Geschichte und Litteratur Des Schachspiels

Author: van der Linde, Antonius (1833-1897)Year: 2006Publisher: Martino Publishing and Krown and SpellmanPlace: Mansfield, CT and Culver City, CADescription:3 volumes in 1. xi+422 pages with diagrams and tables; 154 pages with diagrams; xvi+524 pages with diagrams, tables and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 7") bound in original publisher beige cloth with black lettering to spine. (Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 26) First published in 1874.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 miss-spelling) and "Der Lasa". The Prussian King (later Em