Portrait of the American chess player HN Pillsbury, 1896. At the age of 22, he won the Hastings 1895 chess tournament, one of the strongest tournaments of the time, but his illness and early death prevented him from challenging for the World Chess Championship. From "The Sportfolio. portraits and biographies of heroes and heroines of sport and pastime". [1896]
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