<p>5 adverts including pastedownfrontispiecexcvi5363 advert pages with diagrams and indexes. Small octavo 7 1/2" x 5" bound in original publisher's red cloth binding with blind embossing to cover and spine and hilt lettering to spine. From the library of Lothar Schmid. Linde 5188; van der Linde 1622; Betts 25 - 4 First edition.</p><p>The 'memoir' contains reports of the past meetings of the British Chess Association . a general account of the tournament etc by George Webb Medley. There follow the 177 games with brief notes and 23 other games and a selection from the 1861 Bristol Congress. Also includes 296 problems submitted for the problem tourney.</p><p>The Chess Congress of 1862 also known as the 5th BCA Congress London 1862 was a major international chess tournament held in London England. It is notable for being the first major international chess tournament where modern chess clocks were not used. The tournament was organized by the British Chess Association and featured a high-level competition with Adolf Anderssen taking first place. The tournament was a round-robin format. The Key Participants: Adolf Anderssen Louis Paulsen Joseph Blackburne Wilhelm Steinitz Thomas Barnes Serafino Dubois and others.</p><p>Lothar Maximilian Lorenz Schmid 10 May 1928 - 18 May 2013 was a German chess grandmaster. He was born in Radebeul near Dresden into a family who were the co-owners of the Karl May Press which published the German Karl May adventure novels. He was best known as the chief arbiter at several World Chess Championship matches in particular the 1972 encounter between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky at Reykjavic. He was also an avid collector of chess books and paraphernalia. It was reputed that he owned the largest known private chess library in the world as well as a renowned collection of chess art chess boards and chess pieces from around the globe.</p><p><strong>Condition: </strong>Name and bookplate of Lothar Schmid on the verso of the frontispiece. Book block slightly loose. Interior toned and occasionally stained. A few pages with defects. Four diagrams with problems from the problem tournament are also mounted on the back advertising pages. Cover dusty corners and edges bumped. Spine top and bottom bumped and rubbed else about very good.</p> Henry G Bohn hardcover
<p>xcvi536xxiv ad pages with frontispiece diagrams tables and indices. Small octavo 7 1/2" x 5 1/" rebound with original red cloth decorative blind stamped cover in a gilt chess board spine lettering in gilt. An account of the proceedings and a "Memoir of the British Chess Association" by G W Medley. Bohn's Scientific LibraryBetts: 25-4 Third edition originally published in 1864.<br /><br />Published in the United States by Lippincott Philadelphia and Scribner New York but dates not ascertained. The "memoir" contains reports of the past meetings of the British Chess Association the arrangements for the 1862 congress a general account of the tournament. There follow the 177 games with brief notes and 23 other games including consultation games and a selection from the problem tourney incorporating a number of self-mates and end-game studies. <br /><br />The tournament of 1862 had been promoted by the British Chess Association whose history was as follows: Before modern traveling facilities were invented it had been felt that country clubs were too much isolated. The members played with the same opponents year in and year out; they opted the style and peculiarities of their one best player; enjoyed few opportunities of measuring themselves with those outside their immediate circle and scarcely knew what first-class play really was. This did not suit the views of the enthusiasts and in 1840 a number of zealous Yorkshire players conceived the idea of mustering a number of clubs for what seemed to their minds a grand carnival - a whole day's play. Out of this was developed the Yorkshire Chess Association and from it in due time the British Chess Association. The meeting of 1862 was the eight held under its auspices the seventh having assembled at Bristol a year before. The minimum rate of play was slow twenty moves in two hours but yet it was enacted that the game shall be played out at a sitting. Time was measured by sand-glasses. The chess clock which was first suggested by Blackburne had not yet come into existence. For the first time at this tournament every player played at least one game with each competitor. The prizes were won by Adolf Anderssen £100 Louis Paulsen £50 John Owen £30 George Alcock MacDonnell £15 Serafino Dubois £10 and Wilhelm Steinitz £5 who was awarded the brilliancy prize for his win over Augustus Mongredien.<br /><br /><strong>Condition:</strong><br /><br />Rebound with original boards laid on previous owner's stamp to title else a very good copy.</p> George Bell and Sons hardcover
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Hardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Withi hardcover
<p>164 pages with frontispiece diagrams and indices. Octavo 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to cover and blind-stamped embossed cover decoration. From the library of Harold James Ruthven Murray. Betts 25-6; Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5193 First edition.</p><p>Includes the a selection of 37 games from the Congress of London 1866 Challenge Cup: 1. de Vere; 2. MacDonnell. Handicap: 1. Steinitz and Green 46 from the Dundee Congress in 1867 Challenge Cup: 1. Neumann; 2. Steinitz. Handicap: 1. Steinitz and Fraser 14 games in the Steinitz - Anderssen competition in 1866 Steinitz won 8:6 and was then considered " "best player" in the world and 64 problems.</p><p>The Dundee tournament is reckoned as the fourth ever international tournament of modern times. The first of modern chess is perhaps Madrid 1575 under the patronage of Phillip II won by Leonardo ahead of Ruy Lopez. There is a match tournament at Paris in 1821 between Deschappelles Labourdonais and Cochrane not usually listed - Labourdonnais won 13-1. London 1851 was a knock-out tournament won by Anderssen. London 1862 was an all-play-all tournament again won by Anderssen 12-1. But in 1862 a draw had to be replayed until a positive result was obtained. At Dundee in 1867 this carry-over from knock-out events was abandoned and "it was decided that a draw should be reckoned as half a game to each player engaged in it". The Congress of the British Chess Association President: Lord Lyttleton was held at Dundee with the preliminary meeting being in the boardroom of the Caledonian Railway Company on Tuesday September 3rd. The Congress consisted of three events: 1 The Grand Tourney of Blackburne De Vere G. B. Fraser Hamel Dr. J. Fraser Rev. MacDonnell Neumann Col. Robertson Spens and Steinitz. 2 The Handicap Tournament consisting of all the Grand Tournament players except for Hamel plus seven extra players contested on a knock-out system and won jointly by Steinitz and Dr. J. Fraser "by mutual agreement" after they in the final "owing to an alleged excess of the time limit by the latter Fraser consented to reckon their game as annulled. "This is the result of no rule or procedure being laid down for deciding the penalty for overstepping the time limit. No replay of the final game was possible "as Steinitz had to leave per steamer in the afternoon". 3 The Scottish Championship of eight players all-play-all won by Dr. J. Fraser 6-1. A contemporary newspaper report said about this event "after a very tedious contest".</p><p>Harold James Ruthven Murray 1868-1955 was a British educationalist inspector of schools and prominent chess historian. His book <em>A History of Chess</em> is widely regarded as the most authoritative and comprehensive history of the game.</p><p><strong>Condition:</strong> An autograph dedication by Charles E. Ranken on the front end paper: P. Powter with compliments from the Publisher of the "Chess Player's Chronicle … Nov. 1883. Some foxing. Cover stained with bumped corners spine ends rubbed else very good. Scarce chess item.</p> Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer Company hardcover
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