Hastings 1895. 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Octavo (7 1\/2\" x 5\"). Bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt stamping to spine pictorial front board. Frontispiece titled \"The Money and the Gascon Chess Knight\". This was issued annually from 1852 with only the date changing. (Hagedorn 59) (Van der Linde 736) Reprint issued as an Octavo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHyacinth R. Agnel was a professor (taught French) and Army Colonel at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and a chess problemist. In 1845, he formed the first chess club at West Point. He is the author of a chess book with perhaps the longest title: \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Chess containing the Rudiments of the Game, and Elementary Analysis of the Most Popular Openings, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters; Including Staunton's Analysis of the King's and Queen's Gambits, Numerous Positions and Problems on Diagrams, Both Original and Selected; Also a Series of Chess Tales, With Illustrations Engraved From Original Designs, The Whole Extracted and Translated From the Best Sources\u003c\/i\u003e. The book was written in 1847 by Agnel and published in 1859 by D. Appleton and Company of New York. The book is 509 pages long. In 1848, he wrote \u003ci\u003eChess for Winter Evenings\u003c\/i\u003e. It was later called \u003ci\u003eAgnel's Book of Chess\u003c\/i\u003e. Agnel was on the Committee on the Chess Code during the First American Chess Congress. He was a frequent chess opponent of General Winfield Scott. 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Octavo (8 7\/8\" x 6\"). bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with red boards with a black and white pictorial cover. \u003cspan style=\"color: blue;\" color=\"blue\"\u003e [signed by Max Euwe]\u003c\/span\u003e Dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Max Euwe Chess Club of Amsterdam tipped on front paste down. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5574) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe A.V.R.O. 1938 was a double-round tournament held in November 1938 under the sponsorship of the Dutch wireless company, Algemene Verenigde Radio Omroep. The participants, Alekhine, Botvinnik, Capablanca, Euwe, Fine, Flohr, Keres and Reshevsky, included the reigning World Champion and all his potential challengers. The sponsors intended the event to be regarded as an unofficial Candidates tournament, and the winner (or the runner-up in the case of a victory by Alekhine) was promised financial backing for a World Championship match. For a tournament of such importance, the playing conditions were appalling. The players traveled through Holland, ten venues in different towns were used, and on playing days the competitors were often forced to miss dinner.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese circumstances naturally favored the younger grandmasters at the expense of Alekhine and Capablanca. The final scores were: Keres and Fine 8 1\/2, Botvinnik 7 1\/2, Alekhine, Reshevsky and Euwe 7, Capablanca 6, Flohr 4 1\/2. The tie for first place was broken in favor of Keres, who had the superior Sonneborn-Berger rating. The projected match between Alekhine and Keres did not take place, since Alekhine had already contracted to defend his title first against Flohr, who was the official FIDE World Championship challenger. Alekhine did promise to play a subsequent match against Keres if he retained the title, but the start of the Second World War terminated all negations. 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Small Quarto. bound in original publisher's half leather with gilt lettering to spine over marbled boards. (Betts: 6-21) Postal Telegraph written and signed by Walter Penn Shipley. First edition limited to 500. copies. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePostal Telegraph written by \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #1e68e4;\"\u003eWalter Shipley\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e. the verso is written by \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #266fe9;\"\u003eEdward Napier\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e to Shipley laid in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGustavus Charles Reichman was a chess editor, analyst, problem composer, solver and player. He was chess editor of the \u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNorth American\u003c\/i\u003e. He was the Games Editor of \u003ci\u003eBrentano's Chess Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e (1881-1882). From 1895 to 1905, he was Secretary of the Franklin Chess Club in Philadelphia. In his earlier years, he was a piano tuner. For many years, he was chess champion of Philadelphia. In 1886, he took 2nd place in the world championship solving tournament, which had 109 entrants from around the world. He played two matches against Mackenzie in 1866 and 1867. The first match of six games was Mackenzie +5 -0 =1; the second match was Mackenzie +7 -0 =2 and was timed with an hour glass. Reichhelm died of heart disease in a Pennsylvania Hospital and had accumulated a large library of chess literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Chess in Philadelphia\u003c\/em\u003e is compiled and edited by Messrs. G. C. Reichhelm and W. P. Shipley, and is a complete history of the game in that locality from the early part of the century to the present day. Philadelphia, more than any other city in the land, has encouraged the cultivation of the game, and the many matches, tournaments and other similar events in connection with the game are carefully recorded and amply illustrated in the book. Only five hundred copies will be struck off, of which already two hundred and fifty have been subscribed for. Those desiring to possess a copy should, therefore, without further delay, send their subscription to Mr. W. P. Shipley, Girard Building, Philadelphia. The price of book is $2.50 per copy.