Author: Cheshire, Horace Fabian (1854-1922) [editor]
Year: 1896
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Place: London
Description:
xii+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.
The 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. (Goldman: Carl Schlechter!)
Condition:
Corners gently rubbed, spine ends rubbed inner hinges beginning, edges and hinges moderately rubbed, frontispiece loose, else a very good copy issued without dust jacket.
SOLD 2016