Schachkongress Teplitz-Schönau im Oktober 1922 - 2nd hand

664 pages with diagrams, tables, plates and indexes. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2") in original decorative binding. Notes by Grunfeld and Beeker. Includes 214 pages on chess problems which in turn includes a part on retrograde analysis by Kluver. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5550). Upon the dissolution of Austria-Hungary after World War I, its generally German-speaking population found itself in newly established Czechoslovakia (CSR). Here, the Ustredni Jednota Ceskych Sachistu (Central Chess Union of CSR) was open to all players, but the German citizens established in 1921 a separate organization, Der Deutsche Schachverband in der CSR (German Chess Federation in CSR). The new federation held congresses every year, and in 1922, at its first congress in Teplitz-Schönau. Fourteen players participated in the round robin event. Despite the absence of world champion Jose Raul Capablanca (#1), Alexander Alekhine (#2), Milan Vidmar (#4), former world champion Emanuel Lasker (#5), Efim Bogoljubov (#7), Max Euwe (#19) and Aron Nimzowitsch (#22), all players were later estimated to be in the top 25 of the world at that time. Bogoljubov had signed up, but he withdrew at a late stage and was replaced by Friedrich Sämisch (#21). The others were: Akiba Rubinstein (#3), Savielly Tartakower (#6), Borislav Kostic (#8), Ernst Grünfeld (#9), Rudolph Spielmann (#10), Richard Réti (#11), Geza Maroczy (#12), Heinrich Wolf (#13), Siegbert Tarrasch (#14), Richard Teichmann (#15), Jaques Mieses (#17), Paul Johner (#24) and Karel Treybal (#25). Two months earlier, Rubinstein, Tartakower, Réti and Maroczy had played in London (1922), and Rubinstein and Tarrasch arrived more or less straight from Hastings (1922). 

• Code Schorr1922
• Anno 1922
• Pagine 664