Morphy's Games of Chess. Being a Selection of Three Hundred of his Games with Annotations and a Biographical Introduction de Paul Charles Morphy (1837-1884) edited by Philip Walsingham Sergeant - 1930

288 pages with diagrams, tables, illustrations, pictures and index. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") issued in blue and white pictorial wrappers. Volume 6, 12 issues. (Betts: 7-106) First edition.Published from 1946-1967), published monthly from 1946-1965, varies after 1965. Incorporating Check and The Australian Chess Review. Volume 1 was first published in February and is a combined issue of numbers 1 and 2. The Nov/Dec 1967 number was not published. Editor was Cecil John Seldon Purdy. (Betts 7-106, Van Manen 355)Condition:Edge wear. A very good set.

xvi+352 pages with diagrams, illustrations, plates, tables and index. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Volume LXXI (71). (Betts: 7-27) First edition.Published monthly from January 1881, Huddersfield, Leeds, London, Trench, Trubner, (1881-1919); London, Walbrook & Co (1920); Leeds, Whitehead & Miller, (1921-1937); London, Pitman (1938-April 1949); London, St Leonards-on-the-Sea (1949- ) Editors John Watkinson (1881-1987); Robert Frederick Green (1888-1893); Isaac MacIntyre Brown (1894-1919); R C Griffith (1920-1937); acting, September 1940-November 1940; Harry Golombek (1938-August 1940); Julius du Mont (December 1940-April 1949); B Reilly (May 1949- ). Continued the chess section of The Huddersfield College Magazine.Condition:Spine sunned, gilt dulled, corners bumped and lightly rubbed, spine ends rubbed, pages age darkened else a very good copy without jacket as issued.

252 pages with diagrams and tables. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 6 1/2") issued in beige cloth with brown lettering to spine and front cover. Forewords by J J Gielen and W A J Visser. A History of the tournament by Dr J Hannak. (Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5732). First edition.The 1948 World Chess Championship was a tournament played to determine a new World Chess Champion following the death of the previous champion Alexander Alekhine in 1946. The tournament marked the passing of control of the championship title to FIDE, the International Chess Federation. Mikhail Botvinnik won the five-player championship tournament, beginning the era of Soviet domination of international chess that would last over twenty years without interruption. Before the tournament, Botvinnik was considered the favorite because of his victory at Groningen 1946 and his pre-war results. Keres and Reshevsky were veterans of international competition. Although Euwe was the former world champion, he had played poorly since… Leer más

102+[1] pages with table and diagrams. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in stiff boards with black lettering to cover. Forward by Herausgeber. (Bibliotheek Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5358) First edition.In the summer of 1923, the Witkowitzer Eisenwerke organized a round robin chess event to be held in Mährisch-Ostrau, Czechoslovakia (Mährisch is German for Moravian, Ostrau is Ostrava). In addition to thirteen other European masters, a contract was secured for former world champion Emanuel Lasker to participate. The players were billeted at the Hotel Royal and games were played from July 1-18 in Witkowitz, a suburb of Ostrava. The event culminated in another victory for Lasker, who finished undefeated in his first tournament since 1918, a full point ahead of second place Réti.Condition:Some soiling with a stain at the head hinge, corners bumped spine ends rubbed, some pencil notations through out, previous owner's name on front end paper, pages age darkened else a good to very good copy.

279+[iii] pages with photographs, diagrams and table. Octavo (9" x 6 1/2") bound in brown cloth. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5555) First edition.Kemeri 1937 was a chess tournament held in the resort town Ķemeri, Latvia, at the Gulf of Riga from 16 June to 8 July 1937. There were three co-winners: Samuel Reshevsky, Salo Flohr and Vladimir Petrovs. Petrovs was one of the world's leading chess players in the late 1930s (e.g., the 8th Chess Olympiad at Buenos Aires 1939), but due to the political tragedies that befell the Baltic states in World War II, he became a victim of the Soviet oppression and perished in Kotlas (Russia) gulag in 1943. Alekhine and Keres tied for 4th through 5th. Endre Steiner from Hungary captured sole 6th with six points, followed by Saviely Tartakower Ruben Fine for 7th and 8th respectively.Condition:Rebound in brown cloth which has some wear to the edges and points else a very good copy.

