The Games in the St Petersburg Tournament 1895-96 with Copious Notes and Critical Remarks
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The Games in the St Petersburg Tournament 1895-96 with Copious Notes and Critical Remarks

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Author: Mason, James (1849-1905) and William Henry Krause PollockYear: 1896Publisher: Whitehead and Miller, LtdPlace: LeedsDescription:xvi+64 pages with illustrations, portraits, diagrams and tables. Octavo (8 1/2" x 6") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. (Betts: 25-31; Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5241) First edition limited to 500 copies.At the closing banquet for the Hastings 1895 tournament, Chigorin announced that the top prizewinners had been invited to St. Petersburg for a match-tournament to begin in December of that year. The top three finishers (Pillsbury, Chigorin, and Lasker) plus fifth-place finisher Steinitz agreed to play; fourth-place finisher Tarrasch declined. Even so, St. Petersburg was enormously strong; the top five places on the December 1895 Chessmetrics list are occupied by Lasker, Tarrasch, Chigorin, Steinitz, and Pillsbury respectively. Each entrant played six games against the other three. The tournament began

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