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Pillsbury's Chess Career

The tragedy of an American genius

226 Seiten, kartoniert, Reprint, Hardinge, 2002, original erschienen 1922

Aus der Reihe »Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics«

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Descriptive Notation.

The New World has a curious habit of despatching emissaries of great - yet strangely circumscribed - power to the Old. These emissaries demolish the ancien regime only to retire, withdraw, or even perish; mysterious flashes of chess board brilliance all too soon extinguished by disease, madness or the banal pressure of venal circumstance.
In this context names which spring readily to mind are those of Paul Morphy, Reuben Fine, Bobby Fischer and Harry Nelson Pillsbury, the subof this book, which gives all of his most important games with light notes. Here was a man who took the chess world by storm when he won Hastings 1895, the greatest tournament which had ever been held, crushing the hopes of all the established European champions. Subsequently, until his early death, Pillsbury continued to hold the world in thrall with stunning feats of memory as well as of blindfold and simultaneous chess.
It was a disaster for the chess world when Pillsbury descended suddenly into lunacy and sought to commit suicide by leaping from a window of the Institution in which he was held. Soon after that, on the 17th June 1906, he died - but his sparkling and thrilling games live on in this book.
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EAN 9781843820093
Gewicht 320 g
Hersteller Hardinge
Breite 13,7 cm
Höhe 21,5 cm
Medium Buch
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
Autor P.W. SergeantW. H. Watts
Reihe Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics
Sprache Englisch
ISBN-10 1843820099
ISBN-13 9781843820093
Jahr der Originalausgabe 1922
Seiten 226
Einband kartoniert