Joseph Henry Blackburne
Subtitle: A Chess Biography
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers; McFarland; McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9780786474738
Subjects: Chess, biography; Chess, collections of games; Great britain, biography
Description: "This first comprehensive biography of Britain's greatest chess player of the early 20th century presents more than 1,000 of Blackburne's games chronologically, including all his surviving games from serious competition, annotated in varying detail. Many are masterpieces containing beautiful combinations and instructive endgame play. Blackburne's unusual family and social background are fully explored"--