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The International Chess Tournament London 1883 in letters by William Steinitz

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309 pages. Limited edition of 40 signed and numbered copies, this is number 5 of them. Additional with a personal dedication by Mr. Gijssen to me.

The Hastings Chess Tournament 1895

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Containing the authorised account of the 230 games , with annotations by the players and biographical sketches of the chess masters. 8°, with 22 portraits (III) - XII, 370 pages, 1 Bl., 32 pages publisherannouncements. Original red cloth binding with…

THE GOOD COMPANION TWO-MOVER

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TITLE 28 of the famous A.C. WHITE "CHRISTMAS SERIES". Altogether 912 problems by 174 members of the Good Companion Chess Problem Club of Philadelphia (the club had over 600 members worldwide). The problems explain 175 problem terms and were…

The First IUS Chess Tournament April 1952

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Liverpool 1952. The first IUS Chess Tournament. 10 - 13 April 1952, Algebraic notation 17 pages. Short introduction for this seven round-robin tournament. Bronstein and Taimanov came on shared first place. 28 games from the main tournament and 9…

The Classical Era of Modern Chess

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155 illustrations, glossary, appendices, bibliography, index
616pp. library binding

The Chess World 1866-1869

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The Chess World 1866-1869 : "A Magazine Devoted to the Cultivation of the Game of Chess, Containing Games and Problems by the First Masters (1865–1869) Vol.1 no.1 (Mar 1865)–Vol.4, no.12 (Mar1869). Monthly. Publisher Trübner & Co. London.…