Author: Fred Reinfeld (1910-1964) and Harold Meyer Phillips
Year: 1936
Publisher: Black Knight Press
Place: New York
Description:
[i-xx]-[21]-180+[2 ad] pages with diagrams, tables and indices. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. Modern Chess Library number 5. (Betts: 25-115, (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5516) First edition.
The 6th Chess Olympiad, organized by the FIDE and comprising an open and (unofficial) women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between August 16 and August 31, 1935, in Warsaw, Poland. The famous retired Polish master Dawid Przepiórka took the major responsibility as a chairman of Organizing Committee. The Women's World Chess Championship also took place during the Olympiad. The United States took first with a score total of 54 with Sweden a point and half off for second and closely followed by Poland at 52 points. Hungary was always a contender but finished fourth with a score of 51. The U S team was made up of Frank Marshall (Captain), Reuben Fine, Abraham Kupchik, Arthur Dake and I A Horowitz.
Condition:
Some offsetting darkening to end pages and pastedowns, points bumped and rubbed through, spine sunned else about very good.