The Chess-Player's Companion: Comprising a New Treatise on Odds,and a Collection of Games contested by the author with various distinguished players during the last en years; including the Great French Match with Mons. St Amant; to which are added a s
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Author: Staunton, Howard (1810-1874)

Year: 1849

Publisher: Henry G Bohn

Place: London

Description:

xi+510 pages with frontispiece and diagrams. Small octavo (7" x 4 1/2") bound in original publisher's red decorative cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover with pictorial set up chess board stamped in gilt with decorative ruled edges. (Whyld and Ravillous: 1849:6) First edition.

Howard Staunton was an English chess master. Some argue that Staunton was the world's strongest player from 1843 to about 1851. He was also a newspaper chess columnist, chess book author, and minor Shakespearean scholar. He gave his name to the style of chess pieces which he endorsed. 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."

Condition:

Hinges cracked, spine ends chipped, corners bumped and rubbed through, closed tear across spine, some internal pencil checks, spine sunned else a better than good copy.