Edinburgh Chess Club are delighted to announce that international Master and renowned chess author Craig Pritchett will be giving a talk at the club on Thursday 25th June.
In this talk, Craig will rattle through the life, times and achievements of Scotland’s universally acknowledged eventual ‘world top ten player’; the great Paul Morphy’s successor by repute as US ‘champion’ from around the late 1860s. The talk will be based and expand on Craig’s in-depth review of a recent landmark McFarland work: George H. Mackenzie, A Chess Biography with 1,297 Games, by the highly regarded American Chess Historian, John S. Hilbert.
Craig will draw comparisons with Mackenzie’s peers, including not just Morphy but also his New York chess colleague and (from 1886) first ‘world champion’, Wilhelm Steinitz, about whose life and play, Craig has also written insightfully, most recently in his latest book on the historical development of chess thought: Modern Chess: From Steinitz to the 21st Century (Thinkers Publishing).
Places are limited and interest is very high for this unique event so please register early to avoid disappointment! Full details and registration form available here
[Solutions to previous blog: Irving vs Oancea – black played 16…Nd4?? missing17.Nxd4 Bxg2 18.Nf5! winning a piece because 18…Bxf1 is met by 19.Nxe7+ and 20.Nxc8.
Kane vs Nikolaienko – white played 25.Ng6 Nxg6 (otherwise 26.Nxf6+ Rxf6 27.Rxe7 Rxg6 28.fxg6 Qxh3 29.gxh7+ Kh8 30.Rf8#) 26.fxg6 and black resigned because of 26..Qxh3 27.Re8#.]