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Monday, July 4, 2011

ANTIC CHESS BOOK WITHOUT TITLE OR AUTHOR !

The mysterious book

Hello everybody!

Here is today's enigma-trivia for you.

This is an exceptional book that is Chess. A book published very rare in Belgium in 1928. Featuring 64 pages, printed in the state of the art and enjoying a solid hardcover.

At first nothing extraordinary ... Yet the careful reader will surprise of surprises! The front cover of this book contains no entry. Or indeed the second, third and fourth cover! The foreword is located on page 5 signed:
"AUTHOR". Argenteau-lez-Liège, May 1928.

The anonymous author - gives us a story very well written and captivating scenes Chess World Championships Chess at the time, and the 34 analyzed games of the match CAPABANCA-ALEKHINE in 1927. The Talented Cuban world champion, will have losing to one who becomes the first champion in 1927 World Chess French (of Russian origin) of the twentieth century.

Who will be able to say which is the author of this book?
The answer is here



CUBA published in 1988 a commemorative stamp of the previous game, "Lasker-Capablanca" which enabled it to hold the world title in 1921 to 1927

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