British Chess Literature to 1914
«A well-researched, highly informative and accessible work that is a godsend for players, like me, who take a keen interest in the game's history." - Craig Pritchett, Scottish Chess Magazine, June 2018»
A huge amount was published about chess in the United Kingdom before the First World War. The growing popularity of chess in Victorian Britain was reflected in an increasingly competitive market of books and periodicals aimed at players from beginner to expert. Les mer
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Topics include today's leading chess libraries and the use of digitized chess texts and research on the Web. Special attention is given to the columns that appeared in newspapers (national and provincial) and magazines from 1813 onwards. These articles, usually weekly, provide a wealth of information on early chess, much of which is not to be found elsewhere. The lengthy first appendix, an A to Z of almost 600 chess columns, constitutes a detailed research aid. Other appendices include corrections and supplements to standard works of reference on chess.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- McFarland & Co Inc
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781476668390
- Utgivelsesår
- 2018
- Format
- 25 x 18 cm
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«A well-researched, highly informative and accessible work that is a godsend for players, like me, who take a keen interest in the game's history." - Craig Pritchett, Scottish Chess Magazine, June 2018»