Description
| Product ID: | 9780786496907 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Ignaz Kolisch |
| Subtitle: | The Life and Chess Career |
| Authors: | Author: Fabrizio Zavatarelli |
| Page Count: | 376 |
| Subjects: | Biography: historical, political and military, Biography: historical, political & military, Biography: sport, Board games: Chess, Biography: sport, Chess |
| Description: | Documents the life of the Hungarian chess champion (1837-1889) and successful financier, setting it in the cosmopolitan framework of mid-19th-century Europe. The text includes approximately 100 short biographies of his competitors. More than 300 specimens of his play are presented, complete with sources and coeval annotations, translated from many languages. An enthusiastic verve--"brio" some could say--marked both Ignaz Kolisch''s personality and his games. This book documents the life of the Hungarian chess champion (1837-1889) and successful financier, setting it in the cosmopolitan framework of mid-19th century Europe. The text is enriched by about 125 or so gleanings about the lives of his competitors (including Arnous de Riviere, Anderssen, Morphy, Mackenzie, Paulsen, Falkbeer, Rosenthal, Steinitz, Winawer). More than 300 specimens of his play are presented--by far the largest collection ever--complete with sources and coeval annotations, translated from many languages. Several widespread and long-standing errors are corrected. A work deeply researched among sources in many languages, the book serves also as a record of European chess in the late 1850s through the 1880s. |
| Imprint Name: | McFarland & Co Inc |
| Publisher Name: | McFarland & Co Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-11-12 |
