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The Classics

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Single-column SAN scoresheet on cream stock, 1889 ink

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Anderssen's hand, two-column German scoresheet

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Half-sheet from *La Régence*'s Paris office, foxed

IV

American First Chess Congress letterhead

V

Hastings 1895 tournament book scoresheet, terracotta rule

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Facsimile of *La Régence*, July 1855, the page where Falkbeer christens the Immortal

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The 1849 Staunton set registered design — Howard Staunton's signature beneath

VIII

Letterpress portrait silhouette of Anderssen, Breslau 1851

Openings

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Single column on parchment-toned stock, italic Italian piece letters (R, C, A)

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St Petersburg 1914 tournament book, two-column Russian/German parallel notation

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American Chess Bulletin letterhead, May 1918

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AVRO 1938 cyclostyled bulletin, Dutch-language headers

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Buenos Aires 1953 candidates' book, Spanish-language headers

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Reykjavik 1972 official scoresheet, both signatures, arbiter's stamp

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Facsimile of the *Libro de la Invención Liberal* title page, Alcalá 1561

VIII

The Göttingen Manuscript page (c. 1490), first surviving Italian/Ruy López analysis

Tactical Brilliancies

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Barmen 1869 match scoresheet, gothic-script German, Anderssen's signature

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New York 1924 tournament book scoresheet, Lasker's foreword opposite

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*Chess Review* clipping, Hans Kmoch's headline 'The Game of the Century'

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Sochi 1958 RSFSR Championship scoresheet, Cyrillic headers, ink-blue stamp

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Belgrade 1970 USSR vs Rest of World scoresheet, both team flags above the headers

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Moscow 1960 official WC scoresheet, both signatures, Soviet stamp

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Facsimile of the *Deutsche Schachzeitung* obituary page for Anderssen, March 1879

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Letterpress portrait silhouette of Anderssen — *the second time the player has seen this* (V1 slot VIII)

World Champions I

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New York 1924 tournament-book scoresheet, single-column, Capablanca's hand

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St Petersburg 1914 brevet scoresheet, Cyrillic header, gilt rule

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Baden-Baden 1925 official scoresheet, German typography, Kurhaus letterhead

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Match cable, Royal Dutch Chess Federation crest, Zandvoort dateline

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WC 1960 match scoresheet, Soviet Sport-Lottery letterhead, both signatures

VI

Facsimile of *La Nación* (Buenos Aires), 30 November 1927 — the page announcing Alekhine champion

VII

The Lasker resignation telegram, Havana, 27 April 1921 — single sheet, Western Union form

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Letterpress portrait of Capablanca seated at the board, Havana 1921, profile right

Endgame Studies

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Engraving from Philidor's *Analyse* — the rook-and-pawn defence diagram, French typography, copperplate

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Half-sheet from *Il Puttino* (1634), italic blackletter, Salvio's woodblock diagram

III

Page from *Deutsche Schachzeitung* 1900, German fraktur, Troitsky's K+N+N vs K+P diagram

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Page from the *American Chess Journal* — minimal layout, two diagrams stacked

V

Cutting from the *Glasgow Weekly Citizen*, 4 May 1895 — short paragraph, hand-drawn diagram, Saavedra's correction noted

VI

Facsimile of *Kagans Neueste Schachnachrichten*, 1921 — the page on which Réti first published his study

VII

Lucena's *actual* book — title page of *Repetición de amores y arte de ajedrez*, Salamanca 1497, with marginal note

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Letterpress portrait of Réti at the board, c. 1924, with an inset of his 1921 study diagram

World Champions II

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Reykjavik tournament hall scoresheet, English headers, both signatures, arbiter Lothar Schmid stamp

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Baguio City Convention Center scoresheet, the controversial Game 32 (final), Filipino watermark

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Tchaikovsky Concert Hall scoresheet (Moscow), Cyrillic headers, Kasparov's signature in red

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Riverside Studios London letterhead, BrainGames Network logo, neat printed move numbers

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Sofia Military Club scoresheet, Bulgarian / English bilingual header

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*The Times* of London front page, July 12 1972 — 'Fischer Wins First Game in Iceland Encounter'

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A small offset-printed Soviet match medallion — laurel, the Cyrillic ЧМ ('ЧМ' = world champion)

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Letterpress engraving of the Reykjavik hall — board, table, two empty chairs — based on a contemporary press illustration

Modern Masterpieces

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Tata Steel scoresheet, Wijk aan Zee header, Aronian's signature, the Dutch Chess Federation embossed seal

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Saint Louis Chess Club letterhead, the Sinquefield Cup logo, both signatures, Caruana's `34.Rxg7+` highlighted

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Sochi Olympic Park scoresheet, FIDE 2014 World Championship watermark, Russian / English bilingual

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Fulton Market Building scoresheet, 'WC 2016 New York' stamp, Carlsen's signature

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Tata Steel scoresheet, Carlsen's `46.Rxc7+` underlined

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A self-rendered Stockfish 16 evaluation chart for Astana 2023 Game 4, computed from the PGN with our own engine wrapper — eval-line + tooltip on each ply, ply 59 highlighted at `+1.40 30.Bc6`. JetBrains Mono, ink-900 on paper-50.

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A printed AlphaZero self-play game from DeepMind's December 2017 paper — the position after 24...Re8 with the eval annotation

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Letterpress portrait silhouette of Carlsen at the moment of breaking the rating record, January 2014