The Chess Player's Mind By Harry Nelson Pillsbury,Chess Champion Of America PERHAPS the mental quality most useful to the chess player who wishes to rise to distinction in the game is concentration—the ability to isolate himself from the wh...
On the third floor of the main building of the main Cleveland Public Library sits the John G. White Special Collection. White underwrote the construction of the Special Collections room and donated his person...
THE GAME OF THE FUTURE by Emanuel Lasker ("The North American Review" 1907) Chess, the game of dreamers, comes from Asia, the home of all exquisite dreams of mankind. There originated philosophy and religion. Asia, indeed, is the m...
There's a longstanding, ongoing problem in chess about how to handle the so-called weaker sex. A long time ago, women weren't encouraged to participate in tournament chess and often barred from clubs and venues where chess was being advanc...
Modern Art and chess always seems to come down to Marcel Duchamp. While a lot can be said in between the Duchamp lines, the famous original Imagery of Chess show still commands much of the deserved attention. On it's very brochure (designed by...
Several years ago, I tried to trace the connection between chess and art through the very chess-inspired original Surrealist and Dada artists of the 20th century. These artists inlcuded the very well known, such as MarcelDuchamp, Man Ray and ...
In my article, The Imagery of Chess - Surrealism and Chess, several years ago, one of the participating artists whom I covered was Carol Janeway. As I noted on her page, my research results were very scant. Since I recently found more inform...
Le Roi jouant avec La Reine called "The King of Chess" in "Chess Review's" coverage of theImagery of Chess "The King Playing With the Queen" was originally a wire-reinforced plaster sculpture painted a homogenous blue....
In 1895 a group of women chess players formed a club known simply as the Ladies' Chess Club of London. It wasn't the first women's chess club in England - almost two decades earlier the Ladies' College Club, famous for the skills of Louisa Do...
The famous Ladies' Chess Club of London set up headquarters at 181 Tottenham Court Road. A rather curious guide mentions that the club was inside a building that housed the Ideal Café. But even more curious is that the same guide mentions a...
In 1895 a group of women chess players formed a club known simply as the Ladies' Chess Club of London. It wasn't the first women's chess club in England - sixteen years earlier the Ladies' College Club, famous for the skills of Louisa Down and h...
The House of Rothschild divided into several lines back in the 19th century, establishing themselves in Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, England and France. The Baron Albert Salomon von Rothschild was of the Austrian line. Like many of the...
Young's Million Dollar Pier, Atlantic City, N. J. Eighth American Chess Congress was held on Young's Million Dollar Pier from July 6-20, 1921. According to the American Chess Bulletin-Not the least significant of the achievements standi...
This little story came from the May 4, 1913 edition (p.44) of the San Francisco Call. During the hey-day of the automatic chess table at the local Graney billiard parlor - and that is to be understood a being soon after their installation, befor...
The British Chess Magazine in 1903 tells us about a unique chess game between the strong English player, Henry Lewis Bowles and the American champion Harry Nelson Pillsbury. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that it was not only a Live chess game ...
This litte tidbit was offered by Mrs. Rhoda A. Bowles in a 1901 issue of Womanhood, an illustrated monthly for which she was chess editor. Big "gooseberries" were in full season, when a correspondent sent the following " Royal Rules" suggest...
Most people even remotely interested in 19th century chess know about Mrs. John W. Gilbert and her extremely long announced mates. What seems to be less appreciated today is the sheer strength of this lady chess player. Part of the problem li...
Most people even remotely interested in 19th century chess know about Mrs. John W. Gilbert and her extremely long announced mates. What seems to be less appreciated today is the sheer strength of this lady chess player. Part of the probl...
Most people even remotely interested in 19th century chess know about Mrs. John W. Gilbert and her extremely long announced mates. What seems to be less appreciated today is the sheer strength of this lady chess player. Part of the problem lies ...
Most people even remotely interested in 19th century chess know about Mrs. John W. Gilbert and her extremely long announced mates. What seems to be less appreciated today is the sheer strength of this lady chess player. Part of the prob...
Mr. H. N. PILLSBURY'S CHESS CAREER.By Rhoda A. Bowles. R. Pillsbury was born in December, 1872, at Somerville, Mass., where his father owned a school for the training of young Americans. At the age of sixteen, Mr. Pillsbury learnt the...
A SCHEME FOR PLAYING CHESS, SUITABLE TO PUBLIC EXHIBITIONS.Sir,—The early history of chess is involved in much uncertainty—some authors wishing to make it appear of greater antiquity than is allowed by others. Dr. Hyde [1.] has traced it as...
Pillsbury and the Ladies Harry Pillsbury seemed to like the ladies. The ladies seemed to reciprocate. From the very beginning of his world fame after winning at Hastings, Pillsbury, still quite young at age 23, started supporting women's ches...
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