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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. The editors would like, also, to publish the real name of the composer in every case, and to give the proper credit to the periodical in which each problem originally appeared.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHinges rubbed, boards chipped, pages 510-526 edge pages damaged, pages 524\/25 stained, previous owner's name on front end paper. 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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. His best result was equal to 5th at Vienna in 1873. He lost matches to Steinitz in 1866, Blackburne in 1879 and Lasker in 1890 and 92. He drew a match with Burn in 1886.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFront heal corners repaired, first four pages damaged at heal corners and edges affecting text. 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Small octavo (7 3\/8\" x 5\") Three quarter leather with gilt stamping and raised bands on spine. Translations by H R Agnel (Hagedon 23) (Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana 731) (Fiske XIX) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book has enjoyed a wide popularity in America. Its analyses are chiefly derived from Staunton, although some new games and many problems are added. One or two important openings are entirely neglected by the compiler. Scattered through the book are four pleasant Chess sketches, chiefly translated from the \u003ci\u003ePalamede\u003c\/i\u003e. Each of these stories is illustrated by steel engravings from paintings by Weir. Agnel was for many years Professor of French and Spanish at the United States Military Academy. (Hagedorn).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dampstained at heal gutter else a very good copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSOLD 2014\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Chess Collector","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39500961382600,"sku":"7845","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0529\/9899\/6168\/products\/tcc22tcc.jpg?v=1618131718"},{"product_id":"23","title":"The Book of Chess: Containing the Rudiments of the Game and Elementary Analyses of the most Popular Openings Exemplified in Games Acutally Played by the Greatest Masters Including Staunton","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eAgnel, H[yacinth] R (1799-1871)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYear: \u003c\/b\u003e1859\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eD Appleton \u0026amp; Co\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlace: \u003c\/b\u003eNew York\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003exiv+509 pages with three plates including frontispiece. 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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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. 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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. In addition, he understood all of the positional concepts which modern players hold dear, and thus-with Steinitz-must be considered the first modern player.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProvenance \"Brooklyn Public Library\" with their perforated stamp on tile and stamp on half title verso, repaired tear at heal edge of title and frontispiece, frontispiece reinforced else a about a very good copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSOLD 2019\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Chess Collector","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39500961611976,"sku":"C0055","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0529\/9899\/6168\/products\/tcc2905tcc_2nd.jpg?v=1618132924"},{"product_id":"2906","title":"Spassky's 100 Best Games of Chess","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cafferty, Bernhard (1934- )\u003cb\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003eBoris Vasilievich Spassky (1937- ) signed card\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYear: \u003c\/b\u003e1972\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eThe MacMillan Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlace: \u003c\/b\u003eNew York\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e255 pages with diagrams and indices. 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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Quarto (11 1\/2\" x 8 3\/4\"). Published in green pictorial wrappers. First edition. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe great London tournament of 1922 saw the newly crowned champion of the world - Capablanca - as well as many of his closest rivals, Alekhine, Bogolyubov, Rubinstein and Vidmar, assemble in the capital of the British Empire for the most powerful demonstration of chess prowess there since 1899. First published in 1922, Chess Pie provides the setting and the atmosphere for the Tournament. Biographies of Players with Specimen Games, Past and Present British Champions, a Problem Section, and a selection of lighter articles are completed by Sketches, Drawings, Autographs, Portraits, and a number of advertisements for chess accessories and other products and services.