Cours d'Echecs Expose De L'Evolution Du Jeu at De La Pratique Actuelle Des Maitres ( Chess Course an Account of the Evolution of the Game and the Current Practice of Masters). This item is unavailable.Cours d'Echecs Expose De L'Evolution Du Jeu at De La Pratique Actuelle Des Maitres ( Chess Course an Account of the Evolution of the Game and the Current Practice of Masters)

In French. Hb, red cloth, no dj, xi + 258pp. Good. Re-bound in modern cloth, white mark on back cover. Approx. 12 pages have either (brief) inked or pencilled notation. Foxing to inside covers/endpapers and some foxing within the text. Constructed around twenty master games, mostly before the first world war, and featuring players such as Capablanca, Janowski, Rubinstein, Mason and Duras amongst others, with extensive notes and references. Alphonse Goetz (1865-1934) was one of the strongest French chess players at the end of the 19th century.