The Chess Player, Nottingham, 2000, 76 p., ISBN 1 901034 37 9, condition: very good, 140 grams.

Tony Gillam is a chess historian and writer. He founded the whole Chess Player series and has written extensively about unknown tournaments. Gillam self publishes most of his booklets (as photocopies with a plastic cover).

Samuel Lipschutz was born in Hungary in 1863 and emigrated to New York in 1880. He joined the Manhattan and New York chess clubs, and soon became champion of the latter, representing it at the British Chess Association Congress in London in 1886. Naturalized in 1888, he was the highest-placed American in the Sixth American Chess Congress the following year. In 1892 he defeated Jackson Showalter to become American champion. Suffering from tuberculosis in 1895, he lost a championship match to Showalter. Searching for a cure, he went to Germany in 1904 and died there late the following year.