Author: Lasker, Emanuel (1868-1941)
Year: 1910
Publisher: Press of Emanuel Lasker
Place: New York
Description:
xvi+192 pages with frontispiece, diagrams, tables, plates and opening index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6 1/4") bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and original wrappers bound in. Translated from the German by Richard Teichmann. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5295) (Betts:25-47) First American edition.
Originally published as Der Internationale Schachkongress zu St Petersburg, 1909, Berlin 1909. The St. Petersburg Chess Club consisted of the elite. After Chigorin's death, the club decided to organize a memorial tournament. President of the organizing committee was P. P. Saburov, a powerful diplomat. The main event lasted from 14 ii - 12 iii 1909. The time limits were 37 moves in 2 1/2 hours, 23 in 1 1/2 and 15 per hour. A budget of 10,500 Rubles took care of the prizes, money for points and expenses. Favorites were Emanuel Lasker, Akiba Rubinstein and Carl Schlechter. The world champion Lasker had not played a tournament since Cambridge Springs 1904. The main tournament was dominated by the race between Rubinstein and Lasker. Rubinstein took the lead by a win over Lasker in round three. The manifest superiority of Rubinstein (+12 -1 =5) and Lasker (+13 -2 =3), 3 1/2 point ahead of their nearest rivals, dazzled the St Petersburg assemblage - and set up a resound clamor for a match to determine the best player in the world. The all Russian Hauptturnier saw the emergence of the coming great figure of world chess, Alexander Alekhine (+12 -2 =2), who won a single point ahead of G A Rotlevi. Rotlevi was destined to make a fine showing at Carlsbad two years later and then abruptly vanish from the world chess scene.
Condition:
Rebound with original wrappers, front wrapper chipped gutter heal else a very good copy.
SOLD 2021
Year: 1910
Publisher: Press of Emanuel Lasker
Place: New York
Description:
xvi+192 pages with frontispiece, diagrams, tables, plates and opening index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6 1/4") bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and original wrappers bound in. Translated from the German by Richard Teichmann. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5295) (Betts:25-47) First American edition.
Originally published as Der Internationale Schachkongress zu St Petersburg, 1909, Berlin 1909. The St. Petersburg Chess Club consisted of the elite. After Chigorin's death, the club decided to organize a memorial tournament. President of the organizing committee was P. P. Saburov, a powerful diplomat. The main event lasted from 14 ii - 12 iii 1909. The time limits were 37 moves in 2 1/2 hours, 23 in 1 1/2 and 15 per hour. A budget of 10,500 Rubles took care of the prizes, money for points and expenses. Favorites were Emanuel Lasker, Akiba Rubinstein and Carl Schlechter. The world champion Lasker had not played a tournament since Cambridge Springs 1904. The main tournament was dominated by the race between Rubinstein and Lasker. Rubinstein took the lead by a win over Lasker in round three. The manifest superiority of Rubinstein (+12 -1 =5) and Lasker (+13 -2 =3), 3 1/2 point ahead of their nearest rivals, dazzled the St Petersburg assemblage - and set up a resound clamor for a match to determine the best player in the world. The all Russian Hauptturnier saw the emergence of the coming great figure of world chess, Alexander Alekhine (+12 -2 =2), who won a single point ahead of G A Rotlevi. Rotlevi was destined to make a fine showing at Carlsbad two years later and then abruptly vanish from the world chess scene.
Condition:
Rebound with original wrappers, front wrapper chipped gutter heal else a very good copy.
SOLD 2021