Here are the front and end covers, and a part of a chapter examining the history of chess until years 1850-60 (This was sent in by Claude)
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Chess history
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This must be another April Fools.
We all know chess was invented by African space astronauts when they were building the pyramids and were flying around in flying saucers.
Paul Morphy was an alien whose origin was from the planet Hungary.
Easier than Susa’s puzzle ?!
Here’s a quick translation of the part of the story under “NOTICE” on the right-hand page:
NOTES on some celebrated players of the 16th and 17th Centuries
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In the second half of the 16th Century there lived in Rome, under the pontificate of Gregory XIII, a young student nicknamed “Il Puttino” (The Little Cherub) because of his small stature, whose real name was Leonardo di Cutri. This young man, neglecting his rightful studies for a good many hours, devoted himself entirely to playing chess, and while he was still pretty young, became the top player in Rome. Now it happened that the celebrated Ruy Lopez was visiting Rome at that time, in the hope of obtaining a papal benefice that was vacant. Hearing about Leonardo’s talent, he desired to test his own mettle, and the two great players effectively spend two days in combat. But the experience of the Spanish priest prevailed over the imprudent daring of the young Calabrian: Leonardo was completely trounced. Humiliated by his defeat, Il Puttino left Rome and retreated himself to Naples, where he worked at chess ardently for two whole years. Then, thinking he could take revenge on Lopez, he resolved to go and face him again…
Ah, after the French sentence with “devait etre null” seemed unclear to me, I found online a fuller English version of the whole story here (near the top of the long page).
my god.
i fell for the chessbase news on Fischer’s previous correspondence with Kasparov, Korchnoi, Topalov and Leko. I was so amazed when I read that It was Fischer who found the 12. Nxf7!! in Topalov-Kramnik and was feelig so happy inside. And all of a sudden after about half an hour, I realise its April’s Fools Day.
Oh well
Some glitches: “spent” not “spend”, “devait etre nulle” with an e, and “e’tudes de droit” probably means “law studies” not “rightful studies”, in view of the other version.
http://mark_weeks.tripod.com/chw04c15/chw04c15.htm
In today’s world, this would have made one heckuva blog entry.