Cordingley edgar george (7 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: New. A NEW BOOK.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First edition. Format, quarto, 260mm. Physical description, [8], [1] 2- 44 ,[6] Errata and adverts etc. Occasional light spotting otherwise the contents are clean. Game and Opening Indexes. Green cloth over boards slightly soiled.Overall, a good copy. Limited edition of Tournament Books Number 10. This is No. 28 of a Limited Edition of 250 copies and signed by Cordingley. All the 90 games with notes. Capablanca came first, and Botvinnik second. Betts 25-119. VdL 5532.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 72 pages with 2 tables and index. Octavo (8" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to cover. Cordingley limited editions of tournament books number 18. (Betts: 25-197) First edition. Typescript. Limited edition of 360 copies of which this is number 199. The first candidates' Tournament in the newly inaugurated series of world championship qualifying tournaments. All 90 games are given, most with notes from various sources. Includes an introduction and indexes of players. Re-issued Nottingham, The Chess Player, 1967. After the FIDE World Championship Tournament (1948) was held, the International Chess Federation (FIDE) began a series of cycles that would select a challenger to Mikhail Botvinnik. The tournament was held from April 9 through May 16 (and the subsequent play-off was held in July and August) . The world was divided into various Zones, from each of which one or more players would qualify for an Interzonal tournament. The highest finishers in this, combined with other seeded players, would compete in a Candidates tournament to select the Challenger. When Bronstein and Boleslavsky tied for first, they played a match to determine who would go on to challenge Botvinnik for the World Championship in 1951. The Match was to the Best of 12 games. If tied after 12, the winner of the next decisive game would advance. Condition: Corners bumped, spine ends moderately rubbed, lightly soiled. A very good copy issued without jacket.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. [4]+32 pages with table. Octavo (9" x 7") issued in red cloth with gilt lettering to cover. Cordingley limited editions of tournament books number 17. (Betts: 25-86) First edition limited to 220 copies of which this is number 101. The 45 games typescript in algebraic figurine notation are chiefly taken from German chess magazines. In 1928 the Berliner Schachgesellschaft celebrated its centenary with a tournament from February 4th to the 20th followed by another tournament, the Ehrenpreis der Stadt Berlin, held from September 22nd to October 6th. It was on the heels of this event that Jacques Mieses organized an 'Elite Turnier' through his newspaper, the Berliner Tageblatt. The Elite Turnier was held in the Café König, Unter den Linden, Berlin from October 11th to the 29th. Eight of the world's best players were invited to participate in the double round robin event, including former world champion Jose Capablanca, former world challengers Siegbert Tarrasch and Frank Marshall, and potential world challengers Akiba Rubinstein and Aron Nimzowitsch. The line up was rounded out by two hypermodernists, Richard Réti and Savielly Tartakower, and the romantic player Rudolph Spielmann. The collection of top players was quite a coup for Mieses who had only secured 10,000 marks for the tournament's budget. The time control for the tournament was 30 moves in two hours followed by 15 moves in one hour. If by 5pm of the day of play games were not normally concluded, then they were to be adjourned until they could be completed on rest days. The tournament was an important success for the recently defeated, former world champion Capablanca. Despite his loss of the world title, this victory typified Capablanca's continued presence and dominance at top events for years to come. Despite earning a majority of his total wins against a declining Marshall and an out of form Reti, Capablanca's accurate play and invulnerability yielded another impressive performance at an elite event earning the grand prize of 2000 marks. Second place went to Nimzowitsch, who overtook Spielmann's lead against him when Spielmann suffered two losses in the second half of play. They earned 1400 and 1000 marks respectively. For some players the tournament was an ending of sorts. Rubinstein suffered a terrible performance, losing a won game to Marshall by overstepping the time limit, which was followed by depressive behavior and erratic play for the rest of the tournament. He would place fifth and win only 600 marks. Réti's performance, despite spirited play, was poor for him and he placed second to last. He would die the following summer from scarlet fever. As for Marshall, he placed last, his glory days as top world contender long behind him. Tarrasch only ended up playing three rounds, losing all three of his games before he withdrew due to illness. His results from the tournament were expunged and he was presented with 200 marks by way of compensation. The games are presented here for complete historical accuracy, and also because they were to be the great master's last games from elite competition. The final standings: 1st Capablanca 8½; 2nd Nimzowitsch 7; 3rd Spielmann 6½; 4th Tartakower 5½; =5th Rubinstein 5; =5th Réti 5; 7th Marshall 4½. Condition: Corners and spine ends bumped else a very good copy.…

Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. 4 unnumbered leaves (incl. title page)+21 leaves with table+1 leaf (subscribers' list) Quarto (10 1/2" x 8 1/4") bound in original publisher's ight brown cloth with spine label. Bearing the autograph signature of E. G. R. Cordingley. Cordingley Limited Edition of Tournament Books, Number 4. From the library of Lothar Schmid. (Linde - No. 5471; Betts 25 - 103) First edition Number 2 of 60 copies. The 14th Hastings International Chess Congress Masters' Tournament (Premier Section) took place in Hastings, England, from December 27, 1933, to January 5, 1934. It is most famous for breaking the legendary first-place tournament streak of reigning World Champion Alexander Alekhine, who finished clear second behind Czechoslovakian master Salomon Flohr. : This victory marked Salo Flohr's third consecutive clear win at the Hastings Chess Congress (having won in 1931/32 and 1932/33). He remained completely undefeated throughout the event. Since 1927, World Champion Alexander Alekhine had won every single tournament or match he entered. Though he went undefeated here (+4 =5), he could not match Flohr's efficiency against the lower-half of the field. Young Hungarian master Andor Lilienthal put on a brilliant performance to secure third place, only losing a single game—to Alekhine. : Women's World Champion Vera Menchik competed valiantly in the elite invitation-only Premier field, securing draws against top players like Alekhine and Milner-Barry. Lothar Maximilian Lorenz Schmid (10 May 1928 - 18 May 2013) was a German chess grandmaster. He was born in Radebeul near Dresden into a family who were the co-owners of the Karl May Press, which published the German Karl May adventure novels. He was best known as the chief arbiter at several World Chess Championship matches, in particular the 1972 encounter between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky at Reykjavic. He was also an avid collector of chess books and paraphernalia. It was reputed that he owned the largest known private chess library in the world, as well as a renowned collection of chess art, chess boards and chess pieces from around the globe. Condition: Signed by the author. Lothar Schmid's book plate front pastedown. Spine label chipped, corners bumped else very good.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. [3]+43 pages with tables, index and diagrams. Quarto (10" x 8 14") bound in original publisher's blue cloth. Cordingley limited editions of tournament books number 16. Notes by I Konig, supplemented by notes of M Euwe, H Steiner, etal, specially written for this record of the first large post-war chess congress. (Betts: 25-86) First edition limited to 270 copies of which this is number 247. Typescript, numbered as leaves, but stenciled on both sides. All 132 games, annotated with and index of openings. In January 1946, less than one week after Hastings (1945/46), the newspaper Sunday Chronicle sponsored a Victory Tournament in Farringdon-street Memorial Hall, London, with Walter Hatton-Ward as director. The idea was to celebrate the end of the war, with attendance of masters from all over the world. Things had been lined up for the biggest of events, but eventually it became clear that the Russians would not turn up. Moreover, the participation of the World Champion Alexander Alekhine was protested against by Max Euwe and the Dutch Chess Federation, and by Arnold Denker and the USCF, because of alleged Nazi sympathies. In November 1945, Hatton-Ward wrote to Alekhine and cancelled the invitation. The players were divided into two supposedly equally strong groups, A and B. The A-group consisted of Steiner - California champion (1945) and US Open winner (1942), Bernstein - who had "quit" chess in 1907, Tartakower - nearly 60 years old and recent Hastings winner, Opocensky - the Czechoslovak champion, Prins - winner of Dutch tournaments before the war, List - UK immigrant from Russia and also almost 60, Pomar - child prodigy from Spain and a pupil of Alekhine, Fairhurst - British (1937) and Scottish champion, Broadbent - the UK Northern Counties champion, Golombek - soon to become British champion, and Stone of Britain and Friedmann of Czechoslovakia. On Saturday 26th, Steiner won the A Group, and garnered one of the two silver cups given by (James) Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsely. The second cup went to London B (1946) winner Max Euwe. Section B: First Euwe, second Christoffel and third Denker. Condition: Corners bumped, touch of rubbing to hinges else a very good copy.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. 2 volumes. [5]+49 pages with table; [5]+49-99 with table and index. Small quarto (10 1/2" x 8") bound in stiff boards. Translations from the Russian Daily Chess Bulletin by Loyd Storr-Best. Cordingley limited editions of tournament books number 7, volumes 1 and 2, limited to 240 copes of which volume one is number 136 and volume two is number 80. (Betts: 25-112 and 25-113). These were published in paper and cloth-cover editions. Volume one typescript, stenciled on rectos only. This volume gives an introduction by the translator, with a general description of the setting and the first 93 games, with notes translated from the Daily Bulletin of the Moscow News. Mixed descriptive and algebraic notations. First tied Flohr and Botvinnik, Lasker 3rd. Volume two also published in paper and cloth-covered editions in typescript. This volume contains games 94-190, about one half annotated, with and index of openings, and a review of the openings employed by A M Konstantinopolski. Mixed descriptive and algebraic notation. Condition: Points and spine ends rubbed, corners bumped, volume two boards scuffed else a better than good set of a scarce set.…