William Steinitz (1836-1900) has been called the father of modern chess. He developed many objective principles of chess play, putting chess strategy, for the first time, on a solid theoretical base. reigning for twenty-eight years as the world’s foremost chess master, he, in Reinfeld’s words, “was the most original thinker, the most courageous player, and the most remarkable personality in the fifteen centuries or so the game has been in existence.”
Unabridged republication of the 1901 edition, originally t…
