Joseph Henry Blackburne

Author : Tim Harding
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-13
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781476620282

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Joseph Henry Blackburne by Tim Harding Pdf

During a career spanning more than 50 years, J.H. Blackburne (1841–1924) won the British Chess Championship and several international tournaments, at his peak becoming one of the world’s top three chess masters. A professional player who derived his livelihood from annual tours of chess clubs in England and other countries, entertaining and teaching amateur players, he astonished his contemporaries by the ease with which he played the game without sight of the chessboard. At 21, he set a world record for such exhibitions, competing against 12 club players simultaneously, and he continued to perform “blindfold” into his sixties. This first comprehensive biography of Britain’s greatest chess player of the 19th and early 20th centuries presents more than 1,000 of Blackburne’s games chronologically, including all his surviving games from serious competition, annotated in varying detail. Many are masterpieces containing beautiful combinations and instructive endgame play. Blackburne’s unusual family and social background are fully explored.

Author : Tim Harding
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-21
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780786474738

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Joseph Henry Blackburne by Tim Harding Pdf

During a career spanning more than 50 years, J.H. Blackburne (1841-1924) won the British Chess Championship and several international tournaments, at his peak becoming one of the world's top three chess masters. A professional player who derived his livelihood from annual tours of chess clubs in England and other countries, entertaining and teaching amateur players, he astonished his contemporaries by the ease with which he played the game without sight of the chessboard. At 21, he set a world record for such exhibitions, competing against 12 club players simultaneously, and he continued to perform "blindfold" into his sixties. This first comprehensive biography of Britain's greatest chess player of the 19th and early 20th centuries presents more than 1,000 of Blackburne's games chronologically, including all his surviving games from serious competition, annotated in varying detail. Many are masterpieces containing beautiful combinations and instructive endgame play. Blackburne's unusual family and social background are fully explored.

Author : Joseph Henry Blackburne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Blindfold chess
ISBN : HARVARD:32044087777785

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Blackburne's Chess Games by Joseph Henry Blackburne Pdf

Author : Tim Harding
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-03
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781476601434

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Eminent Victorian Chess Players by Tim Harding Pdf

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.

Author : Bob Long
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Chess
ISBN : 1888710497

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Joseph Henry Blackburne by Bob Long Pdf

Author : Andrew Soltis
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-29
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781476611235

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Soviet Chess 1917äóñ1991 by Andrew Soltis Pdf

This large and magnificent work of art is both an interpretive history of Soviet chess from the Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of the U.S.S.R. in 1991 and a record of the most interesting games played. The text traces the phenomenal growth of chess from the Revolutionary days to the devastations of World War II, and then from the Golden Age of Soviet–dominated chess in the 1950s to the challenge of Bobby Fischer and the quest to find his Soviet match. Included are 249 games, each with a diagram; most are annotated and many have never before been published outside the Soviet Union. The text is augmented by photographs and includes 63 tournament and match scoretables. Also included are a bibliography, an appendix of records achieved in Soviet national championships, two indexes of openings, and an index of players and opponents.

Author : Tim Harding
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781476669533

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Steinitz in London by Tim Harding Pdf

Drawing on new research, this biography of William Steinitz (1836-1900), the first World Chess Champion, covers his early life and career, with a fully-sourced collection of his known games until he left London in 1882. A portrait of mid-Victorian British chess is provided, including a history of the famous Simpson's Divan. Born to a poor Jewish family in Prague, Steinitz studied in Vienna, where his career really began, before moving to London in 1862, bent on conquering the chess world. During the next 20 years, he became its strongest and most innovative player, as well as an influential writer on the game. A foreigner with a quarrelsome nature, he suffered mockery and discrimination from British amateur players and journalists, which eventually drove him to immigrate to America. The final chapters cover his subsequent visits to England and the last three tournaments he played there.

Author : Dr. S. Tartakower,J. du Mont
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780486138138

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500 Master Games of Chess by Dr. S. Tartakower,J. du Mont Pdf

Vast collection of great chess games from 1798 through 1938, with much hard-to-find material. Fully annotated, arranged by opening for easier study. 150 years of master play!

