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Julius Finn

271 pages, clothbound, McFarland, 2010

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Julius Finn was born in Russian Poland, and came to New York in 1887 at the age of 16. From a humble start as a street peddler on the Lower East Side, Finn swiftly rose to become New York’s champion chess master and one of the country’s best blindfold chess entertainers. Finn’s chess success contributed to the rise of the chess scene in the Big Apple in the early twentieth century, and he fared equally well in business, parlaying his skills into a highly successful career. Along with a foreword by John S. Hilbert, this biography of Finn in America includes analysis of 96 of his chess games most of them previously unknown or little studiedline drawings of game situations, and photographs.
About the Author
Award-winning journalist Olimpiu G. Urcan writes for Chess Cafe, Quarterly for Chess History, Chess Monthly and New in Chess Magazine. A Romanian native, he lives in Singapore.
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EAN 9780786442836
Weight 670 g
Manufacturer McFarland
Width 18.5 cm
Height 264 cm
Medium Book
Year of Publication 2010
Author Olimpiu G. Urcan
Language English
ISBN-13 9780786442836
Pages 271
Binding clothbound
ix Foreword by John S. Hilbert
x Acknowledgments
xi Preface
xiii A Note to the Reader
001 Prologue
005 Part I: A Peddler's Rise on the Lower East Side, 1871-1900
039 Part II: Among New York's Best, 1901-1905
131 Part III: Marketing a Rich Man's Gambit, 1903-1916
215 Part IV: The Last Years, 1929-1931

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