| It is well known that the surest way to improve one's skill at chess is to
carefully play over the games of the great Masters. The greatest Masters, of
course, are the World Champions, and the student is well-advised to select one
from this handful of the best to model his play after. All the better if the
chosen World Champion has provided deep and careful annotations for his best
games to increase our understanding!
Here then are the collected games of Wilhelm Steinitz, whose teachings about
chess transformed the "royal pastime" into a modem science. For the first time
anywhere all of Steinitz's surviving games have been gathered into one volume,
and in English algebraic notation for the modern player. Also for the first time
Steinitz's own annotations have been assembled and translated, notes in which
the World Champion guides us through a chess course never to be forgotten. Here
the reader will find 1022 games of chess as it was meant to be played, and 227
of them (nearly twenty-five per cent!) beautifully annotated by Steinitz
himself. A player's index, career crosstable, and 243 diagrams complete the
book.
Chess players of every level would benefit from a familiarity with the games
of Steinitz, and The Games of Wilhelm Steinitz, First World Chess Champion is
the perfect tool for doing so. More importantly, however, this book contains a
lifetime of chess enjoyment, provided by the greatest figure in the history of
the game - Wilhelm Steinitz
Author: Sid Pickard
Title: National Master
Published: 1995
Pages: 260
Annotation: AN
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