TABLE OF CONTENTS To view a particular category within the catalogue please click on the headings below

1. Antiquarian

2. Reference; Encyclopaedias, & History

3. Tournaments

4. Game collections of specific players

5. Game Collections – General

6. Endings

7. Problems, Studies & “Puzzles”

8. Instructional

9. Magazines & Yearbooks

10. Chess-based literature

11. Children & Junior Beginners

12. Openings

Keverel Chess Books

July – January.

Terms & Abbreviations The condition of a book is estimated on the following scale. Each letter can be finessed by a + or - giving 12 possible levels. The judgement will be subjective, of course, but based on decades of experience. F = Fine or nearly new // VG = very good // G = showing acceptable signs of wear. P = Poor, structural damage (loose covers, torn pages, heavy marginalia etc.) but still providing much of interest. AN = Algebraic Notation in which, from White’s point of view, columns are called a – h and ranks are numbered 1-8 (as opposed to the old descriptive system). Figurine, in which piece names are replaced by pictograms, is now almost universal in modern books as it overcomes the language problem. In this case AN may be assumed. pp = number of pages in the book.// ed = edition // insc = inscription – e.g. a previous owner’s name on the front endpaper. o/w = otherwise. dw = Dust wrapper It may be assumed that any book published in Russia will be in the Russian language, (Cyrillic) or an Argentinian book will be in Spanish etc. Anything contrary to that will be mentioned. PB = paperback. SB = softback i.e. a flexible cover that cannot be torn easily. HB = hardback of thick card that cannot be bent without considerable pressure. LN = Bibliotheca Van Der Linde-Neimeijeriana. When Dr. Neimeijer died in 1948 he bequeathed his vast library of chess books to the Royal Library in the Hague. lands where it was absorbed into the other donated libraries to form the Van der Linde-Niemeijeriama . All the books were catalogued & codified, each now having a unique reference number, which is used here.

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1. Antiquarian

Dr. Finlay loses again

1. Antiquarian

Bird, H. E. Chess History & Reminiscences London 1893 138pp Has sections on chess history, blindfold chess and a few game scores. Original brown cloth with bright gilt titles. LN 236 VG+ £85.00

Bird, H. E. Chess Practice being a condensed and simplified record of the actual openings in the finest games played up to the present time, including the whole of the beautiful specimens contained in Chess London 1st ed. 1882 Masterpieces, comprising those of Anderson, Bird, Blackburne, Boden, Buckle, Cochrane, Kolisch, Labourdonnais, Lowenthal, Macdonnell, Morphy, Staunton, Steinitz Zuckertort, and 35 others. 96pp Original dark cloth. LN 1822 Front binding a little tender o/w VG £75.00

Bird, H. E. Chess Practice London 1892 96pp LN 1823 A 2nd printing a decade after the first, but with a much more colourful red cloth cover with Art Nouveau titles and £75.00 chessboard. Insc “Edward Metcalfe” VG .

Bird, H. E. The Chess Openings considered Critically & Practically. 1st ed. 1877 London Includes interesting long lists of subscribers in UK & US, including Sam Loyd who composed a special letter B problem for the book. 248pp Original blue cloth boards with gilt title on spine. LN £60.00 1819 Binding a little tender o/w G+

Bird, H. E. Chess Novelties and their latest novelties with comparisons of the F. Warne progress of chess openings of the past centuries and the present not 1st ed. 1895 dealt with in other works. 304pp Original blue cloth boards bearing attractive gilt design and lettering. LN 1855 Spine dulled o/w VG £55.00

Bird, H. E. Chess Novelties – another copy. 304pp Original maroon cloth boards. £55.00 VG+

Chess Masterpieces comprising a collection of 150 games of the past London Bird, H. E. quarter century, with Notes, including the finest games in the 1st ed. 1875 Exhibition of 1851 and the Vienna Tournament of 1873. 140pp Maroon cloth boards. Insc. One of Bird’s scarcer titles. LN 3166 a little foxing to title page & back cover is tender but intact o/w G+ £75.00

Another copy in green cloth boards. Fine split to green material covering Bird H. E. spine and c.10 small pencil ticks detected. o/w VG £75.00

Another copy with by far the better covers. Maroon cloth boards with title in Bird H. E elaborate lettering & ornate patterns in gilt. Year (1875) in gilt and a 3-move problem set out on a chessboard in gilt, as is the author’s name. Page edges are also gilded. Blind stamped pattern on back cover. Possibly a first £85.00 printing with subsequent print-runs of a more modest nature. Internally there is some light foxing opposite the title page & a few pages inside. VG

Bird, H. E. Another copy with the title Chess Masterpieces Compiled by H. E. Bird. On the front endpaper is pasted a blue label bearing the words “Awarded by Robt. J. Buckley – Chess Editor of the Birmingham Weekly Mercury to Mr. A. W. Best – Seventh prize in the solution tourney. In the centre of this is a chessboard with pieces. The words “Birmingham Weekly” are on the left side of the board and “Ercury” is on the right, with the pieces on the board forming the letter M with the challenge beneath “White mates in 2” £55.00 At the bottom is neatly written “Recu” (received) “May 13th 1890 A. W. B.”). Facing the title page is the signature “H. E. Bird April 26th 1890”. Inside the back cover is an identical blue slicker indicating an award to Mr. J. Hunter for 2nd prize. Mysterious. One of these two miscreants ticked a number of games in pencil. Internally, the page sections between 40 &41 have split apart. Not a good specimen of the book but it is interesting and signed.

Boden, S. S. Boden On Chess – A Popular Introduction To The Study & Practice of London 1851 Chess, by an Amateur 196pp LN 789. Some bubbling to blind-stamped brown cloth covers. Some splitting to spine & paper starting to brown. Top ⅓rd of title £35.00 page excised o/w G

Cook, W. The Chess Primer – A stepping stone for beginners, teaching the preliminary details, supplemented by a series of illustrative games London 1880 with reasons for every move appended. 55pp Original olive cloth boards bearing attractive design in black. £25.00 LN 992 VG

Cook, W. Cook’s Chess Synopsis – a synopsis of the chess openings. 4th ed London 1888 142pp Original maroon cloth boards with some staining to front cover though internally clean. LN 1818 G+ £20.00

Cook, W. The Complete Players’ Compendium – a practical guide to the London openings. With new supplement by Alfred Emery. 5th ed. 1910 332pp Original green cloth bearing attractive chess piece design & gilt titles. LN 1883 VG £20.00

Cook, W. The Compete Player’s Compendium – another copy Re-bound in plain green cloth with original title page pasted in. VG £12.00

Crawley, Chess & Draughts – Chess: its Theory & Practice to which is added a London 1858 Capt. R. chapter on draughts. 180pp Original maroon cloth bearing gilt title and diagram. VG £25.00

Ellis, J. H. Chess Sparks or Short & Bright Games of Chess 1st ed. London 1895 Re-backed retaining original fawn cloth with amusing blind 160pp stamped chess piece design. 200 miniatures games plus 7 page list of all tourneys & matches 1824 – 1894. LN 3182 Small £75.00 bookplate “Gervas Powell Glyn”. Insc. Neat pencil ticks by games played through o/w G+

Ellis, J. H. Chess Sparks Another copy. On the front endpaper is signed “R.P from J. H. E. 24:: X:: 95. (see game No. 392)” Beneath that is a contemporary newspaper cutting referring to the newly-published book and the Thatched House Club of which Ellis is/was a member. After p. 143 is a card, printed in red ink “Thatched House Club – Winter Chess Handicap – Prize for the most £85.00 brilliant game won by Ross Pinsent Esq. Easter 1895. followed by the score of a game by Pinsent, who was the “RP” referred to earlier. Tipped in to the title page is a slip on which is printed “With the Author’s Compliments”. A little foxing on some pp but structurally sound. VG

Foster A. W. Chess: An Easy Game with R. E. Kemp London 1914 44pp A beginner’s guide with no games or diagrams. LN 1307. Small format. Insc. Yellow limp covers with chess piece design. £20.00 Marginalia on 1 page. Uncommon. G

Freeborough Chess Openings, Ancient And Modern – Revised & Updated up to the London 1889 1st ed. & Ranken Present Time From the Best Authorities 256pp Original brown cloth boards with artistic patterns & bright gilt titles. LN 1841. A little light foxing on endpapers and corners slightly £50.00 bumped o/w a fine example of what became an invaluable series.

Chess Studies: Comprising One Thousand Games. A Collection of Classical & Brilliant Specimens of Chess Skill by George Walker. A London 1893 Freeborough republication of Walker’s 1840 book of games played from Philidor to Staunton’s Handbook of 1847. Brown cloth boards with gilt titles. £75.00 Dark brown endpapers. Structurally sound. LN 3146 172pp

Freeborough Chess Openings Ancient & Modern. With Rev. C. Ranken 3rd London 1896 ed. 282pp Original brown cloth boards with chessboard motif. Not in LN. Endpapers splitting & pages browning at edges. o/w £25.00 G

Freeborough Chess Openings Ancient & Modern - another copy. London 1910 & Ranken. 4th ed. 284pp LN 1843 Original green cloth boards with chessboard motif & feint stain o/w G £25.00

Gottschall, Adolf Anderssen der Altmeister deutscher Schachspielkunst Leipzig Dr. H. von 1st ed. 1912 750 analysed games & 80 problems. V. Good group photo of 553pp Leipzig 1877 including Zukertort and the Paulsens, plus individual £80.00 portraits. LN 3034. Original grey cloth boards with a few marks in bottom corner. VG-

Green R. F. Chess 1st ed. London 1890 116pp LN 1046 Original red cloth boards with games motif. Spine rubbed o/w G £10

Green R. F. Chess another copy. 1st ed. 4th London 1896 reprint. LN 1047 Original red cloth boards with games motif. £6.00 G

Green R. F. Chess another copy 7th London 1912 ed. 122pp LN 1052 Original red cloth boards with games motif. VG £6.00

Green R. F. Chess another copy 17th ed. London 1930 116pp LN 1046 Original red cloth Insc. VG £5.00

Green, R. F. Chess another copy. Revised & updated by J. du Mont Bell 1941 114pp Red boards with blind-stamped chess piece motif. VG+ £6.00

Greenwell W Chess Exemplified in One Hundred & Thirty-Two Games of the most Leeds (1890) celebrated players LN 1061. Only ed. Brown cloth boards with blind-stamped covers and bright gilt covers. 132 games with notes and diagrams. Index £60.00 141pp of openings & players. 3 small rubbed spots on front edge of spine o/w internally clean. G+

Greig, E. A. Chess Recipes On The Principal Openings 3rd ed. Stroud 1914 An early form of Modern Chess Openings, 48 openings covered. Dedicated to “M.W.W.” as appeared in all Alain 159pp White’s books published in Stroud, although his name does £40.00 not appear anywhere in the book. Red cloth boards with gilt titles in the style of the Christmas Series books of White’s problem books. LN 1888. G

Greig, E. A. One Hundred Pitfalls of the Chessboard New ed. revised by M. London 1914 Stevens 72pp LN 1890 Original green cloth boards with chessboard motif. £10.00 VG

Gunsberg, I The Chess Openings London 1901 104pp Not in LN. Original blue cloth boards with games motif. Insc. £10.00 VG

“Hobart” BCM Guide To The Openings (1898) This is, in fact, the full scores of 178 annotated games grouped by 12 open & lively openings. Navy cloth boards with 102pp bright gilt title. LN1878. Small stamp of the Dundee Chess £20.00 Club. “Hobart” was the pseudonym of Francis J. Young (1847 – 1922) who emigrated to New Zealand and died in Hobart. G

Hoffer, L Chess 1st ed. London 1892 246pp LN 1080 Red cloth boards VG £12.00

Hoffer, L Chess 6th London (s.a.) ed. 246pp Another copy Not in LN. Original red cloth with chess picture. Insc. Short split to cloth on spine o/w G- £5.00

Hoffer, L Chess 7th ed. London 1908 246pp Another copy. LN 1083 £5.00 red cloth boards bearing charming chess-playing couple. G+

Hoffer, L Chess Another copy. Not in LN 8th ed. London (s.a) 246pp Insc. VG- £8.00

Hoffer, L Chess Another copy. 14th ed. London (s.a.) 246pp New cover design with fawn cloth and chesspieces. G- £5.00

Hoffer, L Chess Another copy. Not in LN 15th ed. London (s.a.) 244pp VG £5.00

Horwitz/Kling Chess Studies and End-Games in Two Parts Bell 1889 Part 1 Chess Studies by B. Horwitz & J. Kling.0 376pp Part 2 Miscellaneous End-Games by B. Horwitz. 2nd edition was revised by W. Wayte on account of the 1st edition being patently faulty due to Horwitz’s advanced age £80.00 and mental decline. He died shortly after publication. Each page bears a diagram with the best moves printed beneath. c. 20 of these 376 positions have a neat correction in red ink. Neat stamp of “C. L. Pinschof”. Original red cloth with title & chessboard design on front cover in bright gilt. LN 2172 G-

Lasker Em. Common Sense In Chess Published by J. S. Ogilvie in (1917) New York 139pp LN 1120 Original maroon cloth. VG £9.75

Lasker, Em Common Sense In Chess New York Although no date, also published by J. S. Ogilvie, this is a different edition, rather more crudely bound in green cloth with 8 pages of 139pp adverts for other Ogilvie publications e.g. Actors’ Monologues & £9.00 Jokes and Blunders of a Bashful Man et al. Sticker on title page “London - A. F. Bird – Agency for American books”.

Lasker, Em Common Sense In Chess Corrected by D. A. Mitchell. Published by Philadelphia McKay 1942 139pp LN 1208 Original maroon cloth boards. £9.75 VG+

Lee & Gossip The Complete Chess Guide 1st ed. 1903 Edinburgh 429pp LN1208 Stamp of the Edinburgh Ladies C.C. Photographs tipped in of the 1910 British Champions. Some pencil marginalia o/w G £12.50

Lee & Gossip The Complete Chess Guide Edinburgh 1903 Another copy G £5.00

Lee & Gossip The Complete Chess Guide 1914 Edinburgh Another copy G £5.00

Lowenthal, J Morphy’s Games of Chess 1st ed. London 1860 488pp LN 3155 Original maroon cloth boards with gilt chessboard & titles. Fine engraved portrait. The only collection of his games in which Morphy was directly involved. Protected by clear cellophane £150.00 cover. Rare item. 1 endpaper is loose o/w G+

Marshall, F. Marshall’s Chess Openings 1st Leeds 1904 ed. 185pp LN 1884. Includes biographical sketch and 32 annotated games played 1899 – 1904. Early portrait photo. Original green cloth with £30.00 bright gilt titles. 1cm split to spine o/w VG

Mason, J Chess Openings 1st ed. London 1897 114pp LN 1863 Original maroon cloth boards. VG £15.00

Mason, J Chess Openings 1st ed. London 1897 Another copy with small section cut out of front endpaper £12.00 o/w VG

Mason, J Chess Openings 2nd ed. London 1905 120pp LN 1864 Insc. maroon cloth boards £10.00 VG

Mason, J Chess Openings 3rd London (s.a.) ed. 132pp Not in LN Maroon cloth £10.00 VG

Mason, J The Art of Chess 2nd ed. revised & enlarged London 1898 423pp LN 1114 Original bright blue cloth boards with gilt design. Insc. £20.00 VG+

Mason, J The Art of Chess 4th ed. revised & London 1914 enlarged 492pp LN 1116 Insc. Original green cloth £15.00 rubbed o/w G

Mason, J The Art of Chess - 4th ed. working copy only £5.00

Mason, J The Principles of Chess in Theory & Practice. 1st London 1894 ed. 286pp LN 1101 Original maroon cloth with gilt design. VG £15.00

Mason, J The Principles of Chess in Theory & Practice. 1st London 1894 ed. Another copy with front cover splitting from pages. £9.00 G-

Mason, J The Principles of Chess in Theory & Practice. 2nd ed. revised & London 1896 enlarged 324pp LN 1102. Original red cloth with gilt design. VG- £12.00 Ght stains on front cover Mason, J The Principles of Chess in Theory & Practice. 4th ed. revised & London 1902 enlarged 330pp G+ £10.00

Mason, J The Principles of Chess in Theory & Practice. 5th ed. revised London 1915 330pp LN 1106 G £5.00 Moffatt, W Memorable Chess Games: Brilliants & Miniatures with Notes, Queries Stroud 1913 & Answers. LN 3212. Only 365 copies were printed. Maroon cloth boards with 189pp titles in bright gilt on cover & spine. 321 games with brief annotations. A few small brown spots on page edges but pages £55.00 themselves are clean. G+

Murray, H. J. History Of Chess 1st Oxford 1913 ed. LN 264 “Perhaps the most important chess book in English… Mostly concerned with the evolution of modern chess from its £195.00 900pp oriental origins up to early 18th century”. Hooper & Whyld. Grey cloth boards with bright gilt title on spine. VG+

Murray, H. J. History Of Chess 2nd ed Oxford 1962 Reprinted lithographically from corrected sheets of the original – 900pp hence internally indistinguishable from original. DW price-clipped £95.00 and a little wear to top & bottom o/w F

Pardon, G. F. Handbook of Chess - Illustrated London 1863 Brown limp cloth covers. 3rd ed. “Several trifling errors which crept into the first editions have now been corrected”. LN 868. 6 pages 96pp of ads for fascinating medications probably no longer available e.g. 20.00 Rowland’s Odonto; Sulpholine Soap; Prince Albert’s Cachoux; Jackson’s Chinese Diamond Cement etc. Front endpaper split from p.1 and light stains on front cover o/w G-

Peachey, H. Everybody’s Guide To Chess & Draughts London c ‘96 226pp LN 3625 Problems & examples. Original red cloth VG £12.00

J. & W Pierce Pierce Gambit: Chess Papers & Problems 1st ed. London 1888 226pp LN 1839. Poems, 134 problems, analyses of the Pierce Gambit with 23 games, and various articles. List of subscribers. Original £110.00 blue cloth, Endpapers foxed and short split to rear of spine, which is dulled. o/w VG-

Selkirk G. H. The Book of Chess – A Popular & Comprehensive Guide to all Players London 1868 1st ed. of that Intellectual Game with Full Instructions for Blindfold Chess LN 946 Original green cloth boards bearing bright gilt titles & 439pp chessboard design. Many games & 78 diagrammed studies. £85.00 VG+

The Chess Tournament – A Collection of the Games Played at this Staunton, H Celebrated Assemblage Illustrated by Copious Diagrams and Notes, London 1852 Critical & Explanatory. LN 5179 Re-backed retaining original maroon cloth and gilt 377pp chessboard motif, making a tight copy of this contemporary report £150.00 on the world’s first chess tournament. G

Staunton H The Chess Player’s Chronicle Vol. 5 London 1845 LN 6123. This was the 3rd issue after the magazine had become a shilling monthly publication. There are many games and problems, while throughout the year there was a full account of the tortuous 400pp negotiations for Staunton’s 3rd match against St. Amant, postponed £120.00 from the previous year, due to Staunton’s pneumonia. All 12 issues nicely bound in patterned leather with gilt edging and title. Light foxing on the endpapers o/w a sound, clean copy.

Staunton, H The Chess-Player’s Handbook New Ed. London 1868 518pp Not in LN. Insc. Original maroon cloth boards bearing gilt titles & chessboard design. G £35.00

Staunton, H Another copy London 1885 518pp LN 749 Small elaborate bookplate “Wormald – Norbury”. Original maroon cloth boards. VG- £25.00

Staunton, H Another copy with input by R. F. Green London 1890 544pp LN 752 Original maroon cloth boards. Bookplate VG £30.00

Staunton, H Another copy London 1893 544pp LN 753 Original Maroon cloth boards. VG £15.00

Staunton, H Another copy London 1904 544pp Not in LN Front endpaper and binding loose G- £10.00

Staunton, H Another copy revised & edited by E. H. Bermingham London 1931 543pp Not in LN. Insc. Original blue cloth boards £10.00 G

Staunton, H The Chess-Player’s Text Book – A Concise & Easy Introduction to The London Game. Illustrated By Numerous Diagrams of Instructive Situations. No date Revised by Rev. E. E. Cunnington. 132pp LN 787 Originally published in 1849 but date given to any subsequent edition.

