Ignaz Kolisch - Fabrizio Zavatarelli

Ignaz Kolisch

The Life and Chess Career
Buch | Hardcover
376 Seiten
2015
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-9690-7 (ISBN)
58,60 inkl. MwSt
Documents the life of the Hungarian chess champion (1837-1889) and successful financier, setting it in the cosmopolitan framework of mid-19th-century Europe. The text includes approximately 100 short biographies of his competitors. More than 300 specimens of his play are presented, complete with sources and coeval annotations, translated from many languages.
An enthusiastic verve--"brio" some could say--marked both Ignaz Kolisch's personality and his games. This book documents the life of the Hungarian chess champion (1837-1889) and successful financier, setting it in the cosmopolitan framework of mid-19th century Europe. The text is enriched by about 125 or so gleanings about the lives of his competitors (including Arnous de Riviere, Anderssen, Morphy, Mackenzie, Paulsen, Falkbeer, Rosenthal, Steinitz, Winawer). 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 Milano, Italy.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Introduction

Features of This Book

Explanations

Abbreviations

I. Family and Formative Years

The Kolisches

The City of Pressburg

Infancy

A Mysterious Period

Among Chessplayers

Earliest Games

II. The Italian Year

Towards Genova

The Games Against Saint Bon

The Games Against Vitzthum

III. Arrival in Paris

Historical Framework

The Games Against Harrwitz

The Games Against Arnous de Rivière

Paris Life

The Games Against Anderssen

Last Strokes in Paris

IV. To the Conquest of London

Arrival in the Metropolis

The Match Against Worrall

Not Only Matches

The Match Against Saburov

The First Match Against Maude

A Summer Illness

V. The Season of Invitations

The Cambridge 1860 Tournament

Four Matches in London

Manchester, Liverpool and Dundee

VI. Restless

New Year’s Day in France

The First Challenge to Morphy

The Third Match Against Maude

Owen, Barnes and Wormald

The June 1861 Tour

VII. Great Expectations

The Match Against Anderssen

The Games Against Mackenzie

VIII. Louis Paulsen

The Bristol 1861 Tournament

The Match Against Paulsen

IX. A Step Backward

Paris Intermezzo

The Petersburg Visit

X. Double Life

A Pause for Reflection

The Second Challenge to Morphy

From Chess to Finance

The Match Against Hirschfeld

The Match Against Rosenthal

Embers Under Ash

XI. The Emperor’s Prize

Prelude

The Games

Neumann’s Challenge

XII. An International Champion

The Visit to Germany

Paris, Again

A Chess Star in Vienna

The Vienna Blindfold Performances

A Match with Large Odds

The Baden-Baden 1870 Tournament

Never Take a Game Too Far

XIII. Financial Takeoff

The Wiener Börsen-Syndicatskasse

The Match Between London and Vienna

Prosperity

The Vienna 1873 Tournament

Days of Wealth

In the Whirl of Business

XIV. Beatus Ille Qui Procul Negotiis

Baron and Rentier

Der Glorreiche Augenblick

The London 1883 Tournament

A Call in Nürnberg

Events of a Notable Life

The Hassan Affaire

An Old Passion and a New Home

Epilogue. After Death

Funeral and Heritage

The Two Kolisch Memorials

Kolisch and Posterity

Solutions of Problems

Appendix A: Kolisch’s Ancestry

Appendix B: Relative Currencies in Kolisch’s Time

Bibliography

Index of Players

Index of Openings—Traditional Names

Index of Openings—ECO Codes

General Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.11.2015
Zusatzinfo 324 games, 174 diagrams, 63 illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, indexes
Verlagsort Jefferson, NC
Sprache englisch
Maße 216 x 279 mm
Gewicht 1102 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Freizeit / Hobby Spielen / Raten
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport
ISBN-10 0-7864-9690-8 / 0786496908
ISBN-13 978-0-7864-9690-7 / 9780786496907
Zustand Neuware
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt?
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich