Harry Nelson Pillsbury

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Harry Nelson Pillsbury

American chess player

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association with Tarrasch

In Siegbert Tarrasch
…for first with the American Harry Nelson Pillsbury, whom he defeated in a play-off match. After 1907 he participated in more than 20 international matches but never placed in the top three positions. Especially disappointing to him was his loss to Emanuel Lasker in 1908 for the world championship. Despite…
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contribution to chess theory

In chess: Steinitz and the theory of equilibrium
…hand, one of Steinitz’s students, Harry Nelson Pillsbury, popularized the “minority attack,” in which the player with fewer queenside pawns advances them in certain positions in order to weaken his opponent’s pawns.
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