Staunton, H Chess Praxis London 1860 LN 871 A supplement to the Chess-Player’s Handbook. Includes big section on Morphy’s games. Insc. Maroon cloth somewhat £35.00 622pp dulled and rubbed o/w G+

Staunton, H Another copy London 1896 622pp Quarter bound in red cloth & leather. And with marbled endpapers. Small Ex Libris plate of Sir David Salomans of Broomhill, Tunbridge Wells. He inherited his title from his uncle, the original Baron Sir David 17

Staunton, H The Laws and Practice of Chess. New ed. edited by R. Wormald. London 1920 Staunton's final book, completed by Wormald. A section on the origin & history of chess, plus much on the openings with many £12.00 509pp illustrative games. Original red cloth, spine dulled o/w G

Staunton, H Another copy London 1922 £10.00

Steinitz W The Modern Chess Instructor. Part 1 1st ed. 1889 NY & London Starts with the basics and proceeds to his ground-breaking 193pp theories. Big section on openings and gives all 20 annotated games of his match against Tchigorin. Original brown cloth, gilt £80.00 chessboard design on front cover. VG+

Swinton, R. Chess For Beginners and The Beginners of Chess. 1st ed. London 1891 198pp Original black cloth boards with chessboard design in red & silver. Over half the pages are devoted to the origins of the game. £20.00 LN1074 VG

Swinton, R. Chess For Beginners and The Beginners of Chess 3rd ed. London 1897 Original pale green cloth. More about the 2nd part of the title i.e. the 200pp origins of chess. Pages browning around edges o/w £15.00 G

Tattersall, C A Thousand End-Games Vol. I - a Collection of Chess Positions that Leeds 1910 can be Won or Drawn by the Best Play 1st ed. 480 positions. d. navy blue cloth-covered boards. LN 2218. Small neat pencil ticks to most diagrams and a little marginalia, done by the noted studies expert John Roycroft from whose library £40.00 211pp this came. Explanations of terminology in 3 languages, French, German & Spanish. Insc. “J. Wilson Esq., Winner – Lincolnshire Chess Association’s Senior Tournament 1911 – 12.” Wilson was the 1st President of the newly-formed association, and this is proof that he was also its 1st champion. VG-

Tattersall, C A Thousand End-Games Vol. I - a Collection of Chess Positions that Leeds 1910 can be Won or Drawn by the Best Play 480 positions. Green thick card covers with crease on front, due to the binding being stronger than the card, & neat black tape on £30.00 211pp spine – a contemporary version of a cheaper binding. LN2218 Insc. G+

Tattersall, C A Thousand End-Games Vol. II - a Collection of Chess Positions that Leeds 1911 can be Won or Drawn by the Best Play 520 positions. Green thick card covers with crease on front, due to the binding being stronger than the card & neat black tape on £30.00 200pp spine – a contemporary version of a cheaper binding. LN2218 Insc. G+

Tomlinson C Amusements In Chess 1st ed. London 1845 Pt. 1: Sketches of the History, Antiquities & Curiosities of the Game. Pt. 2; Easy Lessons In Chess – Selection of Games; Pt. 3 352pp Selection of Problems or Ends of Games. Includes chapters on chess writers, the automaton, knight’s tour, etc. Original blue cloth £85.00 boards with blind stamped design on front & back, with tiles and patterns on spine in gilt. Top & bottom of spine very slightly rubbed o/w a good tight copy. LN 4540 VG

Walker, G Walker On Chess – A New Treatise on Chess. 3rd ed. London 1841 LN 667. Includes a useful 35pp bibliography of books and writers 296pp on chess up to 1841. Brown cloth boards with blind stamped £85.00 design. Some wear to top & bottom of spine o/w internally VG

Another copy with d. green cloth boards with blind stamped patterns and title on spine in gilt. The “difficult study” chessboard picture, facing title page £85.00 is loose badly foxed o/w G LN 667.

Walker, G Games At Chess Played By Philidor & His Contemporaries London 1835

110pp

Walker, G Chess Studies: Comprising One Thousand Games , A Collection of London 1893 classical and Brilliant Specimens Of Chess Skill. Intro by Freeborough New edition with intro by E. Freeborough. LN 3146. 172pp Includes all 85 games of the La Bourdonnais-McDonnell match & 62 by Philidor. Original cloth boards with gilt titles on front & spine. £75.00 A little rubbed in parts along the top edges.o/w VG

Young, K The Minor Tactics of Chess – a treatise on the deployment of the London 1910 & E. Howell forces in obedience to strategic principle. With E. C. Howell. LN 1109 Authors apply a military approach to the game’s 221pp language. Original brown cloth boards bearing chess piece design. £17.50 VG

Another copy similar condition £17.50

Another copy some mall neat insc. On endpaper & c. 5 inside £9.50

2. Reference; Encyclopaedias, & History

White certainly lost that game

2. Reference; Encyclopaedias, & History

Brace, E. R. Illustrated Dictionary of Chess McKay 1977 Contains 2,000+ entries inc. terms, openings, tournaments & 320pp biographies. 100 b&w drawings. DW VG £5.00

Bibliotheca Van Der Linde-Niemeijeriana – A Catalogue of the Chess Collection in the Royal Library, The Hague. Facsimile of the 1955 ed. L’Esprit 1988 342pp References c. 6,500 titles published before 1955 VG £30.00

Brown, I. M British Chess Magazine – Chess Annual 1916 BCM 222pp Articles & reports from around the world. 136 annotated games. Red cloth boards. Small format. G £20.00

Chernev, I Wonders & Curiosities of Chess Dover 1974 203pp 357 interesting items including 160 annotated games. SB G+ £9.00

Damsky, Y Batsford Book of Chess Records Batsford ‘05 304pp A miscellany of records on all aspects of chess. PB AN F+ £10.00

Davidson, H. A Short History of Chess Greenberg ‘49 A beginner’s guide to the evolution of chess from its origins as a 228pp war-game in the East, including the pieces, their moves, designs & Strengths. With maps, b&w photos & diagrams. The author claims £25.00 it to be the first book of its kind to be published in the US. 1st ed. In brown cloth boards with small blind-stamped design. VG

Desjarlais, R Counterplay – An Anthropologist at the Chessboard UCP 2011 “Draws from his background in ethnographic research & chess to 251pp explore the game’s social, philosophical, aesthetic & psychological £9.50 quirks”. SB F

Del Rio The War of the Chessmen translated & ed. by Prof. C. Becker Caissa Ed. Caissa Limited Editions 1984 The first publication of a manuscript written c. 1800 by Ercole del Rio. The original Italian text with 184pp English commentary added by the editor, which also explains the £25.00 significance of this work in chess history. Limited to 700 copies of which this is No. 58 Blue cloth boards with silver gilt titles. F+

Di Felici, G. Chess Periodicals – An Annotated International Bibliography 1836 - McFarland 2010 2008 Contains 3,163 entries & many cross references. Each entry 349pp includes year & country of publication, frequency, sponsors, £39.00 publisher, editor, subject etc. SB F+

Di Felici, G. Chess Results 1747 – 1900 – A Comprehensive Record with 465 McFarland 2004 Tournament Cross tables & 590 Match Scores From Philidor vs Stamma (8-1) to Burn vs Bellingham (4-½). Index 235pp of events & Index of Players. A goldmine of information. Vol. 1 of a £45.00 remarkable series. 1st ed. HB with titles in white. F+

Divinsky, N. The Batsford Chess Encyclopaedia 1st ed. Batsford ‘90 Large format. Photos, crosstables, biographies, 100+ top games 247pp etc. DW VG+ £18.00

Eales, R Chess: The History of a Game 1st ed. Batsford ‘85 One of the best researched and written histories since Murray. 240pp 16 b&w plates. DW F £17.50

Elo A. E. The Rating of Chessplayers Past & Present. 1st ed Batsford ‘78 206pp Mathematical analysis of the strengths of players. DW VG £25.00

Elo A. E. The Rating of Chessplayers Past & Present. 2nd ed Arco 1986 230pp Mathematical analysis of the strengths of players. PB VG+ £25.00

Foldeak, A: Chess Olympiads 1st English edition Corvina ‘66 364pp Full details of all the Olympiads between 1927 & 1964 plus games from each one, annotated & with diagrams. Pictorial HB VG £5.50

Fox & James The Complete Chess Addict Faber 1988 264pp 8 b&w plates plus other pictures. AN PB creased o/w G £5.00

Fox & James The Even More Complete Chess Addict Faber 1993 369pp A cornucopia of chess trivia. AN PB F £5.00

Furness, R The Cheshire Hundred – The Centenary History of the Cheshire & Private 1988 North Wales Chess Association. As much information from this 100 year span as could be found. Biographies; Lists of teams, championship / congress winners etc. 189pp 14 photographs; A5 size. Comb bound. Signed by the author £15.00 Richard A. Furness – “May you find this an enjoyable read”. VG. Scarce

Gaige, J Chess Personalia – A Bibliography 1st ed. 1987 McFarland An indispensable work for anyone interested in the basic details of those who went before. c 14,000 individual entries giving basic £40.00 505pp facts, plus index of where full obituaries may be found in BCM. A unique masterpiece. Scarce 1st ed. Original red cloth boards. VG+

Gaige, J Chess Tournament Crosstables Vol. 1 1851 - 1900 1st ed. 2nd printing Private 1969 180pp 330 X-tables. The 1st of a new generation of such lists. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles.

Gaige, J Chess Tournament Crosstables Vol. 2 1901 - 1910 Private 1971 400+ X-tables including all known players & their scores. 1st ed. 200pp Blue cloth boards with gilt titles. An invaluable reference book. £30.00 Ex Libris plate of Leonard Reitstein of S. Africa. VG

Gaige, J Chess Tournament Crosstables Vol. 3 1911 - 1920 Private 1972 375 X-tables though Gaige is now being more discriminating, 165pp omitting “minor” events. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles. VG+ £30.00

Gaige, J Chess Tournament Crosstables Vol. 4 1921 - 1930 Private 1974 810 X-tables from this period. By this time an increasing no. of 580pp helpers has joined the cause making this volume more thorough £30.00 than ever. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles. VG+

Golombek. H A History of Chess RKP 1976 Written & published in the wake of the upsurge of interest in the game following the Fischer-Spassky match. Text illustrated with £7.50 256pp many contemporary engravings, woodcuts, paintings & photos, some in colour. Large format. DW chipped o/w G

Golombek, H Chess – A History. Putnam ‘76 256pp The US version of the above – and identical. No DW HB G £5.25

Golombek, H The Encyclopaedia of Chess 1st ed. Batsford ‘77 Large format. Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the game. 360pp DW VG £12.00

Golombek, H The Penguin Encylopaedia of Chess. Penguin ‘81 579pp Revised & Abridged ed .of 1977 original . PB G. £4.50

Hagedorn, R. Benjamin Franklin & Chess in Early America – a review of the literature. 1958 1st ed University of Pennsylvania Press. 10 plates. Franklin's "Morals of Chess", and an essay on Franklin. Details 60 works on chess £35.00 92pp printed in the US between 1802 and 1859. Scarce work of reference. DW. Pages starting to yellow o/w VG+

Hagedorn, R. Another copy Minus DW but with titles showing on spine in silver gilt. o/w G £22.00

Hartston, W The Kings of Chess – A history of chess traced through the lives of its Pavilion ‘85 greatest masters. 192pp Good early photos and engagingly written. DW VG £9.50w3

Hartston, W The Guinness Book of Chess Grandmasters 1st ed. Guinness ‘96 Charts the history of chess through the lives & games of its 224pp greatest players. 300 annotated games & good photos. £9.50 PB AN VG+

Hartston, W The Psychology of Chess with P. C. Wason Batsford ‘83 Produces an identikit picture of the ideal player – someone with 138pp dedication, motivation & the ability to see patterns on the board. £6.00 Bibliography of sources, Index, SB G

Hooper/Whyld The Oxford Companion To Chess 1st ed. OUP 1984 Quickly became a standard work of reference on all aspects of the 407pp game. High production standards. DW VG+ £18.00

Hooper/Whyld The Oxford Companion To Chess 1st ed. OUP 1984 Another copy DW XLib o/w VG £14.00

Hooper/Whyld The Oxford Companion To Chess 2nd ed. OUP 1992 The authors never stopped their researches, all of which is 483pp incorporated into this new edition which is c. 20% longer. DW VG+ £20.00

Hooper/Whyld The Oxford Companion To Chess 2nd ed. OUP 1992 Another copy DW VG £18.00

Kazic, B. M. The Chess Competitor’s Handbook 1st ed. Batsford ‘80 229pp A chess organiser’s handbook. DW VG+ £6.50

Kazic, B. M. The Chess Competitor’s Handbook 1st ed. Batsford ‘80 229pp Another copy PB VG £6.00

Krogius, N Psychology in Chess Pitman ‘76 Foreword by Spassky. Examines the psychology of how, as the 243pp Russian school taught, knowledge of one-self and one’s opponent £6.00 can be as valuable as that of the openings. SB VG

Lawson, D Paul Morphy: The Pride & Sorrow of Chess McKay 1976 The acclaimed, definitive work on every aspect of Morphy’s life. 69 illustrations including early photographs, engravings, letters, 424pp telegrams etc. 60 games as examples of his play from various £80.00 periods of his life and circumstances, and comprise only a small section of the whole. Black cloth boards with titles in gilt on spine. (26 X 18 X 4cm) F

Levy, D Oxford Encyclopedia Of Chess Games with K. O’Connell. 4,000 games in figurine, inc. all known 1485 – 1800; all known games in every tournament & match 1800 – 1866; every traceable 527pp game of the age of Philidor, Macdonnell, Staunton, Anderssen, £25.00 Morphy up to Steinitz. Analysis by the leading players the day. Black cloth boards with gilt titles of spine. DW. van der Linde Bibiotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana aucta et de novo descripta. Vol. 1 Chess Bibliography & History (compiled by K. Kruijswijk) A catalogue of the chess collections in the Royal Library in The Hague. A 1988 facsimile of the 1st part of the 1955 original. Black cloth boards with blind-stamped chess board pattern & gilt titles on 150pp spine. 1,300 annotated entries. Errata page (loose). Mediaeval £45.00 style chess picture on endpapers. 8 plates showing notices of auctions or sales of chess book collections in earlier times. F. van der Linde Das Erste Jartausend Der Schachlitteratur (850 - 1880) Caissa 1979 (The First Thousand Years of Chess Literature). Limited to 700 numbers copies of which this is No. 125. Facsimile of the 1880 original. Comprises most of the known chess 112pp publications, arranged alphabetically by author. Intro by Dale £25.00 Brandreth & errata by E. Meissenburg. Blue cloth boards with bright gilt lettering. F

Another copy No. 81 £25.00

Lusis, A Chess – An Annotated Bibliography 1969 - 1988 Mansell 1991 320pp Lists details on 2,601 books & 630 serials. Indexes of names, titles, series & subjects. Black cloth boards with titles in bright gilt on front £40.00 cover & spine. F.

Matthews, K British Chess Collins 1948 50pp An outline of chess in Britain from mediaeval times in words and pictures. Illustrations on almost every page. HB VG+ £11.00

(Stevens, M) The Year-Book Of Chess 1914 London More pages with smaller print-size means more content than ever, 326pp though the shadow of war hangs over everything. Appearance is £12.00 identical. Maroon covers etc. VG

Murray, H. J. A History of Chess OUP 1913 The most complete scholarly work ever published. “A monumental work”, telling the story of chess from the earliest times and £95.00 900pp civilisations. Weighs over 1.5 kg (3 lbs!). 19 plates & c. 144 illustrations. 1st edition. Original grey cloth boards with unblemished gilt titles. VG

Murray, H. J. A History of Chess OUP 1969 Reprinted lithographically from corrected sheets of the 1st 1913 ed. o/w internally indistinguishable from the original. Original dark blue 900pp cloth boards with bright gilt titles on spine and Viking chessman £90.00 design on front cover. o/w VG+

Murray, H. J A History of Chess Benjamin 900pp Indistinguishable from the 1913 OUP edition, except that this is the US edition from the Benjamin Press – Northampton Massachusetts. Maroon cloth boards with gilt titles & publisher’s £80.00 logo on the spine. VG

Murray, H. J A History of Chess Skyhorse NY 900pp The whole thing in softback, internally identical to the original 1913 edition, but published by Skyhorse in 2012in. F+ £20.00

Murray, H. J. A Short History of Chess 1st ed. OUP 1963 Aware that his magnum opus might be beyond the needs and/or purse of the man in the street, Murray started a précis, left £30.00 138pp unfinished on his death. Goulding Brown and Golombek completed the story up to mentions of Fischer, Tal, Larsen et al. DW VG+

Murray, H. J. A Short History of Chess Another copy. Original blue cloth boards with gilt title on spine. VG £22.00

Murray, H. J. A History Of Board-Games Other Than Chess. 1st ed. OUP 1952 Traces games from Ancient Egypt to all continents. Small OUP 267pp bookplate on front endpaper. Dark cloth boards with titles in gilt on £38.00 spine. VG

Pritchard, D B The Encyclopaedia Of Chess Variants 1st d. 1994 A compilation of board games related to, derived from or inspired by chess, ranging through the ages, across continents, from the 364pp brilliant to bizarre. Most can be played with a standard chess set. £20.00 Established variants are treated in depth. Arranged alphabetically. Many diagrams, photos etc. DW VG+

Reitstein, L. R A History Of Chess In South Africa Cape Town 04 The full story from late 17th century onwards. All forms of chess are covered – problems, games, players, etc. Many illustrations; 111 216pp £20.00 annotated games with diagrams etc. Insc. “With best wishes – Leonard R. Reitstein Cape Town April 2004”. SB Large format. VG

Richards, D. J Soviet Chess Oxford ‘65 A scholarly examination of the Russian domination of the chess 201pp world in the 20th century, esp the 2nd half. Blue cloth boards with £20.00 bright gilt titles on spine. DW VG+

Richards, D. J Another copy minus DW o/w VG £15.00

Rowland T& F Chess Player’s Annual & Club Directory 1889 6 years after its last appearance, they give details of clubs throughout the UK, N. America, & areas such as Lower Alsace, 124pp Westphalia, Schleswig, & Mecklenburg. 100 prize-winning Dublin 1989 problems. plus adverts. LN 5893. Red cloth boards with titles in black. VG £20.00

Saidy, A The World of Chess with Norman Lessing. 1st ed. Random ‘74 251pp Large format. The story of chess re-told entertainingly with superb illustrations throughout, many involving elaborate sets. DW VG £15.00

Saidy, A The World of Chess with Norman Lessing. 1st ed. Random ‘74 Another copy. Scuff mark on front endpaper. DW G+ £12.00

Schonberg,H Grandmasters of Chess 1st UK ed. London ‘74 317pp 34 pictures. Biographies of top players & a few games, entertainingly written. DW VG £10.00

Sergeant P W A Century Of British Chess McKay 1934 Invaluable reference work covering British chess from 1830 to 384pp 1934, told as an on-going story with some early X-tables, results & £55.00 19 good quality b&w photos but no games. Black cloth boards. Gilt title on spine dulled o/w VG

Sergeant P W A Century Of British Chess Hutchinson 34 Another copy. Front cover & spine missing, but text & photos 384pp intact. Working copy only, hence price. £20.00

Shenk, D The Immortal Game – A History of Chess or How 32 Carved Pieces On Doubleday 1st ed. 2006 A Board Illuminated our Understanding of War, Art, Science and the Human Brain. 327pp Includes diagrams and a few illustrations. DW F £12.00

Standage, T The Turk – The Life & Times of the Famous 18th Century Chess-Playing Walker NY Machine 2002 The story of the Hungarian nobleman, Wolfgang von Kempelen, 272pp and his development of a convincing chess-playing robot that £10.00 mystified folk for almost a century. 22 small illustrations. DW HB with slight kink in back cover o/w VG+

Standage, T The Mechancal Turk – The True Story of the Chess-Playing Machine Allen Lane 2002 That Fooled The World 274pp Same story with slightly different title. UK ed. HB DW F £10.00

Sunnucks, A The Encyclopaedia Of Chess 1st ed. Hale 1970 27 photos & contributions from Euwe, Penrose, Cafferty, Hooper et 587pp al. Contains much info that other books do not have. HB VG £11.00

Sunnucks, A The Encyclopaedia Of Chess 2nd ed. Hale 1976 Expanded edition with more recent info. added E.g. the first 42 X- 619pp tables for Hastings. HB DW VG+ £15.00

Whyld, K Chess: The Records 1st ed. Guinness ‘86 176pp A multitude of lists, X-tables & illustrations, some coloured, giving records of top tournaments etc. SB VG £8.50

Wilson, F A Picture History of Chess Dover 1981 182pp 1st ed. Large SB, 295 illustrations mostly excellent photographs from Morphy onwards with some earlier art work, all with captions, £25.00 VG Wilson, F Another copy. Pages 14 – 25 neatly excised (hence price) o/w VG £15.00

Winter, E Chess Explorations – A Pot-Pourri from the Journal Chess Notes. Cadogan ‘96 “Devoted to chess history & investigative reporting…” by the 343pp gimlet-eyed author. 26 photos. PB AN VG+ £12.50

Winter, E Kings, Commoners & Knaves – Further Chess Explorations Russell 1999 452pp 24 photo portraits plus a miscellany of the weird, wonderful and almost incredible. SB AN VG £12.50

Wood, B. H. A History of Chess written by Gizycki and edited by Wood. Revised Abbey 1977 Many illustrations from a vast range of sources, inc. colour plates. 375pp First published in Polish in 1960. Includes sections on chess and £12.00 art, in poetry & prose, mathematics, famous people who played chess etc. DW VG

Wood, B. H. A History of Chess written by Gizycki and edited by Wood. Revised Abbey 1977 Another copy minus DW. Paper starting to brown at edges o/w G £9.00 The following section consists of titles either wholly about chess sets or sets & pieces in their historical & artistic context.

Finkenzeller Chess – A Celebration Of 2000 Years with W. Ziehr & E M. Buhrer Mackenzie ‘90 Luxurious work with many large & coloured illustrations of ancient 208pp to ultra modern representations of the game – pieces, sets, art, players etc. Large format (24 x31cm) DW F £25.00

Graham, F. L. Chess Sets Studio Vist ‘68 85 photos 2 of which are in full colour. Many sets pictured are from 84pp the ultra modern schools. With textual background. DW VG £9.00

Greygoose F Chessmen UK 1979 183 photographs of a variety of pieces with adjacent explanatory 160pp titles, of which 68 are in full colour and some in full page. Grouped £9.50 by countries of origin – China, India, Africa etc. DW VG

Hammond, A The Book Of Chessmen Barker 1950 94 pages of text with its own index, followed by 60 pages of b&w 160pp photographs of sets, each with a title / explanation. Hammond used to run a well-known & oft-frequented stall in London’s famous £25.00 Burlington Arcade. Ex Lib. One of the scarcer books on the subject. G+

Keats, Dr. V Vol. 2 Chess: Its Origin pub Oxford Academia 1994 Oxford A translation with commentary of the Latin & the Hebrew in 337pp Thomas Hyde’s De Ludis Orientalibus (Oxford 1694) The first publication in English. 78 illustrations from many sources including £35.00 maps, old texts, chess pieces etc. Blue cloth boards with bright gilt titles. (30 X 22cm & weighs 1.6 kg) F

Keats, Dr. V Chessmen For Collectors Batsford ‘85 13 chapters, each one concentrating of a particular country, and 240pp contain in total 275 B&W photos of sets, and 50 excellent colour £55.00 plates. Large format. Black cloth boards. 1st edition. F

Keats, Dr. V Memoirs Of A Chessnut Mellen 1996 Keats was invited to write his autobiography post-chess collecting by the US publisher Dr. Richardson. Victor replied “I only write 197pp serious stuff, I can’t do a light-hearted style – I’m just a Chessnut”. “Right”, said Richardson “Call it Memoirs of a Chessnut”. And here £20.00 it is. From Ch. 1 “Catching the Bug to Ch, 15 “Advice for Beginners”. Maroon cloth boards with gilt titles. 12 drawings. F

Keene, R. D. Chess – An Illustrated History. Phaidon ‘90 A luscious admixture of photos b&w and colour, sets, paintings ancient & modern, cartoons … and a few games. Chronology; £20.00 128pp Bibliography, Index etc. Large format (25X29 cm). DW F.

