Moravian Chess

27/01/2024

My love for chess history dates back to the 1970s, when my favourite chess book was Alexander Kotov's impressive novel "Black and White". It was only later that I acquired his other great publication "300 izbrannych partij Alekhine", which I still consider one of the best collections of Alekhine's games.
Later in the 1980s, during my scientific stay at the Institute of Africa in Moscow (I am a professional political scientist with a focus on African political realities), I regularly visited the library of the Central Chess Club in Moscow in the evenings and copied unknown games of Alekhine there.
The result of my research was a joint monograph with Jan Kalendovsky (author of the as yet unsurpassed biography of R. Reti) in 1992, Complete Games of Alekhine, 1882-1921, which became my first real chess bestseller in its day.
The chess legacy of A. Alekhine fascinates me to this day, and I am a patient historian, gradually gathering detailed information about his chess career in order to continue the series of three published volumes (Complete Games of Alekhine, 1921-1924, Complete Games of Alekhine, 1925-1927).
Some of the results of my research are published on an ongoing basis in the Great Chess Players section of the Quarterly for Chess History.

24/01/2024

The last volume of the Historical Chess Tournaments series is again from American chess history, "Fourth Brooklyn Chess Club Tournament, 15 January - 28 March 1870", which became the prey of the unforgettable American chess champion G. H. Mackenzie. In a tournament where nearly 30 players competed, more than 600-700 games were most likely played (the tournament was played in a two-round, each-player system). In addition to GHM, the tournament featured other great 19th-century New York chess players such as F. Perrin, J. Mason, E. Delmar, F. E. Brenzinger, Ch. A. Gilberg, etc.
The author has managed to collect a total of 37 mostly annotated games from various chess patrols and magazines published at the time (New York Albion, The Turf, Field, and Farm. The Spirit of the Tims, The Sunday Mercury, New York Sun, New York Tribune, New York Herald, New York Clipper, Daily Evening Bulletin, etc.).
The booklet is 80 pages long and includes a week-by-week description of the tournament and then a game section. The booklet contains 17 colour and black-and-white photographs of the players, player indexes, and the opening. An absolutely exhaustive booklet, it is intended for true chess history buffs.

24/01/2024

Historical Chess Tournaments expanded at the end of 2023 with another volume, this time of the American series: (ch) Manhattan Chess Club, 1901. The winner of the tournament was F. J. Marshall, followed by the outstanding New York chess players of the early 20th century, G. Simonson, O. Roething, J. Finn, E. Delmar, A. B. Hodges, J. M. Hanham, etc.
The booklet is 64 pages long, containing a total of 50 games, which have been collected from a variety of original chess sources dating back to 1901 (Brooklyn Daily Eagle, New York Sun, New York Tribune, New Yorker Staats-Zeitung, New York Clipper, etc.) The booklet is divided into an introduction and the following 11 chapters including newspaper articles arranged by tournament rounds. Readers will find 10 photographs of participants and the usual player and opening indexes in the booklet.

24/01/2024

After a long period, the 24th issue of the Quarterly for Chess History (QCH) has been published, this time, unlike all previous volumes, in the highest graphic quality (colour laser printing). The hardback QCH has a total of 552 pages, containing 247 mostly annotated games.
The contents have been contributed by the world's best chess historians, led by John S. Hilbert (A Biography of Albert W. Fox), Dominique Thimognier (The Strange of Inspector Dermenon), Henrik Lindberg (Qualification to the Interzonal in Stockholm-Saltsjöbaden 1948), Carlos Martin Sanchez and Eric Ruch (The First Spanish Correspondence Chess Tournament in 1888), Alain Pallier (Semion Semionovic Levman), etc.
Vlastimil Fiala, the editor of QCH, contributed an introductory historical article "Franz Kafka and Chess", a classic chess match "Howard Staunton vs. Edwar Löwe (1847)", the eighth continuation of the chess biography "Louisa Matilda Ballard Fagan (1906)", and the popular section "Great Chess Players" (de La Bourdonnais, H. Staunton, P. Morphy, W. Steinitz, E. Lasker, J. R. Capablanca, A. Alekhine, M. Euwe), which contains several unknown games by great chess masters of the past.
Almost 100 pages are devoted to the traditional Chess Miscellany section, and readers can also read two extensive reviews of two publications by McFarland. The publication contains the usual game indexes, including the contents of QCH numbers 21-24.

27/03/2019

Original book about Czech Chess History. 286 tournaments, matches and correspondence games, unknown games of Oldrich Duras, Richard Reti, Karel Hromadka and many other Czech chess players played in Czech lands and abroad in 1910. https://mailchi.mp/039acdeda835/moravian-chess

25/03/2019

What happened in Amsterdam in 1874? Find out here https://www.moravian-chess.cz/e-shop/historical-chess-tournaments/second-congress-of-the-dutch-chess-association-amsterdam-1874/

19/03/2019

Spring is almost here and spring Quarterly for Chess History is in our e-shop. Check it here https://www.moravian-chess.cz/e-shop/chess-opennings/quarterly-for-chess-history-volume-5-no-20/?koren=chess-opennings

17/02/2019

03/07/2018

Enjoy the summer ... with chess

07/06/2018

"Alekhine, A.: Chess Duels, 1893-1920" is our new bestseller. We sold more than 250 copies during last months via Amazon. You can follow these lovers of Alekhine´s chess heritage in USA at
https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/807189012X/ref=sr_1_1_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1520497160&sr=8-1&keywords=chess+duels+alekhine

07/05/2018

Our Publishing House made a deal with one of the biggest American chess book dealer "House of Staunton" which will start shortly the selling of our books at the U. S. book marker.

15/12/2017

NEW BOOK. Chess Duels, 1893-1920.
260 games annotated by Alexander Alekhine.
In the years before he left Russia Alekhine developed his skill by annotating numerous games, not just his own, for newspapers, magazines and tournament books. Here, for the first time, this complete set of annotations is published, making it an invaluable addition to chess development and history.
http://www.moravian-chess.cz/e-shop/chess-bibliography/chess-duels-1893-1920/

31/10/2017

NEW Quarterly for Chess History in our e-shop. http://www.moravian-chess.cz/e-shop/chess-opennings/quarterly-for-chess-history-volume-5-no-18/?koren=chess-opennings

26/09/2017

Mikhail Chigorin. His chess life was very interesting. In the latest issue of Quarterly for Chess History you will find fourth part of his biography.

17/08/2017

back in game :-)

03/06/2017

New issue of our flagship Quarterly for Chess History will be publish during July. We are looking forward to Volume V., No. 18. Are you?

20/05/2017

Everyone is playing chess. What about you?

06/05/2017

Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik was a Soviet and Russian International Grandmaster and World Chess Champion for most of 1948 to 1963. Moravian Chess offers six books focus primarily on Botvinnik.
Find more at: http://www.moravian-chess.cz/encyclopedia/mikhail-moiseyevich-botvinnik/

17/04/2017

The Chess Monthly was a short-lived american chess magazine. In January, 160 years ago was published the first issue edited by professional diplomat and linguistics professor Daniel Willard Fiske and co-edited by Paul Morphy.

05/01/2017

One of the best chess players Oldřich Duras died exactly 60 years ago. He was a true gentleman of the chess.
http://www.moravian-chess.cz/encyclopedia/oldrich-duras/

03/08/2016

We are very excited to announce the launch of our newly designed website. http://www.moravian-chess.cz/

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