Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Features of This Book Explanations Abbreviations I. Family and Formative Years The Kolisches The City of Pressburg Infancy A Mysterious Period Among Chessplayers Earliest Games II. The Italian Year Towards Genova The Games Against Saint Bon The Games Against Vitzthum III. Arrival in Paris Historical Framework The Games Against Harrwitz The Games Against Arnous de Rivière Paris Life The Games Against Anderssen Last Strokes in Paris IV. To the Conquest of London Arrival in the Metropolis The Match Against Worrall Not Only Matches The Match Against Saburov The First Match Against Maude A Summer Illness V. The Season of Invitations The Cambridge 1860 Tournament Four Matches in London Manchester, Liverpool and Dundee VI. Restless New Year's Day in France The First Challenge to Morphy The Third Match Against Maude Owen, Barnes and Wormald The June 1861 Tour VII. Great Expectations The Match Against Anderssen The Games Against Mackenzie VIII.

Louis Paulsen The Bristol 1861 Tournament The Match Against Paulsen IX. A Step Backward Paris Intermezzo The Petersburg Visit X. Double Life A Pause for Reflection The Second Challenge to Morphy From Chess to Finance The Match Against Hirschfeld The Match Against Rosenthal Embers Under Ash XI. The Emperor's Prize Prelude The Games Neumann's Challenge XII. An International Champion The Visit to Germany Paris, Again A Chess Star in Vienna The Vienna Blindfold Performances A Match with Large Odds The Baden-Baden 1870 Tournament Never Take a Game Too Far XIII. Financial Takeoff The Wiener Börsen-Syndicatskasse The Match Between London and Vienna Prosperity The Vienna 1873 Tournament Days of Wealth In the Whirl of Business XIV. Beatus Ille Qui Procul Negotiis Baron and Rentier Der Glorreiche Augenblick The London 1883 Tournament A Call in Nürnberg Events of a Notable Life The Hassan Affaire An Old Passion and a New Home Epilogue. After Death Funeral and Heritage The Two Kolisch Memorials Kolisch and Posterity Solutions of Problems Appendix A: Kolisch's Ancestry Appendix B: Relative Currencies in Kolisch's Time Bibliography Index of Players Index of Openings--Traditional Names Index of Openings--ECO Codes General Index.