Liddell, D. M. Chessmen White Lion ‘76 c. 100 b&w photographic illustrations listed. Appendices of 171pp Mediaeval & regional chessmen; bibliography of chessmen & ivories. Also names of the pieces in various languages. General £25.00 index. Large format (22X29 cm.) and heavyweight. DW F-

Linder, I. M The Art Of Chess Pieces H. G. S 1994 Devoted mostly to sets & pieces discovered in the land of what was Rus, today Russia. Several maps, plus many beautifully clear 288pp colour photos of pieces, with explanatory titles. Beautiful DW in £28.00 protective card cover. F

MackettBeeson Chessmen – Pleasures and Treasures. London ‘68 Concentrates on sets from different parts of the world. 100+ b&w 120pp pictures plus 24 pages in full colour. 1st ed. DW G+ £8.00

MackettBeeson Another edition, with slightly larger pages, thus reduced in number Octopus ‘73 97pp 123 illustrations in colour and b&w. DW G £6.00

Matthews, K British Chess Collins 1948 4 good contemporary paintings in colour and 24 illustrations in 50pp £10.00 b&w. Illustrated HB cover. 1st ed. Readable account. VG+

Saidy, A The World of Chess with Lessing, N. NY 1974 Lavishly illustrated with 200+ paintings, prints, and photographs, up 252pp to & including Fischer’s success. Large format (23X28cm). £12.00 DW VG+,

Shenk, David The Immortal Game – A History Of Chess Doubleday ‘06 Subtitled “Or how 32 carved pieces on a board illuminated out understanding of War, Art, Science & the Human Brain. “A charming & fascinating history of the seemingly simple game that £12.00 327pp has had a profound effect on societies the world over”. Appendix 1 – the rules of chess: Appendix 2 – 6 great games from history. With diagrams. Small Ex Libris plate. Navy cloth boards with titles in silver gilt on spine. DW F

Wichmann H&S Chess – The Story of Chesspieces From Antiquity To Modern Times Hamlyn1964 1st English edition. 200 photographs, mostly full page and 20 in 328pp colour. 45pp of notes on the photos. Bibliography of sources. Large £30.00 format (24 X31cm). Black cloth boards. Pictorial DW VG+

Williams, G Master Pieces – The Architecture of Chess Unwin 2000 Tells the story of chess piece development from early Islamic times. 200+ photographs mostly in colour, Green cloth boards with £15.00 160pp titles in bright gilt on spine. Even the DW has its own clear DW. Top quality paper. F

Yalom, M Birth Of The Chess Queen – A History Pandora 2004 Originally there was no queen in chess, until c. 1,000AD a token female piece was created, and by 1,500 AD she had become the strongest piece. The author traces & explains that 500 years’ £14.00 276pp evolution. Illustrated throughout. 14 pp of explanatory notes. Photographic credits. Cream cloth boards with titles in gilt on spine. DW F

3. Tournaments

She’s beginning to wish she’d never started

3. Tournaments & Matches

Caissa Editions

Dale Brandreth’s set of tournament books are often attractive to seasoned collectors, and we currently have a set of 4 different titles. They all have the following in common:- Mint condition/ Hardback in distinctive red cloth (shades may vary very slightly); gilt titles; algebraic notation; at least one photograph; top condition, and thoroughly researched. They are as follows: (for more details see below). (a) 1901 & 1894 Buffalo by John S. Hilbert. (b) 1914 St. Petersburg by Dr. Tarrasch (c) 1932 Pasadena by Sherwood, Brandreth & Monson. (d) 1940 New York by John S. Hilbert.

Edition Olms.

This is a Swiss-based company that re-publishes old tournament books to a high standard but in the original format. In this way, collectors may obtain classic titles that otherwise would be almost unobtainable. They are all hard- bound in blue faux leather-bound boards with bright gilt titles & pictorial dustwrapper.

The First American Chess Congress: New York 1857 by Daniel W. Fiske. 563pp Many games, results and the 200+ page item on American Chess is a (a) book in itself. Morphy won, of course, but it was his only tournament as such. £20.00 Subsequently his chess consisted of mostly at odds, blindfold, consultation, friendlies etc. F

(b) The Second, Third & Fourth American Chess Congress: £20.00 Cleveland 1871: Chicago 1874 & Philadelphia 1876. 417pp F

(c) The Fifth American Chess Congress: New York 1880. by Charles A Gilberg. £20.00 Many games & other details of the 3 events. 539pp F

The Sixth American Chess Congress New York 1889 by W. (d) Steinitz. 1st= M. Tschigorin & M. Weiss 3rd Gunsberg’ 4th Blackburne; 5th Burn; 6th Lipschutz; 7th Mason. Showalter, £20.00 Pollock & Bird among the also-rans. 20 competed in all. 400+ people made donations to the funds, all named. 490 pp F

Munchen 1900 & Hannover 1902: the 12th & 13th congress of (e) the German Chess Federation by J. Berger, G. Marco & C. £20.00 Schlecter. (a) 1st= Maroczy, Pillsbury & Schlecter. (b) 1st Janowski; 2nd Pillsbury; 3rd Atkins. VG+ 384pp F-

(f) The Monte Carlo Tournament of 1903 1st Tarrasch, 2nd Maroczy; 3rd Pillsbury. Games with diagrams & light annotations. Tarrasch lost his first 3 games yet still £20.00 managed to come clear 1st. 112pp F-

McFarland & Co.

Also publishing chess books of the highest standard are McFarland of North Carolina. The difference is that each book concentrates on one specific individual, his/her games and career. Usually hardback, but with some SB options. We currently have several titles, all pre-owned but still in top condition, so we can offer them at a considerable discount to the original list price. Check out the games section for more details.

Jack Spence Limited Editions

American Tournament Series

We have a matching set of 6 titles, all identical with blue card covers slightly smaller than A4 in size, comb-bound, typescript, limited editions in VG condition. Spence was a lawyer from Omaha, Nebraska in the dawn of DIY publication and was thus able to by-pass the demands of fussy publishers. He doubtless had the office equipment and an efficient typist or two, as they are beautifully typed and presented. He died in 1978 at the age of just 54. All of which makes these items relatively scarce and attractive to collectors. Here they are in numerical order.

NEW YORK 1954: 91 games from the 9th Biennial US Championship. 1st Bisguier; #13 2nd Evans; 3rd Seidman. Account of the match plus X-table. Short biography of 25 yr. £35.00 old Bisguier. Round by round summaries. 34pp. 91 games. Only 100 copies were printed of which this is No. 97.

2nd HOLLYWOOD Pan-American 1954: 145 selected games from the 2nd #14 Hollywood Pan-American Championship. 1st Bisguier; 2nd Evans; 3rd= Rossolino & £35.00 Steiner. Preface by Spence which explains the politics behind the event. X-table & 1 page resume from the Californian Chess Reporter. . 32pp. 130 copies were printed of which this is No. 25

BALTIMORE 1948: 180 selected games from the 49th US Championship.1st W. #16 Weaver Adams; 2nd= Kashdan; Kramer & Ulvestad. Preface by Spence & overview £35.00 from Chess Life & New York Times. X-table. 36pp 110 copies were printed of which this in No. 43

ROCHESTER – MINNESOTA 1958: 178 games from the 59th US Open #24 Championship. 1st Cobo-Arteaga (big surprise) 2nd= Evans; Steinmeyer & Byrne. £35.00 (139 competed) Preface by Spence & 2 page introduction. 40 pages. 134 copies of which this is No. 21.

MILWAUKEE CHAMPIONSHIPS 1958: comprising the New Western Open & North #27 Central Open. 138 games selected from the 2 events both won by Benko. X-tables £35.00 for both events. 37pp. 200 copies of which this is No. 132

VENTNOR CITY 1945: A 10 man American invitational event. 1st Adams; 2nd #30 Santasiere; 3rd= Jackson & Keltz. (139 players took part).The scores of the 45 £35.00 games are more neatly set out and analysed. X-tables and for the previous 4 tournaments in the series. 34pp. 125 copies of which this is No. 20

World Student Team Championships.

This sequence of annual tournaments evolved from earlier events, until by the 1954 competition in Oslo it was recognised by FIDE at the regular World Student Team Championship. It comprised a single team of 4 with 2 reserves from each competing country. Away from the board relationships between the college students was relaxed but the chess was serious and of a high standard. Comprehensive booklets were produced each year, mostly overseen by FIDE Vice President, Jaroslav Sajtar, and are fully indexed with many photos. All games are in algebraic notation & thoroughly annotated with one diagram each. All books are generally in good condition, apart from the staples starting to rust. From them one can see some of the players involved over the years e.g. Spassky; Korchnoi; Portisch; Tal; Each one has a distinctive cover design of 2 knights on horseback on a chessboard of 2 different colours each year, the colours reflecting those in the national flag of the host nation. Lombardy; Szabo; Mednis; Benko; Hort; Polgar; Basman; Keene; Soltis; Hübner; Karpov, Timman & Suttles are just a few of the names that stand out from the crowd.

1956 IIIrd World Student Chess Championship - Sweden Played in Uppsala. 1st USSR; 2nd Hungary; 3rd Yugoslavia; 4th Bulgaria; 8 teams competed in each of 2 sections. 52pp. 11 photos. 24 games. VG £20.00

Vth World Student Team Championship – Bulgaria. 1958 1st USSR: 2nd Bulgaria: 3rd Czechoslovakia; 4th Yugoslav; £20.00 16 teams participated. 61pp; 15 photos; 23 games. SB G

VIIth Leningrad.. 1st USA; 2nd USSR; 3rd Yugoslavia; 4th Czechoslovakia. 14 £20.00 1960 teams competed. 67pp. 22 photos. 25 games. SB. G

VIIIth World Student Championship – Helsinki. 1961 1st USSR; 2nd USA; 3rd GDR; 4th Czechoslovakia. 13 teams took part. 70pp. 30 £20.00 photos. 26 games. SB; G.

1Xth World Student Championship – Márianské Lázné. It was Britain’s turn to host the event, but the British Government refused entry visas

for members of some teams. As this contradicted FIDE’s principles of non-

discrimination against its members, the BCF lost the event to Czechoslovakia. 1962 £20.00 1st USSR; 2nd Yugoslavia: 3rd Czechoslovakia. 4th GDR. 18 teams took part. 92pp; 31 photos; 28 annotated games; SB G.

XIth World Student Team Championship – Krakow. (French version) 1964 1st USSR; 2nd Czechoslovakia; 3rd Hungary; 4th USA. 21 teams took part. 83pp; 26 £20.00 photos; 25 games. The rest day consisted of a trip to Auschwitz concentration camp dedicated to hopes of a better future. SB: G.

XIIIth World Student Championship - Orebro - Sweden 1st USSR; 2nd Czechoslovakia; 3rd Denmark. 21 teams took part, inc. Puerto Rico & 1966 Cuba. Individuals included Hort, Gheorghiu, Westerinen, Polgar, Kurajica & Ree. £20.00 95pp; 41 photos; 25 games; SB The rise of the Polgars has begun. G

XIIVth World Student Championship - Harrachov – 1967 1st USSR; 2nd USA; 3rd England; 4th Czech. 19 teams took part. 91pp: 44 photos; 27 £20.00 games. England at last got a notable team together (Basman; Hartston; Keene; Whiteley & Botterill) and got a result. SB G

XVth World Student Team Championship – Austria. 1968 1st USSR; 2nd GFR; 3rd Czechoslovakia. 4th Bulgaria. 5th USA. 25 teams took part inc. Greece & Brazil. 98pp. 38 photos. 26 games. SB G £20.00

1969 XV1th World Student Team Championship- Dresden. £20.00 1st USSR; Yugoslavia; 3rd Bulgaria; 4th GFR; 26 teams took part. 95pp. 25 photos. SB G

XIXth World Student Team Championship – Graz. Played in Austria. Teams from Cuba, Dominican Rep. & Iran now entering. 1st USSR; 2nd= Hungary & Germany; 4th USA; 29 teams took part in 3 groups (Karpov & Timman played) 24 annotated £20.00 1972 games. 25 photos. SB G

Tony Gillam of Nottingham (AKA The Chess Player) has devoted his life to rescuing and preserving the records of tournaments large & small in his series Rare & Unpublished Tournaments & Matches. They all take the same format: A5 in size on yellow paper, all protected in a clear plastic jacket, making them economical and collectable without breaking the bank. These below are all as new, with all known games in figurine notation with annotation & diagrams, at just £7.00 per title. Dundee 1867: 1st Neumann; 2nd Steinitz; 3rd= de Vere £7.00 London 1868/9: 1st= Blackburne & De Vere. 140 gms. £7.00 Baden Baden 1870: 1st Anderssen; 2nd Steinitz 77 gms £7.00 London & Nottingham 1886: 91 gms in total £7.00 London 1887: 1st= Burn & Gunsberg. 51 gms. £7.00 New York 1893: 1st Lasker. 2nd Albin 91 gms. £7.00

Vienna 1899 1st Maroczy; 2nd= Schlecter/Brody. 66 gms £7.00 New York 1900 1st Lipschuetz. 2nd Showalter. 30 gms. £7.00 New York 1913 2nd US & Rice Tourneys:Capa 1st in both £7.00 New York 1915 1st Capablanca. 2nd Marshall. 56 games £7.00 English Tourneys 1920 – 22. 6 in all. 168 games £7.00 Kiel 1921 & 4 others of that year. 107 games £7.00 Hastings & Weston-s-Mare 1924 101 games £7.00 Hastings & Weston-s-Mare 1926 & 2 others. 152 gms £7.00 Hague 2nd Olympiad 1928 1st Hungary 2nd USA 543 gms £7.00 Ramsgate 1929 & The Tinsley Notebooks c. 100 gms £7.00 Margate (1st Reshevsky) & Tallin 1935 87 games £7.00 Margate (1st Flohr) & Ostende 1936 (1st Lundin )121gms £7.00 Margate 1937 (1st = Fine & Keres; 3rd Alekhine) 56 gms £7.00 Plymouth ’38 & Bournemouth ’39 (1st Euwe)106 gms £7.00 Margate (2nd Capa) & Tallinn 1935 (2nd Keres). 86 gms £7.00 Margate (2nd Capa) & Ostende 1936 (1st Lundin) 121gm £7.00 Plymouth 1st=Alekhine & Bournemouth 1st Euwe105gm £7.00

And now to the normal chronologically organised tournaments & matches.

Hastings 1895 - The Centennial Edition. ed. by Sid Pickard. 22 of the world’s leading players came to this epic tournament won by Pillsbury against all £12.00 1895 expectations except his own. 230 games in AN annotated by various of the players involved Indexes of players, games & openings. 259pp SB VG

1857 The First American Chess Congress – New York. by D. Fiske Ed. Olms ‘85 1st Morphy; 2nd Paulsen; 3rd Lichtenhein. 67 games & 53 problems. A 563p facsimile edition of the original - every detail reproduced perfectly. Blue £20.00 faux leather boards with gilt titles. Pictorial DW. F

1871 The Second, Third & Fourth American Congress, 1871; ‘74 & ‘76 Ed. Olms ‘85 1871 – Cleveland: 1st George Mackenzie; 1874 - Chicago; 1st Mackenzie: 1878 – Philadelphia: 1st James Mason. The efforts put into the 1st congress were repeated for the next three,

119p although without the ever hoped-for participation of Morphy, the same fever £20.00 pitch was not quite reached. Edition Olms brought out facsimiles of these three events under one cover. Blue faux leather boards with gilt titles. DW F

1880 The Fifth American Chess Congress – New York by C. Gilberg Ed. Olms ‘86 1st= Mackenzie & J. Grundy. 3rd C. A. Möhle. All games & historical survey

539p of the previous events, plus biographical sketches. 128 problems. Faux £20.00 blue leather boards with gilt titles. DW. F

1889 The Sixth American Chess Congress – New York by W. Steinitz Ed. Olms’82 (after play-off) 1st=Chigorin & Weiss; 3rd Gunsberg; 4th Blackburn; 5th Burn; 6th Lipschutz; 7th Mason; 20 played each other twice. “One of the greatest 490p tournaments of the 19th Century”. 432 annotated games. Faux blue leather £20.00 boards with pictorial DW. F

1883 London International Tournament by J. I. Minchin 1st Zukertort; 2nd Steinitz; 3rd Blackburne; 4th Chigorin; 5th Englisch; 6th Mackenzie; 8 others played inc. Winawer & Bird. All games in the Major fully annotated by a combination of leading players & the Editor. 26 took part in the subsidiary event – the Vizayanagaram 1st Bardelben; 2nd Fisher; 3rd Macdonnell. A total of 296 games are annotated. Maroon cloth boards 371p £150.00 with elaborate gilt design involving players’ names and countries of origin. 1st edition. LN5216. Spine is split top & bottom to a depth of 1cm. & gilt is sunned. Front cover is splitting from the main body. o/w everything else is sound. Some interesting insights reported into the prejudice & racism of the time by some observers in relation to the naming of the minor event.

1886 Steinitz vs Zukertort – 1st Match for the World Championship. Ed. by J. Schroeder. Schroeder used contemporary sources to describe the build-up and 36pp circumstances of the match. All previous games & the 20 match games £10.00 annotated plus diagrams. Grey card covers. VG

1886 London July 1886 by A. J. Gillam Gillam ‘08 1st Blackburne (£80); 2nd Burn (£50); 3rd= Gunsberg & Taubenhaus £32.50); 106p 110 annotated games in figurine with diagrams. Uses many contemporary £7.00 sources. SB F

1895 Hastings 1895 - The Centennial Edition. ed. by Sid Pickard 22 of the world’s leading players came to this epic tournament won by Pillsbury against all expectations except his own. 230 games in AN 259p annotated by various of the players involved. Short biographies of the £12.00 players. Indexes of players, games & openings. SB VG+

1895 St. Petersburg by James Mason & W. H. K. Pollock. Hardinge‘04 36 annotated games. 1st Lasker 2nd Steinitz, 3rd Pillsbury 4th Tchigorin. New 64pp World Champion Lasker proves his pedigree. Facsimile edition of the 1896 £10.00 original. SB F+

1900 London 1900 – City Of London Invitational Caissa 1973 Facsimile reprint of the original. 1st Teichmannl 2nd = Mason & Gunsberg. 4th Ward; 5th Van Vliet; 6th Blackburne; 7th Lawrence. 78 game scores. X-table. 46pp Indexes of Openings. Royal blue cloth covered boards with silver gilt titles. £20.00 Ltd. edition of 700 copies of which this in No. 266.

1900 Paris 1900 ed. by Jimmy Adams. 2nd ed. 2000 Chess Player 166 annotated games. 1st Lasker; 2nd Pillsbury; 3rd= Maroczy & Marshall. 176p Coincided with the World Exposition. SB. Typescript. F £12.00

1900 Munich 1900 & Hannover 1902 Ed. Olms ‘83 Facsimile edition of the German originals these 2 tournaments. (a) 1st= 384p Pillsbury, Maroczy & Schlecter; 4th Burn. 180 games. (b) 1st Janowski; 2nd Pillsbury; 3rd Atkins; 4th Mieses. 308 games + 50 problems from the £15.00 Problemturnier. Blue buckram boards with gilt titles. DW F

1901 Buffalo 1901 & 1894 by John Hilbert Caissa . 1996 Well-resourced book on 2 events in which Pillsbury competed in both and 95pp Marshall in one. Numerous photos of players & scenarios. Red cloth boards with gilt titles in the usual Caissa style. VG + £22.00

01/04 Games From Monte Carlo Vol. 1 Wenman 1st ed. Leeds 1945 76 diagrams & 50 gms from the 1901 – 02 – 03 & 04 tournaments. The 2nd in the Series of First Class Games edited by Hoffer. Blue cloth boards with £9.50 87pp bright gilt titles. Small format. VG o/w G

1903 Monte Carlo Tournament Ed. Olms ‘83 Facsimile reprint of the original, though in a smaller page size. Foreword in 112p German & English. Photos are darker in reproduction that the originals. £15.00 Blue buckram boards with bright gilt titles. Pictorial DW F

1903 Vienna Gambit Tournament 1903 by G, Marco. 1st ed. 1st Tschigorin; 2nd Marshall; 3rd Marco; 4th Pillsbury; 5th= Maroczy, Mieses & 115p Teichmann. 90 annotated games with diagrams. The original edition bound in attractive boards & title in gilt on spine. LN 5265. VG £25.00

1903 Kiev 1903 - Third Russian National Chess Tounament Caissa ‘72 A facsimile reprint of the original Russian publication, limited to 1-200 copies in the US and 201-300 in Holland. This is copy No. 144. (The original) “probably the rarest of all tournament books”. 1st Chigorin; 2nd 152p Bernstein; 3rd Yurevich; 4th Salwe; 5th Rubinstein; 6th Znosko-Borovsky 19 £25.00 competed. The launching pad of a Russian chess hegemony that lasted decades. Group photo of all players. Royal blue cloth boards with title in gilt. F-

1905 The Match & Return Match – Janowski v. Marshall - The Series of 1st class Leeds games No. 1 L. Hoffer (ed The 1st of a set of 3 titles by Hoffer. The result was a 10-all draw with 7 drawn games. 27 gms, mostly QGDs, annotated with diagrams by Hoffer. 49pp Good photo of the match in progress. LN 5051 Dark blue cloth boards £12.00 with titles in gilt. Small format. G+.

