Signed by Chess great George Koltanowski
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Heading: (Chess)
Author: Dawson, T.R. and W. Hundsdorfer
Title: Retrograde Analysis: A Study. - Inscribed by chess master George Koltanowski
Place Published: Leeds
Publisher:Whitehead and Miller
Date Published: 1915
Description:
209 pp. Illustrated with chess board diagrams. (8vo) 18.5x12.5 cm (7¼x5") original wrappers
A rare chess book, fewer than 20 copies located by OCLC, none located in the trade. Inscribed inside the front wrapper by chess great and columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle George Koltanowski to Ernst Anders, winner in a Chronicle competition. Inscription dated May 1956. George Koltanowski (1903 - 2000) was a Belgian-born American chess player, promoter, and writer. Koltanowski set the world's blindfold record in 1937 by playing (and winning) 34 chess games simultaneously while blindfolded, making headline news around the world. He also set a record in 1960 for playing 56 consecutive blindfold games at ten seconds per move.
Author: Dawson, T.R. and W. Hundsdorfer
Title: Retrograde Analysis: A Study. - Inscribed by chess master George Koltanowski
Place Published: Leeds
Publisher:Whitehead and Miller
Date Published: 1915
Description:
209 pp. Illustrated with chess board diagrams. (8vo) 18.5x12.5 cm (7¼x5") original wrappers
A rare chess book, fewer than 20 copies located by OCLC, none located in the trade. Inscribed inside the front wrapper by chess great and columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle George Koltanowski to Ernst Anders, winner in a Chronicle competition. Inscription dated May 1956. George Koltanowski (1903 - 2000) was a Belgian-born American chess player, promoter, and writer. Koltanowski set the world's blindfold record in 1937 by playing (and winning) 34 chess games simultaneously while blindfolded, making headline news around the world. He also set a record in 1960 for playing 56 consecutive blindfold games at ten seconds per move.
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Wrappers lightly worn, lower corner dogeared; very good.
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Signed by Chess great George Koltanowski
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