George Walker
Illustration — Walker between William Lewis and Augustus Mongredien George Walker (13 March 1803 – 23 April 1879) was an English chess player and author of The Celebrated Analysis of A D Philidor (London, 1832), The Art of Chess-Play: A New Treatise on the Game of Chess (London, 1832), A Selection of Games at Chess played by Philidor (London, 1835), Chess Made Easy (London, 1836), and Chess Studies (London, 1844). His father was a publisher and novelist. In 1839, Walker visited Paris and the Café de la Régence, where he lost (+1−2) a short match to Boncourt.
George Walker
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- 1803 · London.
- Died
- 1879 · London.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- chess player · translator · writer
- Languages
- English
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Illustration — Walker between William Lewis and Augustus Mongredien George Walker (13 March 1803 – 23 April 1879) was an English chess player and author of The Celebrated Analysis of A D Philidor (London, 1832), The Art of Chess-Play: A New Treatise on the Game of Chess (London, 1832), A Selection of Games at Chess played by Philidor (London, 1835), Chess Made Easy (London, 1836), and Chess Studies (London, 1844). His father was a publisher and novelist. In 1839, Walker visited Paris and the Café de la Régence, where he lost (+1−2) a short match to Boncourt.
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Born at London in 1803, died in London in 1879.
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- 1.Books and Writers - Chess Books 1749-1875
- 2.Chess Matches.
- 3.ChessCafe.com. The Telegraph, the Velocipede, and the Bristol Sloth.
- 4.The Kibitzer
- 5.Welcome to the Chessmetrics site
- 6.Eales, Richard [1985] (2002). Chess, The History of a Game. Harding Simpole, pp. 142–45. .
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