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x+291 pages with diagrams, plates, appendices, and index. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with silver lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Here is the progression of chess-=-from the rough and ready game played in Ben Franklin's days to the scientifically played game of today. In the 1850's Paul Morph laid down the principles of obtaining advantages, and a wave of aggressive players--Mackenzie, Lipschutz, Showalter and Hodges--appeared on the scene. Positional ideas were still unformed, however, until Harry Pillsbury forged the essentials of planning. Frank Marshall was America's last experimental, romantic chess player. By the first part of our century, Capablanca had unleashed a crafty simplicity, revealed endgame principles to America, and shown that chess is not a gamble. American players were soon battling their way to victory with a soon battling their way to victory with a pragmatic, hardheaded style. Reuben Fine and Sammy Reshevsky…
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- Title American Chess Masters from Morphy to Fischer
- Author Arthur Bisguier
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 291
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher MacMillan Publishing Company, New York/London
- Date 1974
- ISBN 9780025110502 / 0025110500
- Library of Congress subjects Chess - History, Chess - Biography
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 73018510
- Dewey Decimal Code 794.109
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