Charousek's Games of Chess: With Annotations and Biographical Introduction

Author: Rudolf Charousek (1873-1900) edited by Philip Walsingham SergeantYear: 1919Publisher: George Bell & SonsPlace: London xi+220+[2 ad] pages with frontispiece, diagrams and indices. Small octavo (7 1/4" x 5") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine in a facsimile jacket. (Betts: 29-30) First edition.Contains all known games played by Charousek, 146 including consultation games, annotated from various sources. Rudolf Charousek was a Czech born Hungarian chess player. One of the top ten players in the world during the 1890s, he had a short career, dying at the age of 26 from tuberculosis. Reuben Fine wrote of him "Playing over his early games is like reading Keats's poetry: you cannot help feeling a grievous, oppressive sense of loss, of promise unfulfilled". He learned to play chess in his early teenage years, and his international debut came at the Nuremberg Tournament of 1896. Although he failed to win a prize, he defeated World Champion Emanuel