The Chess Battles of Hastings - Brustkern, Jurgen; Wallet, Norbert
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No other chess tournament has such a long and rich history as the annual gathering 'in between the years' at the English seaside resort of Hastings. Countless chess players, professionals, and amateurs alike have celebrated Christmas and welcomed the New Year in Hastings while battling it out on the chessboard. German FM Jürgen Brustkern has been making the annual pilgrimage to Hasting ever since 1977. Together with his compatriot Norbert Wallet, he describes the tournament's fascinating history and portrays forty of the most colourful participants. The stories begin in 1895 when the young…mehr

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No other chess tournament has such a long and rich history as the annual gathering 'in between the years' at the English seaside resort of Hastings. Countless chess players, professionals, and amateurs alike have celebrated Christmas and welcomed the New Year in Hastings while battling it out on the chessboard. German FM Jürgen Brustkern has been making the annual pilgrimage to Hasting ever since 1977. Together with his compatriot Norbert Wallet, he describes the tournament's fascinating history and portrays forty of the most colourful participants. The stories begin in 1895 when the young American Harry Pillsbury shocked the European chess elite with his victory and span 125 years.
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Jürgen Brustkern is a German Fide Master, Bundesliga veteran, chess coach, and chess columnist. His love for Hastings originated in 1977 when he first played there, and has never left him. He lives in Berlin, Germany. Norbert Wallet is a German journalist and the Berlin bureau chief for the Stuttgarter Nachrichten and Stuttgarter Zeitung, covering politics and occasionally reporting about chess. Both authors play chess at the SC Freibauer Schöneberg chess club in Berlin.