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWalter Penn Shipley was a well-known organizer and chess patron. He was friendly with many famous players, including Wilhelm Steinitz, Emanuel Lasker, Harry Nelson Pillsbury and Jose Raul Capablanca, and was the referee of Capablanca - Marshall (1909) and the temporary referee of the Lasker - Capablanca World Championship Match (1921). He was also an organizer of the Cambridge Springs (1904) and New York (1924) tournaments, two of the strongest tournaments ever held in the United States. As a long-time official (including president) of the Franklin Chess Club in Philadelphia, he was able to raise the funding for visits by many strong masters who frequently played not only simuls but also individual games and even short matches with the strongest club players. At the eighth American Chess Congress in Atlantic City in 1921, the US Chess Association (a forerunner of the present US federation) was formed and Shipley elected its first president.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilliam Ewart Napier (1881-1952) was an American chess master of English birth. At the beginning of 1899 Napier traveled to Europe, in order to study music there, and visited the chess clubs of London, Paris and Berlin. In 1900 he returned to the US and established himself in Pittsburgh. There he wrote the chess column of the newspaper Pittsburgh Dispatch. In 1901, he won a master tournament in Buffalo versus Eugene Delmar, placing behind tournament winner Harry Nelson Pillsbury, but still above Marshall. This success encouraged him to participate in the following years in some international master tournaments. He played in Monte Carlo and Hanover in 1902 as well as in Cambridge Springs in 1904. He won none of those tournaments, but in each case received a special prize for brilliantly played games, for example winning the Rothschild Brilliancy Prize for his game against Mikhail Chigorin. In July 1904, he visited Great Britain and won a well-attended tournament in London against Richard Teichmann, Joseph Henry Blackburne and Isidor Gunsberg. Subsequently, he participated in the British championship in Hastings, where he was, because of his English birth, entitled to take part, and won the tournament against Henry Atkins, whom he defeated in the pass fight with 2.5-1.5, to become the first British Chess Federation Champion. Thereafter, Atkins became the most dominant player in the history of the British Championship, winning the next nine championships in which he competed. In 1905 Napier played two matches: against Jacques Mieses the match was undecided (4-4 with 2 draws), against Teichmann he lost 1-5 with 4 draws. His best historical Elo number was 2662. He was, at the time, 11th place in the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrevious owner's name on front end paper, some pencil tick marks in margins, closed three inch tear at head title page else a better than very good copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSOLD 2025\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Chess Collector","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39500961579208,"sku":"1260","price":1250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0529\/9899\/6168\/products\/tcc36tcc.jpg?v=1618133484"},{"product_id":"2905","title":"The Chess-Player's Companion: Comprising a New Treatise on Odds, and a Collection of Games contested by the author with various distinguished players during the last en years; including the Great French Match with Mons. 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The Staunton chess set is now the official FIDE standard for playing sets. Future World Champion Bobby Fischer, today generally regarded as one of the greatest players in history, wrote in a 1964 article that Staunton was one of the ten greatest players in history. Fischer explained, \"Staunton was the most profound opening analyst of all time. He was more theorist than player, but nonetheless he was the strongest player of his day. Playing over his games, I discover that they are completely modern; where Morphy and Steinitz rejected the fianchetto, Staunton embraced it. 