Zur Geschichte und Literatur des Schachspiels

Author: Heydebrand und der Lasa, Tassilo von (1818-1899)Year: 1984Publisher: Zentralantiquariat der Deutschen Demokratischen RepublikPlace: LeipzigDescription:viii+269 pages with diagrams. Octavo (8 1/2" x 6") bound in blue cloth with gilt to spine and cover with figurative knights head, lettering to spine in white. Ruled front cover edges in gilt and white. Original advertisement card laid in. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 242) Second edition. First printed in 1897.Tassilo, Baron von Heydebrand und der Lasa (known in English as "Baron von der Lasa" was an important German chess-master, chess historian and theoretician of the nineteenth century, a member of the Berlin Chess Club and a founder of the Berlin Chess School (the Berlin Pleiades). His name is usually abbreviated as "von der Lasa", as this is how he signed his letters. However both contemporary and more recent writers have used other abbreviations, such as "von Heydebrandt" (which is a misspelling) and "Der Lasa"