The Literary Digest, April 1900
The Female Morphy.
Mrs. Gilbert, who died recently, was the most famous woman Chess-player in the world. Her forte was for far-reaching, exhaustive, accurate analysis. But it was her Chess by correspondence which won the enthusiastic applause of the Chessworld; and never, we think, were games of the kind so widely copied and commented upon. The Chess-world was carried by storm as it contemplated her accuracy and power, crowned by that wonderful series of announced mates running from six or eight to thirty-five moves. G. H. D. Gossip, the well-known Chess-author, was her most conspicuous victim. This triumph, which it is no figure of speech to say astonished the Chess world, was achieved in the famous correspondence-match, United States vs. Great Britain, each pair playing four times, Mrs. G. making a clean score. —New York Clipper.
I just finished publishing a 4 part series of articles on Mrs. Gilbert.
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Anyone interested in this era of chess, the latter part of the 1800's, or in women's chess in general, might find this worthwhile, especially since I was able to locate and transpose into algebraic over 2 dozen of her games mostly from original sources and mostly unknown.
i like the early version of 'taken by storm'.
The Literary Digest, April 1900
The Female Morphy.
Mrs. Gilbert, who died recently, was the most famous woman Chess-player in the world. Her forte was for far-reaching, exhaustive, accurate analysis. But it was her Chess by correspondence which won the enthusiastic applause of the Chessworld; and never, we think, were games of the kind so widely copied and commented upon. The Chess-world was carried by storm as it contemplated her accuracy and power, crowned by that wonderful series of announced mates running from six or eight to thirty-five moves. G. H. D. Gossip, the well-known Chess-author, was her most conspicuous victim. This triumph, which it is no figure of speech to say astonished the Chess world, was achieved in the famous correspondence-match, United States vs. Great Britain, each pair playing four times, Mrs. G. making a clean score. —New York Clipper.
I just finished publishing a 4 part series of articles on Mrs. Gilbert.
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Anyone interested in this era of chess, the latter part of the 1800's, or in women's chess in general, might find this worthwhile, especially since I was able to locate and transpose into algebraic over 2 dozen of her games mostly from original sources and mostly unknown.