Beschreibung:

256 S. Mit zahlr. auch farb. Abb. Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag.

Bemerkung:

Umschlag leicht beschädigt, sonst gutes Exemplar. - The beginnings -- The game spreads to Persia and elsewhere -- The game becomes shatranj -- Shatranj develops its theorists and great masters -- The game comes to Europe -- Early medieval times, the spread to Western Europe -- Late medieval and early modern times the game becomes dynamic -- The new game -- The eighteenth century, the age of the savants -- The early nineteenth century. France, England and Germany -- The advent of Paul Morphy -- Steinitz, the founder of modern chess -- Capablanca and the hypermoderns, from war to war -- The Soviet School triumphs -- The age of Fischer -- The post Fischer era 1972-? ISBN 0710082665