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st george s chess club which organised the event and on howard staunton in particular the writer stokes up a head of steam with a catalogue of perceived injustices to him and the london chess club by staunton s behaviour and writings over a number of years and eventually explodes with this withering condemnation of staunton s character as a chess player and writer i won t go into the ins and outs or the rights and wrongs of this most bitter of disputes the full details can be found in chapters iii and iv of the introduction in the chess tournament on pages xxxi to li by the way does this book hold the record for the highest number of roman numeralled pages for the introductory matter they go on to lxci and also in this pamphlet which can be read online at hathitrust org tim harding discusses this pamphlet on pages 56 and 57 of eminent victorian chess players published by mcfarland in 2012 and edward winter gives extracts from his copy in the feature article attacks on howard staunton on the chess notes site the essence of this dispute seems to have been the opposition by a few members of the london chess club to the management of the tournament by the st george s chess club and in particular to the pivotal role played by staunton and his subsequent coverage of this in the tournament book however it is apparent that the animosity between staunton and the author of this pamphlet had been brewing for years and had now come to a head this chess book with zero chess content in terms of games or instruction is nevertheless a desirable item as it rarely comes on to the market although several major libraries have copies i have never before seen a copy for sale this copy sold for 280 for comparison purposes a damiano second undated edition c 1524 was sold for 9 000 plus commission etc at forum auctions in london today i am not sure which is the rarer work at the same london auction a second folio edition of shakespeare sold for 82 000 hammer harding comments in note 104 on page 358 of eminent victorian chess players as murray pointed out in his b c m article may 1908 on staunton bibliographers have had some trouble with this item however there is no mention of this pamphlet in h j r murray s 1908 article and harding was in fact referring to another anonymously authored pamphlet a few observations on a new treatise on chess by g walker london 1841 this is mentioned in murray s article on george walker on pp 189 to 194 of the may 1906 british chess magazine more next time posted by michael clapham at 15 16 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday 27 march 2024 recent auctions part 4 chess made easy philadelphia edition the 85th klittich pfankuch auction held in braunschweig in november 2023 featured some very rare english language chess books and the next few articles will discuss some of these lot 952 chess made easy new and comprehensive rules for playing the game of chess with examples from philidor cunningham etc etc to which is prefixed a pleasing account of its origin some interesting anecdotes of several exalted personages who have been admirers of it and the morals of chess written by the ingenious and learned dr franklin philadelphia 1802 courtesy of a klittich pfankuch catalogue 85 the first chess book printed in america and one of the rarest chess books to find david delucia in the foreword to his david delucia chess library darien connecticut 1997 this is the first chess book although a reprint of an earlier london edition printed in america which makes it an extremely valuable item not only for chess book collectors but for collectors of early americana delucia in david delucia s chess library a few old friends first and second editions and valued at 1 500 2 000 in 2007 notwithstanding this apparent rarity delucia possessed three copies of this philadelphia edition in his 1997 catalogue and five copies in his 2009 catalogue the david delucia chess library chess made easy was first published in london in 1797 and obviously proved popular as further english editions were issued in 1798 1800 1803 1806 1808 1812 1815 1817 and 1820 several italian editions were also published the compiler of this little book measuring just 15cm is unknown for comparison purposes here is the frontis and title page of the london 1815 edition the american edition seems to have been unknown in europe at least until 1859 when it appeared in the american chess bibliography in the book of the first american chess congress by d w fiske new york 1859 it is not recorded in any of these european chess bibliographies of the first half of the 19th century george walker london 1838 1841 and 1846 oettinger leipzig 1844 schmid wien 1847 surprisingly walker even omits the london editions of this work the american edition is however recorded in geschichte und literatur des schachspiels zweiter band by antonius van der linde berlin 1874 page 29 and in later bibliographies fiske describes this book on pp 486 487 of the book of the first american chess congress and states that it is an exact copy of a book bearing the same title which was published in london by symonds in 1796 see chess texts page 60 by whyld and ravilious regarding the date of the first printing however one obvious difference is in the pagination the london editions have 72 pages while the philadelphia edition has 97 pages so the layout is obviously different ralph hagedorn devotes three pages to this book and related matter in benjamin franklin and chess in early america philadelphia 1958 which includes a bibliography of american chess books up to 1859 hagedorn states incorrectly that this edition of chess made easy includes the first american appearance of benjamin franklin s morals of chess in book form fred wilson follows this in his a picture history of chess new york 1981 but as delucia points out in a few old friends there were several books published in america prior to 1802 which included franklin s morals of chess the origin of the game of chess referred to in the title is attributed in the book to the ingenious frenchman m favet hagedorn page 49 believes this is undoubtedly a misprint for fréret although bibliotheca van der linde niemeijeriana aucta et de novo descripta aucta the hague 1974 lists favet as the author of this article on page 30 nicolas fréret who died in 1749 gave a lecture on l origine du jeu des echecs to a meeting of th e french academy in 1719 and published his essay in 1729 fréret claims in his rambling history that chess was invented seemingly spontaneously by an indian philosopher named sissa at the beginning of the fifth centur y and relates the grains of corn story as the reward desired by sissa one grain for the first square of the chess board two for the second four for the third and so on doubling always to the 64th square the anecdotes of the game of chess are largely borrowed from twiss there follows the morals of chess by dr franklin 16 pages of instructions entitled a new and comprehensive treatise on the game of chess then mr philidor s method of playing with one game and two back games followed by cunningham s gambit these games are annotated in the form of reflections at various instructive points pages 52 53 of the london 1815 edition this is a rare and valuable book and copies hardly ever appear for sale mainly because delucia has cornered the market the university place book shop gave great prominence to a copy