Tim Harding

Eminent Victorian Chess Players

Ten Biographies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book portrays British chess life in the nineteenth century through biographical studies of ten players who shaped the modern game. From Captain Evans, inventor of the famous gambit, to Isidor Gunsberg, England's first challenger for the world championship, personal narratives are blended with game annotations to reassess players' achievements and character. The author has combined deep reading in primary sources with genealogical research to reveal new facts and correct previous misunderstandings. Major chapters on Howard Staunton and William Steinitz, in particular, highlight the tensions between Englishmen and immigrants, amateurs and professionals. The contrasting long careers of Henry Bird and Joseph Blackburne provide a thread of continuity. The lives of several other important figures in Victorian chess are also presented. More than 160 games (with diagrams), several annotated in detail, and 50 photographs and line drawings are included. Appendices provide career records for all ten; there are extensive notes, a bibliography and indexes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 764g
• ISBN-13: 9780786465682
• ISBN-10: 0786465689
• Artikelnr.: 34747131

Autorenporträt

Tim Harding played for Ireland at the 1984 FIDE chess olympiad in Thessaloniki. He is a FIDE Candidate Master and a Senior International Master of correspondence chess. He is a former editor of Chess Mail magazine and for almost 20 years he contributed monthly articles in "The Kibitzer" series at www.chesscafe.com. He lives in Dublin, Ireland.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments     
Abbreviations and Annotation Symbols     
1. William Davies Evans (1790-1872)     
2. Howard Staunton (1810-1874)     
3. John Jacob Löwenthal (1810?-1876)     
4. Henry Edward Bird (1829-1908)     
5. Arthur Bolland Skipworth (1830-1898)     
6. William Steinitz (1836-1900)     
7. Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841-1924)     
8. Johannes Hermann Zukertort (1842-1888)     
9. Amos Burn (1848-1925)     
10. Isidor Arthur Gunsberg (1854-1930)     
Appendix I. Career Records     
Appendix II. Games by Captain Evans     
Appendix III. Evans Family Financial Appeals     
Appendix IV. Staunton's Contract with Routledge     
Appendix V. Löwenthal's Will     
Appendix VI. The Career of Mephisto     
Chapter Notes     
Select Bibliography     
Index of Images     
Index of Opponents     
Index of Openings (by Name)     
Index of Openings (by ECO Code)     
General Index