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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 208 pages with diagrams. Octavo (8" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. The Staunton Gambit is a chess opening characterised by the moves: 1. d4 f5 (the Dutch Defence) 2. e4!? White sacrifices a pawn for quick development, with the idea of launching an attack against Black's kingside, which has been somewhat weakened by 1.f5. Black can decline the gambit with 2.d6, transposing to the Balogh Defence, but accepting the pawn with 2.fxe4 is considered stronger. Condition: Light edge wear else very good to fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 63 pages with tables. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's stapled wrappers. Rare and Unpublished Tournaments and Matches 41. First edition. All the available games from the 420 played at this this Olympiad won by the USA and featuring teams from both Britain and Scotland! Leading players included Alekhine, Tartakower, Maroczy, Kashdan, Marshall and Flohr. The 4th Chess Olympiad was held in Folkestone, England. Alekhine again returned to play board one for France, competing in 12 of 14 matches, and achieving a score of 8 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss, to Tartakower. The United States again won the event, with Czechoslovakia in second, and a three-way tie for 3rd to 5th places between Sweden, Poland and Hungary. France finished in 8th place. Condition: A near fine copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 195+[1 ad] pages with table, diagrams, photographs and index. Octavo (8" x 6") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. International Chess Tournament Series number 92. First edition. 195+[1 ad] pages with table, diagrams and photographs. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Rare and Unpublished Chess Tournaments and Matches number 92. First edition. There have previously been two books on this tournament both now unobtainable on the secondhand market. They were Morgan's Shilling Library and The Bradford Tournament published by the British Chess Magazine. It was in Bradford in 1888 that the British Chess Association held an international master-tournament and the British Amateur Championship. This was the first international tournament ever held in the provinces. For Bradford to be chosen was a tribute to the town and to its Chess Club. Indeed, no chess club in the provinces can boast a greater honor. Until then there had been four international tournaments in this country-1851, 1862, 1872, and 1883, the last three of which had been organized by the British Chess Association. All four had been held in London. To increase the interest in chess the B.C.A. had decided that master-tournaments should be held alternately in the capital and the provinces, but at first, it could find no provincial committee which would undertake the responsibility. Then the Yorkshire County Chess Club showed initiative. It offered to make arrangements for a tournament in Bradford. There were eighteen entries, but one of them, the Rev. A. B. Skipworth retired after five rounds and his score was cancelled. The others included six masters resident in Britain Henry Bird, Joseph Blackburne, Amos Burn, Isidor Gunsberg, James Mason and William Pollock and Captain George Mackenzie, who came from New York, Jean Taubenhaus (Paris), Curt Von Bardeleben (Berlin) and Miksa Weiss (Vienna). There were a number of amateurs, among them J. E. Hall, a member of the Bradford club. Gunsberg, who scored 13 points out of a possible 16, was the winner, Mackenzie with 12 was second, and Bardeleben and Mason with 11 were equal third. Hall was sixteenth with 3 points. He defeated three amateurs and drew with Bardeleben. There were thirteen competitors in the British Amateur Championship. Condition: A near fine copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 124 pages with diagrams, tables and index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Translated by A J Swift. Rare and unpublished Tournaments and Matches number 55. First edition. European Individual Chess Championship 1942 was chess tournament purporting to be the first European Championship (Europameisterschaft). It was held in Munich, 14 26 September 1942, organised by Ehrhardt Post, the Chief Executive of Nazi Grossdeutscher Schachbund. But given that players from Germany's enemies (Soviet Union, Great Britain and Poland) were unable to participate (because of World War II), and Jewish players barred (because of Nazi policy), this tournament was simply a manifestation of Nazi propaganda and has never received any form of official recognition as a championship. Reuben Fine commented in Chess Marches On (1945), page 136: "Alekhine has participated in a number of European shindigs, including one so-called 'European Championship' .his competitors were at best second-rate second-raters." This last opinion is curious as Alekhine (World Champion), Keres (pretendent for the title), Bogoljubow (former World Champion challenger), Stoltz (winner, ahead of Alekhine, at Munich 1941), and Junge (co-winner, with Alekhine, at Prague 1942) made Munich 1942 the world's strongest tournament in 1942. (Wikipedia) Condition: Edge wear, lightly soiled else very good.