New York 1857. The Book of the First American Chess Congress: Containing the proceedings of that celebrated assemblage, held in New York, in the year 1857, with the papers read in its sessions, the games played in the grand tournament, and the stratagems entered in the problem tournay; together with sketches of the history of chess in the old and new world. 67 games from the tournament with annotations in English. Many diagrams. Descriptive notation. Morphy won. This is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the original New York 1859 edition. Frontispiece. 563 pages. 19,5 cm. Blue leatherette with a dust jacket. Zürich, Olms, 1985. "Tschaturanga ...", Band 60. Lusis 1405. 

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