chess-The Oxford Companion to Chess - First Edition by David Hooper & Kenneth Whyld

188 LIPSCHUTZ
LIPscIltrIz, SAMUEL (186]-190r, rlunsdian
player who emigratcd to thc USAin 1880, working
ftst as a pnnter ad then, sumesstully, in insuran@.
In 189 he qon the US ChampioNhip by
defeating sHowArrEi in malch play (+7=7 1).
Three yea6laler Showalter rcgaincd the !i{e in a
retuo natch. Lipschntplayed in two intcrnational
loumaments (Lotrdon 1886 atrd New York 1889)
and in several nalional events, notably lying with
sE Nrrz for the New York State Ch.mpionship in
1897 a.d takins fiBl prize (+7=2 1) ahead oI
GNtuLL md Showaller in the Manhattan Chcss
Club championship 1900, his last and p.obably his
best acnicvcment. Lipshiitz was of GMNDGSER
class ad mighl haye achieled morc had he not
suffe.edfromadiseaseof lhelungs. Hctra,clledlo
Hamburg lor lreahenl and died afte. an operation.
His 122 page addendun to @ssD s Cr.rsplaret
s lrokul (1888) n.de this one oi $e
stadard openings books ofthe lime.
LBIISIN, GEORGY MIKHAILOVICH 0909.
72), Soviet player, InEmadonal Maste. (1950),
wimer oI the Leningrad Chanpionship 1939 and
joiot winner 1939 and 1947, mechanical cngineer.
Hc shared list prize wilh.EEGovEr in the
Trades U.ions Chanpionship tourn.ment, Mos,
cow 1936 (about category 8), and played in 1en
USSR championshiF lrom l93l to 1956. snaring
third prizc in 1933 and lounh in 1954. His best
book k Siotesira i Takti*a Shakhnat ltgsg).
LISITSIN CAMBIT, 692. enierprising and pro
bably emd gambit played i. lh€ game Lisitsia-
Botvinnik, kningrad Masters tournanent 1933.
LIIERATITRI AND CIIESS. Tbe best fou. E.glish
l.nguage works of Iiction in sbich chess is '
central arc relatively re@nt. Naboko! ued the pen
name v . Sirin lot Za\chna luzh,tra (1930), sritlen
in Russian but published in Berlin. A F.e.ch
rtansl.Iion. La Cou6e tu Fou, appeared in 1934
but despite an enthusiasti. review by zNosxo-
Borcvsn an English ve$ion, rne D+hce,*asnor
published mdl 1964. Stefan Zpeig, a Viemese
who bccame British. wote his shotr S.ho.hnoftlb
inPetropolis,Bruil, a lew weeks before hissuicidc
there: published in i943 and translaied as lhc
Royal Gone (1,914), thn aorel was desnbed by
John Fowles 6 one of the mosl powerful ever
based on the inagery ol a g^ne . Ma\tet Prih
(1968) by Janes wlideld Elliso. is an account oI
an uncoDth young Ame.ican chesgenius and like
The Drogon vatidion (1969) by Anthony Clyn
includes genuine game scores
Writers have found LrvrNc cHEss an endu.ing
altraction. In 146? Frances.o Colonna Nrole in
Ita,ian Hlpn otomacnia Poliph,l, whicb nas bccn
called the FinnegaB Woke oI lhe l5lh centuryi
published in 1499 Nilh voodcurs thoughl by sone
io bc the work of Raphael, this beautitul book
describes a chcss ballet and vas adapted a.d
expaDdedbyRabelaisinthepostbnmouhithbook
of GdrAd,,@. A similar chess ball in ,/sla.ol,
(1817) by Thomas r.ve Peacock Ends a bizare
echo in'A quier sane of.hess' ( 1948). a short slory
by E. Maunce Richardsn in hh scries about
Engelbrechl, the su(ealist sportsnan. A mo.e
orthodox living display is desnibed in E. M.
Fo6lerychess in C.acow'.
Anong thc grcat authors who have dedt wnh
ctess are Chauce., Boc.accio. Goethe, roBrcy.
Dosloevsky, and George Eliot. A. C. wHrrEcdit€d
Elioi\ worts and declded thal ol aI English
novelisis she had the grearest intcllcctual sympalhy
lbr che$. (Unrike ouida who in stathmore (186s)
sroie oI a pretry young wonan casrling her
adlcrcary\ queen'). TurSene! was a srong player
losing only +1=2-3 against the Polish professional
Ladnhs MaaDski (1838-98) at the.AFi DE L^
Ri.ENcE in 186i. Dunng a game wilh the 15-ye.r'
old rolsroy Turgenev reeled his Pans days,
'They called ne Le chevolkr d, pio,. I an lond ol
Chess is fou.d in a wide range oI6ctio. including
the Atubiot Nighlt' E ertainmenr rn