Ignaz Kolisch: The Life and Chess Career - Fabrizio Zavatarelli
An enthusiastic vervebrio some could saymarked both Ignaz Kolischs personality and his games. This book documents the life of the Hungarian chess champion (18371889) and successful financier, setting it in the cosmopolitan framework of mid19th century Europe. The text is enriched by about 125 or so gleanings about the lives of his competitors (including Arnous de Rivire, Anderssen, Morphy, Mackenzie, Paulsen, Falkbeer, Rosenthal, Steinitz, Winawer). More than 300 specimens of his play are presentedby far the largest collection evercomplete 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.
Fabrizio Zavatarelli is a teacher of applied mathematics and the author of several books and articles concerning chess history. He lives in Milan, Italy.
Format: softcover (8.5 x 11)
Pages: 376
Bibliographic Info: 324 games, 177 diagrams, 63 illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, indexes
Copyright Date: 2025 [2015]
pISBN: 978-1-4766-9943-1
Imprint: McFarland
