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"THE STEINITZ PAPERS"
By Kurt Landsberger (2002)
McFarland 1st Hardback Edition SOLD OUT
Landsberger, Kurt: "The Steinitz Papers". Letters and Documents of the First World Chess Champion, edited by KURT LANDSBERGER.
Jefferson, McFarland, 2002. Original hardback edition. VIII (including Half Title page, Frontispiece with Steinitz's portrait and Title page) + 325 pages + 16 unnumbered pages on coated paper, between pages 70-71, containing 25 photos & facsimiles (according to McFarland it would be 27, although everything is complete, and it is only a difference of criteria to count the photos) + 8 unnumbered pages on coated paper, between pages 278-279, containing facsimiles of 8 documents in the private collection of Kurt Landsberger (according to McFarland it would be 15, although everything is complete, and it is only a difference of criteria to count the photos). According to McFarland's information the book has 45 photos & facsimiles (42 on glossy plates. The 3 photos/facsimiles on normal paper are the Frontispiece with the Steinitz's portrait, the Landsberger photo on page 7, and the Steinitz photo on page 158), since there is some photograph/facsimile that has been composed with some photos together. 26,1 x 18,3 cm. In English.
Excellent to as new: Practically as new condition. Noteworthy only a slight and small wrinkle at the top of all pages, being more visible on glossy pages.
McFarland:
"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).
About the Author:
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.
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"
Special mention should be made of the collaboration of Grandmaster Andy Soltis, complementing Steinitz's own analysis of the 11 games of the Steinitz-Schiffers match, 1896, which Steinitz won with a score of 6,5-4,5 (pages 211-225).
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Item weight 797g
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