Julius du Mont

Julius du Mont (15 December 1881, in Paris – 7 April 1956, in Hastings) was a French-born pianist, piano teacher, chess player, journalist, editor and writer.

He studied music at the Frankfurt Conservatoire and at Heidelberg, and became a concert pianist.

He won club and county chess championships in the period leading up to World War I, and showed his mastery of the English language by writing a manual on the Lewis gun.

Perhaps his most famous work was 500 Master Games of Chess (1952), written in collaboration with Savielly Tartakower.

For some years, du Mont was chess columnist of The Field and of the Manchester Guardian.