Edward Winter’s Chess Explorations (37)

At the New York, 1889 tournament a master lost a game by forfeit after only
eight moves because he was, in the words of a newspaper report, ‘laboring
under excitement’. The Editor of Chess
Notes looks at three great players with reputations for heavy dependency
on alcohol, examining how they have been treated by
contemporaries and subsequent writers.

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