Wiener Schach-Zeitung. Organ fur das gesamte Schachleben Volume XIII (13)
Wiener Schach-Zeitung. Organ fur das gesamte Schachleben Volume XIII (13)
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Author: Marco, Georg (1863-1923)

Year: 1910

Publisher: Verlag des Wiener Schach-Club

Place: Wien (Vienna)

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viii+424 pages with diagrams, tables and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/2") rebound in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Volume XIII (13). (Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:5957) First edition.

The Wiener Schachzeitung, an Austrian chess magazine, published in German which was one of the great magazines of chess ran from 1898 through 1916 and then from 1923 through 1938. Originally founded in 1855 by Ernst Falkbeer, but was only published for nine months. In 1887 it enjoyed a rebirth, but even this publication lasted only nine months. In 1898 Hugo Fahndrich, Alexander Halprin and Georg Marco re-established the name again. As time went on Georg Marco became the sole editor and even the publisher. Marco edited the magazine until 1914 and during that period it became the best chess magazine in the world (Golombek:342). When it was renamed in 1923 it was called the Neu Wiener Schach-Zeitung and was edited by I R Wahle and A Lewitt; however, within a year it had recaptured its old title and in 1926 another great editor, Albert Becker, took over. With the German invasion of Austria, it ceased publication. An attempt to revive it after the end of World War II failed. The witty pen of Hans Kmoch gave distinction to the magazine and every now and then he would edit a faschings (carnival) number that was genuinely funny.

This volume contains the XVII Kongress des Deutschen Schachbundes Hamburg 1910 and has photographs of each contestants as well as a group photograph. The 17th Congress of the German Chess Federation, the first "Bundeskongress" staged in the great port city since 1885, celebrated the Hamburg Chess Club's 80th anniversary and its move into spacious new quarters. The Hamburg organizers met with a number of disappointments, the absence of Lasker, Capablanca, Bernstein, Rubenstein, Maroczy and Janowski. Still the organizers hand a number of "coming" stars - including the future world champion, 17-year old Alekhine, Nimzovitch, Spielmann Dus-Chotimirsky and Yates. Schlechter's triuph was his first uncontested top prize since Ostend 1906. Encountering the youthful Alekhine for the first time, Schlechter methodologically crushed in in an opening-round Philidor Defense lasting 34 moves. The second place finisher, Duras (+8 -2 =6) played well. The imaginative play of Nimzovitch (+8 -3 =5) gained him third prize. Spielmann followed his St Petersburg success with another good performance, capturing fourth prize while Marshall (+& -4 =5) and Teichmann (+5 -2 =9) divided fifth and sixth prizes. The future world champion didn't win a game against the prize winners and shared seventh ad eighth places with his countryman Dus-Chotimirsky. The Hauptturnier "A" was won by G A Rotlevi ahead of as strong field including C Carls and C Ahues, Edward Lasker and K Hromadka.

Condition:

Rebound in modern binding. A very good to fine copy