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Octavo (8 1\/2\" x 6\") bound in original publisher's blue-green cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. Foreword ;by Leonard Barden. \u003cspan style=\"color: blue;\" color=\"blue\"\u003eSigned\u003c\/span\u003e card with small picture of Spassky laid in. (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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Duodecimo (6 1\/2\" x 5\") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and cover. (Betts: 10-43) First American edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Hatfeild Dingley Gossip was a minor American-English chess master and writer. He competed in chess tournaments between 1870 and 1895, playing against most of the world's leading players, but with only modest success. The writer G. H. Diggle calls him \"the King of Wooden Spoonists\" because he usually finished last in strong tournaments. Gossip was also a noted writer. His treatise \u003ci\u003eThe Chess-Player's Manual—A Complete Guide to Chess\u003c\/i\u003e, a 900-page tome published in 1874 after several years of work, was harshly received by the critics, largely because he had included a number of informal skittles games that he had (atypically) won against stronger players. As a result, Gossip developed a lifelong enmity toward chess critics, whom he often attacked ferociously in his books. However, his 1879 book Theory of the Chess Openings was well received. Wilhelm Steinitz, the first World Chess Champion, wrote that the 1888 edition of The Chess-Player's Manual was one of the best available books on the game. Thanks in part to a 122-page appendix by S. Lipschütz, it became one of the standard opening works of the time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContains analysis of 35 openings, four illustrative games, analysis of eleven endgames and an addenda of recent opening analysis. Gossip made his living primarily as a journalist, author, and translator. He wrote for publications in England, France, Australia, and the United States. At various times he resided in each of those countries, as well as in Germany and Canada. Chess writers have often mocked Gossip's play, calling him a \"grandpatzer\" and the like. However, Kenneth Whyld, one of his previous critics, suggests that history may have judged him unfairly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCorners bumped, points rubbed, spine ends rubbed. 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Octavo (8 1\/4\" x 5 1\/2\") bound in half leather with red label in gilt lettering to spine over marbled boards. Edited by Peter Pratt. (Whyld: 1817:19) Fifth edition.  First published in 1749. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough Philidor was the greatest chess player of his time, he professed to be just a musical composer (of which he was great in his day), because chess was not fully understood by the masses. He was the first great blindfold chess player, playing three opponents while blindfolded. He did this three times. In the 18th century, this almost amounted to witchcraft. He was the first to understand the value of playing the pawns correctly and hence wrote the first real strategy book on chess. He invented the Philidor's Defense: His musical skills were of the highest order. In his career, he composed more than 20 operas. At the age of six, he became a member of the Chapel-Royal choir in Versailles. This is where he learned chess, as musicians in those days were very knowledgeable in chess, or at least, more than the average person. He learned by watching others play. There were other great players that learned chess this way: Morphy, Capablanca, Karpov, etc.\u003cbr\u003eAt the age of 11, his first musical composition was played before King Louis XV. That is definitely big time stuff. When he was 14, his voice changed, and he had to leave the Chapel-Royal choir. At 15, he was tutored in chess by France's greatest chess player of the day, Sire de Legal. Three years later, he quit instructing Philidor, because he became stronger than he was. At 18, Philidor had become the strongest chess player in the world, with no one to tutor him anymore.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt this time (1744), Philidor played two chess games blindfolded simultaneously in public in Paris. He said he learned how to do this when he could not sleep at night and played chess without sight of a chessboard. This was the first time blindfold play against two opponents was ever recorded. Philidor became quite famous with his chess abilities at this time. He played chess against Voltaire and Rousseau. And, of course, he creamed them. At the age of 19, Philidor went to Rotterdam, Holland to present his musical compositions. But the concerts were cancelled and he was stranded in Holland with no money. He then supported himself by teaching and playing chess and Polish checkers, especially to English army officers at The Hague. At the age of 21, he travelled to London, England and beat the two best English chess players of the day, Stamma and Sir Janssen, at Slaughter's coffee house. Philidor was at the top of the world at this point. Phillip Stamma was the best English player, and Philidor challenged him to a ten-game match with an extraordinary set of rules. Philidor insisted that Stamma play White in all of the games, and that any draw would count as a win for Stamma. 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He spent the next 40 years of his life intermixing chess and composing music. In 1795, at the age of 68, he died in London, England. The newspaper obituary read, \"On Monday last, Mr. Philidor, the celebrated chess player, made his last move, into the other world\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome foxing through out, previous owners name on front pasted down and end papers. 