Julius Finn: A Chess Master's Life in America, 1871-1931

by OlimpiuG.Urcan (Author), JohnS.Hilbert (Foreword)

• New

  Library Binding
  2009

  $37.44

  Julius Finn was born in Russian Poland, and came to New York in 1887 at the age of 16. From a humble start as a street peddler on the Lower East Side, Finn swiftly rose to become New York's champion chess master and one of the country's best blindfold chess entertainers. This biography of Finn includes analysis of 96 of his chess games.