Philip W. Sergeant

Philip W. Sergeant

Philip Walsingham Sergeant (Londra, 27 gennaio 1872 – Guildford, 20 ottobre 1952) è stato uno scrittore e scacchista britannico.

È noto soprattutto come autore di libri di scacchi, ma anche libri di carattere storico. Harry Golombek ha scritto di lui: "Senza alcuna pretesa di essere un forte giocatore, ha fatto parte per molti anni della squadra di scacchi dell'Università di Oxford. Golombek considera A Century of British Chess come il suo miglior libro.[1]

Tra i suoi libri più noti vi sono le biografie e partite di Paul Morphy (Morphy's Games of Chess, 1916), Rudolf Charousek (Charousek's Games of Chess, 1919) e Harry Nelson Pillsbury (Pillsbury's Chess Career, 1922).

Nel 1913 vinse una partita contro Capablanca in una simultanea su 28 scacchiere data dal grande campione cubano al City Club di Londra.[2]

Libri di scacchi

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  • Morphy's Games of Chess, G. Bell and Sons, London, 1916 (ristampato da Dover nel 1976)
  • The Rice Memorial Chess Tournament, New York 1916, British Chess Magazine, Leeds, 1916
  • Charousek's Games of Chess, G. Bell and Sons, 1919
  • Pillsbury's Chess Career (with W. H. Watts), American Chess Bulletin, 1922
  • Morphy Gleanings, David McKay, Philadelphia, 1932 (Ristampato da Dover nel 1973 con il titolo The Unknown Morphy)
  • Modern Chess Openings (5th ed.), with R. Griffith and J. H. White, Whitehead & Miller, London, 1933 (6th and 7th editions: 1939, 1946)
  • A Century of British Chess, Hutchinson & Co., London; David McKay, Philadelphia, 1934
  • The Art of Chess Combination: A Guide for All Players of the Game, David McKay, Philadelphia, 1936
  • An Introduction to the Endgame at Chess, David McKay, Philadelphia, 1939

Altri libri

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  • Anne Boleyn: A Study, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1923
  • Behind the Scenes at the Court of Vienna : the Private Life of the Emperor of Austria from Information by a Distinguished Personage at Court, by Henri de Weindel and Sergeant, John Long, London, and Musson Book Co., Toronto, 1914
  • The Burlesque Napoleon; Being the Story of the Life and the Kingship of Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, Youngest Brother of Napoleon the Great, T. W. Laurie, London, 1905
  • The Cathedral Church of Winchester; a Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See, G. Bell & Sons, London, 1899
  • Cleopatra of Egypt, Antiquity's Queen of Romance, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1909
  • The Courtships of Catherine the Great, G. Bell & Sons, London, 1905.
  • Dominant Women, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1929
  • The Empress Josephine, Napoleon's Enchantress, Hutchinson & Co., London 1908
  • Gamblers All, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1931
  • George, Prince and Regent, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1935
  • The Great Empress Dowager of China, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1910
  • Historic British Ghosts, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1936
  • The Last Empress of the French Being the Life of the Empress Eugenie, Wife of Napoleon III, T.W. Laurie, London, 1907
  • Liars and Fakers, Hutchinson & Co., 1925
  • The Life of Ann Boleyn, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1923
  • Little Jennings and Fighting Dick Talbot: a Life of the Duke and Duchess of Tyrconnel, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1913
  • Mrs. Jordan: Child of Nature, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1913
  • My Lady Castlemaine, Being a Life of Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine, D. Estes, Boston, 1911
  • The Princess Mathilde Bonaparte, S. Paul and Co., London, 1915
  • The Real Francis-Joseph, the Private Life of the Emperor of Austria, by Henri de Weindel and Sergeant, J. Long, London, 1909
  • Rogues and Scoundrels, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1924
  • The Ruler of Baroda: An Account of the Life and Work of the Maharaja Gaekwar, John Murray, London, 1928
  • Witches and Warlocks, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1936

Note

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  1. ^ Harry Golombek, Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess, Crown Publishers, 1977, p. 292.
  2. ^ Vedi la partita Capablanca–Sergeant su chessgames.com

Altri progetti

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Collegamenti esterni

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