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H.E. Bird : a chess biography with 1.198 games /
"This comprehensive first biography of Bird provides a detailed account of his personal life and a deeply researched coverage of his feats at the chess board. Almost 1,200 games are included, hundreds of them published here for the first time. Nearly 450 games--many of them thrilling all-out fi...
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Renette, Hans, |d 1977- | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a H.E. Bird : |b a chess biography with 1.198 games / |c Hans Renette ; foreword by Richard Forster. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Jefferson, North Carolina : |b McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, |c [2016] | |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references, webography and index. | ||
| 520 | |a "This comprehensive first biography of Bird provides a detailed account of his personal life and a deeply researched coverage of his feats at the chess board. Almost 1,200 games are included, hundreds of them published here for the first time. Nearly 450 games--many of them thrilling all-out fights--are presented with a mix of contemporary and modern annotations"-- |c Provided by publisher | ||
| 588 | 0 | |a Print version record. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments ; Foreword by Richard Forster ; Preface ; Introduction ; Chess and Life Facts ; A Rare Bird ; Bird's Eye View ; A Nimzowitsch Forerunner? ; Bird's Legacy ; Part I : A Young Bird, 1829-1851 ; The Birds of Bridgnorth; Life in Bristol ; Henry Bird and His Family ; Moving to London | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Searching Through Life Discovering the Game ; Clubs and Coffee Houses ; A Trial of Strength Against Buckle 1847-1849 ; A Ghost Tournament: London 1848 ; A Tournament at the Divan: London 1849 ; Match with G.W. Medley 1849 ; Young Men Explore London ; Offhand and Various 1848-1850 | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The Chess Masters Gather: London 1851 Match with Horwitz 1851 ; Offhand and Various 1851; Part II: The Turn of the Tide, 1852-1855; The Development of Chess; An Introduction to the Rise and Fall of Henry Bird ; Good Years ; A Touch of Australia ; Case I. Jackson v. Drew ; Case II. Dyer v. Dyer ; Case III. Bird v. Drouet | |
| 505 | 8 | |a A Tentative Conclusion The Interaction between Henry Bird and His Family ; Life in Australia ; The Story of Henry Edward and Eliza ; The Tragic Fate of Charles French Smith ; Other Offhand Games 1852-1855 ; Part III: The Accountancy Years (I), 1856-1865; Becoming an Expert Accountant 1857-1866; Personal Changes | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Matches with Falkbeer 1856-1857 Offhand Chess 1857-1858 ; Morphy's First Visit 1858 ; B.C.A. Congress, Birmingham 1858 ; A New Club in Town ; Handicap Tournament at Purssell's 1859 ; Morphy's Second Visit 1859 ; Offhand Chess 1859-1860 | |
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