Georg Marco Annotator (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 138 pages with diagrams and table. Octavo (8" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Spence Tournament Classics Series number 87. (Lusis: 1433) First edition. On February 23, 1914, a new club called was opened in Baden near Vienna. In order to inaugurate it, an international chess tournament was to be arranged. On March 10, Georg Marco was assigned the arrangement and management of the tournament. The program was published already on March 12, which asked the chessmasters to participate in the tournament starting on April 5. By April 20, already 14 registrations had been received, despite a fee of 50 crowns. 10 further registrations had been received by April 29. Owing to the unfortunate clashing with St Petersburg (1914), this Tournament, was not representative of the first rank of masters. Spielmann again demonstrated his power as a gambit player by securing first prize, Dr. Tartakower being second, and Schlechter third. Once again, therefore, the leading masters secured the plums. Schlechter continued his extraordinary run of undefeatedness, though he won but four games. The large percentage of drawn games is probably due to the fact that the competitors were allowed to decline any gambit offered, the Queen s Gambit being disallowed. Condition: Some rippling to pages else very good.