Book of the Nottingham International Chess Tournament 10th to 28th August 1936; containing all the games in the Masters' Tournament and a small selection of games from the Mindor Tournament, with Annotations

Author: Watts, William Henry (1878-1941) [editor]Year: 1937Publisher: Printing-Craft LtdPlace: LondonDescription:xxii+291 pages with frontispiece, tables, diagrams and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to spine and decorative pictorial to front cover and blind stamped edge ruled with ribbon bookmark and facsimile jacket. (Betts: 34-234) Annotations by Alexander Alekhine. Round by round commentary by A J Mackenzie. First edition.Nottingham 1936, was a 15-player round robin chess tournament held August 10-28 at the University of Nottingham. It was one of the strongest of all time.Dr. J. Hannak wrote in his 1959 biography of Emanuel Lasker that "when it comes to awarding the plum for 'the greatest chess tournament ever', in 1936, the Nottingham Tournament was certainly just that". W. H. Watts in the Introduction to the tournament book called Nottingham 1936 "the most important chess event the world has so far seen". It is one of