The Property of the late Victor Berger
(formerly Buerger)
BRITISH EMPIRE CLUB, MASTERS' CHESS TOURNAMENT, LONDON 1927 -- A set of ten score books, kept by ten of the twelve participants, Nimzowitsch, Tartakower, Vidmar, Bogoljubow, Reti, Colle, Buerger, Thomas, Yates and Fairhurst, each book containing 11 games with the moves recorded in pencil (some leaves in Nimzowitsch's book detached), original printed wrappers, modern cloth box. The other two participants, whose score books are no longer present, were Marshall and Winter.
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BRITISH EMPIRE CLUB, MASTERS' CHESS TOURNAMENT, LONDON 1927 -- A set of ten score books, kept by ten of the twelve participants, Nimzowitsch, Tartakower, Vidmar, Bogoljubow, Reti, Colle, Buerger, Thomas, Yates and Fairhurst, each book containing 11 games with the moves recorded in pencil (some leaves in Nimzowitsch's book detached), original printed wrappers, modern cloth box. The other two participants, whose score books are no longer present, were Marshall and Winter.
"In October of 1927 one of the most important events in the history of British chess was staged in London. It was an International tournament of the highest rank, in which no less than three players competed who, earlier in that year, had been involved in the New York Candidates', which decided the Challenger to Capablanca. The three, Nimzowitsch, Vidmar and Marshall, were joined in London by Yefim Bogoljubow, the victor of Moscow 1925 and future opponent of Alekhine in two World Championships; Savielly Tartakower, the Polish grandmaster who took first prize in no less than four international tournaments during 1927; and Richard Reti, a subtle inventor of oblique opening systems whose play, at its best, was marked by a rare and elegant beauty ... These GMs of international renown were joined by the leading British masters, apart from Atkins ...." (Raymond Keene in his introduction to London 1927. The 'British Empire Club' International Tournament (St. Leonard's on Sea, 1983, p. 9)
Nimzowitsch and Tartakower were joint winners of the tournament with a final score of 8, followed by Marshall with 7½, Vidmar with 7, Bogoljubow with 6½, Reti and Winter with 5½, and the Belgian champion Edgar Colle with 4½. Victor Berger, until his death last year the tournament's sole survivor, was with M. E. Goldstein its chief organiser as well as a young particpant. It was made a condition of play that each player would leave behind his score book, and the only players to apparently ignore this ruling were the U. S. star, Frank Marshall, who was making his first visit to a British tournament since 1899, and Winter. Such a full run of score books from a major tournament, held when hypermodernism was at its height, must be considered VERY RARE, if not unique on the market. Sold with them is Keene's book on the tournament, signed by both the author and Berger. (11)
"In October of 1927 one of the most important events in the history of British chess was staged in London. It was an International tournament of the highest rank, in which no less than three players competed who, earlier in that year, had been involved in the New York Candidates', which decided the Challenger to Capablanca. The three, Nimzowitsch, Vidmar and Marshall, were joined in London by Yefim Bogoljubow, the victor of Moscow 1925 and future opponent of Alekhine in two World Championships; Savielly Tartakower, the Polish grandmaster who took first prize in no less than four international tournaments during 1927; and Richard Reti, a subtle inventor of oblique opening systems whose play, at its best, was marked by a rare and elegant beauty ... These GMs of international renown were joined by the leading British masters, apart from Atkins ...." (Raymond Keene in his introduction to London 1927. The 'British Empire Club' International Tournament (St. Leonard's on Sea, 1983, p. 9)
Nimzowitsch and Tartakower were joint winners of the tournament with a final score of 8, followed by Marshall with 7½, Vidmar with 7, Bogoljubow with 6½, Reti and Winter with 5½, and the Belgian champion Edgar Colle with 4½. Victor Berger, until his death last year the tournament's sole survivor, was with M. E. Goldstein its chief organiser as well as a young particpant. It was made a condition of play that each player would leave behind his score book, and the only players to apparently ignore this ruling were the U. S. star, Frank Marshall, who was making his first visit to a British tournament since 1899, and Winter. Such a full run of score books from a major tournament, held when hypermodernism was at its height, must be considered VERY RARE, if not unique on the market. Sold with them is Keene's book on the tournament, signed by both the author and Berger. (11)