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpine reinforced, marginalia, edge wear with chips and tears, news article tipped in at front wrapper verso. About good to very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSOLD 2003\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Chess Collector","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39500961775816,"sku":"6959","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0529\/9899\/6168\/products\/tcc43tcc.jpg?v=1618133543"},{"product_id":"45","title":"The Chess Problem","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eWeenink, H[enri] Gerard Marie (1892-1931)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYear: \u003c\/b\u003e1926\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\u003e317+[1 ad] pages with diagrams, includes frontispiece portrait, portrait photographs of 30 composers and an index of about 1000 name of composers, with dates and places of birth and death. 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. The complete work forms a comprehensive treatise covering most phases of problem technique and execution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCorners bumped, moderate extremity wear, spine sunned and soiled, edges sunned, front edge lightly rippled. 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Octavo (8 3\/4\" x 5 3\/4\") issued in red cloth with gilt letter to the spine and blind stamped of front cover. Dust jacket issued with white back ground and black lettering. Annotations by Geza Maroczy. (Betts: 25-70) First edition. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContains a brief introduction only, most of the details of organization and general impressions of the tournament having been included in \u003ci\u003eChess News Sheet\u003c\/i\u003e, and biographies in \u003ci\u003eChess Pie\u003c\/i\u003e. Includes all 120 games from the principal tournament, with notes and 5 from subsidiary tournaments; with portraits of the contestants and indexes of players and openings. (1 Capablanca; 2 Alekhine; 3 Vidmar)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLight rubbing to extremities, page ends foxed. Dust jacket spine ends and edges moderately chipped. 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Thick octavo (8 3\/4\" x 6\") bound in original decorative pictorial cover with red, black and gilt stamping on a green cloth. Spine stamped in gilt with red lettering and black decoration. First published in 1875 (London). (Betts: 13-27) Revised edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChiefly consists of a survey of all the openings. Main lines of play are shown in a bold typeface, with notes of sub-variations printed in lighter type. Includes diagrams of critical positions and many illustrative games; also, a selection of 25 problems by various composers. This edition is after S Lipschutz first appearing in 1888 in London and New York by Routledge. This addition with a supplement of \"revisions, amendments, specimen games and problems\", from the period 1880-1886.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCorners bumped and rubbed, spine ends rubbed, moderate rubbing to covers and spine, new end papers and paste downs. 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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. 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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. 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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. 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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. 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. 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His Christmas presentation for 1910 \u003ci\u003eWhite Rooks\u003c\/i\u003e was so popular the following year he presented this volume.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCorners gently bumped other wise a better than very good copy issued with out dust jacket.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSOLD 2017\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Chess Collector","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39500962332872,"sku":"1033","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0529\/9899\/6168\/products\/tcc160tcc_2nd.jpg?v=1618130639"},{"product_id":"168","title":"The Book of the New York International Chess Tournament 1924, Containing the Authorized Account of the 110 Games Played March-April 1924","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eHelms, Herman (1870-1963) [editor], Alexander Alekhine (annotator)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYear: \u003c\/b\u003e1925\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eAmerican Chess Bulletin\/Printing Craft\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlace: \u003c\/b\u003eNew York and London\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003exxiv+273+[3 ad] pages with frontispiece, plates, diagrams, tables and index . Royal octavo (9\" x 6\") bound in original publisher's stiff green boards with black lettering to spine and cover. Annotations by Alekhine. (Betts: 25-73) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn December 1923, following an aborted attempt to arrange a World Championship match between Capablanca and Alekhine, Hermann Helms, publisher of the American Chess Bulletin, Harry Latz, the General Manager of the Hotel Alamac in New York and Norbert Lederer, the Secretary of the Manhattan Chess Club, set about organizing a tournament to rival Cambridge Springs (1904). The tournament took place in the Hotel Alamac from the 16th of March to the 18th of April 1924. The participants were Dr. Emanuel Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Marshall, Janowski, Maroczy, Bogolyubov, Reti, Tartakover, Edward Lasker and Yates. The time limit was 30 moves in two hours and 15 moves per hour thereafter. Capablanca was expected to be the winner but the 55-year-old Dr. Lasker proved that he was by no means a spent force and ran away with the tournament. In a number of ways, the tournament paralleled the St Petersburg (1914) tournament