Description
A chess history classic!
Edward Winter’s excellent book on his musings and research on chess history. A cornucopia of games, positions, biographies, mysteries, howlers, reviews, quotations, etc, featuring a cast of hundreds from the chess world of today and yesteryear, the champions and the under achievers; the scholars and the bunglers; the saints and the sinners. Every page provides fascinating, little known material from an author who is prepared to name names.
Softback, 456 pages.
