About the Author

Taylor Kingston has been a chess enthusiast since his teens. He holds a Class A over-the-board USCF rating, and was a correspondence master in the 1980s, but his greatest love is the game's history. His historical articles have appeared in Chess Life, New In Chess, Inside Chess, Kingpin, and the web-site www.ChessCafe.com. He has edited numerous books for Russell Enterprises, including the 21st-century edition of Lasker's Manual of Chess.

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"I do not accept an absolute limit to my knowledge. I have a zeal to understand that refuses to die." --Emanuel Lasker, 1919