page_title: Philipp Stamma
hierarchical_section_title: Philipp Stamma
caption_attribution_description: Philippe Stamma - Essai sur le jeu des echecs
context_page_description: Philipp Stamma, a native of Aleppo, Ottoman Syria, later resident of England and France, was a chess master and a pioneer of modern chess. His reputation rests largely on his authorship of the early chess book Essai sur le jeu des echecs published 1737 in France. This book brought the Middle Eastern concept of the endgame to the attention of Europe and helped revive European interest in the study of the endgame.
  Stamma died in London c. 1755, with two sons surviving him.
context_section_description: Philipp Stamma (c. 1705 – c. 1755), a native of Aleppo, Ottoman Syria, later resident of England and France, was a chess master and a pioneer of modern chess. His reputation rests largely on his authorship of the early chess book Essai sur le jeu des echecs published 1737 in France (English translation: The Noble Game Of Chess 1745). This book brought the Middle Eastern concept of the endgame to the attention of Europe and helped revive European interest in the study of the endgame.
  Stamma died in London c. 1755, with two sons surviving him.
caption: Essai sur le jeu des echecs
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