A Chess Biography of Szymon Winawer

Szymon Winawer was a world top-10 player in the 1870s and 1880s, dueling with such titans as Steinitz, Lasker, Anderssen, Marshall, Chigorin, Zukertort, Louis Paulsen, Janowski, Maroczy, Tarrasch and others, and defeating most of the leading players of his time. He won or took prizes in major international tournaments, including Paris 1867 (second, behind Kolisch and above Steinitz), Leipzig 1877 (fourth, behind Paulsen, Anderssen and Zukertort), Paris 1878 (first equal with Zukertort, though he lost the play-off), Berlin 1881 (third equal with Chigorin, behind Blackburne and Zukertort), Vienna 1882 (first equal with Steinitz), and Nuremberg 1883 (first, ahead of Blackburne).

Celebrating 85 Years Tata Steel Tournament

Every winter, the world's strongest chess players and most promising chess prodigies travel to a small seaside village in the Netherlands to immerse themselves for two weeks in chess and chess only. Usually, the World Champion is there, vying for victory. Garry Kasparov won three times, Vishy Anand won five times, and Magnus Carlsen won a record eight times.

Masterpieces and Dramas 1948-1953

The third volume of Sergey Voronkov's epic tale takes the reader on a historical journey through the late Stalinist period in the USSR. It covers in depth the five Soviet championships from 1948 to 1952 and the playoff match between Botvinnik and Taimanov in 1953, which concludes one month before Stalin's death

Match of the Century Revisited

The World Championship match between Fischer and Spassky in Reykjavik 1972 was played at the height of the Cold War. The image of a lone American genius defeating the Soviet machine captivated a worldwide audience unlike anything else in chess history. Exactly fifty years later, Fischer – Spassky 1972 takes a fresh look at both the chess and the human aspects of this monumental match.

The Inside Story of the Legendary 1972 WCC

When the Icelandic Chess Federation made a bid to host the 1972 world title match between Soviet icon Boris Spassky and American challenger Bobby Fischer, many Icelanders were rightly shaking their heads in disbelief. How could their small island country in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean with a population of less than 300 thousand people stage such a prestigious event in the first place?

Chess Archive : Bogoljubov: Denazification Updated by Prof. Bernd-Peter Lange

Chess Biographies : The Early Chess Career of F. D. Yates (Part Five: Summer 1910) by Vlastimil Fiala

Forgotten Chess Tournaments : Tournament Research 1923-24 by Tony Gillam

Classical Chess Matches : H. Staunton vs. D. Harrwitz Duels (1846 and 1853) by Vlastimil Fiala

Jan Nepomnjaschtschi gegen Magnus Carlsen

Immer wenn sich der Weltmeister im Schach einem Herausforderer zum Kampf um die Krone stellen muss, schaut über den Kreis der Anhänger des königlichen Spiels hinaus die ganze Welt auf dieses Ereignis. So sollte es auch im Dezember 2020 sein, als der Russe Jan Nepomnjaschtschi in Dubai auf den norwegischen Titelinhaber Magnus Carlsen treffen sollte. Die Covid-19-Pandemie setze die Veranstaltung jedoch patt, sie musste in den Herbst 2021 verschoben werden. Ab dem 24. November 2021 wurde das auf 14 reguläre Wettkampfpartien angesetzte Duell dann endlich gestartet.

Masterpieces and Dramas 1938-1947

The second part of Sergey Voronkov’s three-volume treatise continues from where Volume I left off. It covers the eleventh to fifteenth Soviet championships, the 1941 match tournament for the title of Soviet Absolute Champion, and the main events in the country’s chess history between these tournaments. Themes include the downfall of Nikolai Krylenko, the persecution and disappearance of Soviet chess players during the purges, and the experience of chess players in World War Two. The atmosphere of the time is captured in contemporary accounts and memoirs of key players and cultural figures.

Aus der Reihe »Quarterly for Chess History«

005 Chess Archives

Tournament Research, 1919-1922 (Anthony Gillam)

179 Chess Biographies

The Short Career of Wilhelm Hanstein (1811-1850) (Vlastimil Fiala)

217 Forgotten Chess Tournaments

Chess in Displaced Person Camps after World War Two and th Aus der Reihe »Quarterly for Chess History«

In 1971 Robert James Fischer defeated Mark Taimanov by the sensational score of 6– 0 in Vancouver, but the match games were far more competitive and tension-filled than the final score would suggest. Twenty years later Taimanov put pen to paper, reflecting on the experience. Exactly 50 years after the match, this is the first English translation of Taimanov’s original Russian text

Candidates Tournament 2020 Yekaterinburg - Vol. 1

The balanced flow of the normal chess calendar was unexpectedly interrupted by a frightening occurrence. Seemingly harmless at first, the coronavirus pandemic overtook more and newer countries by the day and gradually became pretty much the main, and only determining factor in life.

Aus der Reihe »Quarterly for Chess History«

005 Editor's Note

007 Chess Archives

007 Swedish chess in the shadow of the Swastika (Henrik Lindberg)

026 Chess Biographies

026 Mikhail Chigorin (Vlastimil Fiala)

The Meeting of the British Chess Association

Complete tournament book won by Ignaz von Kolisch, ahead of Charles Stanley. The book contains 29 games in total, of which 17 are all the games of the tournament, 6 games are from the exhibition match Staunton - Worrall and the rest are various exhibition games. Some games are annotated from contemporary sources (Staunton, Loewenthal). The book includes the tournament history, rules, official report, 25 problems from the problem tournament - all diagrammed with solutions etc. Indexes of players and openings.

80 Seiten, englisch, kartoniert, 1. Auflage 2019

Focusing on the recovery of chess in Spain and Europe after World War II, this book traces the development of the International Chess Tournaments in Gijón from 1944 to 1965. The authors cover the decline of world champion Alekhine and the rise of the child prodigy Arturo Pomar, along with the great chess of Euwe, Rossolimo, Prins, Medina, Larsen and others.