Cambridge 1860

"The Meeting of the British Chess Association"

Complete tournament book won by Ignaz von Kolisch, ahead of Charles Stanley. The book contains 29 games in total, of which 17 are all the games of the tournament, 6 games are from the exhibition match Staunton - Worrall and the rest are various exhibition games. Some games are annotated from contemporary sources (Staunton, Loewenthal). The book includes the tournament history, rules, official report, 25 problems from the problem tournament - all diagrammed with solutions etc. Indexes of players and openings.