Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Fifth American Chess Congress: Containing a Full Report of the Proceedings of the Convention of Chess Players, Held in New York, in the Year 1880
The biographical articles upon the leading retired actors, who, by their concordant and patient labors, served to dignify the importance and splendor of the memorable First Congress, were originally intended to have been given as foot-notes to the text of the sketch of that Congress; but the extent to which they perversely grew despite incessant pruning, rendered a separate grouping of them desirable. Had this necessity been anticipated, several of the sketches might have been amplified with interesting anecdotes and traits of char acter that were discarded in order to confine them within the bounds to which it was the writer's purpose to assign them. It is hoped that, meagre as they are, they will not be found wanting in interest to chess players of the present day.
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