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Octavo (8 3\/4\" x 6\") issued in original red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Edited by George Hume and Alain C. A revised translation of \u003ci\u003eHet schaakproblem: ideen en scholen\u003c\/i\u003e published Gouda, 1921. White. A. C. White's Christmas series volume 32. Christmas greeting tipped in. (Betts: 30-19) First English edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 1 traces the historical development of the chess problem from the Middle Ages, with sections on the English, Bohemian, German and dutch schools, and a chapter on \"problem-futurism\" (Fairy problems). This first part includes 143 compositions by various composers. Part 2, \"Bird's eye view of problem themes', describes 22 main themes (with sub-divisions) and contains a further 231 problems. 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Bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine with Christmas greeting tipped in. Christmas series for 1911. (Betts: 31-7) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe introduction consists of an essay on the development of chess problems, how \"two main types of accumulation have marked the progress of composition during the last fifty years: on the one hand, the pursuit of variations, that is the accumulation of different elements in one problem; and, on the other hand, the pursuit of echoes, that is the accumulation of similar elements in one problem\". 300 problems (s00 sets of 3) are devoted to these \"tasks\" and \"echoes\", grouped under twenty one main thematic ideas, and discussed with solutions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e269 pages with diagrams. Small Octavo. 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Octavo (8 3\/4\" x 5 3\/4\") bound in original publisher's full leather with gilt stamping on spine with black label lettered in gilt. Edited by Peter Pratt. (Whyld and Ravilious 1808: 10)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrancois-Andre Danican Philidor was born on September 7, 1726 in Dreux, France. His father Andre (1647-1730) was the keeper of the music for King Louis XIII of France. In 1725, Andre introduced the public concert. Andre had 20 children and was 79 when Francois-Andre was born. Francois was the last child of Andre and the first son of his third wife. Andre's third wife was in her 20s. In 1731 at the age of six, Francois-Andre entered the choir of the Chapel-Royal in Versailles. As a pageboy in the royal chapel, he studied music with Andre Campra. Philidor's father had died earlier and was living on a royal pension. The young Philidor was recognized as a musical prodigy among the 80 musicians. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1736 at the age of 10, Francois-Andre was exposed to chess by the musicians who played chess during spells of inactivity. Cards were forbidden to pass the time, so chess was played. He learned the game by watching the band members play. He later visited the Cafe de la Regence in Paris and spent much of his time playing chess there. In 1737, at the age of 11, his first music composition, a religious piece, was played before King Louis XV. He left the Chapel Royal choir in 1740 when his voice changed. In 1740 he went to Paris where he earned a living by copying music and giving music lessons. In 1741 Philidor was being instructed by M. de Kermur, Sire de Legal (1702-1792), the leading French chess player. Legal initially gave Philidor rook odds. For the next three years Kermur taught Philidor until Philidor was too strong for his teacher. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1744 Philidor played two chess games blindfolded simultaneously in public in Paris. He said he had learned how to do this when he could not sleep at night and played chess without sight of a board. This was the first time blindfold play against 2 opponents was recorded. This performance was chronicled in the article on chess by the Chevalier de Jaucourt for the great \u003ci\u003eEncyclopedie of Diderot and D'Alembert\u003c\/i\u003e in 1751. Philidor played chess with Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, both persistent but weak chess players. In December, 1745, Philidor went to Rotterdam to assist in presenting concerts with Geminiani and Lanza. The musical tour involved a 13-year old girl who played the harpsichord. However, she died during the concert tour. Later, the concerts were canceled because of the girl's death and he was stranded in the Netherlands with no money. He supported himself by teaching and playing chess and Polish draughts (10 by 10 checker board), especially to English army officers at The Hague. The English officers suggested that Philidor could make a living playing chess in England. In 1747 he went to London and started playing chess at Slaughter's coffee-house. There, he beat Phillip Stamma and Sir Abraham Janssen (1720-1795), two of England's top chess players, in chess matches. Philidor challenged Stamma to a 10-game match and he stipulated that Stamma was to have White in all games and that draws were counted victories for Stamma. Philidor won 8 games, lost 1, and drew 1. He also beat Janssen with 4 wins and 1 loss. From that time on, Philidor was the unofficial champion of the world. In 1748 Philidor, age 22, returned to Holland and wrote \u003ci\u003el'analyse du jeu des Eschecs\u003c\/i\u003e (Analysis of the Game of Chess). Philidor went out to find subscribers for the book before it was published to pay for publishing costs. Lord Sandwich subscribed to 10 copies. The Duke of Cumberland subscribed to 50 copies. The English army officers subscribed to 119 copies. The moves were written out as full sentences. In 1749 433 copies of his Analysis of Chess were published in London. Two more reprints occurred in 1749 and an English version followed in 1750. The book was the first chess book translated into Russian (1824) and was one of the favorite books of Thomas Jefferson. The book analyzed 4 games and 10 variations of games. Philidor favored the Bishop's Opening and frowned upon the King's Knight Opening as weak. The book has gone through more than 100 editions, 4 in the first year. Philidor's chess books was the first chess book that organized the openings, that explained the middlegame, the overall strategy of chess, and the importance of pawn formation. In his book he made the observation that 'Les pions sont l'ame du jeu' (the pawns are the life of the game). This phrase has become \"the pawns are the soul of chess.