Author: Nuova Rivista degli Compilata da una Società di Dilettanti
Year: 1880
Publisher: Livorno Meucci Giuseppe
Place: Livorno
Description:
328 pages with diagrams, tables and index. Royal octavo (9" x 6 3/4") bound in half brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine over marbled boars. (Linde - No. 6182; Kieler Schachkatalog 182; Chicco / Sanvito, Lineamenti 1007) First edition.
The Nuova Rivista degli Scacchi was a monthly chess magazine in published in Livorno from September 1875 to March 1903. The magazine was founded thanks to the financial contribution of the rich Livorno merchant Luca G. Mimbelli . Among the contributors stand out the names of Serafino Dubois , Luigi Centurini , Giovanni Battista Valle , Cyril Bexley Vansittart , Carlo Salvioli , Amerigo Seghieri , Achille Campo , Luigi Mussini , Fermo Zannoni . The magazine had a section dedicated to problematology and organized several international competitions. The first competition, in 1876, required the submission of three problems: one mate in two moves, one mate in three moves and one mate in four moves. The judging commission was directed by the lawyer and composer Luigi Centurini of Genoa. The first prize went to Franz Schrüfer of Bamberg , the second to Konrad Bayer of Olomouc and the third to the Spaniard Aurelio Abela de la Torre . The first of the Italians was the famous Sienese painter Luigi Mussini .
Signature of the Austrian publicist and problemist Hermann Lehner (1842 – 1897) for Julius Steinitz on the inside cover.
Condition: Bound without original wrappers. Corners