The Collected Works of Wilhelm Steinitz
The First World Chess Champion
edited by Sid Pickard
Includes:
- One thousand seventy-two complete games
- The Modern Chess Instructor e-book
- The 6th American Chess Congress e-book
- Collection of Magazine Articles
- ChessBase Reader
- The Steinitz Gambit e-book
Wilhelm Steinitz was the first World Chess Champion, the founder of modern chess, the inventor of scientific analysis-- and a prolific writer. This collection gives you access to The Great Theorist in a way that has never been possible before-- in his own words, and in the chess games he played. Over a thousand of them, in fact. All presented to you in interactive ChessBase format, so that you can watch the matches as they unfold, and gain an unprecedented insight into the mind of the greatest theoretician of them all.
This CD-Rom showcases Steinitz's works in their entirety: literally thousands of pages of material, by the most successful match player in history.
The main biographical collection includes 1,072 games played by Steinitz, and 288 games annotated by Steinitz in full text, woven into the game notation. Highlights include Steinitz's own account of four World Championships, the London-Vienna match, and the cable match with Tschigorin, all bound together with Keys, hyperlinks, and photos.
The Modern Chess Instructor e-book is Steinitz's masterpiece, a complete course in chess. Seven chapters of Steinitz teaching chess from the moves and rules on up to his astronomical level. Steinitz proceeds to discuss the 8 major openings in chess, with 167 Surveys and 79 Illustrative Games, including the Steinitz-Tschigorin match for the 1889 World Championship.
The 6th American Chess Congress e-book is a comprehensive overview of this important part of American chess history, when Tschigorin and Weiss tied for first and second place. This, widely considered one of the best tournament books of all time, includes all 430 games, plus the Committee Report and tournament crosstable.
The Magazine Articles Collection has large excerpts from the "Field" and the "International Chess Magazine". This includes about 85 games, plus the Wisker-MacDonnell match of 1874, the Zuckertort-Rosenthal match of 1880, the Lipschuetz-Delmar match of 1888, and a number of other matches of similar caliber. The Collection also contains the "analysis" lines from the Steinitz-Tschigorin cable match, and the famous article "Morphy and the Play of His Time".
The Steinitz Gambit e-book, a modern, useful openings book, covers 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 exf4 4.d4 Qh4+ 5.Ke2. The book is a comprehensive exposition of Steinitz's radical idea, covered in two text documents, six Surveys, and three hundred games, with an excellent openings Key. One hundred and fifty of the games are annotated, twenty-eight of them by Steinitz himself.
There's still more to the collection than can be listed here in detail. A .pdf file of all Steinitz crosstables, two Steinitz screensavers, an electronic jigsaw puzzle, dozens of unique photos; altogether nearly 900 games annotated by Steinitz, his two books, extended excerpts from his writings... A lifetime of chess enjoyment! And, the ChessBase Reader software is included, so you need no additional software to enjoy every feature on this CD-ROM.
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