Philip W. Sergeant

Philip Walsingham Sergeant (Londra, 27 gennaio 1872 – Guildford, 20 ottobre 1952) è stato uno scrittore e scacchista britannico.

È noto soprattutto come autore di libri di scacchi, ma anche libri di carattere storico. Harry Golombek ha scritto di lui: "Senza alcuna pretesa di essere un forte giocatore, ha fatto parte per molti anni della squadra di scacchi dell'Università di Oxford. Golombek considera A Century of British Chess come il suo miglior libro.

Tra i suoi libri più noti vi sono le biografie e partite di Paul Morphy (Morphy's Games of Chess, 1916), Rudolf Charousek (Charousek's Games of Chess, 1919) e Harry Nelson Pillsbury (Pillsbury's Chess Career, 1922).

Nel 1913 vinse una partita contro Capablanca in una simultanea su 28 scacchiere data dal grande campione cubano al City Club di Londra.

Libri di scacchi

• Morphy's Games of Chess, G. Bell and Sons, London, 1916 (ristampato da Dover nel 1976)
• The Rice Memorial Chess Tournament, New York 1916, British Chess Magazine, Leeds, 1916
• Charousek's Games of Chess, G. Bell and Sons, 1919
• Pillsbury's Chess Career (with W. H. Watts), American Chess Bulletin, 1922
• Morphy Gleanings, David McKay, Philadelphia, 1932 (Ristampato da Dover nel 1973 con il titolo The Unknown Morphy)
• Modern Chess Openings (5th ed.), with R. Griffith and J. H. White, Whitehead & Miller, London, 1933 (6th and 7th editions: 1939, 1946)
• A Century of British Chess, Hutchinson & Co., London; David McKay, Philadelphia, 1934
• The Art of Chess Combination: A Guide for All Players of the Game, David McKay, Philadelphia, 1936
• An Introduction to the Endgame at Chess, David McKay, Philadelphia, 1939

Altri libri

• Anne Boleyn: A Study, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1923
• Behind the Scenes at the Court of Vienna : the Private Life of the Emperor of Austria from Information by a Distinguished Personage at Court, by Henri de Weindel and Sergeant, John Long, London, and Musson Book Co., Toronto, 1914
• The Burlesque Napoleon; Being the Story of the Life and the Kingship of Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, Youngest Brother of Napoleon the Great, T. W. Laurie, London, 1905
• The Cathedral Church of Winchester; a Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See, G. Bell & Sons, London, 1899
• Cleopatra of Egypt, Antiquity's Queen of Romance, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1909
• The Courtships of Catherine the Great, G. Bell & Sons, London, 1905.
• Dominant Women, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1929
• The Empress Josephine, Napoleon's Enchantress, Hutchinson & Co., London 1908
• Gamblers All, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1931
• George, Prince and Regent, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1935
• The Great Empress Dowager of China, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1910
• Historic British Ghosts, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1936
• The Last Empress of the French Being the Life of the Empress Eugenie, Wife of Napoleon III, T.W. Laurie, London, 1907
• Liars and Fakers, Hutchinson & Co., 1925
• The Life of Ann Boleyn, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1923
• Little Jennings and Fighting Dick Talbot: a Life of the Duke and Duchess of Tyrconnel, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1913
• Mrs. Jordan: Child of Nature, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1913
• My Lady Castlemaine, Being a Life of Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine, D. Estes, Boston, 1911
• The Princess Mathilde Bonaparte, S. Paul and Co., London, 1915
• The Real Francis-Joseph, the Private Life of the Emperor of Austria, by Henri de Weindel and Sergeant, J. Long, London, 1909
• Rogues and Scoundrels, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1924
• The Ruler of Baroda: An Account of the Life and Work of the Maharaja Gaekwar, John Murray, London, 1928
• Witches and Warlocks, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1936

Note

Altri progetti

• Wikimedia Commons contiene immagini o altri file su Philip W. Sergeant

Collegamenti esterni

• Opere di Philip W. Sergeant, su MLOL, Horizons Unlimited.
• (EN) Opere di Philip W. Sergeant, su Open Library, Internet Archive.
• (EN) Partite di Philip W. Sergeant, su Chessgames.com, Chessgames Services LLC.
• (EN) Philip W. Sergeant, su 365Chess.com.

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