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.

Fabrizio Zavatarelli is a teacher of applied mathematics and the author of several articles concerning chess history. He lives in Milan, Italy.

362 Seiten, Bibliothekseinband, englisch, 2015