The Steinitz Papers - Letters and Documents of the First World Chess Champion

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Von Kurt Landsberger

325 Seiten, gebunden, 2002

Sprache: Englisch

McFarland & Company

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One of the greatest of chess masters, William Steinitz (he changed his name from Wilhelm when he arrived in America) is recognized as the first world champion. More exactly (and thanks to the efforts of the editor of this book, Kurt Landsberger) he has been officially acknowledged as the first American world chess champion. Many letters and postcards survive: After years of unflagging effort to acquire all known letters to and from Steinitz, the editor has compiled a remarkable record of Steinitz and his contemporaries. Each letter, postcard, scrapbook item, newspaper or chess magazine article or other writing is described along with details of its location, ownership, and circumstances of discovery. It is then printed, nearly always in full, in English (many are translated from the German by Landsberger).

Kurt Landsberger, born in Prague with the name Steinitz, is the champion’s great-grandnephew. He divides his time between Verona, New Jersey, and Delray Beach, Florida.

Grandmaster Andy Soltis, eight times champion of the Marshall Chess Club, New York Post editor and Chess Life columnist, is the author of dozens of chess books. He lives in New York City.

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Table of Contents

To the Reader     1
Introduction     3
About the Letters     9

PART I : ASCENT
The First Years     21
Mason, Hoffer, Zukertort and Steinitz     28
A Glimpse of the New World     37
No “Shadowy Anonymus”     50

PART II : ON TOP OF THE WORLD
The Hydra-Headed Monster     71
Cuba, Chess and Congress     92
Steinitz the Author     107
“One of the Chosen People…”     117
Tschigorin and Gunsberg     131
Johnson’s Universal Cyclopaedia     150
The American Chess Master from New Jersey     159
Steinitz and Lasker     161

PART III : DECLINE
Hastings, St. Petersburg and Rostov     203
Letters to Pillsbury     209
Dr. Reider’s Medical Conclusions     227
Graphology     244
The Referee     246
The Last Years     252
Contracts     266

PART IV : BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Those Whose Lives Touched That of William Steinitz     279

Acknowledgments     313
Index     317

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