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55,+[2 ad] pages with tables. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's stapled wrappers. First edition.
This tournament took place in Sombor Yugoslavia from February to March 1957. It consisted of a 22 round round robin consisting of 23 of the strongest Yugoslavian contestants. The Yugoslavian Grandmaster Svetozar Gligorić took clear first with a score 15.5/22 followed with a three way tie for second between Petar Trifunović, Nikola Karaklajic and Borislav Ivkov each at 14 a full point and half behind the leader.
Condition: Corners bumped, edge wear, lightly soiled else about very good.

78 type script pages with diagrams, tables and index. Folio (12 1/2" x 8 3/4") bound in original publisher's stapled wrappers. First edition. This covers the XIII Italian chess championship by correspondence with the history of the 12 previous championships. The game of correspondence chess was not widespread in Italy. So the author has not done a useless job picking up all the games played in the last Italian Championship by mail, which was 13 in the series - the first was played 23 years ago - and a good number of the best games played in the previous 12 championships. The correspondence game considerably affects the formation of the chess player, and, therefore, is important in the three phases of the game. With players, having a lot of time available for each move, they have the opportunity, by consulting books or publications, to study and learn the most important variations of the opening and the most typical endings, to get used to the analysis - even the most complicated - of the middle game,… Read More

One sheet signed by the participants and tournament arbitrator. Quarto (11 1/2" x 8") single sheet hand written.

The 19th Hungarian Chess Championship was held in Budapest starting on February 23 through March 21, 1964. The contest drew 20 players with the following results.

First was captured by Lajos Portisch with a score of 14.5 one point ahead of second place finisher, Laszlo Szabo. Clear third was Levente Lengyel with 13. Janos Flesch finished 4th with 12.5. Fifth and sixth was shared with Gyozo V Forintos and Laszlo Barczay each with 11.5. Karoly Honfi and Istvan Bilek shared seventh and eight with 10.5. Sole ninth was Jozsef Szily at 9.5. Jozsef Pogats, Tenth through twelfth was Gyula Kluger, Istvan Csom and Peter Szilagyi each with a score of 9, followed by Ervin Haag a half point behind. Laszlo Sapi and Josef Hajtun each claimed 8 points. At 6.5 Jeno Kapu and Endre Gasztonyi bought up the tail end with Laszlo Prelovszky (4.5) and Roland Sallay (4) closing out the contest.

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17 unpaginated Daily Bulletins with tables. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/4") 17 daily bulletins bound in stapled wrappers. First edition.There were a number of strong Argentinean tournaments in the 50's played at Mar del Plata. The first one in 1950 with others in 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958 and 1959.
In this tournament Miguel Najdorf and Julio Bolbochan tied for first with scores of 12 1/2. E Eliskases and R Sanguinetti shared third and fourth with 11 each. Jacobo Bolbochan captured a lone fifth with 10 points. There were a total of 17 contestants in this tournament.Condition:Light edge wear with some age toning to edges else a very good to fine copy.

xiii+415 pages with index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with black label to spine lettering in black in original pictorial jacket. Translated by Alain Swietlicki. Introduction by Thomas F McGann. First American edition. First published in 1933, when its author was approaching forty years of age, X-Ray of the Pampas is multidimensional: part history, part essay in social psychology, part prophecy. Condition: Remainder mark at heal end pages. Jacket corners chipped, 3/4" closed tear at front heal, back fold over edge rubbed else veery good in like jacket.

xiv+222 pages with tables, photographs and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's limp black cloth with white lettering to spine and front cover. Pome on the international tournament laid in. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5298) First edition.The 17th Congress of the German Chess Federation, the first "Bundeskongress" staged in the great port city since 1885, celebrated the Hamburg Chess Club's 80th anniversary and its move into spacious new quarters. The Hamburg organizers met with a number of disappointments, the absence of Lasker, Capablanca, Bernstein, Rubenstein, Maroczy and Janowski. Still the organizers hand a number of "coming" stars - including the future world champion, 17-year old Alekhine, Nimzovitch, Spielmann Dus-Chotimirsky and Yates. Schlechter's triumph was his first uncontested top prize since Ostend 1906. Encountering the youthful Alekhine for the first time, Schlechter methodologically crushed in in an opening-round Philidor Defense lasting… Read More

viii+202 pages with photographs, diagrams and tables. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 3/4") bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering to cover. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5310) First edition.
Breslau played host to the 18th Congress of the German Chess Federation. It took place form July 14th through August 7th and it was a single round tournament with 30 move time limit in two hours. The competition was the first German tournament that Rubinstein participated in - while it turned out to be the last one for Amos Burn. The implacable Rubinstein repeated his triumphs of San Sebastian and Pistyan (9+ -2 =6), but had to share honors with Duras (+10 -3 =4). Rubinstein relinquished the lead to Tarrasch, Marshall and Teichmann in turn between the eight and 15th rounds, but he entered the last round with a half-point lead. Meanwhile, Duras secured his share of the first prize by defeating Burn in the last round. The excitement of the tournament is underscored by the fact that the leaders remained… Read More

