Chess From Morphy To Botwinnik: A Century Of Chess Evolution (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
A century of genius, rivalry, and relentless innovation unfolds in Chess from Morphy to Botwinnik: A Century of Chess Evolution, a masterful chronicle that traces the grand arc of competitive chess from the swashbuckling brilliance of Paul Morphy in the mid-nineteenth century to the iron-willed precision of Mikhail Botwinnik in the Soviet era. Imre König presents a panoramic survey of the game's most pivotal figures — Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, and beyond — dissecting their landmark games, revolutionary ideas, and the philosophical battles that reshaped what it means to play chess at the highest level. König, himself an accomplished International Master, writes with the authority of a practitioner and the sweep of a historian, illuminating how each world champion both inherited and overturned the strategic orthodoxies of his predecessor. The result is a work of genuine literary and analytical substance — part biography, part technical study, part cultural history — that reveals chess not as a static puzzle but as a living, evolving art form. Whether you are a seasoned player or an ardent student of the game's lore, this volume will leave you pondering just how much further the next century of chess genius might reach.
Author: Imre König
Format: Hardback
Published: 1951, G. Bell & Sons, Ltd
Genre: Sport & fitness
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
A century of genius, rivalry, and relentless innovation unfolds in Chess from Morphy to Botwinnik: A Century of Chess Evolution, a masterful chronicle that traces the grand arc of competitive chess from the swashbuckling brilliance of Paul Morphy in the mid-nineteenth century to the iron-willed precision of Mikhail Botwinnik in the Soviet era. Imre König presents a panoramic survey of the game's most pivotal figures — Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, and beyond — dissecting their landmark games, revolutionary ideas, and the philosophical battles that reshaped what it means to play chess at the highest level. König, himself an accomplished International Master, writes with the authority of a practitioner and the sweep of a historian, illuminating how each world champion both inherited and overturned the strategic orthodoxies of his predecessor. The result is a work of genuine literary and analytical substance — part biography, part technical study, part cultural history — that reveals chess not as a static puzzle but as a living, evolving art form. Whether you are a seasoned player or an ardent student of the game's lore, this volume will leave you pondering just how much further the next century of chess genius might reach.