Philip W. Sergeant
# 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
