The Book of the London International Chess congress 1922. Containing all the Games played in the Master's Section and a small selection from the Minor Tournaments

Author: William Henry Watts (1878-1941) editor  Publisher: Printing Craft LtdPlace: LondonDescription: 137 pages with 14 plates, 3 tables and diagrams. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") issued in burgundy cloth with gilt letter to the spine and ruled blind stamped of front cover in facsimile jacket. Annotations by Geza Maroczy. (Betts: 25-70) First edition. In 1922, Europe had been four years removed from the conflagration that was the First World War and the Russian Revolution. International chess had ceased from the time the war began in 1914, but by 1922 it was evidently back in full swing. Jose Raul Capablanca, in fact, had wrested the world title from the pre-war champion, Lasker, in Havana, Cuba, the previous year.   As though chess itself was rising from the war’s ashes, the 1920s saw the development of novel ideas. Aron Nimzowitsch, Richard Reti, and Gyula Breyer, adventurous and creative players, shook the classical school with their revolutionary opening play.  When masters soon assim