Games from the United States Chess Championship and 5th Rosenwald Trophy Tournament, New York City 1958-59

vii+35+[2 ad] type script pages printed on recto with tables. Quarto (11" x 8 1/2") bound in original publisher's wrappers with spiral spine. American Tournament Series Volume XVII. (Betts: 25-278) Limited to 140 copies of which this is number 15. First edition. 

The 10th United States Chess Championship tournament was held in New York City at the end of the year 1957. Fourteen of the US' strongest masters and grandmasters were invited to compete. Among the participants was a veritable who's who of former American champions, including Samuel Reshevsky, Arthur Bisguier, and Arnold Denker. Filling out the rest of the field was a number of players from the prestigious Third Rosenwald Trophy (1956), including a fourteen year old prodigy named Bobby Fischer. Fischer was already gaining recognition from several brilliant wins as the next generation of American chess grandmastery. However, the next generation had already arrived as Fischer dominated this, his inaugural championship, scoring wins against over half the field and finishing with 10½/13, a full point over seven-time former American champion Reshevsky. He became the youngest person ever to win the US crown, and the following year would become the youngest person to become a grandmaster.

It was the beginning of a career that would culminate in Fischer becoming world champion and earning a place as one of the greatest players in history.

Corners bumped, edge wear, toning to edges else very good.