Historian Hans Renette is FIDE master in chess (with 2 IM norms). He lives in Bierbeek, Belgium. Fabrizio Zavatarelli is a teacher of applied mathematics and the author of several books and articles concerning chess history. He lives in Milan, Italy.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Michael Negele

Introduction

A tale of cities

The genesis of this book

Two personal notes

General notes

Thanks to

Part I. Chess in Berlin Until 1860

Philidor's stay

Deschapelles' two visits

The Schachclub

Julius Mendheim

The Berliner Schachgesellschaft

Ludwig Bledow

The Pleiades

Carl Mayet

Wilhelm Hanstein

Bernhard Horwitz

Tassilo von der Lasa

Paul Bilguer

Karl Schorn

After the Pleiades

The second Berlin school

Part II. Carl Friedrich Berthold Suhle

Private and professional life

Chess life: A promising youngster (1858-spring 1859)

Out of Bonn (spring-summer 1859)

The Berlin years commence (summer 1859-1860)

The last playing years (1862-1869)

Part III. Philipp Martin Hirschfeld

Private and professional life

Chess life and games

The beginning (1859-1860)

The Schachzeitung (1861-autumn 1863)

Traveling (December 1863-1871)

A London resident (1872-1891)

Definitively back in Berlin (1892-1894)

Part IV. Gustav Richard Ludwig Neumann

Introduction

Youth (1838-1860)

A first visit to the Berliner Schachgesellschaft

Anderssen in Berlin (July 1860)

Student years (1860-1863)

A fresh start (September 1863-April 1864)

A visit to Breslau (April 1864)

Paulsen's visit to Berlin (May 1864)

Anderssen in Berlin (July 1864)

A bet of six months

The tournament of the Berliner Schachgesellschaft 1865

Anderssen's visit (April 1865)

Summer chess

Elberfeld (August 1865)

The season 1865-1866

The tournament of the Berliner Schachgesellschaft 1866

Anderssen in Berlin (April 1866)

A cruel summer (July-August 1866)

A challenge

Last months in Berlin (September 1866-May 1867)

Paris (June-July 1867)

Three matches (July-August 1867)

Dundee (September 1867)

A controversy with Kolisch

Paris 1867-1868

Matches with Rosenthal (January-February 1869)

The final year in Paris (1869)

Breakdown

Back to Germany

Baden-Baden (July-August 1870)

Altona (July 1872)

Neumann's purgatory and demise (1872-1881)

Appendix I: Bernhard von ­Guretzky-Cornitz

Private and professional life

Chess life, games and problems

Appendix II: Suhle's Theoretical Contributions to Opening Theory

Appendix III: Texts by Suhle Not Concerning Himself

Appendix IV: Suhle's Teaching Career

Appendix V: Hirschfeld's Theoretical Contributions to Opening Theory

Appendix VI: Documents Related to Neumann

Bibliography

Monographs on other players

Tournament books

Anthologies

Textbooks and handbooks

Chess history and reference

Other books

Chess periodicals

Chess columns in periodicals

Databases

Websites

Players Index (to game numbers)

Index of Openings-Traditional Names (to game numbers)

Index of Openings-ECO Codes (to game numbers)

Annotators Index (to game numbers)

General Index (to page numbers)