with the top three place finishers ten years older. It was also notable for Reti's use of his own opening, resulting in Capablanca's first tournament loss in eight years, and a number of masterpieces that were created. the brilliancy prizes included A silver cup and $75 in gold to Reti for his win over Bogolyubov in Round 12, $50 to Marshall for his win over Bogolyubov in Round 18 and $25 to Capablanca for his win over Em Lasker in Round 14, Lasker's only loss of the tournament. Emanuel Lasker captured first with an impressive score of 16 points of 20 and the $1500 first prize. Jose Capablanca fished a distant second with 14.5 and $1000 for second prize. Alexander Alekhine 2.5 behind him finished third and $750. A point behind him was Frank Marshall with a score of 11 and $500. Finishing fifth was Richard Reti a half point behind and $250. Geza Maroczy finishing just out of the money was sixth with a score of 10. Finishing in descending order was Bogolyubov, Tartakover, Yates, Edward Lasker and Janowski\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCorners bumped and rubbed, front hinge beginning, previous owner's name on front paste down. 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And Biographical Sketches of the Chess Masters","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eCheshire, Horace Fabian (1854-1922) [editor]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYear: \u003c\/b\u003e1896\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eChatto \u0026amp; Windus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlace: \u003c\/b\u003eLondon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003exii+370+[32 ad] pages with frontispiece and 21 additional plates. Small octavo (7 3\/4\" x 5 1\/4\") bound in original publisher maroon patterned cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Containing the authorized account of the 230 games played Aug.-Sept. 1895 with annotations by Pillsbury, Lasker, Tarrasch, Steinitz, Schiffers, Teichmann, Bardeleben, Blackburne, Gunsberg, Tinsley, Mason, and Albin and biographical sketches of the chess masters. (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. Central to the drama of the tournament was the unavailing struggle of these older players to maintain their footing against the new generation of continental masters. Pillsbury make a total of 16 1\/2 (+15 -3 =3) out of a possible 21 points and taking home the first prize of 150 pounds, followed by Chigorin (+14 =3 =4) with second prize of 115 pounds. Lasker (+14 -4 =3) beat Pillsbury in their individual game but ended third. Tarrasch, one of the pre-tournament favorites placed fourth. 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Octavo (8 1\/2\" x 5 3\/4\") Issued in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Foreword by Albert Einstein. Translated by Heinrich Fraenkel. First British edition. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmanual Lasker was a German player of Jewish origin. He was born in Berlinchen, a small town in the Prussian province of Brandenburg. He was taught the moves by his elder brother. He finished his mathematical studies at the Universities of Heidelberg and Erlangen gaining his doctorate.\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.Lasker'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. 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Octavo (8 3\/4\" x 5 3\/4\"). Issued in brown cloth with embossed border on cover and gilt lettering to spine. First British edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmanuel Lasker was born in the Prussian province of Brandenburg into a Jewish family. His mother was Rosalie Israelssohn while his father was Adolf Lasker, a cantor in the synagogue whose role there was to lead the liturgical prayers and chanting. Emanuel had an older brother Berthold and, when sent to attend school in Berlin when he was eleven years old, Emanuel was taught to play chess by Berthold who was a student in the medical faculty there. He made some money playing chess in the local cafés, but he did not become a serious chess player until about the age of fifteen. In fact Emanuel's parents were so worried that he was devoting too much time to chess and not enough to his school work that they told Berthold to find another school for Emanuel. However, the head of this new school was president of the local chess club and the mathematics master was the local chess champion, so in his new secondary school Emanuel continued to show remarkable talents at both mathematics and at chess. In 1888 he obtained his arbiter in Landsberg an der Warthe, now a Polish town named Gorzow Wielkopolski. Lasker studied mathematics and philosophy at the universities in Berlin, Göttingen and Heidelberg but he combined his studies with playing chess. In 1889 he won his first chess tournament in Berlin and, a month later, he won the Hauptturnier in Breslau which earned him the German title of Master of Chess. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCorners bumped. Original tissue under dust wrapper. Dust jacket corners and spine ends chipped, soiled, spine sunned. 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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. He had obviously taken heed of Steinitz's mixed experiences more than a decade previous as editor of his own \u003ci\u003eInternational Chess Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e and ensured both that the content was highly accessible (each issue carried his beginner's guide, \u003cem\u003eA Course of Instruction in Ye Ancient Game of Chesse\u003c\/em\u003e, and that the magazine was adequately financed (Professor Rice had a hand in this). Hannak, in his Lasker biography, commented, It didn't just contain the usual collection of games and problems, coupled with a few news items, it went much deeper, revealing more of the meaning and background of chess than any previous chess editor had attempted. Indeed, in an early editorial Lasker rails zealously against the contemporary chess periodicals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome internal soiling and fingering, some damp stains. 