Chess In Iceland And In Icelandic Literature
by Willard Fiske, With Historical Notes On Other Table-Games
Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprints, softback, 398p., fine condition, never read, 805 grams.
Daniel Willard Fiske (November 11, 1831 – September 17, 1904) was an American librarian and scholar. In the summer of 1879, he visited Iceland for three months, traveling on the island with two other Americans and endearing himself to the residents by organizing donations of books from America. His interests included chess; he helped organize the first American Chess Congress in 1857 and wrote the tournament book in 1859, and edited The Chess Monthly from 1857 to 1861 with Paul Morphy. His scholarly volume, Chess In Iceland and in Icelandic Literature (Florence, 1905), was used as source material by H. J. R. Murray for A History of Chess.
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