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1895-Joseph Henry Blackburne

Blackburne Calls Chess "A Vice"

Blackburne Calls Chess “A Vice”

By Kevin Marchese on February 16, 2013

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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