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Napier: The Forgotten Chessmaster
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Napier: The Forgotten Chessmaster (Hardcover)
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John Hilbert, 354 pp. Hardcover (Caissa Editions 1997)

William Napier met and defeated the strongest players of his era. Yet his story has remain untold for almost a century. Author and historian John Hilbert has changed all that. In a splendid Caissa Hardcover Edition replete with photographs contemporary newspaper and journal reports and all known games (320) of this extremely interesting British-born American master Napier is justly remembered and given his due. An outstanding work.


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