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Addendum laid in. 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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Octavo (8 3\/4\" x 5 3\/4\") bound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. (Betts: 29-124) First British edition. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContains 70 fully annotated games, 15 studies composed by Reit, a short biography and a table of tournament and match results.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf all the great hypermodern chess founders, the most interesting is Richard Reti. Although born a Hungarian in 1889, he later was deemed a Czechoslovakian after World War I when they moved the country boundaries around. But he always felt himself to be Viennese, since he went to college in Vienna. So he was a 3-country man. The four famous hypermodern chess founders are Breyer, Reti, Nimzowitch, and Tartakower. Reti was the author of two of the finest book on chess, \u003ci\u003eModern Ideas in Chess\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMasters of the Chessboard\u003c\/i\u003e. He won a number of great tournaments, Gothenberg 1920 and Teplitz-Schonau 1922 being among the most notable, and in doing so produced a large number of beautiful games. This book contains a selection of the best of these culled from all stages of Reti's career. Readers of Reti's books will enjoy the games as the very best possible illustrating his principles. Students of theory will find valuable help in the numerous Reti's openings contained in the book; while the lover of combative play will be pleasantly surprised by the remarkable number of brilliant ideas to be observed in the games.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExtremities lightly rubbed. 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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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Octavo ( 8 3\/4\" x 5 1\/2\") Issued in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. 1st published in USSR in 1952. Translated and edited by P H Clarke. First British edition. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA collection of sixty-seven of Smyslov's best games from the start of his career to 1957, selected for this book with the help of the author. Smyslov had at last wrested the World Championship from his great predecessor, Botvinnik, which brings added interest to his games; through them can be traced the development of the skill, understanding and style of a World Champion. 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\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLight edge wear, spine heal bumped. Dust jacket spine sunned, corners and spine ends moderately chipped, some soiling. 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These opposite tendencies operate within each of the great players and contend in the world of chess. Reshevsky exemplifies the spirit of survival, contrasting with Keres the attacker; Bronstein is the master of invention, Smyslov of balance; Tal is brilliant in psychology, while Petrosian is the arch 'preventionist'; and finally in Boris Spassky and in the American Bobby Fischer one sees two superb creative players. Here are the great chess players and ideas, presented by a writer who has done across-the-board battle with most of them; and here are the most exciting and vital games of modern chess. Saidy's views will be controversial, but they are those of one who knows and loves chess, not from the sidelines but from the thick of the fray. Considered only as a collection of best games, this is the cream. But in its explanation of chess though, \u003ci\u003ethe Battle of Chess Ideas\u003c\/i\u003e bids to become a classic. 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Each right-hand page carries notes augmenting the analysis in the tables, and annotations to the games. Openings covered in this volume are the Ruy Lopez, Three and Four Knights' Games, Scotch Gambit, Two Kingts's Defence, Petroff's Defence and Philidor's Devence. A Final section analyzes the games of the Steinitz-Chigorin match. 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Octavo (8 3\/4\" x 5 3\/4\") issued in red with gilt lettering with in a black box on cover and spine with red dust jacket with a picture of Marshall on front cover and white lettering. Volume 2 in the chess classic series. \u003cspan color=\"blue\" style=\"color: blue;\"\u003eSigned\u003c\/span\u003e limited edition of which this is 332 of 500 copies. (Betts: 29-72) This signed limited edition in not referenced in Betts. First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrank Marshall was born on August 10, 1877, he was born in the city of Brooklyn (at present, the district of New York), the American chess player, one of the strongest world chess theorists at the beginning of the 20th century. Frank Marshall began playing chess in Canada, where in 1894 became by the champion of the Montreal's chess club. On returning to America won the champion's title of the chess club, located in Brooklyn (1899). He won the one-round tournament at the chess congress, held in London (1899). In 1900 shared the 3rd-4th place with G. Marosi in Paris and once defeated upon the tournament's winner, Em. Lasker. In 1903 occupied the 2nd place in Vienna (gambit tournament). In 1904 occupied the 3rd place at the tournament, held in Monte Carlo, and at the Cambridge-Springs became by the winner (the highest sports success), in 2 points having outrun Lasker and D. Yanovsky. F. Marshall was awarded by the US champion title for the victory a the tournament, but he refused of this title, because G. Pillsbury didn't participate at the competition. He won 15 matches from 23 ones (1 match was in a draw). However, he was defeated by Lasker at the match for the world championship (1907) (+0, -8, =7); he also suffered the large defeats at the matches with Z. Tarrasch (1905; +1, -8, =8) and Capablanca (1909; +1, -8, =14). Yanovsky (1899; +1, -3, =0; 1905; +8, -5, -4; 1908, +2, -5, =3; 1912, +6, -2, =24 1916, +4, -1, =3); R. Teikhmann (1902; +2, -0, =3); A. Rubinstein (1908; +3, -4, =1); J. 