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Around 1860 a wave of talented youth intensified the Berlin chess scene. Within a short time Berthold Suhle, Philipp Hirschfeld and Gustav Neumann ranked among the best players in the world. Despite their achievements little has been known about their lives and games. Drawing on a range of sources, the authors fill this gap.
List of contents
Table of Contents¿Foreword by Michael Negele
Introduction
A tale of cities
The genesis of this book
Two personal notes
General notes
Thanks to
Part I. Chess in Berlin Until 1860
Philidor's stay
Deschapelles' two visits
The Schachclub
Julius Mendheim
The Berliner Schachgesellschaft
Ludwig Bledow
The Pleiades
Carl Mayet
Wilhelm Hanstein
Bernhard Horwitz
Tassilo von der Lasa
Paul Bilguer
Karl Schorn
After the Pleiades
The second Berlin school
Part II. Carl Friedrich Berthold Suhle
Private and professional life
Chess life: A promising youngster (1858-spring 1859)
Out of Bonn (spring-summer 1859)
The Berlin years commence (summer 1859-1860)
The last playing years (1862-1869)
Part III. Philipp Martin Hirschfeld
Private and professional life
Chess life and games
The beginning (1859-1860)
The Schachzeitung (1861-autumn 1863)
Traveling (December 1863-1871)
A London resident (1872-1891)
Definitively back in Berlin (1892-1894)
Part IV. Gustav Richard Ludwig Neumann
Introduction
Youth (1838-1860)
A first visit to the Berliner Schachgesellschaft
Anderssen in Berlin (July 1860)
Student years (1860-1863)
A fresh start (September 1863-April 1864)
A visit to Breslau (April 1864)
Paulsen's visit to Berlin (May 1864)
Anderssen in Berlin (July 1864)
A bet of six months
The tournament of the Berliner Schachgesellschaft 1865
Anderssen's visit (April 1865)
Summer chess
Elberfeld (August 1865)
The season 1865-1866
The tournament of the Berliner Schachgesellschaft 1866
Anderssen in Berlin (April 1866)
A cruel summer (July-August 1866)
A challenge
Last months in Berlin (September 1866-May 1867)
Paris (June-July 1867)
Three matches (July-August 1867)
Dundee (September 1867)
A controversy with Kolisch
Paris 1867-1868
Matches with Rosenthal (January-February 1869)
The final year in Paris (1869)
Breakdown
Back to Germany
Baden-Baden (July-August 1870)
Altona (July 1872)
Neumann's purgatory and demise (1872-1881)
Appendix I: Bernhard von Guretzky-Cornitz
Private and professional life
Chess life, games and problems
Appendix II: Suhle's Theoretical Contributions to Opening Theory
Appendix III: Texts by Suhle Not Concerning Himself
Appendix IV: Suhle's Teaching Career
Appendix V: Hirschfeld's Theoretical Contributions to Opening Theory
Appendix VI: Documents Related to Neumann
Bibliography
Monographs on other players
Tournament books
Anthologies
Textbooks and handbooks
Chess history and reference
Other books
Chess periodicals
Chess columns in periodicals
Databases
Websites
Players Index (to game numbers)
Index of Openings-Traditional Names (to game numbers)
Index of Openings-ECO Codes (to game numbers)
Annotators Index (to game numbers)
General Index (to page numbers)
About the author
Historian Hans Renette is FIDE master in chess (with 2 IM norms). He lives in Bierbeek, Belgium.Fabrizio Zavatarelli is a teacher of applied mathematics and the author of several articles concerning chess history. He lives in Milan, Italy.
