The Chess Career of Rudolf Spielmann: 1903 - 1926

Author: Rudolf Spielmann (1883-1942) edited by Jack L SpenceYear: 1961Publisher: Alfred Kalnaj's PrintingPlace: ChicagoDescription: 256+[2 errata]+[3 contents]+[games cited]+[ diagram correction] pages with diagrams, portrait, tables, portrait illustrations and figures. Small octavo (7" x 5") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover in original pictorial jacket. First edition.Rudolf Spielmann was an Austrian-Jewish chess player of the romantic school, and chess writer. He was known as "The Master of Attack" and "The Last Knight of the King's Gambit". His daredevil play was full of sacrifices, brilliancies, and beautiful ideas. This was exemplified, for example, in the 1923 Carlsbad tournament, where he did not have a single draw (with five wins and twelve losses). Spielmann was inordinately fond of the King's Gambit and continued using this opening after most elite players had abandoned it; he was also the last master to make any serious use of the