Cornell University Library Digital Collections
Willard Fiske. The Book of the First American Chess Congress. New York, 1859.
- Title:
- Willard Fiske. The Book of the First American Chess Congress. New York, 1859.
- Collection:
- Images from the Rare Book and Manuscript Collections
- Date:
- 1859
- ID Number:
- REX007_0180
- Catalog Record:
- 4720153
- File Name:
- REX007_0180.tif
- Work Type:
- prints (visual works)
- Subject:
- Books
Games
- Description:
- In 1857, while he was living in New York City, Fiske became very interested in chess, founding and editing The American Chess Monthly. Paul Morphy, the celebrated chess player, joined Fiske as associate editor. That year, sixteen chess players met in New York City to participate in the First American Chess Congress. Fiske’s account of the First American Chess Congress was one of the first books on American chess. He included in his book a history of American chess and a bibliography of literature devoted to chess. The book is dedicated to the tournament’s champion, Paul Morphy.
- Source:
- The book of the first American chess congress; containing the proceedings of that celebrated assemblage held in New York in the year 1857 together with sketches of the history of chess in the old and new worlds.
- Bibliography:
- Frontispiece
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Collecting Program:
- Icelandic
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- Presumed to be in the public domain because of creation date.
