3rd Chess Olympiad - Hamburg 1930

📖 Title: 3rd Chess Olympiad - Hamburg 1930

• Author: Krzysztof Puszczewicz
• Edition: 3
• Year of publication: 2026
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 423
• Format: PDF
• Ebook license: perpetual

🔔 One of the most important moments in the history of Polish chess...

"3rd Chess Olympiad - Hamburg 1930" is not merely a chronicle of Poland's triumph, but a journey back in time to the day when the Polish team - featuring Akiba Rubinstein, Savielly Tartakower and Dawid Przepiórka - claimed the Olympic gold.

Krzysztof Puszczewicz, the series author, invested years of work to locate unique, often lost materials. In his own words:

"The Hamburg Olympiad - Poland's greatest triumph, in which they won gold medals - is my greatest pride! Thanks to access to press and archival materials (journals) primarily German (Hamburg!), Czech and Polish from the 1930s, I was able to assemble the largest collection of games in the world! Masters like Rubinstein and Eliskases have their complete games included. For example, existing databases contain only four games by Eliskases (a leading world player from Austria) - this monograph features all 15! The icing on the cake is that the games are annotated by the players themselves or by leading grandmasters of the 1930s."

This third, expanded edition is the most comprehensive study of the Hamburg Olympiad ever produced. Rediscover the tournament that made history forever.

What makes this book unique?

• The world's largest game collection: the monograph contains a radically expanded number of games compared to previous editions, creating the most complete collection devoted to the Hamburg Olympiad.
• Complete games of grandmasters: the only publication in the world to feature all 15 games by Austrian grandmaster Erich Eliskases and the complete 17 games of Akiba Rubinstein.
• Rediscover the game that won Poland gold: the book includes the unique score of the Makarczyk - Rasmusson game, whose draw secured Poland's historic Olympic triumph.
• Original annotations from the era: games annotated by the players themselves and by leading chess journalists of the 1930s.
• Rich photographic coverage: each round and the tournament's key moments are illustrated with dozens of unique photographs, including an image of the "Provinzialloge von Niedersachsen" building from archival German sources, which became the motif for the book's cover.
• Chronological format with historical context: relive the competition round by round, with the historical, social and political backdrop of the turbulent 1930s.