\" His book was also the first to examine the R+B vs. R endgame. It also had some analysis of 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6, the Philidor's Defense. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy 1750 Philidor was considered the strongest player in France, England, and the Netherlands. The French Ambassador, the Duke of Mirepoix, invited Philidor for his weekly chess dinners. In 1751 Philidor left England for Prussia, playing before King Frederick (Frederick the Great) at Potsdam. He then visited Berlin where he played 3 blindfold games simultaneously, winning them all. He then returned to England. In November 1754 he returned to France after being gone for 9 years. He started composing music again. He did not return to England until 1772. He applied unsuccessfully for the post of court composer at Versailles. A rumor had started that nobody could be a chess master and compose good music, so his church music was not really his own. His church music was not accepted by the French royalty because Philidor added an Italian influence to it, so he turned to comedy opera. In 1755 he beat Legal in a chess match at the Cafe de la Regence. On February 13, 1760, at age 33, he married Angelique Richer (1736-1809). He had 5 sons and 2 daughters with her. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOld recasing nicely done, spine ends chipped, corners bumped and rubbed, some pencil notations through out. Over all about a very good copy.","brand":"The Chess Collector","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39500961972424,"sku":"4541","price":750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0529\/9899\/6168\/products\/tcc56tcc.jpg?v=1618133676"},{"product_id":"72","title":"A Memorial to William Steinitz: Containing a Selection of his Games Chronologically Arranged with an Analysis of Play","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:  \u003c\/b\u003eWilliam Steinitz (1836-1900) edited by Charles Devide\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYear: \u003c\/b\u003e1901\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eG P Putnam Sons\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlace: \u003c\/b\u003eNew York and London\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003evii+99+[1 add] pages with frontispiece, diagrams and index. 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":"2903","title":"The Chess Tournament: A Collection of Games Played at the Celebrated Assemblage. Illustrated by copious Diagrams and notes Critical and explanatory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eStaunton, Howard (1810-1874)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYear: \u003c\/b\u003e1852\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eHenry G Bohn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlace: \u003c\/b\u003eLondon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003exci+377 pages with diagrams. Small octavo (7\" x 4 1\/2\") rebound with label to spine. (Bohns scientific Library) (Betts: 25-1) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn May 1851, London staged the Great Exhibition to showcase British industry and technology, and London's thriving chess community felt obliged to do something similar for chess. Howard Staunton proposed and then took the lead in organizing the first ever international tournament, to be held at the same time. Staunton and his colleagues had ambitious objectives for this tournament, including convening a \"Chess Parliament\" to: complete the standardization of the moves and other rules, as there were still very small national differences and a few self-contradictions; to standardize chess notation; to agree time limits, as many players were notorious for simply \"out-sitting\" opponents. Staunton also proposed the production of a compendium showing what was known about chess openings, preferably as a table. Since he thought there would not be time for a single \"Chess Parliament\" session to handle this as well, he suggested further congresses, some perhaps including knowledgeable enthusiasts of below top-class playing strength, and a review process for dealing with contentious issues and possible mistakes in earlier decisions. The tournament was planned as knock-out contest involving sixteen of Europe's best players. Invitations had been extended to foreign masters Vincent Grimm, József Szén, and Johann Löwenthal from Hungary; Adolf Anderssen, Bernhard Horwitz, Carl Mayet, and von der Lasa from Germany; Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant and Lionel Kieseritzky from France, and Carl Jaenisch, Alexander Petrov and Ilya Shumov from Russia. The British players were to be Howard Staunton, Henry Thomas Buckle, Marmaduke