Author: Joseph Henry BlackburnePublisher:
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Category : Chess
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Mr. Blackburne's Games at Chess, Selected, Annotated and Arranged by Himself
Author: Joseph Henry BlackburnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chess
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Joseph Henry Blackburne
Author: Tim HardingPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476620288
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 589
Book Description
During a career spanning more than 50 years, J.H. Blackburne (1841-1924) won the British Chess Championship and several international tournaments, at his peak becoming one of the world's top three chess masters. A professional player who derived his livelihood from annual tours of chess clubs in England and other countries, entertaining and teaching amateur players, he astonished his contemporaries by the ease with which he played the game without sight of the chessboard. At 21, he set a world record for such exhibitions, competing against 12 club players simultaneously, and he continued to perform "blindfold" into his sixties. This first comprehensive biography of Britain's greatest chess player of the 19th and early 20th centuries presents more than 1,000 of Blackburne's games chronologically, including all his surviving games from serious competition, annotated in varying detail. Many are masterpieces containing beautiful combinations and instructive endgame play. Blackburne's unusual family and social background are fully explored.
The Annual Register of World Events
Author: Ice Or Water
Author: Sir Henry Hoyle HoworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
The Annual Register
Author: Edmund BurkePublisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Continuation of the reference work that originated with Robert Dodsley, written and published each year, which records and analyzes the year’s major events, developments and trends in Great Britain and throughout the world. From the 1920s volumes of The Annual Register took the essential shape in which they have continued ever since, opening with the history of Britain, then a section on foreign history covering each country or region in turn. Following these are the chronicle of events, brief retrospectives on the year’s cultural and economic developments, a short selection of documents, and obituaries of eminent persons who died in the year.
Utilitarianism
Author: John Stuart MillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Utilitarianism
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
England in the Mediterranean
Author: Julian Stafford CorbettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Annual Register
Author: Edmund BurkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Port Arthur, Three Months with the Besiegers
Author: Frederic VilliersPublisher: London, Longmans
ISBN:
Category : Lu shun (China)
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The Science of War
Author: George Francis Robert HendersonPublisher: London ; New York : Longmans, Green and Company
ISBN:
Category : Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description