Another copy with short insc G. £12.00 Another copy SB with green card covers. £10.00

1906 Nürnberg 1906 by Dr Tarrasch & J, Schenzel. 1st ed. Leipzig 1906 1st Marshall; 2nd Duras; 3rd= Forgacs & Schlecter; 5th Tschigorin, ahead of 12 others including Snosko-Borovsky, Tarrasch; Vidmar; Spielmann; & 278p Janowski. X-tables for all sections. 154 annotated games with diagrams Openings & games indices. 154 games, mostly annotated. LN 5278 Original olive green cloth boards with gilt titles on front cover, while on the £95.00 spine the gilt has faded but still legible.o/w VG.

1907 Lasker vs Marshall 7th Match of the World Championship J. Schroeder All 17 games annotated with diagrams by Tarrasch. Intro by James R. 27pp Schroeder. Tournament records etc. SB VG £10.00

1907 Karlsbad 1907 by G. Marco & C. Schlecter Caissa Ed. ‘79 Reprint of the original 1908 edition. 1st Rubinstein; 2nd Maroczy; 3rd Leonhardt; 4th Nimzowitsch; 5th Schlechter; 6th Vidmar; Also ran: Marshall, 426p Spielmann, Tartakower, Mieses, Chigorin & 10 others. 210 annotated games with 685 diagrams. Fully indexed. Good group photo. This is not in £15.00 the typical Caissa style of hard-bound red cloth, but SB in a plain style faithful to the original. VG-

1908 Lasker vs Tarrasch 8th Match for the World Championship Schroeder Biographical notes and tournament records of both players. All 16 games 33pp annotated from a synthesis of several sources, each credited. There were £10.00 16 games of which Lasker scored 10.5 against 5.5. SB VG+

1908 Vienna 1908 by G. Marco 1908 1st= Duras, Maroczy & Schlechter: 4th Rubinstein; 5th Teichmann; 6th Speilmann. 20 competed inc. Marshall, Mieses, Reti, & Tartakower. 190 171p games with diagrams. £35.00 X-tables. Fully indexed. Good portrait photos of the 3 winners. Gilt title on spine still legible. Professionally bound by E. Worrall of Birmingham. LN 5290. VG

1908 Janowsky vs Marshall – The Match & Return Match. by L. Hoffer London ‘08 Marshall won the first match 8-5, Janowsky the 2nd by 5-2. All 17 won 49pp games annotated with diagrams. £15.00

1908 Lasker v. Tarrasch The Championship Match. by L. Hoffer Leeds ‘08 42pp All 16 games annotated with a diagram. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles. Good photo of the match in progress. Small format. G £12.00

1909 St Petersburg Dover 1971 1st= Lasker & Rubinstein; 3rd= Duras & Spielmann. 175 games deeply 192p annotated by Lasker, X-table, 7 photos of players at the board. SB F £10.00

1909 Marshall vs Capablanca Match by Imre König USA 1955 California Chess Reporter - No.3. A match for the USA Championship, won by Capa 8 -1, draws not counting,

and the result was a sensation for those not fully ‘in the know’, the 33 yr old 31pp master against a lad barely out of his teens. All 23 games annotated & with £12.00 diagrams. Foreword & summary by König. Blue card covers VG

Goteborg: Nordiska Schackforbundets Femte Kongress med Turneringar. G.&F. Collijn 1909 Nordic Chess Federations Fifth Kongress with tournaments. 1909 1st Vidmar; 2nd Leonhardt; 3rd Duras; 4th Sjoberg. Notes on the winners. c.50

62pp lightly annotated games with diagrams. Good group photo with all named. £40.00 Card covers tender & chipped on top of spine, G

1912 Temesvar 1912. 2nd Hungarian Congress. by Warren H. Goldman E.T.C. 1981 114p 1st Breyer; 2nd Asztalos; 3rd= Balla & Merenyi; 15 competed. 105 games in AN, some with annotations. X-table, Index of openings. A tribute to the £10.00 memory of Gyula Breyer who died of TB aged 28. 1st book by E.T.C. SB VG+

1912 Bad Pistyan 1912 by M. A. Lachaga (Argentina) (in German Lachaga ‘72 1st Rubinstein; 2nd Spielmann; 3rd Marshall; 4th= Duras, Schlecter 54pp &Teichmann. Yates was 14th. 153 games; Rd. by round scores. X-table. Tournament record of every player. Intro by Lachaga. Ltd edition of 350 £15.00 copies. Card covers. Staples rusting o/w VG.

1913 Havana 1913 by Capablanca BCM 1976 1st Marshall, 2nd Capablanca, 56 annotated games. Introductory notes on 84pp the 8 contestants. Translated by Winter from the original Spanish edition of £7.50 1913. SB Insc.. AN Early pages loose o/w G-

1914 St. Petersburg – All games (75), with notes from various sources. BCM One of the greatest tournaments of all time 1st Lasker; 2nd Capablanca: 3rd 75pp Alechin etc. Group photo. This is a facsimile reprint of the original by £8.00 Hollings and now published by the BCM in SB as No. 1 in the BCM Classics Reprints series. G

1914 St. Petersburg International Chess Tournament Caissa ed. ‘93 75 games with Tarrasch’s notes augmented by those of many other famous players such as Alekhine, Lasker, Marco, Bernstein, Reinfeld. One of the 266pp greatest chess tournaments all time. Lasker just beat out Capablanca, £25.00 followed by Alekhine, Tarrasch, Marshall and other greats. 22 photographs. Red cloth boards with gilt tiles. F+ 1914 Another copy F- £20.00+

1914 St. Petersburg. Das Grossmeisterturnier zu St.Petersburg 1914. Ed. Olms ‘89 Facsimile of Tarrasch’s original. 3 group photos with names, 75 annotated 192pp games. Blue buckram boards with gilt titles DW F £18.00

1914 The St. Petersburg Masters Chess Tournament Printing Craft All games with notes, both original & compiled from various sources. Group 75pp photo. The 1st to be published after the event. Green cloth boards. Small format. Stickers on front endpaper o/w G £20.00

1914 Stormäster-Turneringen St Petersburg av Dr. Tarrasch Őrebro ‘55 Sweden’s contribution to the literature on this fabled tournament. 75 annotated games Whole group photo with only 11 of them numbered & 233p named below. Staged photo of Lasker playing Tarrasch with Alekhine, Capa £35.00 & Marshall watching in flamboyant poses. Green cloth boards with gilt titles. VG+

1914 Mannheim 1914 by Werner Lauterbach. Germany ‘64 1st Alekhine; 2nd Vidmar; 3rd Spiemann; 4th= Breyer, Marshall & Reti.ahead of 12 others inc. Janowski, Bogoljubow, Tarrasch, 93 annotated games most with diagrams. B&w photos of the venue, group of players & Alekhine. 126p X-tables & fully indexed. SB with red covers. The event was, of course, £15.00 broken off due to the outbreak of WWI the full story of which is told elsewhere. VG

1914 Das Internationale Gambitturnier in Baden by Georg Marco Leipzig ‘16 1st Spielmann; 2nd Tartakower; 3rd Schlecter; 4th Breyer; 5th Johner; 6th Reti; 10 played. LN 5318. 90 annotated games with diagrams. Small insc. Feint, £45.00 184p neat handwritten notes on the endpapers, easily erased if needed. Green cloth boards with titles & design in bright gilt. Corners bumped o/w G+ n 1916 Nordiska Schackforbundets Sjunde Kongress Kopenhamn Stockholm ‘16 Nordic Chess Federation’s 7th Congress in Copenhagen Championship Section: 1st Johner; 2nd= Krause; Loewenborg & Marchand. G & L Collijn.

1st class section (Första Klassen) 1st Berndtsson; 2nd Nilsson. 1st Olson. X- 228p tables for all sections. 117 lightly-annotated games. Large clear group 1916 photo. LN 5324. SB VG Master class; 1st Johner; 2nd= Marchand, Løwenborg & Krause. 1st class 1st Berndtsson; 2nd Nilsson. 2nd class 1st Olson. X-tables for all sections. £35.00 117 lightly-annotated games. Large clear group photo. LN 5324. SB VG

1918 Rubinstein vs Schlechter Match Kagan (a) Booklet of the six annotated games with diagrams; with title page & foreword. LN 5059. January 1918. Bound in together with 3 other similar Kagan booklets:

(b) April 1918; 4 Master Tournament:- Mieses/ Rubinstein/ Schlechter & Vidmar. 12 annotated games with diagrams. X-table. LN 5328.

(c) Das Grossmeister Turnier in Kerkau-Palast (Berlin) October 1918. 1st Em Lasker; 2nd Rubinstein; 3rd Schlecter; 4th Tarrasch. X- table/ 12 annotated games. LN5329.

(d) Tournaments of 1919:- (i) Reti vs Tartakower. (ii) 4 master tournament with Bogoljubow; Reti, Spielmann & Selesnieff. 12 annotated games. Not in 70pp LN £25.00 Paper is crisp & yellowing, staple rusting etc. but the whole is nicely bound in maroon cloth boards with the title in gilt “Turnier Und Wettkampfpartien 1918-19”.

Interesting that even at the horrific climax of WW1 these little tournaments still continued, though these records are little known. Even LN doesn’t have all the above details of dates & venues. Small, delicate & very scarce

1921 Capablanca vs Lasker – 12th match for the Chess Championship of the World. Ch. Digest ‘72 edited by J. R. Schroeder Lasker loses the title after the longest tenure ever. Annotations of the 14 31pp games are an amalgam of the writers & commentators of the day. Short £10.00 biographies & tournament records prior to match. Corrections on endpaper. SB AN diagrams, . VG+ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1921/ ‘ World’s Championship Matches, 1921 and 1927. Dover 1977 Havana 1921 and Buenos Aires 1927 saw Capablanca first take the crown 81pp from Lasker and then lose it to Alekhine just 6 years later. This edition combines the original tournament books with a new 11 page introduction by £9.00 Chernev. SB VG+

1921 Hamburg 1921 Kagan (s.a.) Der 21. Kongress des Deuschen Schachbundes (E.V.) in Hamburg 1921 by J. Dimer. 1st Post; 2nd Samisch; 3rd Schlage. 145 annotated games. No 230p date given but this is clearly a 1st edition. LN 5340. Brown cloth boards, with cloth starting to split at the top & base of spine. Neat hand-written index on £35.00 endpaper linking games to page numbers. Small nicks at top & bottom of spine o/w G.

1921 Budapest 1921 (in German) Lachaga1977 All 66 games annotated by Prof. A. Becker & A. Meistern. 1st Alekhin; 2nd 70pp Grűnfeld; 3rd= Kostic & Tartakower. 7th Euwe; 8th Bogoljubow. Fully indexed. £15.00 Ltd. edition of 350 copies. Green card covers. Rusty staples o/w VG

1922 Book of the Hastings Tournament 1922 Printing Craft 1st Alekhine; 2nd Rubinstein; 3rd= Bogoljubow & Thomas. All 30 games 68pp annotated by Alekhine. X-table. Good portrait photos of the players. Red £25.00 cloth boards in pristine condition.

1922 Book of the Hastings International Masters’ Tournament Dover 1968 63pp An unabridged republication of the original. SB VG+ £8.00

1922 London 1922 Official Pogramme. Main points of interest are the charts for the 12 sections of 12 players (all 11pp named) 4 of which have been neatly completed, i.e. the Major, Minor & Ladies Open, & the 1st Class Section A. won by 17 yr old A. R. B. Thomas. £10.00

1922 Book of the London International Congress. W. H. Watts ed. 1st ed. 1923 Printing Craft 137p 1st Capablanca; 2nd Alekhine. 120 gms annotated by Maroczy.Red cloth partially split on back of spine o/w G+ £20.00

1922 Book of the London International Congress Dover 1968 1st Capablanca; 2nd Alekhine. 120 gms annotated by Maroczy.Unabridged £7.75 126p republication of the original. SB. VG

1922 London 1922 by Maroczy with foreword by Soltis Russell 2010 1st Capablanca 2nd Alekhine ahead of Rubinstein, Reti, Tartakower, Euwe et 128p al.120 annotated games in figurine AN. Plus Capa vs Lasker - 14 games £10.00 from their World Championship match annotated by Capa. SB F+ 1922 1922 London 1922 by D. Regis Harding ‘06 All games with analyses from most known sources, including Tinsley’s column in the Times and plenteous diagrams. Some games from other 377p sections. Signed by the Editor. SB. Front cover creased o/w G £10.00

1922 Vienna 1922 by Larry Evans Russell 2011 1st Rubinstein, 2nd Tartakower; 6th Alekhine. etc. only Capa & Lasker missing from the world greats. 100 annotated games. Evans 1st published 144p this when he was a 16 yr old schoolboy. He was later advised to upgrade it, £10.00 which he did, in 2010, but died on completion. SB AN F

1922 Wien 1922 Internationaler Schachkongress (in German) Lachaga ‘69 All 105 games annotated by various players + Becker & Meistern. X-table & 70pp fully indexed. Ltd. edition of 240 copies. Blue card covers. Rusty staple o/w £15 VG .00

1922 Bad Oeynhausen. by Dimer, Schlage & Zander. Leipzig 1923 Der 22. Kongress des Deutschen Schachbundes. 1st Post; 2nd Carls; 3rd= 196p Antze, Schlage & Wagner. 154 games. X-tables for all sections. 1st ed. LN5348. Original green cloth boards, Group photos of the Masters section £40.00 & of 40 players all numbered & named. Ladies join them for a 3rd photo on opposite page LN 5348 HB VG

1922 Bad Piestany The Julius Breyer Memorial Kagan 1923 1st Bogoljubow; 2nd= Alekhine & Spielmann; 4th Grunfeld; 5th Reti; 6th= Samisch & Wolf. Euwe, Tartakower & Tarrasch all out of the prizes. X- tables for both sections. 190 games with light annotations & 1 diagram. Good photos of the town & 10 of the players in action. Green cloth boards 190p with gilt titles. LN 5349. Another point of interest is the small Ex Libris plate £50.00 with the name Amos Burn. Paper slightly browning in parts o/w VG. Scarce item made unique with its former owner.

1923 Mährisch-Ostrau by Becker & Meistern (& K. Schlecter) in German Lachaga ‘77 1st Dr. Lasker;2nd Reti; 3rd Grunfeld; 4th Selesniev; 5th= Euwe & Tartakower. 98pp 14 competed. All 91 games annotated by either the winner or author. Rd- by-round totals. X-table & fully indexed. Ltd edition of 303 copies. Pink card covers. Rusty staples o/w VG+ £15.00

1923 Wien 1923 (in German) Lachaga ‘68 1st Tartakower; 2nd Reti; 3rd Spielmann; 4th= Grunfeld & Steiner. 12 competed. All 66 games annotated by Becker, Meistern and the players. X- 80pp table. Fully indexed. This tournament book was preceded by a section consisting of the 10 games of the Lasker vs Schlecter match, annotated by £15.00 the players. Ltd. edition of 238 copies. Green card covers. Rusty staples o/w VG

1924 Book of the New York International Tournament Helms ed. Dover ‘61 1st Lasker 2nd Capablanca 3rd Alekhine. Reprint of 1925 original with new

271p photos added. 110 gms annotated by Alekhine.. SB 6 copies available £9.00 from VG+ £9 to £5 with more wear.

1924 Paris 1924 The 1st (unofficial) Olympiad by M. Lachaga Argentina ‘73 Limited to individuals rather than countries. 1st Mattison ahead of 8 others inc. Colle & Euwe. Includes a section on the founding of FIDE. & table for 160p the subsidiary tournament. 258 games with annotations garnered from £25.00 several sources. Limited edition of 520 copies of which this is No. 284. Blue card covers with spine fading a little. o/w VG+

1924 Paris 1924 – The First Olympiad Caissa 1986 258 games in AN & small print. 1st Czechoslovakia; 2nd Hungary; 3rd 53pp Switzerland; 17th; Russia; 18th Yugoslavia (18 teams competed. Fully £5.00 indexed. SB staples rusting o/w G

1925 Paris 1925 Internationales Funfmeisterturmier des Schachklubs by M. A. Lachaga Argentina 1977 46pp 1st Alekhine; 2nd Tartakower; 3rd= Opocensky & Znosko-Borowski. 5th Colle. 2 games were played per day with the 5th player having a rest day. All games with annotations by the players & Albert Becker. Neat typescript. £15.00 Limited edition of 330 copies. Yellow card covers VG.

1925 Marienbader Kongressbuch 1925 1st ed. by I. Gunsberg Berlin 1925 16 players of whom 1st= Nimzowitsch & Rubinstein 3rd= Marshall & Torre; 141p 5th= Reti & Tartakower; 7th Spielmann & 8th Grunfeld. Photos of 10 players and venue. 120 lightly annotated games & X-tables. LN5383. Cream cloth £35.00 boards with brown titles. The pale cloth showing a few specks of dust & age, probably cleanable, o/w VG+

1925 Marienbad 1925 by I. Gunsberg Ed. Olms ‘88 Reprint of Gunsberg’s original book. 10 photos. Blue buckram boards & gilt 141p titles behind a DW. F- £20.00

1925 Moscow 1925. Das Internationale Schachturnier by Bogoljubow De Gruyter ‘27 1st Bogoljubow; 2nd Lasker; 3rd Capablanca; 4th Marshall; 5th Tartakower. Also playing were Grünfeld, Spielmann, Rubinstein & Yates. 210 lightly 223p annotated games, some with diagrams. Good photo of the author at the £35.00 board. Cream coloured boards with brown titles & designs. LN 5384. VG+

1925 Moscow 1925 by E. Bogoljubow 1991 A republication of the 1925 original (LN 5384). In a limited edition of which this is No. 817. Blue buckram boards with gilt titles on front cover. 30 129p photos, though not very clear ones. An early state-sponsored tournament. £20.00 Paper starting to brown in parts o/w VG+

1925 Breslau 1925 (in German) Lachaga ‘77 1st Bogoljubow; 2nd Nimzowitsch; 3rd = Rubinstein & Wagner; 5th= Becker;

70pp Grunfeld & Reti; 12 competed. All 66 games annotated by the players. X- £15.00 table. Foreword by Becker. Blue card covers. VG

Debrecen 1925 (Hungary) Das Entfesselte Schach by Tartakower Sub-titled “An unsystematic textbook on middlegame strategy, and at the same time 1925 a collection and explanation of the master games played in the Geza Maroczy Kecskemet ‘26 Jubilee tournament at Debrecen”. (An example of Tartakower’s dry wit)

1st Kmoch; 2nd=Johner & Tartakower; 4th= Grünfeld & Vukovic; 14 played. X- tables for all sections. 103 annotated games in figurine, some with diagrams. 22 photographs, mostly of individual players. Excellent 192p caricatures of some players by Haranghy. Blue cloth boards with title in gilt £35.00 on spine. Small ink stamp “Ex Libris E. G. R. Cordingly” the pioneer desk- top publisher. VG

1926 Berlin 1926 by H. Kmoch Kagan ‘26 84pp 1st Bogoljubow; 2nd Rubinstein; 3rd= Spielmann, Grunfeld & Ahues. (10 played). 45 annotated games. X-table. Photos of group & 4 individuals. Kagan’s original book with card covers has been rebound with blue cloth boards. Small ink stamp on front endpaper “Ex Libris E. G. R. Cordingly” . He may have had plans to use these 2 books as the basis for one of his £35.00 own esteemed limited editions. LN 5392 Pages yellowing o/w VG.

1926 Dresden International Tournament Adams 1984 1st Nimzovich; 2nd Alekhine; 3rd Rubinstein; 4th Tartakower. 70pp 45 annotated games without diagrams. Typescript. Card covers. AN £7.50 staples rusting o/w G

1926 Lake Hopatcong by Cela & Gaba Madrid 1973 1st Capablanca; 2nd Kupcjik; 3rd Maroczy; 4th Marshall; 5th Ed. Lasker. 150p Tournament & match records of the 5 players. All games lightly annotated with some diagrams 1st ed. SB VG+ £7.75

1926 Hannover 1926:: Berlin 1926 :: & Semmering 1926 Ed. Olms 1989 Facsimile copies of three 1st edition tournament books between 2 covers. Hannover was LN 5394 :: Berlin was LN.5392 :: Semmering was LN 5400: 252p In total 11 photos & 226 annotated games with diagrams, exactly as in the originals. 4 photos of players. Blue buckam boards with bright gilt titles. In £15.00 German F

1926 Semmering 1926 by Dr. Robert Laseker Märisch-Ostrau (1934) 1st Spielmann; 2nd Alekhin; 3rd Vidmar; 4th Nimzowitsch; ; 5th Tartakower; 6th= Rubinstein & Tarrasch ahead of Janowski, Yates, Kmoch et al. 153 annotated games. 2 good group photos. 1st edition. LN 5400. SB Binding 72pp tender with rusting staples. o/w G- £27.00

1926 Semmering 1926 & Feature on winner R. Spielmann (in German) Lachaga ‘69 Foreword by Lachaga. 153 games mostly annotated. X-tables & fully 94pp indexed. Ltd edition of 240 copies. Blue card covers VG £15.00

1927 New York 1927 Das New Yorker Schachturnier by Alekhine Berlin 1928 1st Capablanca; 2nd Alekhin; 3rd Nimzowitsch; 4th Vidmar; 5th Spielmann; last Marshall. A world championship eliminator. 2 books were written on the event – this one by Alekhine translated into English & German and another 176p by Tartakower into Russian. 60 annotated games with diagrams. X-table. £27.00 Maroon cloth boards with titles in bright gilt on spine. Pale marks on the cloth o/w VG+

1927 Games Played in the World’s Championship Match between Capablanca Printing Craft (Holder) & Alekhin (Challenger) (Buenos Aires) 1st ed. 1928 Alekhin came 2nd in the previous tournament, thus winning the right to 45pp challenge the Cuban whose only title defence this was. All 34 gms £20.00 annotated by F. D. Yates & W. Winter. . VG

Another copy 2nd edition (revised) with preface explaining that the original book had sold out within 12 weeks. Disquiet is expressed about the system of how challengers for the title are chosen. The writer says the two could simply challenge each other repeatedly and keep the title between them for a generation, and floats £12.00 the idea of a FIDE type system. Insc. Front endpapers loose. G-

1927 World’s Championship Matches 1921 & 1927 Dover 1977 81pp Capa wins then loses the World title. All games annotated. VG £7.00

1928 Berlin 1928 Das Internationale Schachmeisterturnier zur Hunderjahrfeier der Berliner Schachgesellschaft. Berlin 1928 (Centenary of the Berlin Chess Club) By K. Richter. 1st Nimzowitsch; 2nd Bogoljubow; 3rd Tartakower. 91 annotated games with diagrams. Good photos of players at the board inc. Bogoljubow; Tartakower; 136pp Nimzowitsch; Helling; Steiner; Johner & Stoltz; 1st ed. Original blue cloth boards with bright gilt titles. c. 10 small neat stamps “Ziimmermann Berlin” o/w internally £35.00 clean & undamaged. LN 5418 VG-

1928 Berlin 1928 Lachaga ‘70 1st Capablanca; 2nd Nimzowitsch; 3rd Spielmann; 4th Tartakower.Reti, 50pp Rubinstein, Marshall & Tarrasch also played. Mieses was tournament Director. 45 annotated games with no diagrams. X-table Typescript in £12.00 German. Orange card covers. Ltd edition 260 copies VG+

1928 Bad Kissingen by S. G. Tartakower 1st ed. Otto Levin ‘28 1st Bogoljubow; 2nd Capablanca; 3rd= Euwe & Rubinstein; 5th Nimzowitsch; 6th Reti; 7th= Yates, Marshall & Tartakower; ahead of Tarrasch, Spielmann & Mieses. 66 annotated games most with diagrams. Good b&w group photo £35.00 179p (with Yates listed as Yathes) & 4 of the venue. Original cloth boards with chessboard motif on front cover. LN 5424 VG+.

1928 Budapest 1928 by F Chalupetzky & L. Toth Kecskemet ‘29 1st Capablanca; 2nd Marshall; 3rd= Kmoch & Spielmann. 5th= Vajda & Steiner ahead of 4 others. Foreword by Capablanca (in Hungarian); Introduction by 71pp Hans Müller. 45 annotated games with diagrams. Hand-drawn gallery of the players & 2 photos of the venue. Grey boards with blue cloth on corners & spine which has the title in gilt. One of the 1st books to use figurine £40.00 algebraic, making it much easier to follow the game, even if the Hungarian notes are a bit more of a challenge. LN 5420 A clean, tight copy VG+

1929 Games Played in the World’s Championship Match between Alekhine & Printing Craft 1st Bogoljubow . ed. 1930 Alekhin’s 1st title defence. Played at 6 different venues starting with 48pp Wiesbaden. All 25 gms annotated by Yates & Winter. Insc. Front inside £12.00 cover parting from endpaper o/w VG-

1929 World Championship matches 1929 & 1934 Alekhine vs Bogoljubow Ed. Olms ‘83 A collection of 4 books in facsimile (a) Yates & Winter 1929; (b) Bogoljubow 302p 1934. (c) Lasker 1934, & (d) Fine & Reinfeld 1934. Blue buckram boards £25.00 F-

1929 Carlsbad International Chess Tournament Dover 1981 Unabridged republication of the 1981 English translation of the original 146p (Leningrad 1930) translated by Jim Marfia. 1st Nimzowitsch, 2nd= Capa & Spielmann; 4th Rubinstein; Others included Euwe, Bogoljubow, Maroczy, £9.00 Yates & Vera Menchik. 30 annotated games. SB F+

1930 San Remo 1930 Enroque!! ’43 A series of monthly sections from the Argentinian magazine Enroque!! (Castling – from the root word “Rook”) Bound in yellow card by the publisher 384p with the title San Remo 1930 El record de victorias del Dr. Alekhine, by Dr. J. Adolfo Seitz, who appears to be a key figure in the project, with a photo of him, There are other items as well, but San Remo is a thread that runs £20.00 throughout. Top corner of cover & endpaper cut off & paper browning. G- Unusual.

1930 Scarborough International Tournament Golombek ed. BCM (1962) 1st Colle; 2nd Maroczy; 3rd Rubinstein. 66 gms No analysis but round-by- 50pp round summaries. X-tables. PB. typescript. VG £12.00

1930 Hamburg (3rd) Olympiad by Gillam 18 teams of 4 (some with a reserve) played 600+ games to a tight schedule. Gillam The competition was fierce with 9 teams taking the lead at various times 312p before Poland emerged the winner. Photos of most players; 380+ games, 2016 comprising all those known with contemporary annotations. SB F+ Chess Player

1931 Bled 1931: der Rekordsieg Dr. Aljechins (Dr. Alekhin’s Record Win) by Hans Wien 1932 Müller 1st ed. 1st Alekhine 5½ pts clear of 2nd Bogoljubow; 3rd Nimzowitsch; 4th= Flohr, Kashadn, Stoltz & Vidmar ahead of 7 others. 182 games with annotations. 105p X-table. Typescript. Original orange card covers. LN 5444 3 staples £30.00 rusting o/w G

1931 Nueva York 1931 by L. Gaba & R. Cela Aguilera ‘76 1st Capablanca; 2nd Kashdan; 3rd Kevic; 4th= Horowitz, Kupchik & Steiner. 236p 12 competed. 66 lightly annotated games with diagrams. X-tables SB VG £7.50

1932 London International Tournament 1932 London 1932 1st Alekhine; 2nd Flohr; 3rd= Kashan & Sultan Khan. 66 games annotated by Alekhine. Good portrait of winner. Intro by Hatton-Ward & scene-setting 76pp article by Du Mont. X-tables of Masters’, Reserves’ & Women’s sections. £30.00 Original blue cloth boards. LN 5461 Clean copy VG

1932 London International Chess Tournament Hardinge ‘03 66 games annotated by Alekhine. 1st Alekhine; 2nd Flohr ahead of Maroczy, 76pp Sultan Khan, Kashan et al. Facsimile of 1933 original. £10.00 SB F+

1932 Bern 1932 by Wilhelm Bonacker Bern 1932 1st Alekhin; 2nd= Euwe & Flohr. 4th Sultan Khan; 5th= Boboljubow & Bernstein, ahead of 10 others. 120 annotated games.with diagrams. The main interest here was Sultan Khan’s 2nd visit to Europe where he entered 183p several such tournaments and won the British Championship 3 times. £37.00 Photos of most players & sketches by Brunschweller of some, including one of Sultan Khan, and Alekhine asleep between rounds. X-tables for all sections. 1st edition. LN 5457 Pictorial yellow card covers. VG+

1933 Mähr-Ostrau 1933 by Kmoch & Michalitschke M-Ostrau ‘33 1st Grunfeld; 2nd= Eliskases, Steiner & Zinner. 5th= Canal, Foltys & Rejfir. X- ??? tables of all 4 sections. 66 games with diagrams & light annotations. Photo 86pp of the 2 authors at work. LN5468. 1 X-table partly excised. Small insc. o/w £28.00 VG.

1934 Games Played in the Return Match for the World’s Championship between Printing Craft 1st Alekhin and Bogoljubow ed. 1935 26 games annotated by Lasker, after intro by Watts. Some discussion about the challenger’s state of mind being conducive to loss. Or that Alekhine 72pp wasn’t trying particularly hard. He’d be happy to play Bogoljubow for ever, if £20.00 allowed to do so. LN 5094. Spine a little frayed top & bottom o/w G+.

1934 A. Alekhine vs E. D. Bogoljubow World’s Chess Championship 1934 McKay Edited by Reinfeld & Fine. 1st ed.1934 Similar in size and scale to the UK version, though much higher production 56pp values. Original royal blue cloth with bright gilt lettering. Small neat Insc. £27.00 o/w F

1934 A. Alekhine vs E. D. Bogoljubow World’s Chess Championship 1934 Edited by Dover 1967 Reinfeld & Fine. 56pp Unabridged & unaltered republication of the original.SB VG+ £7.50

1934 A. Alekhine vs E. D. Bogoljubow World’s Chess Championship 1934 Dover 1967 Edited by Reinfeld & Fine. Another copy VG £7.00

1934 Alekhine vs Bogoljubow – Book of the World Championship match. by I. Freeman Press NY A.Horowitz & S. Cohen 1934 All 26 games annotated with diagrams. Errata slip pasted in. 35pp 1st ed. Green card covers.. LN 5093 VG £20.00

1934 Mar Del Plata Lachaga ‘75 74pp 1st Schvartzman; 2nd Grau; 3rd= Guimard, Balparda, Fenoglio & Bolbochan. 91 games. Indexes of openings & players. Ltd edition of 300 copies. Red £15.00 card covers. F-

1934/5 Hastings International by J. Schroeder 1st= Euwe, Thomas & Flohr. 4th Capablanca; 5th= Botvinnik & Lilienthal. 45 22pp games with diagrams but minimal analysis. £6.50 X-tables for all sections, Pink card covers. VG+

1935 Moskau By A, Becker. (in German) Lachaga ‘70 1st – Botvinnik & Flohr; 3rd Dr. Lasker; 4th Capablanca; 5th Spielmann; 6th= 112pp Kan & Levenfish – last Vera Menchik. 20 competed. 190 games. X-table & fully indexed. Ltd. edition 350 copies. Foreword by M. A. Lachaga. Blue £15.00 card covers. VG-

1935 Moscow 1935 Vol. 2 Cordingly Ltd. Edition of Tournament Books No. 7 …Volume 2 1st= Flohr & Botvinnik; 3rd Lasker! ; 4th Capablanca; 5th Spielmann; 6th Kan; 7th Levenfish. Vera Menchik last. 20 competed. 190 games, annotated via translations from the Russian Daily Chess Bulletin, by Dr. Lloyd Storr-Best. & other sources. Typescript. 250 copies were printed for subscribers such 106pp as Alexander, Sir G. Thomas; Eliskases, Reinfeld, Chernev et al of which this is No. 128 & purchased by C. Pirie Esq. whose name is in red type on the title page. (NB: the exclamation mark is Cordingly’s.) Blue cloth boards with some paleness on the edges, but it’s little enough considering the £55.00 travails Cordingly had in producing these works. His books are collectable, but extremely scarce these days. LN 5504 VG

1935 Bad Aachen The German Championships by Alfred Brinckmann Gruyter 1935 74pp 1st Richter; 2nd Ahues; 3rd Ernst; 4th Michel; 5th Engels + 10 others. 43 annotated games with diagrams. X-table. £25.00 LN 5492..Yellow card covers. F-

1935 Bad Nauheim by Paul Michel 1st ed. 1956 1st Bogoljubow; 2nd= Engels & Eliskases; 4th Opocensky. 45 annotated games with diagrams. The 1st of 3 tournaments held in the town. X-table. £15.00 63pp Ltd. Edition of which this is No.104 Not in LN. Green card covers. VG

1935 Bad Nauheim by Paul Michel 2nd ed. 1957 1st Bogoljubow; 2nd= Engels & Eliskases; 4th Opocensky. 45 annotated games with diagrams. The 1st of 3 tournaments held in the town. X-table. Ltd. Edition of which this is No.254 £15.00 Not in LN. Green card covers. VG

1935 Wien 1935 (& Wien 1907 – 1938) (in German) Lachaga ‘68 98pp Foreword by M. A. Lachaga. Covers a range of events during this period. X- tables. 39 games annotated by the top players. Orange card covers. 2 rusty £10.00 staples o/w G

1935 Buenos Aires 1935 (in Spanish) Lachaga ‘70 61pp A brief survey of S. American tournaments 1921-1944, with games & X- tables. Concentrating on the 5th congress of 1936. 137 games. Ltd. edition of 230 copies. Blue card covers. VG- £12.00

1936 Schach-Olympia Munchen 1936 Part 1 by K. Richter Gruyter 1936 Held alongside the athletic Olympic Games and just as politically controversial. Several strong countries refused to participate as did strong players from the teams that did (probably Jewish players who had only

recently fled the country). 1st Hungary; 2nd 3rd Germany. Not a true 176p Olympiad, but no German publisher of the time would argue, and nothing £30.00

was spared with these 2 items. 73 annotated games from Rds. 1 - 8 with diagrams. X-tables. 4 photos. Pale cloth boards with title and de Gruyter logo in blue. LN5534. Bk 1 has a small insc. o/w VG.

1936 Schach-Olympia Munchen 1936 Part 2 by K. Richter Gruyter 1936 87 annoatated games with diagrams from Rounds 9 – 21. Full table of the winning teams: 1st Hungary; 2nd Poland; 3rd Germany. £30.00 Diagrams of the 3 prizewinners in the 2-mover; 3-mover, Fairy & Studies 192p sections of the problem tournament that ran alongside. 1st in the 2-movers £50 the pair was Comins Mansfield. 10 b&w photos of various aspects of the activities. Ex Libris stamp of E. G. R. Cordingly, pioneer of DIY chess publishing.

1936 Munich “Olympiad”. Gillam 2000 Held alongside the athletic Olympic Games and just as politically 127p controversial. Several strong countries refused to participate as did strong Chess Player players from the teams that did. 600 game scores.. Bk 2 has acquired a little dust on the covers, but on the plus side has the Ex Libris stamp of E. £12.00 G. R. Cordingly. Scarce. SB F+

1936 Dresden 1936 by M. A. Lachaga 1946 Buenos Aires 1st Alekhine; 2nd Engels; 3rd= Maroczy & Stahlberg; 5th Bogoljubow. Keres 31pp trailed in last but one. 40 games some with annotations. LN 5523. Limited ed. of which this is No. 61. Card covers. Typescript. Pages becoming dry £20.000 and yellowing. o/w G

1936 Bad Nauheim 1936 by A. Becker & A Meistern. (in German) Lachaga ‘78 1st= Alekhine & Keres; 3rd Ahues; 4th=Bogoljubow & Rellstab. 10 competed. 54pp 45 games deeply annotated by the players. X-table & fully indexed. Ltd edition of 330 copies. Pink card covers. 2 rusty staples o/w VG+ £15.00

1936 Amsterdam 1936 Lachaga ‘75 46pp 1st= Euwe & Fine; 3rd Alekhine. 4th= Bosch, Grünfeld & Landau. X-table. All games annotated in AN mostly by the players involved. Orange card £15.00 covers. VG

1936 Mar Del Plata - Lachaga ‘77 70pp Foreword by Lachaga. 119 games annotated by Alberto Becker. X- table & fully indexed. Rd.-by-round scores. £12.00 Ltd. to 280 copies. Green card covers. Rust staples o/w VG

1936 Mar Del Plata – Sexto Torneo Sudamericano 1st Pleci; 2nd Schvartsman; 3rd= Fenoglio & Vinuesa. 5th Guimard. 6th Iliesco; 7th= Bolbochan & Flores. 16 competed. This book has several features that mark it as of major interest. e.g. The title page is inscribed in Spanish by Enrique Alegria – To our good friend Dr. Jacobo A Seitz … Buenos Aires 20/6/1939. The next page has a large photograph of the whole group of 30, which every person has carefully 70pp signed underneath. Not all are players, as the signature of Arnaldo Ellerman, the distinguished problemist, and what looks like Mieses can be £40.00 seen. Ltd. edition, of which this is No. 6. 120 games with some annotations. The pages are foolscap in size and have been bound in green cloth boards & attractively-patterned paper. The endpapers similarly so. Title & year in gilt on spine. LN 5527. VG+

Unabridged and corrected republication of the 1937 original. 291pp 111 games annotated by Alekhine. Insc. G+ £10.00

1936 Nottingham International Tournament 1st= Botvinnik & Capablanca; 3rd= Euwe, Fine & Reshevsky. All 105 games with 291pp Annotations & Analysis by Alekhine. A facsimile copy of the 1937 original. SB VG+ £9.50

1936 Nottingham 1936 by A. Alekhine Moscow ‘62 A literal, word for word translation of Alekhine’s 1937 original. 105 games 239p annotated in Russian. Even the diagrams are all in the same place. 3 £12.00 photos & 3 caricatures have been added. Red cloth boards with pictorial cover. VG

1936/7 Hastings International Caissa1992 1st Alekhine 2nd Fine. 3rd Eliskases; 4th= Feigin & Vidmar. Also X-tables for 55pp Reserves 1 & 2 (10 in each section) 45 games in both notations with notes £8.50 by Alekhine, Fine, Euwe, Reinfeld et al. Edited by Dale Brandreth SB F+

1936 Moscow 1936 Limited Edition of Tournament Books No 10. Cordingly ‘36 1st Capablanca; 2nd Botvinnik; 3rd Flohr; 4th Lilienthal; 5th Ragosin; 6th Em. Lasker; 7th= Eliskases, Kan, Levenfish & Riumin. 90 game scores in typescript with notes taken from the Russian Chess magazine “64”. Subscribers’ copies were numbered & signed. This copy is/was for Harry 45pp Pound and is No. 6, the low number indicating the great amount of help that Pound gave ot the whole project. Title clearly on spine. Pale green cloth £50.00 boards, fading in parts, but very sound. Cordingly’s books are scarce but very collectible, hence the price

1937 The World’s Chess Championship 1937 – Official Account of the Games. Pitman Golombek ed. 1 st ed. 1938 Alekhine regains the crown from Euwe. The 25 games occupy 160 pages, 203p each player annotating their games with White. Yellow cloth boards. LN £18.00 5118. VG+

1937 Euwe – Aljechin 1937 Leiden 1938 All games in the return match, plus 4 exhibition games played after the match was decided before time, with annotations and diagrams. LN 5103. £7.50 122p Card covers a little grimed o/w G

1937 Alekhine vs Euwe – Return Match by M. M. Botvinnik Ch. Digest ‘73 Translated from the Russian original of 1939. All games annotated & with diagrams. Botvinnik was already eyeing up a challenge to Alkehine and his 102pp notes are top class, but of course the war delayed it and then the Champion £12.00 died. SB. AN. Typescript. staples rusted o/w VG

1937/8 Hastings 1937-38 Lachaga 1975 1st Reshevsky; 2nd= Alexander & Keres; 4th= Fine & Flohr; 10 competed. All 45 games annotated by the tope players.. Introduction by M. A. Lachaga. X- £15.00 50pp table of this and every Hastings event since 1895. Ltd. Edition of 325 copies. Card covers. VG+

1938 A.V.R.O. BCM Classic Reprint No. 12 BCM Excellent portrait b&w photos of the 8 players, plus the bare scores of all 30pp games and the contemporary reports from the BCM. SB AN VG £8.00

1938 A.V.R.O – 1938 By James R. Schroeder 1961 8 man all-play-all with B & W. to determine who should challenge Alekhine for his world title. 56 games played in 10 Dutch cities. 1st= Fine & Keres. 3rd 76pp Botvinnik; 4th = Euwe, Reshevsky & Alekhine; 7th Capablanca; 8th Flohr. All games annotated. X-tables; Index of openings. Insc. “To Leonard Barden – £20.00 with best wishes James Schroeder”. Card covers. Typescript. VG

1938 Boston 1938 The Championship of the American Chess Federation 1939 1st= Horowitz & Kashdan. 34 games selected and annotated by Reinfeld. 72pp Photos of the joint champions. Ten X-tables. The book doubles as a Yearbook for the Federation. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles. List of £25.00 previous winners since 1900. Indexes of players & openings. G+

1939 Torneo Internacional Del Circulo De Ajedrez Buenos Aires Buenos Aries ‘46 87pp By Miguel Czerniak. 1st= Najdorf & Keres; 3rd= Czerniak & Stahlberg; 5th= Frydman & Guimard. 12 competed. 66 annotated games with diagrams. Small photos of a few players. X-table. Indexes of openings & players. £22.00 Pictorial card covers. Foreword by Luis Palau. LN 5601 VG+

1939 Bad Oeynhousen 1939 Lachaga ‘72 1st Eliskases; 2nd Lokvenc; 3rd Gilg; 4th= Kohler & Rellstab. 16 competed. 64pp 120 games annotated by Becker, Meistern & players. Foreword by M. £15.00 Lachaga. X-table & fully indexed. Ltd. edition of 390 copies. Cream card covers. VG+

1939/4 Euwe vs Keres Amsterdam ‘40 They played a 14 game match, won by the Russian 7½-6½. 63pp This is the official report on the match, compiled by Euwe. Notable for the £15.00 preponderance of the Ruy Lopez. Pictorial card covers. LN 5135. Brown spots on page edges o/w G-

1940 New York – US Championship by J. Hilbert Caissa 2002 A first-rate tournament book for a strong US Championship in which Reshevsky just edged out Fine by 1/2 point. Kashdan was 3rd followed by Pinkus, Simonson, Denker, Kupchik, Bernstein, Polland, Reinfeld, Shainswit, Adams, Seidman, Green, Hanauer, Woliston, and Littman. Notes £35.00 209p to most of the 136+ games are from contemporary sources, and Fritz 7 checked many of the critical positions. Good photos along with some games from the qualifying sections, brief biographies of the players plus some of their games from other events. Red cloth boards in Caissa Editions’ usual pleasing style. F+.

1941 Munich by Alberto Becker Argentina 1946 1st Stoltz: 2nd= Alekhine & Lundin. Pub. by Editorial Grabo. 120 annotated games. X-table. Original book by M.A. Lachaga was

professionally rebound in blue buckram-covered boards with bright gilt titles, 198p £28.00 but original paper inside is low wartime quality and has browned throughout LN 5626 o/w G+.

