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A balanced budget - 1st American Chess Congress
    June, 2005
 

from The Book of the 1st American Chess Congress  by Daniel Willard Fiske

 

ACCOUNT OF Mr. JAMES THOMPSON, TREASURER.
 
Subscriptions to the General Fund .................$1177.50
From sale of Cards of Admission .....................$86.00
Entrance Fees - Grand Tournament ...................$160.00
Entrance Fees - Minor Tournament ....................$80.00
                                                   $1503.50
 
Prizes ---- Grand Tournament First Prize ..$300.00
  "           "       "      Second Prize . 100.00
  "           "       "      Third Prize ... 66.67
  "           "       "      Forth Prize ... 33.33
Prizes ---- Minor Tournament First Prize ... 75.00
  "           "       "      Second Prize .. 50.00
  "           "       "      Third Prize ... 25.00
  "           "       "      Forth Prize ... 12.50

Prizes ---- Problem Tournament First Prize . 30.00

  "           "       "       Second Prize . 15.00
                                             -----> $707.50
Rent Of Hall .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    384.66
Printing     .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .    107.87
Advertising  .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .     37.88
Stationary   .    .    .    .    .    .    .    .     18.00
Postage and Sundries   .    .    .    .    .    .     47.59
Subcribers' Copies to the Book of the Congress  .    200.00 
                                                                                                       ------------
                        Total                      $1503.50                 

 

 
 
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My Chess Biographies

Carlos Repetto Torre
Gioacchino Greco
Henry Thomas Buckle
La Bourdonnais
Francois Andre Philidor
Philidor's Opponents
Rashid  Nezhmetdinov
Rudolf Charousek
William E. Napier
G. H. Mackenzie
Lisa Lane
Karl Schlechter
Prince André Dadian
Henry Thomas Buckle
Joseph Blackburne
Isodore Gunsberg
James Mason
William Lewis
George Walker
Augustus Mongredien
Adolf Anderssen
Saint Amant
Daniel Harrwitz
Samuel Boden
Johann  Löwenthal
Howard Staunton
The Duke of Brunswick
Charles Henry Stanley
Louis Paulsen
Deschapelles
Jacob Henry Sarratt
Alexander McDonnell
Joszef Szen
Vincent Grimm
John Cochrane
George Atwood
del Rio, Lolli, Ponziani
Arpad Elo
Sultan Khan


My Historical Explorations

Renaissance:
    Seeds to the Renaissance
    The Catalysts
    Chess Literature
    Chess Players

    Sofonisba Anguissola
    Schaccia, Ludus by Vida
    The Black Death
    Da Vinci
    Caissa 
by William Jones
    Aristotle's Children

Chess Automatons
The Origins of Chess
Chess History is a Pain!
 
Girl Chess I
The Forgotten Philidor

 


Miscellaneous:

Franklin's Morales of Chess Pandolfini's Comandments
Six Chess Vignettes
Fischer's 10 Greatest
My Life as a Chess Criminal Celebrities Playing Chess
Mis/Dis Information
Morphy's Brilliant Moves
What is Chess
Schachdorf Ströbeck
 


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