books.google.co.uk - Long known as one of the greatest chess masters of the nineteenth century, William Steinitz is recognized as the first world champion. More exactly (and thanks to the efforts of the author of this book) he has been officially acknowledged as the first American world chess champion. Luckily for chess...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Steinitz_Papers_Letters_and_Document.html?id=NltT4BinugsC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Steinitz Papers: Letters and Documents of the First World Chess Champion