Two page letter to Fritz Englund in Frank Wilson Wynne's hand (7 3/4" x 5") with envelope discussing the submission of a problem for Tidskrift for Schach. Hand written on the ruled note paper to Fritz Englund (1871-1933) whom was the problem editor for Tidskrift for Schach.
Fritz Carl Anton Englund (1871-1933,) entered the Stockholm chess circles as a young man, and soon became a friend of Ludvig Collijn, and publisher of Collijn's books. Englund was also a noted problemist, and an editor of Tidskrift för Schack and its problem column.
Condition:Some folds for mailing and corner else a very good copy with envelope.

288 pages with diagrams, photographs, tables, plates, lacks index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 7 1/2") bound in half green cloth with green marbled boards. Twelve issues. Volume 16 numbers 181-192. (Betts: 7-91) First edition.Incorporated The Social Chess Quarterly, July 1936 and the Canadian Chessner, August 1937. The later was continued as Canadian Supplement, published in Montreal in typescript and inserted in Canadian members subscribers' copies of the Chess (edited by Dudley M Leain).
Baruch Harold Wood was born in Sheffield, England. He founded CHESS magazine in 1935 and was its editor until 1988, when it was sold to Pergamon Press. He was also a FIDE Arbiter, a correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, and also wrote an interesting weekly column for Illustrated London News from 1949 to 1979. He co-founded the Sutton Coldfield Chess Club.
Condition:
Rebound in half green cloth with green marbled stiff boards with "Chess Club" knight on front cover, fold in issues where mailed else about very good.

230 pages with diagrams; tables and advertisement laid in. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's stiff boards. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:5340) First edition.The 21st DSB–Congress was held in Hamburg. Ehrhardt Post captured first place with 8 1/2 ahead of eleven other contestants. Friedrich Samisch was second with 7 1/2 points. Third was Willi Schalage with 7; Walter John was next with 6 1/2. Carl Carls, Paul Kruger and Georg Shories tied fifth though seventh with scores of six. There were several Hauptturnier played as well as the master tournament.Condition:Spine sunned, re-cased with original paper boards and spine laid on, pages age darkened, points bumped,about very good copy issued without jacket.

[5]+160+[24 ad] pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt illustration of queen and lettering to front cover, front cover edge ruled. (Betts:24-15). First edition.A collection of 400 miniature games (i.e. under 25 moves), played between 1760 and 1894, without annotations. in 113 cases, the winning continuations of the games are left for the reader to solve; solutions appear at the end. Also includes a chronological list of the important matches and tournaments, 1824-1894, and index of players.Condition:Stain to front cover, corners and spine ends moderately rubbed and bumped else a good to very good copy.

87 pages with illustration, tables and diagrams. Octavo (9" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5601). First edition.The Torneo Internacional Circulo de Ajedrez was held in Buenos Aires, immediately after the 8th Chess Olympiad, which was held from August 21 to September 19, 1939. The tournament was played between 2nd and 19th of October 1939 at the Circulo de Ajedrez, the main chess club in the city. Play took place at the club's long-time premises at Bartolome Mitre 670, with rounds starting at 8:30 in the evening. All participants, except Paul Keres, had decided to stay in Argentina due to outbreak of World War II. Miguel Najdorf and Paul Keres tied for first with 8 1/2; Gideon Stahlberg and Moshe Czerniak tied for second through fourth with scores of 7 each. Fifth through six was a tie by Paulino Frydman and Carlos Guimard. Robert Grau held seventh place by himself. The other participants were Markas Luckis, Jose Gerschman, Franscio… Leer más