Alekhine Annotations (7 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. xxii+291+[5 ad] pages with frontispiece, tables, diagrams and index. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. (Betts: 34-234) Annotations by Alexander Alekhine. Round by round commentary by A J Mackenzie. First published by Dover in 1962. Nottingham 1936, was a 15-player round robin chess tournament held August 10-28 at the University of Nottingham. It was one of the strongest of all time. Dr. J. Hannak wrote in his 1959 biography of Emanuel Lasker that "when it comes to awarding the plum for 'the greatest chess tournament ever', in 1936, the Nottingham Tournament was certainly just that". W. H. Watts in the Introduction to the tournament book called Nottingham 1936 "the most important chess event the world has so far seen". It is one of the very few tournaments in chess history to include five past, present, or future world champions (Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Euwe and Botvinnik)! A number of other prominent players, such as Reuben Fine, Samuel Reshevsky and Salo Flohr, were in the tournament. According to the unofficial Chessmetrics ratings, the tournament was (as of March 2005) one of only five tournaments in history that had the top eight players in the world playing, and was (in terms of the leading players playing) the third strongest in history. All of the top twelve players on Chessmetrics' August 1936 rating list competed in the tournament except for numbers nine and ten (Andor Lilienthal and Paul Keres). The event is also notable for being Lasker's last major event, and for Botvinnik achieving the first Soviet success outside the Soviet Union. In parallel with the main tournament, the venue also played host to the 1936 British Women's Championship. The event was won by Edith Holloway (1868-1956), age sixty-eight and a former winner in 1919. Condition: Light edge wear corners bumped else very good.…

Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 64 pp. Original black wraps w/ mild edge wear. Faint dampstain along bottom edge of rear cover and to corner of the inside of the front cover. Illust. w/ b/w photos. Contents nice.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 156 pages with diagrams and tables. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial stapled wrappers. First edition. San Remo 1930 was the first international chess tournament held in the famous San Remo casino. Sixteen chess masters from Europe and the Americas, including the World Champion, played a round robin tournament from 16 January to 4 February 1930. The games were played in the casino during the day, and in the evening the playing hall was used for dancing. Alexander Alekhine dominated the field with a score of 14/15, 3½ points ahead of second placed Aron Nimzowitsch, and winning the grand prize of 10,000 lire. Condition: Edge wear else very good.…

Paperback, 13.75x21.25cm, 291pp. Good condition. Light wear and creases. Foxed edges. ISBN: 0486201899.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 8vo. Pp. xxiv, 273, [3]pp. publishers ads. Illustrated. Original printed boards, some wear to spine, some toning to boards, stamp of Klug on front board and pastedowns.This copy inscribed in 1928 by noted Seattle historian Clarence Bagley, and then President of the Seattle Chess Club, to V. Childs Klug in recognition of him winning the Seattle club championship in 1928. A great local slant to monumental chess tournament held in New York in 1924.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. xxii+291 pages with frontispiece, tables, diagrams and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") Privately bound in blue artificial leather with gilt lettering to spine and blind stamped edge ruled. Facsimile jacket from Printing Craft edition. (Betts: 34-234) Signed by J.R. Capablanca, M. Botvinnik. Dr. Alekhine, W. Winter, G.A. Thomas, M. Euwe, and E. Bogoljubow  on paper slip laid in. Round by round commentary by A J Mackenzie. First edition. Nottingham 1936, was a 15-player round robin chess tournament held August 10-28 at the University of Nottingham. It was one of the strongest of all time.Dr. J. Hannak wrote in his 1959 biography of Emanuel Lasker that "when it comes to awarding the plum for 'the greatest chess tournament ever', in 1936, the Nottingham Tournament was certainly just that". W. H. Watts in the Introduction to the tournament book called Nottingham 1936 "the most important chess event the world has so far seen". It is one of the very few tournaments in chess history to include five past, present, or future world champions (Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Euwe and Botvinnik)! A number of other prominent players, such as Reuben Fine, Samuel Reshevsky and Salo Flohr, were in the tournament. According to the unofficial Chessmetrics ratings, the tournament was (as of March 2005) one of only five tournaments in history that had the top eight players in the world playing, and was (in terms of the leading players playing) the third strongest in history. All of the top twelve players on Chessmetrics' August 1936 rating list competed in the tournament except for numbers nine and ten (Andor Lilienthal and Paul Keres). The event is also notable for being Lasker's last major event, and for Botvinnik achieving the first Soviet success outside the Soviet Union. In parallel with the main tournament, the venue also played host to the 1936 British Women's Championship. The event was won by Edith Holloway (1868-1956), age sixty-eight and a former winner in 1919. David DeLucia's chess library contains 7,000 to 8,000 chess books, a similar number of autographs (letters, score sheets, manuscripts), and about 1,000 items of "ephemera". DeLucia's library contains such items as "a 15th-century Lucena manuscript, score-sheets ranging from Fischer's Game of the Century against Donald Byrne to all the games of the 1927 New York tournament, eight letters by Morphy, over a hundred Lasker manuscripts, Capablanca's gold pocket watch, [and] the contract of the 1886 Steinitz-Zukertort world championship match". Condition: David DeLucia's book plate and Reginald George Hennessey Chess Library plate to front paste down. Points lightly rubbed. Signature leaf laid in else a very good copy. Signature leaf signed at the tournament and married to the book after publication. Leaf in fair condition. Signed by Author(s).…