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Octavo (8 3\/4\" x 5 3\/4\") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering with in a black box on cover and spine in original red dust jacket with a picture of Marshall on front cover and white lettering. Volume 2 in the chess classic series. \u003cspan color=\"blue\" style=\"color: blue;\"\u003eSigned\u003c\/span\u003e limited edition of which this is 150 of 500 copies. (Betts: 29-72) This signed limited edition in not referenced in Betts. First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrank James Marshall (August 10, 1877 - November 9, 1944) was the U.S. Chess Champion from 1909 to 1936, and one of the world's strongest chess players in the early part of the 20th century. Marshall was born in New York City, and lived in Montreal, Canada, from age 8 to 19. He began playing chess at the age of 10, and by 1890 (aged 13) was one of the leading players in Montreal. He won the 1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress (scoring 13\/15, ahead of World Champion Emanuel Lasker) and the U.S. congress in 1904, but did not get the national title because the U.S. champion at that time, Harry Nelson Pillsbury, did not compete. In 1906 Pillsbury died and Marshall again refused the championship title until he won it in competition in 1909. In 1907 he played a match against World Champion Emanuel Lasker for the title and lost eight games, winning none and drawing seven. They played their match in New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Chicago, and Memphis from January 26 to April 8, 1907. Marshall finished fifth at the St. Petersburg tournament in 1914, behind World Champion Lasker, future World Champions Capablanca and Alekhine, and former World Championship challenger Tarrasch, but ahead of the players who did not qualify for the final: Ossip Bernstein, Rubinstein, Nimzowitsch, Blackburne, Janowski, and Gunsberg. In 1915 Marshall opened the Marshall Chess Club in New York City. In the 1930s Marshall captained the U.S. team to four gold medals at four Chess Olympiads. During one round, he returned to the board and found that his teammates had agreed to three draws. After he finished his own game, he gave each of them a stern talk individually on how draws do not win matches. Marshall was best known for his great tactical skill. One aspect of this was the \"Marshall swindle\", where a trick would turn a lost game around. Andrew Soltis writes that, \"In later years his prowess at rescuing the irretrievable took on magical proportions\". 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Separate issues bound in blue cloth with black lettering to spine and cover. Volume 41 (Betts: 7-50). First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished monthly (November-April); bi-monthly (May-October). Official publications of the United States Chess Federation. Absorbed the North American Chess Reporter after 1933. Volume 1, 1904, thru volume 60, 1963 issued. No more published after February 1963. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome age darkening to some pages. Small worm holes through pages else a very good copy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSOLD 2018\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Chess Collector","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39500963610824,"sku":"7201","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0529\/9899\/6168\/products\/tcc295tcc.jpg?v=1618133060"},{"product_id":"296","title":"Bobby Fischer vs the Rest of the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eDarrach, Brad\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYear: \u003c\/b\u003e1974\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eStein \u0026amp; Day\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlace: \u003c\/b\u003eNew York\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e240 pages. 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Octavo (8 1\/2\" x 5 3\/4\") issued in black with silver lettering to spine with a red, grey and white dust jacket decorated with black and white chess pieces. (Betts: 18-8) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe middle game, it has been said, is the heart of chess. Here is the field of battle on which victory or defeat is decided. In this book the world's leading authority turns his talents to the middle game. A system for improving practical skill is carefully elaborated; tedious variations are avoided. The emphasis throughout is on developing in the player the ability to analyze a position and to proceed accordingly. There are sections on mating attacks; combination play; how to handle superior positions, even positions and inferior positions; continuation of the openings; and transition to the end game. 