Moravian Chess, Olomouc, Czech Rebublic, 2002, hardback, iv+282 pp, 520 grams, condition: fine, as NEW.

Part 1 - F.J. Marshall biography, the early years.

Part 2 - 173 chess games of F.J. Marshall 1893-1900.

 The story of Marshall's earliest chess years is a story full of drama and, above all, struggle. Struggle in the face of setbacks. Struggle in the face of superior players. Struggle in the face of long and hard study. In short, the struggles each of us face, chessplayer and chess historian alike, in the course of our own lives, both on and off the board. Yet in Marshall's case, of course, the chess victories and the failures are writ large, almost larger than life. They are here, now, for chess readers willing to take the time to learn of them. And they are here for all who wish to be entertained through observing the mystery and mastery of chess. For both abound in the early story of Frank Marshall.