The Chess-Player's Handbook. A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess,: Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters, and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions.
by Howard Staunton
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London: Henry G. Bohn, 1848. Second Edition, Revised. Hardcover. Good. Professionally restored. The book has been rebacked with the orignal partial spine. Sound and tight. Unmarked with scattered foxing, staining. Chromo-litho frontis. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! The WorldCat locates 2 copies of this edition (none of the first) held in libraries world-wide. "Howard Staunton (1810 1874) was an English chess master who is generally regarded as having been the world's strongest player from 1843 to 1851, largely as a result of his 1843 victory over Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant. He promoted a chess set of clearly distinguishable pieces of standardised shapethe Staunton pattern promulgated by Nathaniel Cookethat is still the style required for competitions. He was the principal organiser of the first international chess tournament in 1851, which made England the world's leading chess centre and caused Adolf Anderssen to be recognised as the world's strongest player....In 1847 Staunton published his most famous work, The Chess-Player's Handbook, which is still in print. It contained over 300 pages of opening analysis, and almost 100 pages of endgame analysis. Staunton's Handbook was based on Bilguer and von der Lasa's Handbuch des Schachspiels (first published in 1843), but enhanced by many variations and analyses of Staunton's own."--Wikipedia.
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- Title
- The Chess-Player's Handbook. A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess,
- Author
- Howard Staunton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
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- Edition
- Second Edition, Revised
- Publisher
- Henry G. Bohn
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1848
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