Author: Ranneforth, Heinrich (1864-1945)
Year: 1908
Publisher: A Stein's Verlagsbuchhandlung
Place: Potsdam
Description:
178+[2 ad] pages with diagrams and tables. Royal octavo (0 1/2" x 6 1/2") bound in half black cloth and marbled boards. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5288) First edition.
The Master's section of the 16th DSB Kongress, Duesseldorf, despite the presence of Rudolf Spielmann, Georg Salwe, Jacques Mieses Mieses and a few other of note such as young Karel Trebal of Czechoslovakia, was much weaker that the Vienna and Prague which Marshall had just competed. Marshall rolled over the opposition, to score his sixth international tournament victory. The American scored 11 1/2 - 3 1/2 without a loss. Salwe, second, was a point and half behind, while Spielmann, third, was two points behind. Walter John clear fourth with a score of 9. Jacques Mieses had sole fifth with 8 1/2. Friedrich K�hnlein won the Hauptturnier A, Kurt Moll the Hauptturnier B. Marshall wrote in his unpublished notes that "Chess masters are notoriously superstitious," from the days of Zukertort and Steinitz to his time. He added that he had been "a little superstitious" ever since he had dinner one evening during the Dusseldorf tournament at a table with two Swedish women. After dinner one of the women gave Marshall a small silver pig. "Keep this," she said. "It'll bring you luck in your chess-but also illness to those you love." Marshall kept the pig-and finished 1 1/2 points ahead of second-place Salwe. He had won his first international since Nuremberg 1906, which was also a German Chess Union Congress, and now twice become "Champion of German." (But after his son Frankie fell ill, "I parted with the pig and my child recovered," he wrote. "The friend to who I sent the pig lost his wife a year afterwards!")
Condition:
Private stamp to insider paste down. title and first leaf at head trimmed, some isolated stains to a few pages else about a very good copy.
Year: 1908
Publisher: A Stein's Verlagsbuchhandlung
Place: Potsdam
Description:
178+[2 ad] pages with diagrams and tables. Royal octavo (0 1/2" x 6 1/2") bound in half black cloth and marbled boards. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5288) First edition.
The Master's section of the 16th DSB Kongress, Duesseldorf, despite the presence of Rudolf Spielmann, Georg Salwe, Jacques Mieses Mieses and a few other of note such as young Karel Trebal of Czechoslovakia, was much weaker that the Vienna and Prague which Marshall had just competed. Marshall rolled over the opposition, to score his sixth international tournament victory. The American scored 11 1/2 - 3 1/2 without a loss. Salwe, second, was a point and half behind, while Spielmann, third, was two points behind. Walter John clear fourth with a score of 9. Jacques Mieses had sole fifth with 8 1/2. Friedrich K�hnlein won the Hauptturnier A, Kurt Moll the Hauptturnier B. Marshall wrote in his unpublished notes that "Chess masters are notoriously superstitious," from the days of Zukertort and Steinitz to his time. He added that he had been "a little superstitious" ever since he had dinner one evening during the Dusseldorf tournament at a table with two Swedish women. After dinner one of the women gave Marshall a small silver pig. "Keep this," she said. "It'll bring you luck in your chess-but also illness to those you love." Marshall kept the pig-and finished 1 1/2 points ahead of second-place Salwe. He had won his first international since Nuremberg 1906, which was also a German Chess Union Congress, and now twice become "Champion of German." (But after his son Frankie fell ill, "I parted with the pig and my child recovered," he wrote. "The friend to who I sent the pig lost his wife a year afterwards!")
Condition:
Private stamp to insider paste down. title and first leaf at head trimmed, some isolated stains to a few pages else about a very good copy.