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LeatherBound. Etat : New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 965.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine in Near Fine dw. 8vo, xiv+272pp, indigo cloth with spine stamped in gold, printed dustwrapper. A nice copy of this Oxford reprint of an important 1951 work on board games by the famed chess historian. Includes Ancient, African, Asian, European and other games. Unmarked copy, light foxing to top edge. Not Signed.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. 164 pages with frontispiece, diagrams and indices. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to cover and blind-stamped embossed cover decoration. From the library of Harold James Ruthven Murray. (Betts 25-6; Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5193) First edition. Includes the a selection of 37 games from the Congress of London 1866 (Challenge Cup: 1. de Vere; 2. MacDonnell. Handicap: 1. Steinitz and Green), 46 from the Dundee Congress in 1867 (Challenge Cup: 1. Neumann; 2. Steinitz. Handicap: 1. Steinitz and Fraser), 14 games in the Steinitz - Anderssen competition in 1866 (Steinitz won 8:6 and was then considered " "best player" in the world) and 64 problems. The Dundee tournament is reckoned as the fourth ever international tournament of modern times. The first of modern chess is perhaps Madrid 1575, under the patronage of Phillip II, won by Leonardo ahead of Ruy Lopez. There is a match tournament at Paris in 1821 between Deschappelles, Labourdonais and Cochrane not usually listed - Labourdonnais won 13-1. London (1851) was a knock-out tournament won by Anderssen. London (1862) was an all-play-all tournament again won by Anderssen 12-1. But in 1862 a draw had to be replayed until a positive result was obtained. At Dundee in 1867 this carry-over from knock-out events was abandoned and "it was decided that a draw should be reckoned as half a game to each player engaged in it". The Congress of the British Chess Association (President: Lord Lyttleton) was held at Dundee with the preliminary meeting being in the boardroom of the Caledonian Railway Company on Tuesday, September 3rd. The Congress consisted of three events: (1) The Grand Tourney of Blackburne, De Vere, G. B. Fraser, Hamel, Dr. J. Fraser, Rev. MacDonnell, Neumann, Col. Robertson, Spens and Steinitz. (2) The Handicap Tournament consisting of all the Grand Tournament players except for Hamel, plus seven extra players contested on a knock-out system and won jointly by Steinitz and Dr. J. Fraser "by mutual agreement" after they in the final, "owing to an alleged excess of the time limit by the latter (Fraser), consented to reckon their game as annulled. "This is the result of no rule or procedure being laid down for deciding the penalty for overstepping the time limit. No replay of the final game was possible "as Steinitz had to leave per steamer in the afternoon". (3) The Scottish Championship of eight players, all-play-all, won by Dr. J. Fraser 6-1. A contemporary newspaper report said about this event "after a very tedious contest". Harold James Ruthven Murray (1868-1955) was a British educationalist, inspector of schools, and prominent chess historian. His book, A History of Chess, is widely regarded as the most authoritative and comprehensive history of the game. Condition: An autograph dedication (by Charles E. Ranken) on the front end paper: P. Powter with compliments from the Publisher of the Chess Player's Chronicle Nov. 1883. Some foxing. Cover stained with bumped corners, spine ends rubbed else very good. Scarce chess item.