An account of the late chess match between Mr. Howard Staunton and Mr. Lowe. View Watchlist >
By Thomas Beeby, 1848.
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Beeby, Thomas. An account of the late chess match between Mr. Howard Staunton and Mr. Lowe. London, Gilpin, 1848. 28 pages.Original pamphlet. L/N 5018. van der Linde II, 79. Betts 27 – 7.
Pages 3 – 21 deal with the correspondence which attended the result of the match, in the form of a letter "To Mr. Staunton, editor of the Chess Player’s Chronicle".
It also contains 7 games, with notes from Bell’s Life in London.” The edition contains some biting remarks about Staunton. In the Staunton-Lowe match, seven games were played, with pawn and two moves handicap to Staunton. Staunton won one, lost four, and two games ended in draws.
The British chess master and chess journalist Howard Staunton (1810–1874) was considered the strongest player in the world between 1843 and 1851. The English chess player Edward Löwe (also Lowe, 1794–1880) participated in the first international chess tournament in 1851 and founded the Imperial Hotel on the Strand in London. Many foreign chess masters stayed there, including Morphy.
Condition: From David DeLucia's Chess Library. VG with minor tears and repairs. Very scarce.
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