Many historical chess books focus on individual 19th century masters and tournaments yet little is written covering the full scope of competitive chess through the era. This volume provides a comprehensive overview, with more than a third of the 300 annotated games analyzed by past masters and checked by powerful engines.
Players such as Max Lange and Cochrane, known to the chess public only by the name given to a fierce attack or gambit, are brought to life. Fifty masters are each given their own chapter, with brief biographies, results and anecdotes and an endgame section for most chapters.
Tony Cullen played chess for the strong London Central YMCA Chess Club and organized tours playing team matches against strong opposition in various European cities. He lives in London.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction 1
- — The Chess Scene before 1834 3
- — Louis-Charles Mahé de la Bourdonnais 9
- — Alexander McDonnell 18
- — Ludwig Erdmann Bledow 25
- — Paul Rudolf von Bilguer 30
- — Bernhard Horwitz 36
- — Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa 42
- — John Cochrane 49
- — Howard Staunton 57
- — Lionel Adelberto Bagration Felix Kieseritzky 67
- — Serafino Dubois 74
- — Johann Jacob Löwenthal 81
- — Adolf Anderssen 91
- — Max Lange 104
- — Ernst Karl Falkbeer 109
- — Daniel Harrwitz 115
- — George Henry Mackenzie 127
- — Paul Charles Morphy 136
- — Louis Paulsen 148
- — Ignaz Kolisch 159
- — William Steinitz 167
- — Gustav Richard Ludwig Neumann 185
- — Joseph Henry Blackburne 194
- — Emil Schallopp 206
- — Henry Edward Bird 213
- — Cecil Valentine De Vere 223
- — Samuel Rosenthal 230
- — Johannes Hermann Zukertort 236
- — Amos Burn 246
- — James Mason 255
- — Szymon Abramowicz Winawer 264
- — Berthold Englisch 273
- — Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin 280
- — Semyon (Simon) Alapin 291
- — Johann Berger 297
- — William Henry Krause Pollock 304
- — Isidor Arthur Gunsberg 314
- — Siegbert Tarrasch 322
- — Max Weiss 332
- — Emanuel Stepanovich Schiffers 340
- — Curt von Bardeleben 348
- — Jacques Mieses 356
- — Harry Nelson Pillsbury 365
- — Emanuel Lasker 377
- — Jackson Whipps Showalter 393
- — Adolf Albin 399
- — Rudolf Charousek 407
- — Carl August Walbrodt 413
- — Georg Marco 420
- — Dawid Markelowicz Janowski 429
- — Géza Maróczy 438