in its catalog xxii c1939 asking 40 whereas almost all of the other 545 items were priced at less than 5 this copy with several defects sold for 650 another copy sold for 600 in the 81st klittich auction in november 2021 posted by michael clapham at 15 39 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday 22 march 2024 recent auctions part 3 steinitz and tchigorin and lancashire chess association two further interesting items from the lsak auction held in november 2023 the games of steinitz and tchigorin two matches at havana cable match london and vienna tournaments published and compiled by w w morgan jun new barnet 1892 morgan s shilling chess library book 10 74 4pp this item achieved the amazing price of 825 morgan s shilling chess library consisted of 13 titles published between 1882 and 1901 although no 9 how to solve chess problems by bernard reynolds is a ghost and was never published all of these are rare and almost impossible to find this is probably because few of these fragile stapled booklets have survived the series is mainly made up of games collections from tournaments or individual players but the tournament records are frequently incomplete and none of the games have any notes this particular book gives the 46 games played between steinitz and tchigorin in the following events vienna 1882 2 games london 1883 2 games world championship match havana 1889 17 games cable match 1891 2 games and world championship match havana 1892 23 games the two masters were closely matched with an overall score of steinitz 21 wins tchigorin 19 wins and 6 draws the games are given without notes but each page of moves is accompanied by two diagrams at interesting positions the content of these booklets can generally be found in other sources and as mentioned above the tournament reports are very incomplete the attraction and value of these publications is purely because of their rarity due to the low survival rate will h lyons the bookseller from newport kentucky was selling these booklets for 50c each in his catalogues around 1900 a digital copy is available at hathitrust org i will write more about morgan s shilling chess library when i move on to reviewing the klittich auction held in november 2023 _________________________________ the lancashire chess association season 1910 11 lancashire is a county in england incorporating the major cities of liverpool and manchester the lancashire chess association was incorporated in 1897 and in common with many chess associations issued annual reports year books handbooks containing the usual information of officers rules reports statement of accounts list of affiliated clubs match and congress results etc etc plus hopefully a few games and problems to give the publication at least some spark of interest to the average chess player most of these annual reports year books handbooks were quickly discarded and as a result one hundred years later the few surviving copies are of great interest to collectors this is epitomised in the current item which although of a parochial nature and of little interest globally fetched 198 as a result of its limited initial circulation and very low survival rate these lancashire chess association annual reports year books handbooks are indeed rare the koninklijke bibliotheek only has the handbook for season 1925 26 cleveland has a batch of six for the years 1904 1905 6 1908 9 1910 11 1914 15 and 1925 26 the british library is bereft of these publications and i can trace no further copie s unfortunately there are no digital copies available however i have the annual report year book handbook for season 1924 25 and i can reveal that the contents of this 24 page booklet are as follows title page verso blank executive council for 1924 25 the only well known names being victor wahltuch and amos burn i also notice that the hon secretary was the rev h c de barathy author of chess made clear absent from betts which was printed in kent another english county incorporating dover canterbury cathedral etc c1940 rules of the association the annual general meeting is held on the first saturday in april unless the next day be easter sunday in which event council s report 1924 25 the association in indebted to the indefatigable energy of statement of accounts they made a small profit lists of lancashire champions from 1901 to 1924 affiliated clubs etc also but you ve had enough of this luckily there are seven games and a couple of chess studies one of the games is a win by a r b thomas author of chess for the love of it and chess techniques who according to edward winter gained a dose of immortality through being quoted by bobby fischer in my 60 memorable games chess notes 4854 and feature article fischer s fury memorable game 26 the production of this pamphlet is very good with stiff card covers good quality paper clear layout and coloured diagrams these lancashire chess association annual reports year books handbooks are not recorded in betts bibliography and are also missing from di felice s chess periodicals which has a section for annual reports year books handbooks _________________________________________ i would like to thank per skjoldager for permission to use images and information from the lsak website there were many other scarce and valuable works sold in the november auction and all can be viewed at chesslund com the next lsak auction is scheduled for 1st june 2024 posted by michael clapham at 13 59 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday 20 march 2024 recent auctions part 2 transactions of the british chess association lsak auction november 2023 the transactions of the british chess association for the years 1866 and 1867 containing a report of the proceedings at the london and dundee meetings with a selection of the games played and of the problems sent in for competition edited by j löwenthal and g w medley longmans green reader and dyer london 1868 4 164 pp this is one of the earliest chess tournament publications prior to this only the major international tournaments at london 1851 new york 1857 london 1862 and paris 1867 had generated full scale tournament books the lesser events at amsterdam 1851 manchester 1857 birmingham 1858 nijmegen 1858 cambridge 1860 bristol 1861 and the first five west german chess federation congresses at dusseldorf 1861 1862 1863 1864 and elberfeld 1865 also had coverage in reports pamphlets or as part of other publications in march 1866 the british chess association after a few years of inactivity since the london congress of 1862 had resolved to place itself on a permanent footing to hold a chess congress in london every alternate year to put up a challenge cup for the british championship to offer financial assistance to provincial meetings in non congress years and to publish a regular book of transactions this first transactions gave details of the annual general meetings of 1866 1867 and 1868 together with lists of officers members and subscribers etc more importantly it gave full reports on the congresses in london 1866 and dundee 1867 and also gave the games of the 1866 match between adolf anderssen and william wilhelm steinitz won by the latter following which steinitz was generally regarded as the world chess champion the principal objective of the london congress of 1866 was the establishment of a grand challenge cup to be contended for by british players only for the 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