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A Chess Master’s Life in America, 1871–1931, Julius Finn
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A Chess Master’s Life in America, 1871–1931, Julius Finn
Foreword by John S. Hilbert ix
Acknowledgments x
Preface xi
A Note to the Reader xiii
Prologue 1
Part I: A Peddler’s Rise on the Lower East Side, 1871–1900
1. Coming to America, 1871 –1894 5
2. First Forays into Chess, 1895–1900 11
3. A Rising Blindfold Artist, 1898–1900 26
Part II: Among New York’s Best, 1901–1905
4. The Very Busy Year 1901 39
5. The NYSCA Midsummer Meeting, July 1902 68
6. A Manhattan Man, 1903–1905 88
7. Equitable Life Insurance Agent 105
8. More Chess in New York, July–November 1905 113
Part III: Marketing a Rich Man’s Gambit, 1903–1916
9. With Rice and His Gambit, 1903–1905 131
10. A Match with Napier, January 1906 147
11. King of New York, 1906–1907 157
12. The End of the Rice Brotherhood, 1908–1916 186
Part IV: The Last Years, 1929–1931
13. A Preëminent Chess Official, 1910–1928 215
14. A Last Game of Chess, 1929–1931 236
Epilogue 242
Appendix I: Finn’s Tournament Record 243
Appendix II: Finn’s Match Record 244
Appendix III: Finn’s Simultaneous Exhibitions Record 245
Appendix IV: Finn’s Blindfold Simultaneous Exhibitions Record 247
Chapter Notes 249
Selected Bibliography 259
Index to Finn’s Games (game numbers) 261
Index of Openings—Finn’s Games (game numbers) 262
Index of Supplementary Games and Positions (page numbers) 263
Index of Supplementary Game Openings (page numbers) 264
Index of Tables 265
Index to Illustrations 266
General Index 267
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