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Edgard Colle Caissa’s Wounded Warrior

Edgard Colle Caissa’s Wounded Warrior The Belgian master Edgard Colle was one of the most

dynamic and active chess players of the 1920s and early 1930s. Though his international career lasted

only ten years, Colle played in more than 50 tournaments, as well as a dozen matches.

 

Moreover, he played exciting and beautiful chess, full of life, vigor, imagination and creativity. As

with such greats as Pillsbury and Charousek, it was a tragedy for the game that his life was cut short,

at just age 34.

 

Author Taylor Kingston has examined hundreds of Colle’s games, in an effort to understand his skills

and style, his strengths and weaknesses, and present an informed, balanced picture of him as a

player.

 

Edgard Colle Caissa’s Wounded Warrior Colle emerges as a courageous, audacious, and

tenacious fighter, who transcended the limitations his frail body imposed, to battle the giants of his

day and topple many of them. 110 of Colle’s best, most interesting, and representative games have

been given deep and exacting computer analysis.

 

This often revealed important aspects completely overlooked by earlier annotators, and overturned

their analytical verdicts. But the computer’s iron logic is tempered always with a sympathetic

understanding that Colle played, in the best sense,  a very human kind of chess.

 

Caissa’s Wounded Warrior

 

Though not intended as a tutorial on the Colle System, the book has many instructive examples of

that opening. Additionally, there is an extensive excerpt from Max Euwe’s Gedenkboek Colle, several

other memorial tributes, biographical information about many of Colle’s opponents, his full known

tournament and match record, and all his available tournament crosstables.

 

We invite the reader to get acquainted with this wounded but valiant warrior, whom Hans Kmoch

called a “chess master with the body of a doomed man and the spirit of an immortal hero.”

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