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Chess Highlights of the
20th Century
Graham Burgess
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First published in the UK by Gambit Publications Ltd 1999
Copyright © Graham Burgess 1999
The right of Graham Burgess to be identiied as the author of this work has been asserted in
accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or
otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other
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imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
A copy of the British Library Cataloguing in Publication data is available from the British Librry
ISBN 1 901983 21 8
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Edited by Graham Burgess
Typeset by John Nunn
Printed in Great Britain by Redwood Books, Trowbridge, Wilts.
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Cover photographs
Front, top: Grry Kasprov playing Deep Blue in 1997
Front, bottom left: Joseph Blackbune (leading British player at the strt of the 20th Century)
Front, bottom centre: Michael Adams (leading British player at the end of the 20th Century)
Front, bottom right: Judit Polgr, the srongest woman player in history
Back, top left: Jose Raul Capablanca, World Champion 1921-7
Back, top cenre: The 1957 Botvinnik vs Smyslov World Championship match
Back, top right: Alexander Alekhine, World Champion 1927-35, 37-46
Back, bottom left: Mikhail Tal, World Champion 1960-1
Back, bottom centre: Bobby Fischer, World Champion 1972-5
Back, bottom right: Anatoly Krpov, World Champion 1975-85
Gambit ublications Ltd
Managing Director: GM Muray Chandler
Chess Director: GM John Nunn
Editorial Director: FM Graham Burgess
Assistant Editor: GM John Emms
German Editor: WM Petra Nunn
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Contents 1900-1919
8
Symbols and Bibliography
9
Introduction
1900
10
1910
30
Tournament victories for Pillsbury,
Lasker retains his world title through
two (?) challenges
Schlechter and Lasker
1901
12
1911
32
Sensational results by Capablanca
Another sensational result for
Capablanca
1902
14
1912
3 4
Good results for Schlechter and
Janowski
A good year for Rubinstein
1903
16
1913
36
Victories for Tarrasch and Chigorin
A mixed year for Capablanca
1904
18
1914
38
Marshall triumphs at Cambridge
Lasker edges out Capablanca in the
Springs
St Petersburg tournament
1905
20
1915
40
Great results for Tarrasch and Maroczy
No major tournaments due to the war
22
1906
1916
41
Pillsbury dies, leaving Marshall as the
The war rages on
leading American player
1917
42
1907
24
No major events
Lasker outclasses Marshall
1918
43
1908
26
International chess slowly resumes
as the war ends
Lasker fends of Tarrasch's challenge
1909
28
1919
44
Capablanca achieves an astonishing
Good results for Spielmann,
match victory over Marshall
Bogoljubow and Capablanca
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Black to play and win (1907)
Black to play and win (1912)
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