Wiener Schach-Zeitung. Organ fur das gesamte Schachleben, Volume XVI (16)

iv+370 pages with diagrams, tables, illustrations, photographs and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and blind-stamped ruled edges. From the library of Hans Thanhofer. Volume XVI (16). (Bibliotheca van der Linde-Miemeijeriana:5957) First edition.

The Wiener Schachzeitung, an Austrian chess magazine, published in German which was one of the great magazines of chess ran from 1898 through 1916 and then from 1923 through 1938. Originally founded in 1855 by Ernst Falkbeer, but was only published for nine months. In 1887 it enjoyed a rebirth, but even this publication lasted only nine months. In 1898 Hugo Fahndrich, Alexander Halprin and Georg Marco re-established the name again. As time went on Georg Marco became the sole editor and even the publisher. Marco edited the magazine until 1914 and during that period it became the best chess magazine in the world (Golombek:342). When it was renamed in 1923 it was called the Neu Wiener Schach-Zeitung and was edited by I R Wahle and A Lewitt; however, within a year it had recaptured its old title and in 1926 another great editor, Albert Becker, took over. With the German invasion of Austria, it ceased publication. An attempt to revive it after the end of World War II failed. The witty pen of Hans Kmoch gave distinction to the magazine and every now and then he would edit a faschings (carnival) number that was genuinely funny.

Hans Thonhofer was the editor of Ostereichische Schachrundschau which had a short run, 1922-1925, until it was incorporated into the Wiener Schach-zeitung.

Contains the result of the VII Nordic Chess Congress of 1912 with a group photograph of the players and individual head photographs of each contestant, as well as a crosstable of the results with commentary analysis by G Marco. This was another in the series of Nordic Chess Congresses in which several outside masters were invited in to give the locals some strong practice. The full list included: Alexander Alekhine Erich Cohn Fritz Englund Joel Fridlizius Johannes Hjalmar Giersing Hugo W Langborg Georg Marco Gustaf Nyholm Adolf Georg Olland Victor Sjoberg Rudolf Spielmann. Alekhine, still just 19, dominated the proceedings despite being upset in the third round by Sweden's Fridlizius. Once he had defeated all the other outside masters (Cohn, Marco, Spielmann), he was not to be stopped.

Condition:

Book plate of Hans Thanhofer to front paste down. A better than very good copy issued without dust wrapper.