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An enthusiastic verve--"brio" some could say--marked both Ignaz Kolisch's personality and his games. This book documents the life of the Hungarian chess champion (1837-1889) and successful financier, setting it in the cosmopolitan framework of mid-19th century Europe. The text is enriched by about 125 or so gleanings about the lives of his competitors (including Arnous de Riviere, Anderssen, Morphy, Mackenzie, Paulsen, Falkbeer, Rosenthal, Steinitz, Winawer). More than 300 specimens of his play are presented--by far the largest collection ever--complete with sources and coeval annotations, translated from many languages. Several widespread and long-standing errors are corrected. A work deeply researched among sources in many languages, the book serves also as a record of European chess in the late 1850s through the 1880s.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Features of This Book
Explanations
Abbreviations
I. Family and Formative Years
The Kolisches
The City of Pressburg
Infancy
A Mysterious Period
Among Chessplayers
Earliest Games
II. The Italian Year
Towards Genova
The Games Against Saint Bon
The Games Against Vitzthum
III. Arrival in Paris
Historical Framework
The Games Against Harrwitz
The Games Against Arnous de Rivière
Paris Life
The Games Against Anderssen
Last Strokes in Paris
IV. To the Conquest of London
Arrival in the Metropolis
The Match Against Worrall
Not Only Matches
The Match Against Saburov
The First Match Against Maude
A Summer Illness
V. The Season of Invitations
The Cambridge 1860 Tournament
Four Matches in London
Manchester, Liverpool and Dundee
VI. Restless
New Year's Day in France
The First Challenge to Morphy
The Third Match Against Maude
Owen, Barnes and Wormald
The June 1861 Tour
VII. Great Expectations
The Match Against Anderssen
The Games Against Mackenzie
VIII. Louis Paulsen
The Bristol 1861 Tournament
The Match Against Paulsen
IX. A Step Backward
Paris Intermezzo
The Petersburg Visit
X. Double Life
A Pause for Reflection
The Second Challenge to Morphy
From Chess to Finance
The Match Against Hirschfeld
The Match Against Rosenthal
Embers Under Ash
XI. The Emperor's Prize
Prelude
The Games
Neumann's Challenge
XII. An International Champion
The Visit to Germany
Paris, Again
A Chess Star in Vienna
The Vienna Blindfold Performances
A Match with Large Odds
The Baden-Baden 1870 Tournament
Never Take a Game Too Far
XIII. Financial Takeoff
The Wiener Börsen-Syndicatskasse
The Match Between London and Vienna
Prosperity
The Vienna 1873 Tournament
Days of Wealth
In the Whirl of Business
XIV. Beatus Ille Qui Procul Negotiis
Baron and Rentier
Der Glorreiche Augenblick
The London 1883 Tournament
A Call in Nürnberg
Events of a Notable Life
The Hassan Affaire
An Old Passion and a New Home
Epilogue. After Death
Funeral and Heritage
The Two Kolisch Memorials
Kolisch and Posterity
Solutions of Problems
Appendix A: Kolisch's Ancestry
Appendix B: Relative Currencies in Kolisch's Time
Bibliography
Index of Players
Index of Openings—Traditional Names
Index of Openings—ECO Codes
General Index