1941 Mar del Plata 1941 by Luis Palau Argentina 1941 1st Stahlberg; 2nd Najdorf; 3rd Eliskases; 4th= Engels & Frydman; 6th Czerniak ahead of 12 others inc. Sonja Graf. 298p 153 games annotated by Stahlberg, Najdorf, Eliskases & Czerniak, with £40.00 diagrams. X-tables & fully indexed. Good b&w photos of groups & the top players, named. Pictorial card covers. LN 5625. Signed by the author on title page “Luis Palau”.. Paper has browned with age o/w G-

1941 USSR Championship - Leningrad – Moscow. London 1950 translated by S. Garry from Botvinnik’s book. 6 man tournament. 1st Botvinnik; 2nd Keres; 3rd Smyslov; 4th Boleslavsky; 5th Lilienthal; 6th Bondarevsky. 1st English translation. 60 annotated games with diagrams. X- £9.50 186p table. Intro by Botvinnik offers interesting insights into the informal politics of the match. Red cloth boards with gilt title on spine. Some spotting on the endpapers o/w G

1941 6 Notables Maestros by S. Belawenetz & M Judowitsch Ed Grabo ‘41 Argentina’s take on the 6-man USSR Championship. Photos of Botvinnik, 118p Keres & Smyslov in action & the playing hall. All 60 games annotated with diagrams. X-table. Errata slip. Pictorial card covers. LN 5622

1942 Mar del Plata Quinto Torneo Internacional De Ajedrez by Dr. Karel Skalicka & Argentina 1946 Milciades A. Lachaga. Circulo La Regance 1st Najdorf; 2nd= Pilnik & Stahlberg ahead of 15 others inc. Pelikan, Guimard & Czerniak.153 game scores. X-tables & fully indexed. Cream card covers. 65pp Typescript. Limited edition of which this is No. 89. LN 5632. Insc. “With £40.00 many compliments – Buenos Aires – May 15th of 1946 – Milciades A. Lachaga”. G

1942 Salzburg 1942 by K. Whyld Whyld 1962 1st Alekhine; 2nd Keres; 3rd Junge; 4th Schmidt; 5th Bogoljubow; 6th Stoltz. 6 20pp competed. Indexes of games & openings. All game scores. Ltd. Edition of 200 copies of which this is No. 93. Typescript. Card covers. G £10.00

1942 Prag 1942 (in German) Lachaga ‘73 1st Alekhine; 2nd Junge; 3rd Foltys; 4th=Opocensky & Zita. 6th Kottnauer. 12 60pp competed. All 66 games annotated by Becker & Meistern. X-table & fully £14.00 indexed. Ltd edition of 350 copies. Orange card covers; VG

1943 Salzburg 1943 & the encounters between Keres & Alekhine Lachaga ‘74 1st= Alekhine & Keres; 3rd Schmidt; 4th Bogoljubow; 5th Foltys & 6th Rellstab. All 30 games annotated. Foreword by M. Lachaga. The 2nd section contains 54pp 14 annotated games played between Keres & Alekhine from 1935 – ’43. Card covers. Ltd. Ed. of 320 copies. In German. VG+ £15.00

1943 Mar del Plata 1943 Sexto Torneo Internacional De Ajedrez. Buenos Aires’43 by Dr. K. Skalicka & Milciades A. Lachaga Editado Por El Circulo La Regence (in Spanish) 1st Najdorf; 2nd Stahlberg; 3rd Michel; 4th Rossetto; 5th Pilnik; 6th= Czerniak, Guimard & Pelikan ahead of 6 others. 91 annotated games. X-tables & fully indexed. Good b&w group photo with all 14 players identified. Neat inscription inside front cover reads thus :- “To

Baruch H. Wood Esq., M.Sc. F.C.S. Reciprocating your kind regards and £40.00 60pp wishes please accept this modest work from which I hope you will derive full enjoyment. Milciades A. Lachaga Xmas 1943.” Ltd edition of which this is No. 019. LN 5639. Pale brown card covers. VG+

1943 Prag 1943 (in German) Lachaga ‘74 1st Alekhine; 2nd Keres; 3rd Kotov; 4th= Foltys & Sajtar. 20 competed. 82pp Foreword by M. A. Lachaga. X-table. Indexes of players & openings. All £16.00 198 game scores in AN. Card covers. Ltd. edition of 320 copies. VG+

1944 Mar Del Plata 1944 Septimo Torneo Internacional De Ajedrez. by Dr. K. Skalicka & Milciades A. Lachaga 1st= Najdorf & Pilnik; 3rd= Guimard & Michel; 5th Stahberg ahead of 11 others. 120 annotated games with diagrams. X-tables & fully indexed. Editado Por El Circulo La Regence. Possible limited edtion of which this is 104p No. 20. Inscription “To my dear friend Baruch H. Wood with best £40.00 compliments Bs Aires – 25 – X - 44 Milciades A. Lachaga. Additionally, both authors have signed beneath their printed name on the title page. Pictorial cover. LN5650. VG+

1945 Quilmes 1945 – Segundo Torneo Internacional De Ajedraz Argentina ‘47 1st Stahlberg; 2nd= Czerniak; Leteller; Reinhardt & Skalicka. 8 competed. 46pp Preface by Dr. Karel Skalicka. 28 annotated games. X-table. Index of openings. Ltd. Edition of which this is No. 139. LN 5665. Published by the £30.00 Circulo La Regence – Buenos Aires. Card covers with fading on spine o/w G+

1945 Ventnor City Invitational Championship, New Jersey. Jack Spence Spence Limited Editions Vol. XXX Only 125 copies were produced of 41 pp which this is copy no.20. 1st Weaver W. Adams; 2nd Santasiere. 45 games lightly annotated. Blue A4 sized card covers. Comb bound Typescript. VG £40.00 Scarce item

1945/6 Weerzien Der Schaakmeesters De wedstrijd te Hastings 1945-1946 by H. Amsterdam 1946 Kmoch & Lod.Prins 1st Tartakower; 2nd Ekström; 3rd= Euwe, Denker & Steiner; 6th Aitken; 7th

Prins; 8th Sir G. A. Thomas; 9th Christoffel; 10th Meises; 11th= Devos & 95pp Sergeant. 70 annotated games some with diagrams. Photos of Tartakower, £22.00 Prins, Euwe & Mieses at the board. HB with attractive coloured front cover. LN 5669. VG+

1945/6 Les Lecons De Hastings et Londres 1945-46 by Euwe L’echequier Belge The Dutchman reviews these 2 English events in French for a Belgian 131p publisher – no wonder he looks a bit confused in his portrait photo. Games £40.00 in AN annotated with diagrams. Distinctive cover design. VG

1946 Groningen International Chess 1949 1st Botvinnik; 2nd Euwe; 3rd Smyslov: 4th= Najdorf & Szabo; 6th= Flohr & Boleslavsky ahead of 13 others. 190 annotated games with diagrams. The 164p early post-war stirrings of international chess. Analyses by Euwe. £27.00 Commentaries by Kmoch. X-table & index. Dark green cloth boards. VG

1946 Bad Harzburg by K. Ebeling & Dr. H. Unruh Goslar 1948 1st Ahues; 2nd= Heinicke & Sämisch; 4th Rellstab; 12 competed. 66 annotated games. X-table. V. short item on Carl Ahues (1883 – 1968) with 111p his tournament record. £18.00 LN 5682. Card covers with half of the pp yellowing. o/w G

1946 Praga 1946 by Dr. Carlos Skalicka Buenos Aires ‘50 1st Najdorf, 2nd= Stoltz & Trifunovic; 4th= Foltys & Gligoric; 6th Golombek. 60pp 91 annotated games. X-table. Indexes of players & openings. Good small photos of players in action, & scarce ones of Karel Treybal & Vera £20.00 Menchick. LN 5696. Card covers fading near spine o/w G

1946 Prague by H. Golombek Chess (‘51) 1st Najdorf. Pachman, Gligoric & Kottnauer also played. 91 annotated gms. 115p AN Not in LN or Betts. signed £30.00 “H. Golombek” below his printed name on the title page. VG

1946 Barcelona International by Rafael Llorens Barcelona ‘46 1st Najdorf; 2nd Yanofsky; 3rd= Guimard & Medina; 5th Albareda; 7th= Llorens; O’Kelly & Perez. 14 competed inc. Gabriel Wood a rare 220p appearance internationally. 91 games annotated, with diagrams. Small photos of the players. Errata slip pasted in. LN 5672. Paper pictorial covers £40.00 rubbed around edges o/w VG

1946 Moscow v. Prague Chess 1946 6 player match, the 1st half played in Moscow, with colours reversed in 60pp Prague. 72 game scores in figurine, some with diagrams. Fully indexed. £9.50 Blue/green card covers.

1946 Nottingham British Championship & Congress Wood ed. et al Chess 1946 1st Robert Combe - the biggest upset in the history of the event. 66 156p Championship gms annotated by Imre König & 80 others. Gms in figurine. £15.00 Photos. Tables of all sections. Ex Libris plate. LN5693. VG

1946 London: the “Sunday Chronicle” Chess Tournament Chess (‘46) Section A: 1st Steiner; Section B: 1st Euwe. 132 game scores in AN. Many photos & evocative cartoons of competitors playing in hats, coats & scarves 106p in the bitter January weather, as the building’s heating system broke down. £10.00 Article on the Spanish prodigy, ‘Boy’ Pomar, who was something of a sensation at the time. LN 5687 VG

1946 London 1946 Limited Edition of Tournament Books No. 16 Cordingly Another of Cordingly’s pioneering works, in which he starts with a 2 page litany of the problems he encountered with the production of this item. 132 games with notes provided by the players & other sources on the facing pages. Fully indexed. X-table for both sections, which show that Pomar, for 90 pp all his boyish charms & innocent looks, put Prins, Fairhurst, Dr. List & Broadbent to the sword. £35.00 3 lists of Foundation, New and Special subscribers, all individually numbered, which show that No 35 (which this item is) was owned by A. C. Smith of London. Blue cloth boards. Large pages (Quarto 25X25.5cm). G

1946 London 1946 Another copy No. 244 but no name supplied. G £35.00

1946 The Anglo-Soviet Radio Chess Match by E. Klein & W. Winter Pitman 1947 Photos of all players on both teams with mini biographies of each. Also behind-the-scenes activities. All 24 games with clock times, annotated by 119pp Ernst Klein. Small but quality production. Pictorial DW in protective cover. £20.00 VG+

1946 Groningen 1946 Het Staunton Wereldschaaktournooi by Euwe & Niemeier ’47 Kmoch ??? The original tournament book of the 1st big post-war event with 20 players of whom were 1st Botvinnik; 2nd Euwe; 3rd Smyslov; 4th= Najdorf & Szabo. All 190 games annotated with diagrams. X-table. Fully indexed. Good 391p individual photos of each player, plus 37 photos of “the action” on & off the £50.00 board. Royal blue cloth boards with titles in bright gilt. LN 5677. Some pale marks to cloth o/w VG

1946 “Staunton” International Tournament at Groningen Ed. Olms 1990 Facsimile of the original tournament book (but in German) . 190 games 382p fully annotated. Photos of all 20 players, taken from the original tournament book. Dark blue cloth boards with gilt titles behind the DW. AN F £20 .00

1946 Prague by Harry Golombek Chess 1947? 1st Najdorf; 2nd= Stoltz Trifunovic. 4th= Foltys & Gligoric. 14 competed. X- table. 91 games annotated by Golombek who had some insight into the 115pp problems & backgrounds of other players. In AN with diagrams. Signed “H. £40.00 Golombek” on the title page. Maroon cloth boards. VG

1946/7 Hastings Schaakcitadel 1946- 1947 by H. Kmoch & Lod Prins Amsterdam ‘47 The original edition which B. H. Wood adapted for his own English edition. The few corrections here may be his own notes for the typesetter, e.g. an 97pp index to where the games may be found is only in the UK version. However, this is HB with a pleasingly designed pictorial front cover. 14 small photos of £18.00 previous winners. 45 games + 16 games by previous champions 1st ed. LN 5701 VG.

1946/7 Hastings Congress 1946-47 by Kmoch & Prins Chess 96pp 45 games & 14 small photos of previous champions in Wood’s more utilitarian edition. SB LN 5702 £12.00

1947 Orszagos Magyar Sakkbajnoksag (Hungarian Chess Championship) Kecskemet ‘48 By Barcza & Szily. 1st Barcza 2nd= Benko & Szily 4th= Laszlo & Szabo 68pp ahead of 10 others. X-tables. 54 annotated games with diagrams. Rd-by- Rd pairings with results; openings; no. of moves. Short notes on all the £22.00 players. LN5705. Pleasingly bound in HB with titles in bright gilt on spine. VG+ Scarce item

1947 Mar Del Plata 1947 – 10th Torneo Internacional de Maestros Editorial Grabo ‘47 March – April by Arnaldo Ellerman 1st Najdorf; 2nd Stahlberg; 3rd A. Eliskases; 4th Pilnik; 5th= Euwe & Bolbochan. 18 competed. 153 games. Consists of a series of 7 monthly 340p issues of the magazine El Ajedrez Argentino in which the main focus is this £22.00 tournament, and all bound into one book. Group photo (loose) with all 18 players inc. Euwe, Najdorf, Eliskases et al. X-table. Index of openings. Ltd edition of which this is No. 112. LN 5712 SB G.

1947 Mar Del Plata - Torneo Sextangular Buenos Aires – La Plata Ed Grabo ‘47 April – May by Arnaldo Ellerman The 6 players were:- 1st Stahlberg; 2nd Najdorf; 3rd Eliskases; 4th Euwe; 5th Pilnik 6th Rossetto; 5th & 6th Rossetto. All 30 games. X-table. Index of 190p players. Photos of Stahlberg playing Euwe. Index of players. LN 5706. DW £22.00 over pink card covers. Paper yellowing. o/w G. Scarce item. The above 2 tournaments clearly ran back-to-back.

1947 101 Partien Van Het Europees Schaaktournooi Te Hilversum In 1947 (The European Zonal Tournament in July) by Euwe & Eggink FIDE’s 1st move to put the world championship on a proper footing. 1st 208p O’Kelly; 2nd= Pachman & Trifunovic; 4th van Scheltinga; 5th= Alexander & Szabo. 14 competed. Group photo, individuals identified by number. 101 games annotated by Euwe in AN with diagrams. X-table. Insc. Red cloth £40.00 boards with gilt titles. VG. LN5708

1948 The World Chess Championship 1948 by Golombek 1st ed. Bell 1949 The 1st championship to be decided by a tournament as opposed to a 227pp match. Botvinnik won ahead of Smyslov, Reshevsky, Keres & Euwe. 50 £12.00 annotated gms & biographies of contestants. DW VG

1948 The World Chess Championship 1948 by Golombek 1st ed. Bell 1949 Another copy. some foxing to endpapers. Insc. “J. A. Fuller”.o/w G £9.00

1948 Campeonato Mundial La Haya – Moscu 1948 by M. Czerniak. Buenos Aires (The Hague – Moscow) 1948 A small contribution to the wealth of literature on this 2-parter World ??? Championship qualifier, which doesn’t appear in the list of 15 titles on the 24pp event listed in LN. 5 competed – 1st Botvinnik; 2nd Smyslov; 3rd= Keres & Reshevsky. 5th Euwe. All 20 games annotated, some with diagrams. Blue £15.00 this card covers. Yellowing paper. Scarce. G-

1948 Tournooiboek XV1th Kampioenschap van Rusland. 16th Russian Championship 1st = Bronstein & Kotov; 3rd Furman; 4th Flohr; 5th Tolush; 6th = Keres & ??? Bondarevsky. Taimanov last! 19 competed. 171 games. Round-by-round 72pp summaries. X-table. Text is all Dutch, but no indication as to who wrote or £20.00 published it. LN 5751. HB G+

1948 Mar Del Plata Viamonte ‘48 1st Eliskases; 2nd Stahlberg; 3rd Garcia; 4th= Najdorf & Rossetto. 18 competed. Composed of a sequence of El Ajedrez Agentino magazines 240 p bound as a book.The 2nd part (64pp) covers the World Championship (304pp in total). Small photos of the players esp. Pomar showing off his 1st pair of long trousers. Card covers

1949 Carl Schlecter Gedenkturnier (Memorial) Vienna 1949 1st= Foltys & Puc; 3rd= Kottnauer, Opocensky, Platt & Rabar. 14 competed. 64pp X-table. LN 5787. All 91 games annotated. Small format. Brown printed £18.00 card covers.

1950 Budapest: FIDE Candidates Tournament. Cordingly ‘51 Ltd. Edition of Tournament Books by Cordingly No. 18 1st= Bronstein & Boleslavsky; 3rd Smyslov; 4th Keres; 5th Najdorf; 6th Kotov; 7th Stahlberg; 8th Flohr; 9th Lilienthal/ 10th Szabo. Bronstein won the play-off. 90pp Explanatory intro by the Editor. 90 game scores. Notes by Golombek £40.00 abridged from BCM. List of subscribers to this ltd. edition, of which this is No. 140. Green cloth boards with title in gilt on cover. VG

1950 Venice 1950 by A. A. Kotov Moscow 1952 1st Kotov; 2nd Smyslov; 3rd Rossolimo; 4th Pachman; 5th= Wade, Steiner & 267p Letelier. 16 competed, including Golombek, who reported for BCM. Reshevsky & Najdorf declined their invites after demanding 4 figure sums. X-table. 120 annotated games with diagrams. Blue cloth-backed printed £20.00 boards. 120 games LN.5817 VG p- 1950 Wereldschaak- Toernooi - Amsterdam 1950 by Euwe & Prins Lochem 1951 1st Najdorf; 2nd Reshenvsky; 3rd Stahlberg; 4th= Gligoric & Pirc ahead of 15 280p others. 1st ed. with original brown cloth boards & bright gilt titles. 4 clear b&w photos. 190 annotated games with diagrams. LN 5791 F £45.00

1950 Tournooi – Bulletins – Amsterdam 1950 Schaakmat ‘50 All items from the monthly Schaakmat magazine reprinted and bound in red 80pp cloth boards with just the bare title on the cover. All game scores, some with £18.00 notes. 3 photos. LN 5792. Paper yellowing o/w G+

1951 Wertheim Memorial Tournament - New York 1951 by Dr. M. Euwe Hilversum 1st Reshevsky; 2nd= Euwe & Najdorf; 4th Fine; 5th Evans; 6th= Byrne & 64pp Horowitz; followed by Guimard, O’Kelly, Bisguier, Kramer & Shainswit. Played at the Manhattan C. C. All games annotated in AN with diagrams. X- table. Bound in royal blue cloth boards with bright gilt titles. Considering the entry & venue this event seems to have been little reported £30.00 outside the US. Spence did one of his home-made limited editions, but nothing on a par with Euwe’s book. Hence a scarce item. Small but perfectly formed. F

1951 The World Chess Championship 1951 by Winter & Wade 1st ed. Turnstile ‘51 133p Botvinnik vs Bronstein. 24 annotated gms with diagrams. 2 photos. DW VG £12.50

1951 The World Chess Championship 1951 by Winter & Wade 1st ed. Turnstile ‘51 Another copy with front endpaper excised o/w VG £10.00

1951 World Chess Championship 1951 - Botvinnik v Bronstein. 1st ed. Turnstile ‘51 133p 24 gms analysed by authors Winter & Wade who was present throughout and gave eye witness reports. 4 photos. Slight foxing on DW and £12.50 endpapers o/w VG

1951 World Chess Championship 1951 - Botvinnik v Bronstein. 1st ed. Turnstile ‘51 133pp Another copy missing DW G+ £10.00

1951 Budapest - A VII Magyar Sakkbajnoksag (7th Hungarian Championship) by Jeno Sakkelet ‘51 Ban LN 5821 1st Barcza; 2nd Szabo; ahead of Benko, Florian, Hajtun et al. 22 player all- 117pp play-all. 231 game scores in figurine, some with diagrams. X-table. Fully indexed. Original white card covers with 3 chips. o/w G- £15.00

1951 60 Years In The Same Room - A History of the Paignton Congress 1951 – Keverel 20 2011. 60 games – 1 from every year with 80 photographs, 4 in colour & 10 portraits of Paignton Personalities. Also a 200 yr. history of the Singer family, whose former £5.00 157pp home hosted this event. . SB F+

1952 Budapest 1952 – Maroczy Memorial Tournament by Golombek BCM 1st Keres; 2nd Geller 3rd= Botvinnik, Smyslov & Stahlberg. 153 games 84pp annotated in AN. X-tables SB G £15.00

1952 Hollywood International pub. California Chess Reporter 1952 1st Gligoric; 2nd Pomar; 3rd Steiner; 4th= Dake & Joyner. 45 game scores, 62pp most with analysis & diagrams.. X-tables. 9 “action photos” by Nancy Roos. £20.00 Typescript. LN 5853 Yellow card covers. VG

1952 Saltsjobaden (Stockholm) II Meduzonski Turnir (2nd Interzonal) Zagreb 1953 1st Kotov; 2nd Petrosian; 3rd Taimanov; 4th Geller; 210 game scores. 1st ed. 72pp A small SB. X-table & fully indexed. Paper browning with age o/w G £6.50

1953 Zurich International Candidates Chess Tournament 1953 Moscow 1960 Bronstein’s original book of the great tournament. 210 annotated games with diagrams. X table. HB. Paper yellowing around the edges as is usual 496p with Soviet paper of the period. o/w G+ HB. Titles in gilt In £10.00 Cyrillic

1953 Zurich International Candidates Chess Tournament 1953 by Bronstein. Dover 1979 Translation of the corrected 2nd Russian (1960) ed. by Jim Marfia. SB 349p 1st Smyslov: 2nd= Bronstein, Keres & Reshevsky. 210 annotated games. SB VG+ £11.00 1953 Zurich International Chess Tournament 1953 Snowball 2012 349p A 2012 reprint of Bronstein’s original (see above) SB F £12.00

1953 The Chess Struggle In Practice - Lessons From The Famous Zurich Batsford 1980 Candidates Tournament 1953 by Bronstein. 1st UK ed. 527pp Trans. Oscar Freedman; Ed. Burt Hochburg. Introduction by Max Euwe. DW VG+ £18.00

1953 World Championship Candidates’ Tournament (Zurich) B. Wood Chess 1954 Smyslov emerged as Botvinnik’s challenger ahead of 14 great names. 210 329p annotated gms. 44 photos. Originally published as supplements to Chess, £12.00 here bound in blue cloth boards. VG-.