Wyvill, Elijah Williams, Captain Hugh Alexander Kennedy, Samuel Newham, and Henry Bird.Unfortunately many of the invitees were unable to play. Grimm was unable to attend as he was exiled in Aleppo after his participation in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. Löwenthal had also participated in the failed revolt but fled to America, where he established himself in business. Löwenthal left his affairs behind to travel to London to play. Saint-Amant was unavailable as he had been sent by the French government to California as a diplomat following its independence from Mexico during the California Gold Rush. Von der Lasa and Petrov were also unable to attend. Jaenisch and Shumov could not arrive in time to play. Jaenisch arrived in London late, and played a post-tournament match with Staunton that Staunton won +7−2=1. Buckle also did not make the tournament, and as he was generally considered second only to Staunton among British players, he was the strongest British player missing. The dispute with the London Chess Club prevented Daniel Harrwitz from playing, and also weakened the pool of substitutes available, as George Walker, George Perigal, and George Webb Medley could have made for a stronger field if not for the boycott. Anderssen was reluctant to accept his invitation, as he was deterred by the travel costs. However Staunton offered to pay Anderssen's travel expenses out of his own pocket if necessary, should Anderssen fail to win a tournament prize; Anderssen accepted this generous offer. As part of the project the London International Tournament's committee also organized a \"London Provincial Tournament\" for British players who were not strong enough to be invited to play in the International Tournament. The committee \"promoted\" E.S. Kennedy, Edward Löwe, James R. Mucklow, and Alfred Brodie to play in the International Tournament rather than the Provincial Tournament, in order to obtain the number of players required for a knock-out tournament. The tournament was organized as single elimination matches, with the eight losers in the first round being dropped from the tournament. Each first-round match was a best-of-three games, draws not counting. Subsequent rounds were best-of-seven, and losers played consolation matches. The pairings were made by chance, i.e. there was no seeding system of the type commonly used in tennis tournaments. Kieseritsky, Bird, and Löwenthal all lost in the first round. Anderssen beat Staunton soundly, 4–1 in the third-round semi-final. In the fourth-round final Anderssen beat Wyvill to take first place. Wyvill had had a relatively easy draw in the tournament to finish second. Staunton suffered a bitter defeat to Williams in the last round consolation match to finish a disappointing fourth. Despite the obvious flaws in the knockout format of the tournament, the outcome was just, as Anderssen was the best player. As provided by the rules of the tournament, Staunton immediately challenged Anderssen to a twenty-one-game match for a £100 stake. Anderssen agreed to the match, but could not play right away as he had been away from Germany and his job as a school teacher for over two months. In addition Staunton was physically unfit for an immediate contest. The proposed match was never played.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFormer copy of the Brooklyn Public Library with their perforated stamp to title, title page repaired else a good copy.\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":39500962070728,"sku":null,"price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0529\/9899\/6168\/products\/tcc2903tcc_2nd.jpg?v=1618132922"},{"product_id":"73","title":"Suomi: A Collection of Problems by Finish Composers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003ePentti Olavi Sola (1907-1940) and edited by George Hume\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYear: \u003c\/b\u003e1934\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Chess Amateur\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlace: \u003c\/b\u003eStroud\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e141 pages with diagrams. Small octavo (7 1\/2\" x 5\") issued in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. Edited by George Hume. White's Christmas series for 1934. (Betts: 32-31) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContains 150 problems, mainly two and three move direct mates with some self-mates, with solutions pages 117-137 and indexes of composers and problems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePentti Sola compiled \u003ci\u003eA Collection of Problems by Finnish Composers\u003c\/i\u003e in 1934 and it was published in the Christmas Series. He directed the problems section of \u003ci\u003eSuomen Shakki\u003c\/i\u003e from 1933 until 1936. He composed direct mates and helpmates and was considered as one of the greatest Finnish chess composers. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpine sunned and soiled, previous owner's inscription on front end paper, paper glued to front paste down, some occasional marginalia, lacks Christmas salutation. Over all about a good to very good copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSOLD 2025\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Chess Collector","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39500962103496,"sku":"C7913","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0529\/9899\/6168\/products\/tcc73tcc.jpg?v=1618133785"},{"product_id":"74","title":"Conspiracy: A Selection of Help-mate Problems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eAlain Campbell White (1880-1951)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYear: \u003c\/b\u003e1935\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Chess Amateur\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlace: \u003c\/b\u003eStroud\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e117 pages with diagrams and index. Small Octavo (7 1\/2\" x 5\") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Christmas series volume XLIII for the 31st year. Edited by George Hume. (Betts: 39-14) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContains a short introduction to this genre and 100 compositions by various composers, in 2, 3, 4 movers, with adjacent solutions. Includes index of composers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHelp mate chess is a form of problem chess in which the two sides, White and Black, collaborate to demonstrate a result, such as mate or stalemate. In one respect it is the most nearly mathematical form of the chess moves, for its essence is always the pure demonstration of a possibility. All idea of combat is eliminated and combat has nothing whatever to do with mathematics. Imagine a demonstration in Euclid in which every second step of the reasoning was in endeavor to thwart the step preceding! From another angle it may be argued that the Helpmate is a logical form of problem. For any chess problem is assumed to be a position which might have arisen in actual play, no matter how absurd the antecedent sequence of moves. 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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. 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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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Duodecimo (6 3\/4\" x 5 1\/4\") Christmas presentation tipped in. Bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. (Betts: 31-5) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlain Campbell White was an American problem composer and chess patron. For 32 years, from 1905 to 1936, he published the Christmas series of chess problems. He did more than any other player to promote worldwide interest in chess problems. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a collection of 274 problems which involve white rooks in various situations: Pawn promotion to rook. Simple play of a: The white rooks; b: White king and rooks; c: White rooks and pawns. Play of the rooks v a: the black king; b: Other black pieces. Batteries, interceptions by a: Black pawn; b: White king; c: White pawn. White king gates, Fantasias. The examples are in various lengths and each is given with commentary; 114 composers are represented. 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(Betts: 25-28) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first Hastings tournament witnessed both the rise and fall of a number of brilliant careers. At the beginning of their eminence were Emanuel Lasker, the 26-year-old world champion who was playing in his first major event outside Germany; Richard Teichmann, Dawid Janowski, Carl Schlechter (at 21 the youngest entry), who had made their international debut at Leipzig 11 months earlier; and the surprise tournament winner, 22-year-old Harry Nelson Pillsbury of New York. At the opposite end of the scale were such venerable names as Joseph Henry Blackburne, Henry Bird, James Mason, Wilhelm Steinitz and Mikhail Chigorin. With te single exception of Chigorin, all had opposed the great Adolf Anderssen in the across-the-board play -- and together had amassed nearly 150 years of international experience. 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He taught players to respect the psychological elements of chess.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLasker was a chess player, mathematician and philosopher contrasting with the more dedicated Steinitz who restricted his intellectual explorations to chess. The great Albert Einstein opines of Lasker in the forward of the book \u003ci\u003eEmmanuel Lasker: The Life of a chess master\u003c\/i\u003e. Lasker believed that chess was inherently a worthless pursuit, but it was a perfect model for his profound ideas. Chess was not just opening lines and book knowledge. It represented a battle between two individuals, and therefore the style and psychology of the opponent had to be understood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClosed tear at title page, notes on page 39, corners gently bumped. 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Royal octavo (9 1\/2\" x 7\") Rebound in brown cloth with black lettering to spine and cover. Contributors: Barry, Marshall, Napier and Schowalter, current happenings in the chess world from 1904-1905 with tournaments and games played. End game problems in each issued. (Betts: 7-51) First edition. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLasker's Chess Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e ran a total of nine half-yearly volumes from November 1904 to January 1909. Besides being World Champion, the multifaceted Lasker was also engaged in his noted mathematical and philosophical researches, and editing his own magazine allowed him to keep in touch with the chess world without having to stray too far from his study. 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