Author : Joseph Henry Blackburne,Peter Anderson Graham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Chess
ISBN : UOM:39015001686461

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Mr. Blackburne's Games at Chess, Selected, Annotated and Arranged by Himself by Joseph Henry Blackburne,Peter Anderson Graham Pdf

Author : Tony Cullen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-04
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781476639246

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Chess Rivals of the 19th Century by Tony Cullen Pdf

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.

Author : Eliot Hearst,John Knott
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-03
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780786452927

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Blindfold Chess by Eliot Hearst,John Knott Pdf

For centuries, blindfold chess--the art of playing without sight of the board or pieces--has produced some of the greatest feats of human memory, progressing to the extent that the world record in 2009 was 45 [and is now 46] simultaneous blindfold games. This work describes the personalities and achievements of some of blindfold chess's greatest players--including Philidor, Morphy, Blackburne, Zukertort, Pillsbury, Reti, Alekhine, Koltanowski, Najdorf and Fine, as well as present-day grandmasters such as Anand and Kramnik. Including some never before published, 444 games scores are presented, peppered with diagrams and annotations. Hints for playing blindfold, and its practical value, are also included.

Author : John C Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1706363044

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British Chess Strategy by John C Murray Pdf

This is my first book on British chess. For this first part, I chose Joseph Henry Blackburne.I wanted to launch a new series of books to help both beginners and tournament players who want to improve their method of calculating variantions. I wanted to make this book accessible by having exercises from games played by Joseph Henry Blackburne. This book contains 130 exercises, equivalent of 10 hours 46 minutes of training.

Author : Frank Hoffmeister
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-11
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781476644561

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Chess Theory from Stamma to Steinitz, 1735-1894 by Frank Hoffmeister Pdf

Most chess biographies present the games of famous players--but not their writings. Filling that gap, this book begins with Syrian master and author of chess studies Philip Stamma, and finishes with the first world champion William Steinitz. The main novelties in opening, middlegame and endgame theory in the 160 year period are examined and biographical sketches put the contributions of more than 30 masters into context. The author presents many new insights--for example, regarding the origins of the Ponziani Opening, the Dutch Defense and the Petroff Defense. French star La Bourdonnais used other sources for almost every part of his Nouveau Traite. Morphy's analysis of the Philidor Defense was faulty and Anderssen's play included many positional ideas. Harrwitz and Neumann published modern treatises long before Steinitz came out with his Modern Chess Instructor. Many ending themes belong to less well-known authors, such as Cozio, Chapais, van Zuylen van Nyevelt, Sarratt, Kling and Horwitz, Berger and Salvio.

Author : Wilhelm Steinitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Chess
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00062845

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The Modern Chess Instructor by Wilhelm Steinitz Pdf

Author : William Steinitz
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002-08-27
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0786411937

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The Steinitz Papers by William Steinitz Pdf

Long known as one of the greatest chess masters of the nineteenth century, William Steinitz is recognized as the first world champion. More exactly (and thanks to the efforts of the author of this book) he has been officially acknowledged as the first American world chess champion. Luckily for chess scholars, many letters and postcards survive written by Steinitz and his associates, friends and foes. After years of research, numerous personal contacts with people on three continents, and unflagging efforts to acquire any and all known letters to and from Steinitz, the author here presents in their own words a remarkable account of Steinitz and his contemporaries in the chess world of over a century ago. Notable personalities that write or are written about include Lasker, Pillsbury, Zukertort, Bird, Blackburne, Janowski, Tschigorin and Winawer. Each original letter, postcard, scrapbook item, newspaper or chess magazine article or other writing (including three lengthily-negotiated match play agreements) is described along with details of location, ownership, and circumstances of discovery. It is then printed, nearly always in full, in English (many translated from their original German by Landsberger). The author provides a running commentary on the letters and documents, which are generally chronological in arrangement, putting them in context and remarking the significance of certain points made in them. A biographical dictionary at the back of the book offers information about all the many figures who received, sent, or were mentioned in the documents or letters. Some of the games accompanying some of the letters are annotated by modern grandmaster Andy Soltis (Steinitz’s annotations and insights also accompany some). Each game is illustrated. Facsimiles of some of the letters are provided.