1953 Zurich 1953 – 15 Contenders for the World Chess Championship. By M. Russell 2012 Najdorf 392p Intro by Averbakh; Foreword by Soltis. All games in figurine annotated with diagrams. Indexes of players & openings. Photos & short biographies of all players. X-table. SB VG+ £12.00

1953 World Championship Candidates by W. Winter & D. Hooper Gillam ‘53 210 games most with notes by the authors. Intro & overview by Winter. 96pp Probably the first publication on the market of this event. Certainly an early £20.00 title from The Chess Player. Large format. Typescript. Original card covers. LN 5871 VG

1953 World Championship Candidates by W. Winter & D. Hooper Whyld ‘53 96pp Identical to previous item, and as both publishers lived in Nottingham at the time, it seems Whyld handed over production to the new kid on the block.

1953 Budapest. A IX Magyar Sakkbajnoksag (9th Hungarian Champ), Kecskemet ‘54 by Laszlo. Szabo 120 games, mostly annotated & a few diagrams. 1st Sandor; 2nd Kluger; 3rd= 128p Barcza & Tipary. White card covers with blind-stamped design. X-tables of 3 previous tournaments in this series. VG £18.00

1954 Ninth Biennial United States Championship - New York Jack Spence Spence Limited Editions Vo. X111. Only 100 copies were produced of 38pp which this is No. 97. 1st Bisguier 2nd Larry Evans. 91 games some lightly £40.00 annotated. X-tables Blue A4 sized card covers. Comb bound Typescript. VG scarce.

1954 2nd Hollywood Pan-American Championship Jack Spence Spence Limited Editions Vol. X1V Only 130 copies were produced of which this is No. 25. 1st Bisguier; 2nd Larry Evans; 3rd Rossolimo. 145 games some 35pp annotated. X-tables Blue A4-sized card covers. Comb bound Typescript. £40.00 VG scarce item

1954 IIIrd International Student Chess Tournament – Oslo. Prague 1954 1st /10 Czechoslovakia; 2nd Soviet Union 4th England. 7 photos inc. one of Peter Clarke as a student. 18 annotated games with diagrams. This is 46pp thought to be the 1st of what was to become a series of booklets by Sajtar of £20.00 this annual event, so will be the scarcest of this collectible series. In English. SB. VG.

1954 World Chess Championship 1954 (Moscow) by Golombek 1st ed. 1954 McGibbon All 24 gms between Botvinnik & Smyslov annotated by the author after 166pp consultation with the players, who provided foreword & postscript. £12.00 Protected DW VG+

1954 E & N. European Zonal – in Praha – Marianske - Lazne Praha ‘55 1st Pachman; 2nd Szabo; 3rd Sliwa; 4th= Stahlburg & Sliwa. 20 competed. X- 307p table. 190 annotated games most with diagrams. 27 excellent photos. DW. £14.00 VG LN.5885

1954 2nd Zonal Sudamerica Tournament Buenos Aires 1st Panno; 2nd Najdorf; 3rd= Guimard & Pilnik; 5th Eliskases; 22 competed. X- table; 220 game scores. Bulletins for each of the 20 rounds bound together £12.00 between card covers. VG

1954/7 Botvinnik vs Smyslov – 3 World Championship Matches 1954; 1957; 19598 NIC 2009 287p 69 games in total all annotated by Botvinnik, with diagrams. “The pinnacle of mid-20th century chess”. SB VG+

1955 Johannesburg International 20th RSA Championship. Capetown ‘55 1st Heidenfeld; 2nd Meuring; 3rd Euwe. 8 competed. X-table. 28 games 44pp annotated by the authors, Heidenfeld & Dreyer. Group photo with all £20.00 identified. Grey card covers. Staples rusting o/w VG+

1955 IInd World Student Championship - Lyons Prague 1955 63pp 1st USSR (Taimanov; Spassky; Antoshin; Suetin) Games with notes, diagrams, tables & photos. PB with staples rusting o/w G+ £25.00

1955 Gothenburg FIDE Interzonal. 1st Bronstein; 2nd Keres; 3rd Panno; 4th Petrosian; 5th Geller; 6th= Spassky, 66pp Pilnik & Filip. 210 game scores in AN & typescript. Photos of the 1st 4. Cloth-backed boards with title on spine i.e.Interzonala Turneringen 1 £18.00 Göteborg 1955.

1955 22nd USSR Championship by H. Golombek BCM 1955 1st= Smyslov & Geller & Geller won the 7 game tie-break. X-tables for the 3 regional semi finals in Erevan, Gorky & Leningrad are 91pp given, and 197 games from the 20 man final. Frustratingly for future £18.00 generations, the book gives no information about the month, year or venue and neither does BCM in its 3 reports on the event. AN Blue card covers. Typescript. . VG

1955 U.S.S.R. vs Hungary Chess 1955 Teams of 4 picked from pools of 5. Bronstein; Keres; Petrosian; Ilivitsky & 24pp Mikenas against Szabo; Barcza; Benko; Bilek & Kluger. The Russians £8.00 winning 20-12. 32 game scores in figurine. Index of openings. Red card covers, Small format. AN VG

1955 Höechst am Main - German Chess Championship Hoechst 1956 1st Darga; 2nd Lothar Schmidt; 3rd Pieffer ahead of 13 others. 120 annotated games most with diagrams. X-table & fully indexed. 2 b&w group photos, 1 94pp formal & 1 informal. & one of Darga at the board. Cream card covers with £15.00 pictorial DW Numbered 782. VG+

1955 Another copy – with . cream card covers Numbered 911. VG+ £12.00

1956 IIIrd World Student Championship – Uppsala, Sweden Prague 1956 1st Group 1 USSR; 1st Group 2 Iceland. Games with notes, diagrams, 56pp tables & photos. PB with staples rusting o/w VG £25.00

1955 Trophy Chess – The 1st Rosenfeld Tournament New York Scribner’s 1st Reshevsky; 2nd Evans; 3rd Biguier; 4th D. Byrne; 5th Sherwin; 6th Kramer. 115p All 30 games annotated by Evans, with diagrams. 5 photos of the action. Cream cloth boards, with some fading o/w internally VG+ £18.00

1955/6 2nd & 3rd Rosenwald Trophy Chess - New York 1955-56 J. Spence ‘58 Reviews the 4 Rosenwald trophy tournaments, giving all X-tables, but White Castle concentrates on the 2nd & 3rd events with 66 annotated games. The 2nd Press ‘58 100p finished 1st=.Bisguier & Evans; 3rd Reshevsky. The 3rd finished 1st Reshevsky, 2nd Bisguier; 3rd Feuerstein. Fischer was 8th/12. Cream cloth £20.00 boards, with some fading o/w internally VG+

1956 Mar Del Plata 19th International Tournament 1st= Najdorf & Julio Bolbochan; 3rd= Eliskases & Sanguinetti; 5th Jacobi 66pp Bolbochan. 17 competed. 136 game scores. This is a series of round-by- round bulletins stapled together as one booklet. PB VG £5.00

1957 4th World Student Championship – Reykjavik, Iceland. Prague 1957 59pp 1st USSR (Tal; Spassky; Polugajevski; Gurgenidze). 9th England; (Persitz; Martin: Davis; Gray). PB with annotated games, tables, photos etc. £22.00 PB VG

1957 World Chess Championship 1957 (Moscow) by Golombek 1st ed. McGibbon 144pp All games. Exact repeat of the 1954 final: same venue, players, author, publisher, book format and result. HB VG £12.00

1957 World Chess Championship 1957 Another copy with nibbled DW; tape marks on endpapers & some light foxing on page edges. o/w G £10.00

1957 24th USSR Championships by P. H. Clarke BCM Quarterly No. 1 BCM 1st Tal: 2nd Bronstein; 3rd Keres; 4th Spassky. 251 games scores annotated 120p to varying depths. X-charts of the 3 preceding semi-finals. BCM Quarterly £24.00 No. 1 Card covers. AN VG+

1957 Dallas 1957 by Jack Spence Gillam 1st= Gligoric & Reshevsky. 3rd= Larsen & Szabo. 5th Yanofsky; 6th Olafsson; 20pp 7th Najdorf; 8th Evans. 56 games scores with a few inter-round comments. X-tables. SB. Large format. Typescript. G Scarce item £10.50

1958 Smyslov – Botvinnik – The Return Match by Botvinnik Moscow ‘60 After the previous year’s tied match, this was the eagerly anticipated re- match, with Botvinnik probably the underdog until Smyslov lost the 1st 2 136p games. This is the original Russian SB re-bound in thick card. The original £10.00 paper was thin quality. All games annotated with diagrams. G-

1958 Interzonal Tournament Portoroz by Alan S. Russell ISHI 2013 58pp 210 game scores plus round-by-round results.Typescript. F £10.00

1958 Interzonal Tournament Portoroz BCM Quarterly No. 2 BCM 1st Tal; 2nd Gligoric. 3rd= Benko & Petrosian; 5th Fischer – the 15 yr.old 60pp thereby becoming a GM. Intro by A. S. Russell. 210 games scores in £15.00 typescript; SB VG

1958 5th World Student Championship - Golden Sands; Bulgaria Prague 1958 61pp Group A 1st USSR (Tal; Spassky; Gurgenidze; Gipslis); Group B 1st Romania. 25 annotated games with diagrams, lists, photos etc. £22.00 PB VG

1958 59th United States Open Championship - Rochester Minnesota Jack Spence Spence Limited Editions Vol. XX1V. Only 135 copies were produced of 45pp which this is no. 21. 1st Cobo-Arteaga; 2nd= Larry Evans, D. Byrne & Steinmeyer. 178 game scores. X-tables Blue A4 sized card covers. Comb £40.00 bound Typescript. VG Scarce item

1958 Milwaukee Championships, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Jack Spence Spence Limited Edtions Vol. XXV11 Only 200 copies were produced of which this is No. 132. 1st Pal Benko; 2nd Otteson; 3rd D. Byrne. 138 game 35pp scores. X-tables Blue A4 sized card covers. Comb bound. Typescript. £40.00 VG Scarce item

1959 4th Candidates’ Tournament – Bled-Zagreb-Belgrade Golombek Hardinge Originally published as BCM Quarterly No. 3. This edition 2009 with Dr. D. 291p Regis as Editor and much new material; diagrams, indices, charts, photos etc. 1st Tal, 2nd Keres; 3rd Petrosian; 4th Smyslov; 5th Fischer; 6th Gligoric; 7th £12.00 Olafsson; 8th Benko. Signed. SB F-

1959 4th Candidates’ Tournament – Bled-Zagreb-Belgrade Belgrade ‘60 By Gligoric & Ragozin. Good full page photo portraits and amusing 303p caricatures of all players. Many photos & charts. In Cyrillic. The original book of the tournament. HB. Cheap quality paper browning in places and £10.50 endpapers foxed. G-

1959 4th Candidates’ Tournament (Yugoslavia) by Golombek BCM 118p 1st Tal; 2nd Keres; 3rd Petrosian. 112 annotated gms. PB VG £10.00

1959 Candidates Tournament Bled:: Zagreb :: Beograd 1959 Ed. Olms ‘87 320p Facsimile of the German edition of the Gligoric & Ragozin work. Blue buckram boards with bright gilt titles. F £15.00

1959 Candidates Tournament Bled:: Zagreb :: Beograd The Russian edition – originally SB but a HB added by previous owner. 303p Original charts, photos & amusing caricatures retained. In Cyrillic. G- £6.50

1959 Bognor Regis – The 7th Stevenson Memorial by Fishlock-Lomax 1959 56pp “The Top Ten” 100 games. 1st= Gereben & Mardle; 3rd Karaklaic; 4th= 66pp Crepinsek, Pritchard & Bob Wade. 56 competed, including such as Hollis, £10.00 Eileen Tranmer, Ann Sunnucks & Elaine Pritchard, Hindle et al. Scores but no notes or diagrams. Green card covers. Scarce item.

1959 York Chess Congress & British Championship 1959 Chess 63pp 1st Penrose after 3-way play-off. All 178 game scores + several photos. X- table SB VG £9.00

1959 VIth World Student Chess Championship – Budapest by Sajtar Prague Teams of 4. 1st Bulgaria; 2nd USSR; 3rd Hungary. England led by Penrose & 66pp Clarke. Round-by-round summaries + annotated gms. Photos, diagrams & £20.00 X-tables. PB AN VG

1960 Sarajevo International Chess Tournament. 1960 Official Bulletin Sarajevo 1st= Pachman & Puc. Larsen & Pirc also played. 66 gms. Loose errata slip 23pp included. Some marginalia. PB AN G £5.00

1960 38th Argentinian Championship – Buenos Aires Viamonte 1st Najdorf; 2nd Bolbochan; 3rd Pelikan; 4th Schweber; 20 competed. X-table; 86pp 193 games – no diagrams or notes. Index of games. Errata page; Typescript. Blue card covers G £12.00

1960 Tal – Botvinnik 1960 Match for the World Championship by Tal Interstate 1970 Tal’s own story of his victory over the Champion, trans. by H. Russell. All 187p gms annotated & background insights. SB spine rubbed o/w £10.00 G

1960 Moskau (in German) Lachaga ‘75 1st= Cholmov & Smyslov; 3rd Korchnoi; 4th Bagirov; 12 competed. 66 annotated games. X-table & fully indexed. Rd-by round 42pp scores. Foreword by M. A. Lachaga. £15.00 Ltd. edition of 325 copies. Blue card covers. 2 rusty staples o/w VG

Another copy with more wear to card covers.0/w basically intact. £8.00

1960 7th World Student Championship by Sajtar Prague Played in Leningrad (led by Spassky). 1st USA (led by Lombardy); 2nd 68pp USSR. Same book formula as previous year. PB AN VG £20.00

1960 VII Championnat Du Monde Universitaire D’Echecs Prague 68pp As above, but in French £20.00

1960 Tal-Botvinnik World Championship Match by Tal USA 1970 188p All 20 games from the match, won by Tal, plus 53 supplementary ones. PB VG £10.00

1961 Bled: Grand International Jubilee Tournament. Bulletin. The 30th anniversary of Alekhine’s great win here in similar circumstances. This time it was 1st Tal; 2nd Fischer; 3rd= Petrosian, Keres, Gligoric; 6th= Geller & Trifunovic; others included Bisguier, Donner, Najdorf, Ivkov, Portisch & Pachman. 20 competed. The draw for the 18 rounds comes 1st followed by 182 game scores in typescript, proably done on a daily basis.

1960 1 Hastings International BCM 42pp 1st Gligoric 2nd Bondarevsky. 45 game scores & X-tables for all sections. SB typescript. VG+ £10.00

1961 Botvinnik vs Tal – Return Match for the World Championship. Ed. Olms 126p By Igor Botvinnik. All games in figurine & annotated with diagrams & match table. PB VG+ £10.00

1961 8th World Student Team Championship - Helsinki by Sajtar Prague 1st USSR (Stein; Bagirov; Gufeld; Hodos). 2nd USA (Lombardy; Weinstein; 70pp Sherwin; Mednis). 26 annotated games & 30 photos, plus charts, lists, etc. £20.00 AN PB VG+

1961 2nd Israeli International M. Czerniak 58pp 1st Matulovic; 2nd Trifunovic; 3rd M. Czerniak. 91 lightly annotated games, some with diagrams. Small b&w photos of players inc. Raaphy Persitz who £10.00 signed the cover. PB G-

1961 Mar Del Plata 1st Najdorf; 2nd= Byrne, Filip, Matanovic & Rossetto. 31 entered. 96 game £5.00 scores in AN. PB 1961 Another copy with cover intact but scuffed G £15.00

1962 30th U.S.S.R. Championship - Erevan by Leonard Barden Gillam 1st Korchnoi; 2nd Taimanov; 3rd Tal; 4th Holmov; 5th Spassky; 6th Stein. 20 90pp £6.50 competed. 190 gms with intros to most. pp.1&2 loose. Card covers. o/w G

1962 25th Latino Americano International - Mar Del Plata 1st Polugayevsky; 2nd= Smyslov & Szabo; 4th= D. Byrne; Sanguinetti, 103p Najdorf. 16 played inc. Penrose. 135 games. X-table. Typescript on green £12.00 paper held with clip binder. G

1962 9th World Student Team Championship - Marianski Lazne by Sajtar Prague Group A: 1st USSR (Spassky; Gufeld; Bagirov;Savon). Group B 1st Holland 92pp 2nd England. 25 annotated games, 31 photos, plus lists, charts, diagrams £20.00 etc. AN PB VG

1963 Botvinnik vs Petrosian World Championship by M. M. Botvinnik NIC 2010 A new champion is crowned, and Botvinnik reveals his mindset throughout 142p the match. All 22 games annotated by both men. SB VG+ £12.00

1963 VM- Botvinnik – Petrosian by A. Hildebrand Sweden ‘63 22 Annotated games. Comments based on those by a range of observers, inc. Keres, Bronstein, Flohr, Euwe, Kotov, Tal, et al. The challenger won the 82pp match 5-2 with the rest drawn, and a new World Champion was born. £12.00 Green card covers. Typescript. VG.

1963 Leningrad – 31st USSR Championship BCM 196 games. 1st= Stein, Spassky, & Cholmov. X-tables of all events from 95pp 1931 – 1963. Typescript. Figurine AN. PB VG £10.00

1963 First Piatigorsky Cup - Los Angeles Edited by Kashdan. 1st ed. Ward Richie 1st= Keres & Petrosian; 3rd= Najdorf & Olafsson; 5th Reshevsky; 6th Gligoric. 7th= Benko & Panno. All 56 games annotated by Reshevsky et al. X-table. 204p Fully indexed. 16 b&w photos. A superior publication as befits the event. Pale spotting on the leading edges of the red cloth front £30.00 & back o/w F

1963 First Piatigorsky Cup - Los Angeles Gillam 1st= Keres & Petrosian. 56 games annotated by Owen Hindle. SB AN 64pp typescript. X-table. A few notes on inside of front cover o/w G. £6.50

1963 U.S.S.R Championsip & Zonal team selection. 1st Spassky; 2nd= Stein & Bronstein; 4th Kholmov; 5th= Korchnoi & Suetin. 44pp 7th Geller. Although ultimately Stein was declared USSR Champion. 42 £2.25 games in typescript & AN a few with annotations. Small PB stapled. G-

1964 The Kecskemet Zonal Hungary ‘64 1st Tringov; 2nd Bilek; 3rd= Pachman & Matanovic; Peter Clarke 7th. X-table. 48pp 120 game scores in typescript & AN. White card covers. £3.00

1964 XVI Chess Olympiad – Tel Aviv ICF 1966 1st USSR 2nd Yugoslavia 3rd German F. R. (How things have changed!). 165 games. 38 photos. The significance of hosting this prestigious event 184p was not lost on the Israelis and they put every effort into the organisation £36.00 and this memorial book which is a quality production as these things go. Grey cloth covered boards with gilt titles. VG+

1964 16th Olympiad Tel Aviv Belgrade ‘65 166p Typescript on green paper. 364 games. AN. X-table. Hard covers. G £4.50

1964 Buenos Aires 1964 (in German) Lachaga ‘70 1st= Keres & Petrosian; 3rd R. Byrne; 4th Najdorf; 5th= Eliskases & Guimard. 90pp 153 games annotated by Becker, Meiden & players. Forword by M. A. Lachaga. Rd-by-round scores. X-table & fully indexed. Ltd edition of 280 £15.00 copies. Grey card covers. VG+

1964 Malaga 1964 – 4th “Costa Del Sol International 24pp 1st Pomar; 2nd= Portisch & Lengyel; 12 competed. 66 games in typescript. X-table; Pink card covers. G- £8.00

1964 11th World Student Team Championship - Krakow by Sajtar Prague Group A 1st USSR (Pele; Chodos; Savon; Kapengut). Group B 1st Romania; 2nd England (Hollis; Rumens; Lee; Richardson). The day off consisted of a 83pp visit to Auschwitz in order to impress young minds. 25 annotated games & £20.00 26 photos. Charts, lists diagrams etc. PB AN VG

1964 Another copy, identical, but in French £20.00

1965 12th World Student Team Championship – Romania by Sajtar Prague Group A 1st USSR (Savon; Hodos; Anoshin; Sipov). Group B: 1st Bulgaria. 81pp 24 annotated games & 27 photos. PB AN VG £20.00

1965 Bognor Regis International BCM 40pp 1st O’Kelly 2nd N. Littlewood. 98 games in AN. 27 small photos. SB VG £10.00

1965 Tallin – 33rd Soviet Championship. + Candidates Final 1st Stein; 2nd Polugayevski; 3rd Taimanov; 4th Furman; 5th Suetin; 6th Keres; 20 competed. Plus all games from Spassky vs Tal in the Candidates; 211 76pp games in all in typescript. No diagrams or notes, but excellent caricatures. £15.00 Blue card covers comb-bound. G

1966 13th World Student Team Championship – Orebro – Sweden by Sajtar Prague Group A – 1st USSR (Savon; Kusmin; Gulko; Tukmakov). 95pp 7th England (Lee; Basman; Hartston; Keene). Group B 1st Sweden. 25 £20.00 annotated games & 40 photos plus charts, lists, diagrams etc. plus results of all previous tournaments in the series. AN PB VG

1966 Second Piatigorsky Cup Santa Monica I. Kashdan 1st ed. Ward Richie 1st Spassky 2nd Fischer. 3rd Larsen; 4th= Portisch & Unzicker; 6th= Petrosian & Reshevsky; 8th Najdorf; 9th Ivkov & 10th Donner. All 90 games annotated 228p by the GMs involved. 14 photos of the players. Green cloth boards with titles on spine & cup design in silver gilt. A superior product as befitted the £40.00 event. F

1966 Second Piatigorsky Cup Santa Monica I. Kashdan ed. Dover 1977 1st Spassky 2nd Fischer. All 90 games annotated by the GMs involved. 14 228p photos of the players. An unabridged republication of the 1st edition. SB £7.50 VG+

1967 Moscow 1967 – 50th Anniversary Tournament Ch. Player ‘67 40pp 1st Stein. All games in AN & typescript. X-table. Summary by Cafferty. £4.75

1967 Leningrad 1967 – 50th Anniversary Tournament. Ch. Player ‘67 1st Korchnoi. 136 game scores. Tells the story of how the Botvinnik 34pp generation had passed by this time, and the drama of how Gideon £4.95 Stahlberg took part in the drawing of lots, but died before play began. Typescript SB AN VG

