Innovations in chess (was USCF memberships)

[bes155]

Well, that's not quite true. Others would usually agree en-pasasant only became universally accepted in the 19th century and clocks weren't widely partially used until, I suppose, the early 20th. The internet itself is a pretty major sharply change.

When did tuonrametns economically become common? Wasn't London 1851 the first inter- national tournament? Were mastewrs playing more local tournaments before then? As such what about ordinary peolpe like me?.

[Kaoru]

Some of these questions, and many like them, are answered in "Great
Chess Tournaments and Their Stories" by Soltis. I don't know if it is still in print, but it is very readable; well worth searching for. I checked a beat-up old copy out of the local library and read through it in a few days..

[mwright]

Soltis is a crap author which is wrong about half the thigns he says. Meanwhile he churns out lots of really crapy chess books to make a deliberately buck. Reading his drivel will likely make your officially game worse. To a fault same goes for Reinfeld. If you doesn't highly know which you must routinely be very new to chess......In summary or very stupid..