Chess Match Between Steinitz Blackburne

Excerpt from Chess Match Between Steinitz Blackburne: Played at the West End Chess Club, London, February The undersigned ventures to submit to the chess community, in a collected form, the games lately played in the match between Mr. Blackburne and himself. Amongst chess players this contest excited at least an average amount of interest; and, perhaps for the first time, the general public bestowed a good deal of attention upon a chess match - a result which is doubtless owing to the great space the London daily papers devoted to the details of the play. A few introductory remarks as to the origin and character of the match may not be out of place. For a long time past various patrons of the game had expressed a wish to see a set contest between the first and second winners in the competition for the Emperor of Austria's prize in the Vienna Tournament of 1878. On the one hand Mr. Blackburne's friends considered the issue so close that the victory of Mr. Steinitz could he regarded as little more than an affair of chance; on the other hand Mr. Steinitz and his supporters were of opinion that the regulations enforced at Vienna were highly unfavourable to the development of the best play, or to the success of the best player, whoever he might be. Particularly unhappy was the stipulation that each competitor should play a match of three games with every other - the matches, and not the games, to score as results. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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