Description: xx+337+[3 ads] pages with diagrams, tables, and plates. Octavo (9" x 6 1/4"). Original boards. Moderate damage to spine, but it is held together. Light foxing. A small handful of x-marks on some pages. Newspaper clippings of some games from a Dutch newspaper column. See pics Introduction by Herman Helms. New York 1924 was an elite chess tournament held in the Alamac Hotel in New York City from March 6 to April 18, 1924. It was organized by the Manhattan Chess Club. The city staged a great tournament by having the three giants of the age: Capablanca, Lasker, and Alekhine. It was something like a rematch of the 1914 St Petersburg tournament, with all of them 10 years older. There was a good mixture of veterans (Janowski, Marcozy, and Marshall) with younger hypermoderns (Reti, Tartakower, and Bogoljubow), though some top challengers (Vidmar, Nimzowitsch and Rubinstein) were absent. Everyone expected World Champion Capablanca to win and wondered how Lasker, the 55 year old dethroned lion, would perform. Lasker ran away with the tournament, scoring a phenomenal 80% against the elite of the chess world. Brilliancy prizes went to Reti for his win over Bogoljubow, Marshall, for his win over Bogolijubow and to Capablanca for his win over Lasker.
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Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: Berlin and Leipzig
Language: German
Signed: No
Author: A. Aljechin (ALEKHINE)
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter & Company
Topic: Chess
Country/Region of Manufacture: Germany
Year Printed: 1925
