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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 836+[9 ad] pages with diagrams and index. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 4 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First published in 1953. Savielly Tartakower was a Polish and French chess player. He was awarded the title of International Grandmaster in its inaugural year, 1950. Tartakower was also a leading chess journalist and author of the 1920s and 1930s. Tartakower stayed mainly in Austria. He graduated from the law faculties of universities in Geneva and Vienna. He spoke German and French. During his studies he became interested in chess and started attending chess meetings in various cafés for chess players in Vienna. He met many notable masters of the time, among them Carl Schlechter, Géza Maróczy (against whom he played what was probably his most famous brilliancy Milan Vidmar, and Richard Réti. His first achievement was first place in a tournament in Nuremberg in 1906. Three years later he achieved second place in the tournament in Vienna, losing only to Réti. After World War I he emigrated to France, and settled in Paris. In France, Tartakower decided to become a professional chess player. He also started cooperating with various chess magazines, and wrote several books and brochures on chess. The most famous of these, Die Hypermoderne Schachpartie (The Hypermodern Chess Game) was published in 1924 and has been issued in almost 100 editions since. Tartakower took part in many of the most important chess tournaments of his day. In 1927 and 1928 he won two tournaments in Hastings and shared first place with Aron Nimzowitsch in London. On the latter occasion, he defeated such notable players as Frank Marshall, Milan Vidmar, and Efim Bogoljubov. In 1930 he won the Liège tournament, beating Mir Sultan Khan by two points. Further down the list were, among others, Akiba Rubinstein, Nimzowitsch, and Marshall. Condition: Inscriptions to front end paper, edge wear, corners bumped with crease to heal edge, spine ends rubbed else very good.

12 x 19, 332 pp., 124 diagrammes, broché, bon état (couverture défraîchie).

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. R300320916: 1958. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos plié, Intérieur acceptable. 332 pages. 2e plat plié. Mors très légèrement fendus en coiffe de pied. . . . Classification Dewey : 794.1-Echecs.