The Steinitz Papers
Letters and Documents of the First World Chess Champion
Paperback Engels 2010 9780786447046Samenvatting
One of the greatest of chess masters, William Steinitz (he changed his name from Wilhelm when he arrived in America) is recognized as the first world champion. More exactly (and thanks to the efforts of the editor of this book, Kurt Landsberger) he has been officially acknowledged as the first American world chess champion. Many letters and postcards survive: After years of unflagging effort to acquire all known letters to and from Steinitz, the editor has compiled a remarkable record of Steinitz and his contemporaries. Each letter, postcard, scrapbook item, newspaper or chess magazine article or other writing is described along with details of its location, ownership, and circumstances of discovery. It is then printed, nearly always in full, in English (many are translated from the German by Landsberger).
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
To the Reader
Introduction
About the Letters
PART I : ASCENT
The First Years
Mason, Hoffer, Zukertort and Steinitz
A Glimpse of the New World
No “Shadowy Anonymus”
PART II : ON TOP OF THE WORLD
The Hydra-Headed Monster
Cuba, Chess and Congress
Steinitz the Author
“One of the Chosen People…”
Tschigorin and Gunsberg
Johnson’s Universal Cyclopaedia
The American Chess Master from New Jersey
Steinitz and Lasker
PART III : DECLINE
Hastings, St. Petersburg and Rostov
Letters to Pillsbury
Dr. Reider’s Medical Conclusions
Graphology
The Referee
The Last Years
Contracts
PART IV : BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Those Whose Lives Touched That of William Steinitz
Acknowledgments
Index
Rubrieken
- advisering
- algemeen management
- coaching en trainen
- communicatie en media
- economie
- financieel management
- inkoop en logistiek
- internet en social media
- it-management / ict
- juridisch
- leiderschap
- marketing
- mens en maatschappij
- non-profit
- ondernemen
- organisatiekunde
- personal finance
- personeelsmanagement
- persoonlijke effectiviteit
- projectmanagement
- psychologie
- reclame en verkoop
- strategisch management
- verandermanagement
- werk en loopbaan