by Jacques N. Pope, 376pp. (1996)
Jacques Pope’s acclaimed work on Pillsbury is once again available! A tremendous talent, Pillsbury quickly established himself as a leading contender for the world championship. Although his career was cut tragically short, he produced many interesting games.
907 games are presented. They comprise Pillsbury’s entire tournament output, all of the available match games and a selection from the blindfold and simultaneous exhibitions.
The book is in four parts, along with two appendices and two indices of openings and players. One of the four parts is devoted to the biographical information, while the other three consist of the presentation of the tournament games, match games and others, such as those played at the club level or in simultaneous exhibitions including blindfold play, for which Pillsbury was justly famous. The appendices contain Pillsbury's article on the 1895 Hastings tournament, his great win, and his brief autobiography published in 1899.
Notes are provided to many of the serious contests. Annotators include Tarrasch, Lasker, Chigorin, Steinitz, Marshall Showalter and Pillsubry himself.
This book is in new condition, but has slight cosmetic damage to the cover.
