Article Number
LXHILNY1940
Author
New York 1940
209 pages, cloth-binding/ embossed in gold, Caissa Editions, 1. edition 2002
Discontinued
The third biennial chess championship of the United States, New York 1940, was the first such championship to be held under the auspices of the fledgling United States Chess Federation. New York 1940 was also the last national championship held under pre-war conditions. The country was still torn between coming to the aide of the Aland remaining in its isolation. Yet the coming conflict could not be ignored, and before the second championship conducted under the USCF took place the nation would be inextricably involved in the terror spanning the globe.
This work places New York 1940 in its broader context, not only in terms of chess but in terms of world events. Even seen in isolation, New York 1940 involved much more than merely the championship tourleaving Reshevsky once more, for the third time, in possession of the national title. New York 1940 included the women's championship. It included competitors who had to fight their way through preliminary round robin tournaments. And it included an exhibition match between two giants of an earlier generation, Frank Marshall and Emanuel Lasker. Each of these aspects of what today is recalled as New York 1940 is covered in detail in this work, in addition to extensive coverage of the players themas well as additional games they have left us. Crosstables for the preliminary events appear in the text. The crosstable for the Men's Final appears following Chapter 6, while an Appendix gives in full an article on the tournament originally appearing in the New Yorker for June 15, 1940. This last piece, written by Robert Lewis Taylor, proan interesting insight into how the non-chess playing public viewed some of the events considered here.
On a trip to the John G. White Collection at the Cleveland Public Library I came across a bound set of the New York 1940 men's championship score-sheets. There, in
the handwriting of the seventeen competiwere the moves of all 136 games. It was unclear who had provided these score-sheets for safekeeping to the world's largest chess collection, but clearly they formed a valuable addition to that august body's holdings. It did not take long for me to dethat I needed to learn more about this national event...
Introduction
This work places New York 1940 in its broader context, not only in terms of chess but in terms of world events. Even seen in isolation, New York 1940 involved much more than merely the championship tourleaving Reshevsky once more, for the third time, in possession of the national title. New York 1940 included the women's championship. It included competitors who had to fight their way through preliminary round robin tournaments. And it included an exhibition match between two giants of an earlier generation, Frank Marshall and Emanuel Lasker. Each of these aspects of what today is recalled as New York 1940 is covered in detail in this work, in addition to extensive coverage of the players themas well as additional games they have left us. Crosstables for the preliminary events appear in the text. The crosstable for the Men's Final appears following Chapter 6, while an Appendix gives in full an article on the tournament originally appearing in the New Yorker for June 15, 1940. This last piece, written by Robert Lewis Taylor, proan interesting insight into how the non-chess playing public viewed some of the events considered here.
On a trip to the John G. White Collection at the Cleveland Public Library I came across a bound set of the New York 1940 men's championship score-sheets. There, in
the handwriting of the seventeen competiwere the moves of all 136 games. It was unclear who had provided these score-sheets for safekeeping to the world's largest chess collection, but clearly they formed a valuable addition to that august body's holdings. It did not take long for me to dethat I needed to learn more about this national event...
Introduction
| EAN | 0939433605 |
|---|---|
| Weight | 500 g |
| Manufacturer | Caissa Editions |
| Width | 15.8 cm |
| Height | 23.4 cm |
| Medium | Book |
| Year of Publication | 2002 |
| Author | John S. Hilbert |
| Language | English |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN-10 | 0939433605 |
| Pages | 209 |
| Binding | cloth-binding/ embossed in gold |
i Introduction
ii Table of Contents
Section One: Context and Preliminaries
001 Chapter 1 A Moment in Time: New York 1940
007 Chapter 2 The Preliminaries
022 Chapter 3 The Players in the Finals
Section Two: The Events
090 Chapter 4 The Men's 1940 Championship Tournament
184 Chapter 5 The Women's 1940 Championship Tournament (and 1941 Championship Match)
197 Chapter 6 The Lasker - Marshall Exhibition Match
200 Crosstable
201 Appendix A A Reporter at Large: Passed Pawn on the King's Bishop' s File
207 Player's Index
209 Opening's Index
ii Table of Contents
Section One: Context and Preliminaries
001 Chapter 1 A Moment in Time: New York 1940
007 Chapter 2 The Preliminaries
022 Chapter 3 The Players in the Finals
Section Two: The Events
090 Chapter 4 The Men's 1940 Championship Tournament
184 Chapter 5 The Women's 1940 Championship Tournament (and 1941 Championship Match)
197 Chapter 6 The Lasker - Marshall Exhibition Match
200 Crosstable
201 Appendix A A Reporter at Large: Passed Pawn on the King's Bishop' s File
207 Player's Index
209 Opening's Index