17 unpaginated daily bulletins, each 8 to 10 pages. Octavo (8" x 5 1/2") issued in wrappers. First edition.Mar del Plata has a rich history of chess tournaments, including their international chess tournament and open tournament. There is also an annual city tournament, which had its first edition in 1946, and reached its 62nd edition in 2007. The international tournament started off in 1928, but only in the period from 1941 to 1970 was it a truly international tournament with considerable reputation. After 1970, only seven international tournaments have been played.[1] The 1951, 1954, 1969 and 2001 editions were zonal tournaments. The 1957 contest was held at the Hotel Provincial in Mar del Plata. and is part of an iconic beachfront complex, built in 1946 by the celebrated architect Alejandro Bustillo. Eighteen contenders battled for the trophy and placed in descending order: Paul Keres from Estonia first with a full point over Miguel Nadjorf of the host country with 15. Alexander Kotov from the… Read More

15 unpaginated daily bulletins, each 3 pages. Octavo (8" x 5 3/4") issued in wrappers. First edition.Mar del Plata has a rich history of chess tournaments, including their international chess tournament and open tournament. There is also an annual city tournament, which had its first edition in 1946, and reached its 62nd edition in 2007. The international tournament started off in 1928, but only in the period from 1941 to 1970 was it a truly international tournament with considerable reputation. After 1970, only seven international tournaments have been played. The 1951, 1954, 1969 and 2001 editions were zonal tournaments. The 1958 contest was held at the Hotel Provincial in Mar del Plata. and is part of an iconic beachfront complex, built in 1946 by the celebrated architect Alejandro Bustillo.
Eighteen contenders battled for the trophy and placed in descending order: Bent Larsen from Denmark capture first with 12 points ahead of William Lombardy from America with 11. In a three way tie for third was… Read More

42 unnumbered leaves with photographs, diagrams and tables. Octavo (8 1/2" x 6 1/4") loose sheets housed in a pictorial wrapper. First edition.The 22nd Torneo Internacional de Ciudad Mar del Plata was held in Mar del Plata, Argentina from March 23rd to April 10th, 1959. Fifteen chess masters and grandmasters from Europe and the Americas were invited to compete in the round robin event. Among the notable participants were sixteen year old grandmaster Bobby Fischer from the United States, Borislav Ivkov from Yugoslavia, Rene Letelier Martner from Chile, Ludek Pachman from Czechoslovakia, and Miguel Najdorf who led eight of his fellow Argentinian chess masters in the field. Najdorf and Pachman tied for first place with +7 each at the final. Fischer managed to match Pachman's eight wins, but lost an additional game more than the Czech grandmaster, which was only good enough for shared 3rd-4th with grandmaster Ivkov. Rene Letelier Martner was in fifth and if Fischer had drawn or won against him we would… Read More

Handwritten player sheet of game number 105 between Kortschnoi and Suetin at the XXXI Championship of the USSR Leningrad 1963. Quarto (10 3/4" x 5 1/2") with the handwritten signature of Grandmaster Viktor Kortschnoi and the abbreviation of Grandmaster Alexej Suetin.
The 31st Soviet Chess Championship was held in the city of Leningrad from November 23 to December 27, 1963. Twenty of the Soviet Union's strongest masters and grandmasters competed in the round robin event, with only two notable absences: the newly crowned world champion Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian and the newly deposed Mikhail Botvinnik. As usual, the field was composed chiefly of players who had qualified from the Soviet semi-finals held earlier in the year: Viacheslav Osnos, Boris Spassky, Alexey Suetin, and Igor Bondarevsky qualified from Kharkov; Lev Polugaevsky, Iivo Nei, Arkady Novopashin, and Alexander Zakharov qualified from Moscow; Ratmir Kholmov, Leonid Stein, Eduard Gufeld, and Semyon Furman qualified from Sverdlovsk; and… Read More

3 Volumes. Volume 1 first part. lcv+646 pages with maps, figures, foldout genealogical chart, plates some folding plates, folding tables and drawings. This copy is number 1243 of 1500. Volume 2 second part. 647 pages with figures, charts, tables some folding, figures and plates. Number 1057 of 1500. Volume 3 second part continued. 507 pages with maps some folding, plates, tables some folding tables, figures, plates, illustrations and drawings. Number 1325 of 1500. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's wrappers. First edition. The International Congress of Americanists (ICA) is an international academic conference for research in multidisciplinary studies of the Americas. Established August 25, 1875 in Nancy, France, the scholars' forum has met regularly since its inception, presently in three year increments, with the exception of during the conflict of World War II. Its meeting location alternates between Europe and the Americas. Congress members come from a variety of… Read More

304 pages with maps, tables, figures, photographs, bibliography and index. Quarto (11" x 8 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition limited to 500 copies. The Huichol are an indigenous people of Mexico living in the Sierra Madre Occidental range in the states of Nayarit, Jalisco, Zacatecas, and Durango. They are best known to the larger world as the Huichol, however, they refer to themselves as Wixáritari ("the people") in their native Huichol language. The adjectival form of Wixáritari and name for their own language is Wixárika. Condition: Light edge wear else a near fine copy.