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

PREFACE
Tournaments are indicated by their labels, e.g. 'London 1851'; a game not
from a tournament would be described as played at London in 1851, or simply
'Londor, 1851'. A 'minor toumament' may be urderstood as ar event of
category 7 or weaker. Crosstables of two lournaments are given by way of
illustratior. The standard reference work is the mulli-\o,].tme Chess Tournament
C/osstabler by Jeremy Gaige.
This book could hardly have been completed without the willing help of
numerous chess friends. We thank them all, ir particular Dale Brand(eth of
Yorktown. Sir Richard Clarke, Kevin J. O'Comell ofLondor, Jeremy Gaige,
Isaak Romanov ofMoscow, and LotharSchmid. We also thank Betty Palmer of
the Oxford Univenity Press for her unfailing Suidance.
The subject of chess has been dogged by myth and by the repetitior of
incorrect information. We have wherever possible drawn on primary sources,
and some hundreds of facts appear here corectly for the lirst time in a chess
book: but our best efforts will nothave freed us from all error and amendments
fiom readers will be welcome.
Caistot, Likcolnshne
.Iuly 1983
DAVID HOOPER
KF,NNF,TH WHYLD