Wilhelm Steinitz – Obituary
The chess world lost a legend in the truest sense of the word when Wilhelm Steinitz passed away on April 12th, 1900. Many newspapers and periodicals throughout the world expressed their condolences in the form of published articles, past games, […]
Royal Rules for Sprightly Skittles
A word often used when referring to casual or off-hand chess games is “skittles”. This term was more prevalent in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, but should be somewhat familiar to chess enthusiasts nonetheless. The implied use is in […]
An Interview with Emanuel Lasker (1892)
Emanuel Lasker gave an interesting interview in the December 18th, 1892 edition of the Washington Post. He discussed many chess related topics, mostly going in depth on the subject of blindfold chess play. Also included are some fascinating stories about […]
A “New” Napier Game (by John S. Hilbert)
William Ewart Napier was born in England on January 17, 1881. His family soon moved to the United States, and because they did American chess has been all the richer. Napier first played correspondence chess, participating in one of the […]
Blackburne Calls Chess “A Vice”
Joseph Henry Blackburne (a.k.a “The Black Death”), the renowned English chess champion in the late 1800s to early 1900s, gave an interesting interview shortly after his match with German master Curt von Bardeleben in 1895. The content of the interview […]
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