Games from the United States Chess Championship and 5th Rosenwald Trophy Tournament, New York City 1958-59

Author: Jack Lee Spence (1926-1978) editor Year: 1959Publisher: Jack SpencePlace: Omaha Description: vii+35+[2 ad] type script pages printed on recto with tables. Quarto (11" x 8 1/2") bound in original publisher's wrappers with spiral spine. American Tournament Series Volume XVII. (Betts: 25-278) Limited to 140 copies of which this is number 15. First edition.  The 10th United States Chess Championship tournament was held in New York City at the end of the year 1957. Fourteen of the US' strongest masters and grandmasters were invited to compete. Among the participants was a veritable who's who of former American champions, including Samuel Reshevsky, Arthur Bisguier, and Arnold Denker. Filling out the rest of the field was a number of players from the prestigious Third Rosenwald Trophy (1956), including a fourteen year old prodigy named Bobby Fischer. Fischer was already gaining recognition from several brilliant wins as the next generation of American chess grandmastery. However, th