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The St. Petersburg Grand International Masters' Tournament of 1914 was undoubtedly the most important tournament since the first San Sebastian Tournament, when Capablanca won his spurs, or, as some will have it, since the St. Petersburg Quadrangular Tournament of 1895.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt would be noteworthy even if for no other reason than that the World's Champion, Dr. Emanuel Lasker, took part - the first occasion since the last International Tournament in St. Petersburg in 1909. On that occasion, however he tied for the first place with Akuba K. Rubinstein instead of winning outright, as on this occasion and in 1895. It is a remarkable circumstance that this time Rubinstein did not even attain so high as fifth place, which would have enabled him to play in the second section for the allocation of the prizes, the more extraordinary in view of his almost unbroken success of late years. 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Quarto (11\" x 9\") issued in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover with black and white pictorial dust jacket. Photography by Norman Snyder picture research by Marion Geisinger. \u003cspan color=\"blue\" style=\"color: blue;\"\u003e[Signed by Anthony Saidy]\u003c\/span\u003e (Lusis: 48) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt its apex are the grandmasters whose wizardry at the board has made an ancient Indian pastime into mankind's most fascinating cerebral exercise. At its base are the patzers and pfuscher, the humble millions, the foot soldiers, the pawns, who serve the goddess Caissa less elegantly perhaps, but no less fervently. ascending scale, are champions and would-be champions, prodigious children, chess-puzzle fanatics and experts at playing blindfold, playing against computers, playing by mail and playing bizarre variations of an already remarkable various game. Two expert and sure-footed guides-an International Master who has grappled with and occasionally beaten the titans of this generation, and a cunning veteran of innumerable coffeehouse campaigns-conduct an entertaining and instructive tour through this extraordinary world. With wit, clarity, and refreshing good sense, these knowledgeable insider-who also are old friends-discuss the great events of the chess universe (as well as a number of very interesting small ones), the fabulous games that represent the peak of classic achievement and the unique and fiercely competitive individuals who have presided at the supreme moments of chess history. With wit, clarity and chessic insight, these expert insiders explore the many beguiling byways of chess, analyze a superb collection of notable games, and explain the interaction of style and temperament in the all-time great masters of chess. Beautifully illustrated with more than 200 paintings, prints and photographs-many never before published and 72 pages of full color.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCorners bumped. Dust Jacket points and corners chipped, tears at hinges and edges. 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Royal octavo (9 1\/4\" x 5 7\/8\") bound in original publisher's light green with black lettering to spine and black pictorial and white lettering on cover. Translated from the Russian and edited by K P Neat. First published in Russian in 1981. Pergamon Chess Series. First American edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMuch has already been written about the acrimonious \"battle of Baugio City\", 1978, when World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov was challenged for his title by Soviet defector Viktor Korchnoi and incidents involving yogurt pots, parapsychologists and convicted terrorists hit the press headlines. Here, for the first time in the West, the events are related from the Soviet point of view, by Karpov himself, who also reveals much of interest regarding his methods of preparation. The two players clashed again three years later, in Merano, and this second match together with events leading up to it, are described by the head of the Soviet delegation at both matches, Viktor Baturinsky.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNear fine issued without dust jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSOLD 2019\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Chess Collector","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39500964298952,"sku":"7691","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0529\/9899\/6168\/products\/tcc354tcc_2nd.jpg?v=1618133460"},{"product_id":"356","title":"How Karpov Wins","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMednis, Edmar [1937- ]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYear: \u003c\/b\u003e1975\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eDavid McKay Co\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlace: \u003c\/b\u003eNew York\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDescription:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003exvi+358 pages with diagrams Octavo (8 1\/2\" x 6\") issued in red cloth with black lettering to spine. (Lusis: 1286) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis work is the first book to answer the question \"How Karpov Wins?\" with the intent of instructing players of all levels and improving their game. Although it contains analysis o each of the games (about one hundred) that Karpov has won in major competition since he became a world-class player, this work is much more than just a \"best games\" book. Dispensing with long, complicated, exhaustive variations an sub-variations. Edmar Mednis - and International Chess Master - considers each game from the standpoint of how Karpov actually won it, explaining simply Karpov's tactics, strategy and even his psychological approach. Beyond its instruction effectiveness \u003ci\u003eHow Karpov Wins\u003c\/i\u003e reveals many interesting aspects of Karpov's play itself\" Does he win more with white or with black? what openings is he most effective with? Or against? Does he create his wins in opening, middle or end game? Does he use combinations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpine ends lightly rubbed. Dust jacket spine ends chipped with closed tears, some closed tears at back head edge, front fold over flap creased. Over all a very good copy in a very good dust jacket.\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":39500964364488,"sku":"5947","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0529\/9899\/6168\/products\/tcc356tcc_2nd.jpg?v=1618133463"},{"product_id":"357","title":"Technique in Chess","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eAbrahams, Gerald (1907-1980)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYear: \u003c\/b\u003e1961\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\u003e[6]+216 pages with diagrams. Small octavo (7 1\/2\" x 5 1\/2\") bound in original publisher's sea blue with brown lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. (Betts: 11-102) first edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe aim of the work is to define, with relevant examples, what chess technique is. Its use is examined and explained in various types of positions. Much of the book is devoted to the end-game, where it was more easily possible to isolate technical devices and considerable use is made of composed end-game studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJacket spine slightly darkened. 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Small octavo (7 1\/2\" x 4 3\/4\") issued in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. Completely revised by Reuben Fine under the editorship of R C Griffith and P W Sergeant, specially compiled for match and tournament players. \u003cspan color=\"blue\" style=\"color: blue;\"\u003e[Signed by Ruben Fine]\u003c\/span\u003e (Betts: 12-134) 6th edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition published in 1911, previous edition 1932. Revised and enlarged with 32 additional pages and 1215 columns of analysis compared with 1060 in the 5th edition. Includes material from games played up to 1938. The use of addenda and 'starred' variations to indicate the best lines, had been abandoned; evaluation of variations is indicated in this edition by a system of symbols. Openings are arranged alphabetically.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eModerate rubbing to spine ends, previous owner's stamp on front paste down. 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Duodecimo (6 3\/4\" x 4 3\/4\") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering, head page ends gilt. Limited to 250 copies. Overbrook Chess Series number 2. (Betts: 33-31) First edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContains an introduction, a dedicatory problem and 100 of Gamage's compositions with full accompanying notes; 83 two-movers; 14 three-movers; 3 four-movers. solutions appear on pages 221-7.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoints rubbed, corners bumped, very light staining to front paste down and end paper, lightly soiled. 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Octavo (8\" x 5 1\/4\") bound in original publisher's  green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and cover and black and gilt knight chess pieces on cover. First edition in Russian.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZurich Candidates was held in Switzerland, at Neuhausen and Zurich, in 1953. The Swiss Chess Federation spent 100,000 Swiss francs in order to stage the event, which was one of the reasons they insisted that host countries pay the travel expenses for their respective players. Prize money for first place was 5,000 Swiss francs. Alois Nagler was tournament director. All contestants brought a second except for Bronstein and Reshevsky: Miroljub Trifunovic (Gligoric), Salomon Flohr (Taimanov), Julio Bolbochan (Najdorf), Andre Lilienthal (Petrosian), Mikhail Beilin (Averbakh), Carel Benjamin van den Berg (Euwe), Kristian Skold (Stahlberg), Tibor Florian (Szabo), Alexey Sokolsky (Boleslavsky), Viktor Moiseev (Kotov), Igor Bondarevsky (Geller), Vladimir Simagin (Smyslov), and Alexander Kazimirovich Tolush (Keres). The opening banquet featured speeches by FIDE President Folke Rogard, Mark Taimanov, and Miguel Najdorf. Smyslov sang an aria from Italian opera and Taimanov played piano compositions by Tchaikovsky and Chopin. Play began on Sunday 30 August in the spacious Kirchgemeindehaus (Parish Hall), which would host the first eight rounds. In Round 9 play began in the Kongresshaus (Salon of Music in the House of Parliament) in Zurich, which would host the rest of the tournament. From rounds 9-11 Reshevsky led, only to be overtaken by Smyslov in round 12. At the conclusion of the first half of the tournament, Smyslov was the only undefeated player, leading Reshevsky and Bronstein by a point. The American kept pace with Smyslov, sharing the lead by Round 21. The stage was set for a showdown in Round 25, with Reshevsky just a half point behind Smyslov and facing him in their second meeting of the tournament- Smyslov vs Reshevsky, 1953. Smyslov obtained an advantage out of the opening and began inexorably to restrict black's activity. According to Smyslov, the first critical moment came when Reshevsky made a \"reckless attempt to complicate matters\". Reshevsky resigned after 56 moves, giving Smyslov a 1 1\/2 point lead over him with five rounds to go. 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