Description
Book Synopsis 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.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1—The Chess Scene before 1834
2—Louis-Charles Mahé de la Bourdonnais
3—Alexander McDonnell
4—Ludwig Erdmann Bledow
5—Paul Rudolf von Bilguer
6—Bernhard Horwitz
7—Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa
8—John Cochrane
9—Howard Staunton
10—Lionel Adelberto Bagration Felix Kieseritzky
11—Serafino Dubois
12—Johann Jacob Löwenthal
13—Adolf Anderssen
14—Max Lange
15—Ernst Karl Falkbeer
16—Daniel Harrwitz
17—George Henry Mackenzie
18—Paul Charles Morphy
19—Louis Paulsen
20—Ignaz Kolisch
21—William Steinitz
22—Gustav Richard Ludwig Neumann
23—Joseph Henry Blackburne
24—Emil Schallopp
25—Henry Edward Bird
26—Cecil Valentine De Vere
27—Samuel Rosenthal
28—Johannes Hermann Zukertort
29—Amos Burn
30—James Mason
31—Szymon Abramowicz Winawer
32—Berthold Englisch
33—Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin
34—Semyon (Simon) Alapin
35—Johann Berger
36—William Henry Krause Pollock
37—Isidor Arthur Gunsberg
38—Siegbert Tarrasch
39—Max Weiss
40—Emanuel Stepanovich Schiffers
41—Curt von Bardeleben
42—Jacques Mieses
43—Harry Nelson Pillsbury
44—Emanuel Lasker
45—Jackson Whipps Showalter
46—Adolf Albin
47—Rudolf Charousek
48—Carl August Walbrodt
49—Georg Marco
50—Dawid Markelowicz Janowski
51—Géza Maróczy
The 19th Century's Top Ten Tournament Players
The 19th Century's Top Four Match Players
Bibliography
Opponents Index (to game numbers)
Annotators Index (to game numbers)
Openings Index—Traditional Names (to game numbers)
Openings Index—ECO Classification (to game numbers)
Index of Endgames (to page numbers)
General Index (to page numbers)
