A Career Summary with 757 Games
by Peter P. Lahde, 360pp. (McFarland, 2009)

This work chronicles the chess career and games of Grandmaster Isaac Kashdan, one of the leading United States players of the 1930s (along with such notables as Fine and Reshevsky). The main body of the work examines Kashdan’s game play, with diagrams and analysis provided for many hundreds of his tournament games, match games, speed games, simultaneous exhibitions, training games and consultation games. Some games are accompanied by detailed contemporary analyses written by Kashdan and other prominent chess masters of his era. There are numerous photographs, as well as facsimiles of correspondence. Also included are tournament crosstables, and indexes of Kashdan’s opponents.

Part One: The Career of Isaac Kashdan
1. The Early Years
2. The Early Thirties
3. The Simultaneous Exhibitions  
4. The Late Thirties
5. The Forties
6. The Fifties
7. The Later Years
Part Two: The Games of Isaac Kashdan
Part Three: Appendices and Indexes

Former editor of Tennessee Chess News, Peter P. Lahde has written on Albert Beauregard Hodges, Alekhine, the Hastings tournaments, the modern United States Chess Championship, and chess in Tennessee. A retired research chemist, he lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

“For all around contributions to the game Isaac Kashdan has to rank at the very top or very close to it...has filled a huge gap in America chess literature...a first rate research job...McFarland has done its usual high quality job with excellent paper, library binding and a clear layout. Highly recommended”—IM John Donaldson

“A beautiful tribute to one of America’s chess giants. The work, 20 years in the making, meticulously weaves together Kashdan’s life with his chess moves”—The Washington Post.