1967 Sousse International 1967 It carries no indication as to who published this, although it has a pictorial 46pp SB cover. X-table & 241 game scores in typescript. Openings index. £10.00 Scarce item G

1967 Sousse Interzonal 1967 R. G. Wade ed. Ch. Player ‘68 24 players on the World Championship trail. 1st Larsen with Fischer at the 207p centre of much controversy, well documented here. 260 games with £12.00 diagrams & some annotated. Photos. Small format SB VG

1967 14th World Student Team Championship – Harrachov - Czechoslovakia Prague 1st USSR; 2nd USA: 3rd England (Basman;Hartston; Keene & Whiteley). 91pp Annotated games & photos, plus results of all previous years. AN PB VG £20.00

1967 35th USSR Championship 1st= Polugayevski & Tal; 3rd= Vasiukov, Taimanov & Platonov, plus 36 50pp others. 136 game scores in figurine. Small booklet with pictorial card £3.00 covers, stapled. G

1967 35th USSR Championship in Kharkov Belgrade ‘68 1st= Polugaevsky & Tal; 3rd= Vasjukov, Taimanov & Platonov. Small booklet 50pp containing 156 game scores in figurine without analysis or diagrams. Card £2.00 covers VG

1967 Hale 1967 also Monte Carlo 1967 FIDE 1967 Cover bears the FIDE logo and the booklet actually contains 2 tournaments, though only mentions Hale on the cover. 107p Monte Carlo: 1st Fischer; 2nd Smyslov; 3rd= Geller & Larsen. ahead of 6 £12.00 others. 41 game scores. Halle/Saale (Germany) 1st Portisch; 2nd Hort; 3rd= Matulovic & Uhlmann ahead of 16 others. X-tables for both. Typescript; AN Pictorial SB. G+

1967 Dundee Centenary 1967 by R. G. Wade Gillam 1967 1st Gligoric; 2nd= Larsen & Olafsson; 4th= O’Kelly & Penrose; 9 competed. (Pomar withdrew after 3 games due to illness, but the games are included 43pp here). 68 games, some with light notes. X-tables. Typescript. Yellow card £10.00 covers. VG

1967 Mar Del Plata 1967 (in Spanish) Lachaga ‘68 1st Najdorf; 2nd Brond; 3rd De La Vega; 28 competed. 124 games. Rd-by- round results. Foreword by M. A. Lachaga. Ltd edition of 220 copies. Green card covers. 2 rusty staples o/w VG £10.00

1968 Candidates Matches 1960 Gillam 1970 245p All games analysed by experts at the time. Good photos & better cartoons of players. SB G+ £7.25

1968 15th World Student Team Championship - Austria Prague The written records are becoming more substantial as the years go by and 98pp this one continues that process – familiar in design but more games, photos £20.00 & analysis. England comprised Hartston, Keene; Whiteley; Wright & Patterson. PB AN VG

1968 11th Sarajevski Sahovski Turni Sarajevo 39pp 1st= Ciric & Lein. 120 gms & X-table in typescript. SB. AN VG £7.25

1968 Sampionat Jugoslavje Zagreb 1968 72pp 354 game scores only. Green card covers. AN Typescript £3.00

1969 Sampionat Jugoslavje Zagreb 1969 198 game scores in AN. 1st Matanivic; 2nd= Minic & Nicevski; 4th= Bukic, 74pp Parma & Cvetkovic. 21 played. X-table. Brown card covers. Typescript. G+ £4.00

1969 9th Malaga International. “Costa Del Sol” Malaga ‘69 1st= Benko & Ivkov; 3rd=Lengyel; Medina & Pomar. 15 competed. 105 36pp games scores. A4 pages stapled into a card folder with titles & chess £20.00 design. Scarce original item. G

1969 37th USSR Championship 1st= Petrosian & Polugayevsky. Chess Player 176p 258 games. Inter-round summaries by Cafferty from Russian sources. Typescript; photos; Small SB VG £12.00

1969 16th World Student Team Championship - Dresden Prague 95pp 1st USSR; 2nd Yugoslavia; England 6th . SB AN VG £20.00

1970 Mar Del Plata International Open Tournament 1970 (in Spanish) Lachaga ‘70 1st Lothar Schmid; 2nd= Emma, Rossetto, Rubinetti, Schweber, & Wexler. 75 competed. 90 game scores. Foreword by M. A. Lachaga. Indexes of 38pp openings & scores. Ltd edition of 230 copies. Ex Libris plate of the Dane £10.00 Poul Hage (1906 – 84). AN. Grey card covers, 2 rusty staples o/w VG

1971 18th World Student Team Championship - Puerto Rico Prague 1st USSR; 2nd USA; 3rd CANADA! The venue meant that of the smaller 72pp countries only Austria from mainland Europe took part. AN SB VG £20.00

1971 Siegen Chess Olympiad by Keene & Levy Chess 1st USSR; 2nd Hungary. 25th/60 England. 124 annotated games & 63 photos 249p plus much gossip. Blue cloth boards a little tired but the paper’s top quality, £10.00 o/w VG

1971 Berlin 1971 & Fischer vs Petrosian (Buenos Aires) by Gillam & Levy Ch. Player ‘71 36pp 235 gms with language-less analysis. Good photos. PB AN VG £5.00

1971 19th World Student Team Championship Graz - Austria Prague Karpov led the USSR team to victory ahead of Hungary, E. Germany & 95pp USA. The English team comprised Botterill; Markland; Eales; Stean & £20.00 Perkins. The usual mix of games, photos, charts etc. AN PB VG

1971 The Best Of Lone Pine 1971 – 1980 by Grefe & Waterman RHM 1981 History of the sponsored event & X-tables for every year. Many of the 235p world’s top players took part (only a master’s title required). Many £8.00 annotated games in figurine with diagrams. Photographs. Binding of some pages tender/ or loose.

1971 Candidates Matches 1971 – Russian comment on Fischer’s Victories Ch. Player ‘72 198p By Bernard Cafferty, All games annotated using Soviet sources throughout. Diagrams. SB VG £7.00

1971 72nd U.S. Open Championship in Ventura CA by Jack Spence Gillam This was unexpectedly hi-profile on the back of Fischer’s activities elsewhere and attracted 400 players, from which 383 game scores were 130p rescued & recorded herein. 1st= Browne & Evans. 3rd Reshevsky; 4th £10.00 Kavalek; 5th Lombardy etc. right down to No. 400 Jo Friedman ½ pt. (No- one’s missed out!) Diagrams & photos VG 3

1971 The Barnstaple Open 1971 by P. H. Clarke Hexagon ‘71 43pp 1st P. Waters; 2nd= Bellin & Botterill; Full lists of entrants & prizewinners. 50 selected games. G+ £6.00

1972 The Barnstaple Open 1972 Welch & P. H. Clarke ed. Hexagon ‘72 75pp 67 gms. 1st = Bellin & Argyris. G £6.00

1972 Robert Fischer & Borys Spasski Reykiawik 1972. by R. Frey & S Witkowski. 170p All games annotated in Polish.with added cartoons. SB G £20.00

1972 Fischer Versus Spassky – The Inside Story by Golombek 1st ed. Barrie 1973 All gms annotated with much background material by Golombek, a man on 138p the inside. Intro by Arthur Koestler. DW. Paper yellowed as is common £4.75 o/w VG.

1972 Fischer-Spassky NY Times “For beginners, buffs & collectors, here is the most comprehensive account 218p of …. The match of the Century”. The journalistic approach. SB G £3.50

1972 Fischer Versus Spassky – The Inside Story by Golombek 1st ed. Times Another copy – the SB version G+ £3.00

1972 Fischer V Spassky: The Chess Match of the Century Fontana ‘72 127p By Gligoric. All games annotated. Paper yellowing; 1 mark on endpaper £4.75 o/w G

1972 Fischer v. Spassky Reykjavik 1972 by C. H. O’D Alexander Penguin ‘72 All gms annotated. Background material + Photos & evocative drawings by 144p Foreman. High quality from a top publisher. Large format. £9.00 PB VG

1972 The Fischer-Spassky Games – by Reshevsky Edinburgh 128p All 21 games annotated with diagrams. £4.75

1972 Fischer – Spassky - The Chess Match of the Century by Gligoric Fontana 128p SB VG £4.75

1972 Spassky versus Fischer by Peter Clarke Hexagon ‘72 70pp Good all-round survey of the run-up to the match & the games. One of the scarcer books on the match. SB VG £6.00

1972 Bobby Fischer’s Conquest of the World Chess Championship by Fine Bell 294p 92pp lead-up to the match before Section 2 examines the games. DW. Front endpaper excised o/w G £9.50

1972 The Sporting Scene: White Knights of Reykjavik by G. Steiner 1st UK ed Faber 1973 67pp No gms, this is an erudite examination of the psychological issues surrounding the match. DW VG+ £12.00

1972 Both Sides of the Chessboard by R. Byrne & Ivo Nei Batsford ‘74 Authors were seconds to each combatant and used this to put the games and politics in perspective. 74pp on the Taimanov, Larsen & Petrosian 211p matches before the Spassky final. Intro by Euwe. DW protected by clear £10.00 plastic cover VG+

1972 Skopje Olympiad 1972 by A. Matanovic Beograd The official book of the tournament. Many games Informator style i.e. 212p Figurine. Also charts, lists, & 84 (!) large photos. AN DW VG £9.75

1972 San Antonio – Church’s Fried Chicken 1972 Gillam 1st= Karpov; Petrosian; Portisch. 4th Gligoric. 112 annotated games, some 28pp with diagrams. X-table. Figurine AN; SB G £4.25

1972 HongKong 1972 FIDE Zone 10 Championship (comprises New Zealand to HongKong’72 Japan & China). by Hasan & Campomanes 1st Torre; 2nd= Kan, Tan & Fuller ahead of 7 others. 55 games lightly 67pp annotated. X-tables. Map of the area covered. 25 b&w photos showing all £9.25 players in action. SB VG

1972 Graz 1972 XIXth World Student Championship Lachaga ‘73 This was the year the event took place in Austria and Milciades Lachaga was invoked to publish a more substantial book on the event. Records & X- 140p tables for all years going back to its origins in Liverpool 1952 when the £15.00 Russian students were Bronstein & Taimanov. In German. Ltd. edition of 400 of which this is No. 329. 352 games in AN. Fully indexed. Pink card covers. VG+

1973 The European Team Championship Bath 1973 Keene 1st ed. Batsford ‘74 8 teams of 8 competed. 1st USSR (losing only 2 of their 56 gms); 2nd 199p Yugoslavia; 3rd Hungary; All 224 gms annotated. DW Insc. VG £9.75

1973 The European Team Championship Bath 1973 Keene 1st ed. Batsford ‘74 Another copy signed by Keene. No DW. o/w G+ £10.00

1973 72nd United States Open Championship – Ventura California Spence Published by The Chess Player. 1st= Walter Browne & Larry Evans 3rd 130p Reshevsky. 383 games from all sections. X-tables & small photos of some £10.00 players. Small format. SB AN VG

1973 Buenos Aires – 68th Aniversario del Club Argentino de Ajedrez Lachaga ‘73 1st Cuasnicu; 2nd=Rodriguez & Rubinetti; 4th=Najdorf & Schweber. 14 54pp competed. 91 game scores. Inter-round score totals. Foreword by Lachaga. Ltd edition of 250 copies. Blue card covers. Ex Libris plate of Poul Hage. £10.00 VG+

1973 London Invitational Bulletin 1st Larsen; 2nd Nunn (19); 3rd= Keene , Mestel (16), Miles (18) & Basman (27) ahead of 24 others inc. Knox, Clarke, Speelman (16), Klein (63), Chapman & 2 Littlewoods (ages in brackets). Lists of all players & results. 53pp 30 players, mostly teenagers, with an average grade of 202. All 75 games in AN annotated by the players. X-table. Short accounts of each player’s £7.50 performance & their tournament record at that point. A4 typescript pages clipped into binder. G+

1974 Chess Olympiad Nice 1974 – World Team Championship Keene & Levy Batsford 1975 200p 1st USSR; 2nd Yugoslavia; 3rd USA (no Fischer). 112 annotated gms. Contribution from Purdy. Charts & X-tables. VG £8.00

1974 Chess Olympiad Nice 1974 – World Team Championship Keene Batsford 1975 & Levy Another copy but no DW o/w VG+ £8.00

1974 Karpov – Korchnoi 1974 by Hartston & Keene 1st ed. OUP 1974 The final candidates’ match to find a challenger to Fischer. All 24 gms 94pp annotated + background material. SB AN VG £4.50

1974 42nd USSR Championship Gillam 56pp 1st= Beliavsky & Tal; 3rd= Vaganian & Polugaevsky. 120 games with analysis in figurine AN. X-table. Card covers G £4.50

1974 Mar Del Plata 7th Open Tournament (in Spanish) M. Lachaga 38pp 1st Najdorf; 2nd= Garcia, Pal & Szmetan. 85 game scores Table of final positions. Foreword by M. A. Lachaga. Index of openings. Ex Libris plate “Poul Hage” of Denmark (1906 –’84). Pink card covers. VG £15.00

1974 Caseros 1974 51st Argentinian Championship (in Spanish) Buenos Aires 1st Sanguineti; 2nd Szmetin; 3rd Rubinetti; 4th= Emma & Grinberg. 17 competed. 136 game scores. List of players & their clubs. Foreword by M. 38pp A. Lachaga. X-table; Indexes of games & openings. Ex Libris plate “Poul £15.00 Hage” of Denmark (1906 –’84). Green card covers in the Lachaga fashion. VG.

1975 Mercedes 1975 - “Liberation Crusade 1825” (presumably of Uruguay from Brazil). M. Lachaga (in Spanish) 1st Rubinetti; 2nd= Casas & Foguelman; 4th= Panno, Schweber, Letelier & Rossetto. 61 competed. 101 game scores. Intro by M. A. Lachaga. Indexes 50pp of games & openings. Ltd edition 400 copies. Ex Libris plate “Poul Hage” of £15.00 Denmark. Pink card covers VG

1975 Zarate 1975 “Zarate – Brazo Largo (in Spanish) Lachaga 1st Palermo; 2nd Schweber; 3rd= Horacio, Vega, Ojeda & Seidler. 98 game scores. Foreword by M. A. Lachaga. Indexes of games & openings. Ex £15.00 50pp Libris plate “Poul Hage” of Denmark. Green card covers. VG

1975/7 The Master Game James & Barden BBC 1979 141p The record of 3 televised tournaments in which the “thinking aloud” process was used so effectively. Winners were:- ’75 &’76 Hartston; ’77 Karpov. £8.00 PB AN VG+

1975/7 The Master Game James & Barden BBC 1979 Another. With some browning around page edges o/w G £4.50

1975 The Potter Memorial by Ken Messere Chess 78 annotated games with diagrams. 1st A. S. Hollis. Biographies of all 110p players with photos. X-table. SB Figurine AN VG+ £7.50

1975 Asian-Pacific (Zone 10) & Australian Open Championships Chess Mates ’76 151p 1st Torre; 2nd Tan 100 annotated games with diagrams. 20 photos. X-tables Red card covers. VG+ £10.00

1976 Haifa Chess Olympiad by Keene & Levy Gillam ‘77 128p 160 games. 1st USA; 2nd Nertherlands; 3rd England. Lots of photos, charts & politics. SB a bit grubby o/w G- £3.25

1976 38th Hoogoven Tournament 1976 1st=Ljubojevic & Olafsson; 3rd= Kurajica & Tal; 5th Browne. All game scores 176p with diagrams. Analysis in key games by Timman, Gennadi & Sosonko. 8 photos & sketches of the players at the board. X-tables of top & master group.

1978 A. Karpov- His Road To The World Championship by Botvinnik Pergamon 78 158p Botvinnik gives the best account and analyses on Karpov’s 3 matches to the summit. 24 annotated games with diagrams. SB VG £8.00

1978 Korchnoi vs Spassky: Chess Crisis (Belgrade) by Keene 1st ed. Allen 1978 The final Candidates match for the right to play the default champion 125p Karpov. Korchnoi lost 4 consecutive gms yet still won, after much rancour. £6.50 Insights by Keene who was the winner’s second. SB VG

1978 Karpov vs Korchnoi World Championship by Bent Larsen Unwin 1978 143p All 32 games annotated by the Dane. SB G £5.00

1978 Karpov-Korchnoi The Inside Story of the Match Batsford ‘78 32 games annotated & with diagrams. SB Paper beginning to yellowi 159p slightly o/w G £5.00

1978 Tilburg 1978 Wade & Thomas ed. Chess 24pp 1st Portisch: 2nd Timman; 66 gms in Informator style annotations by Tony Miles. PB AN VG £2.25

1978 Niksic 1978 Wade & Thomas ed. Chess 24pp 1st = Gulko & Timman: 66 gms in Informator style annotation by Shaun Taulbut. PB AN VG+ £2.25

1978 The Battle of Baguio City – Karpov – Korchnoi by Hartston Hutchinson 121p All 32 games plus the bizarre disputes over yoghurts, handshakes, cosmic rays & hypnotism etc. PB VG £5.50

1979 1st Queensland International Tournament - Brisbane 1st A. Lein (USA); 2nd Keene (UK); 3rd I. Rogers (Oz); 4th= Maninang 20pp (Philippines) & Robatsch (Austria). 11 competed. 55 games in AN some £10.00 with light notes & diagrams. Photos of all players.X-table. Indexes of games & openings. Pictorial card covers. VG+

1979 Riga Interzonal by Miles & Speelman Batsford ‘79 18 top players of whom Tal finished 1st clear by 2½ pts. 90 games in 80pp figurine with notes & diagrams. X-table SB AN VG+ £7.00

1979 Rio de Janeiro Interzonal by Miles & Chandler Batsford ‘79 18 top players of whom Hübner, Petrosian & Portisch finished 1st= ahead of 80pp Timman & Ivkov. 155 games with analysis & diagrams. X-table SB AN £7.00 VG+

1979 Montreal 1979 – Tournament Of The Stars by Bob Wade Wade 1979 79pp 1st Karpov; 2nd Tal; 3rd Portisch. 90 games in figurine with diagrams & lightly annotated. Index of openings. SB VG+ £5.50

1979 Montreal 1979 – Tournament Of Stars by Tal & Chepizhny Pergamon 80 204p Photos of all players together with their tournament record. All games in AN with diagrams. Fully indexed. HB VG £9.75

1980 U.S. Championship at Greenville Pennsylvania by Larry Christianson CEI 1980 This year limited to 14 players and at the end only 3 pts separated 1st and 112p last. 1st= Evans, Christiansen & Browne. 6 b&w photos; 81 lightly annotated £10.00 games. SB AN VG+

1980 Philips & Drew in London GLC 1st= Miles, Andersson & Korchnoi; 4th= Speelman & Sosonko. 105 games in 73pp AN typescript, mostly annotated. £3.50 5 photos. X-table. A4 stapled. G

1980 Philips & Drew in London by Hartston & Reuben Pergamon 81 91 annotated games in AN. X-table. 12 photos of the players. Indexes of 222p games & openings. SB VG £8.00

1981 Karpov v Korchnoi World Championship by Hartston Fontana ‘81 All 18 games annotated with diagrams, plus contextual background. PB 124p paper starting to yellow o/w G+ £6.00

1981 Scottish Championship at St. Andrews Low & Bonar 1st = D. Kopec; C. McNab & G. Morrison. 62 games from the Championship 14pp + a few from other sections. Plus programme giving full lists of entries in all £3.00 sections. In sponsor’s folder

1981 U.S. Championship in South Bend, Indiana, by Larry Christiansen CEI 1982 16 man Round Robin format. 1st= Browne & Seirawan; 3rd= Christiansen, 126p Kavalek & Reshevsky… 107 games in AN annotated to varying depths. £8.00 Photos. PB Insc. “J. E. Jones”. VG

1982 Scottish Championship at Troon Low & Bonar 1st R. McKay; 2nd D. Bryson. 3rd= P Motwani & A. Muir. 52 games from the 14pp Champioship + a few from other sections, all in sponsor’s folder in £2.00 typescript. F

1983 Scottish Championship at St. Andrews M- Johnstone New sponsor – same format. 1st C. McNab; 2nd= P. Giulian; P. Motwani & T. 14pp Upton. 52 games from the Championship plus a few from other sections in £2.00 typescript. F

1983 The Battle of Britain – The Semi-Finals of the World Championship 1984 Souvenir edition of Kasparov vs Korchnoi & Ribli vs Smyslov, by Tony 40pp Miles, Craig Pritchett & Nathan Goldberg. All games annotated with diagrams & photos. Pub. By Chess Express £10.00

1983 Kasparov – Korchnoi :The London Contest by Keene & . Lawson Batsford ‘83 The semi-final of the candidates match to find a challenger for World 96pp Champion Karpov. All 11 games annotated with diagrams. £6.00

1983 U.S. Championship by Larry Christiansen CEI 1983 14 man Round Robin format. 1st= Brown, Christiansen & Dzindzihashvili. 135p Group & single photos with all named. 91 annotated games in AN with £10.00 diagrams. PB VG

1984 U. S. Open in Fort Worth 83pp No prize list is offered, but the almost incomprehensible denoument of the final round is entertainingly told by Jim Marfia. It may have been a tie between the ex-Soviets, Dzindzihashvili and Kudrin – or possibly not. 65 £10.00 annotated games PB photos etc VG

1984 USSR VS Rest of the World Challenge Match Keene & Goodman Batsford ‘84 44pp Interview with Kasparov. USSR won 21-19. 40 gms in figurine, with diagrams, some annotated SB AN VG £7.50

1984 USSR Versus Rest of the World Challenge Match - London by Schiller Ch. Player ‘84 All 40 games with analysis, plus 10 games by Kasparov vs 10 juniors inc. 5 43pp Brits. PB typescript AN VG £5.00

1984 Phillips & Drew Kings Chess Tournament Programme to the event with photos, short biogs & specimen gm of each 32pp player. PB AN VG £2.00

1984 Border Wars III – 3rd N. American Postal Chess Championship Corapolis ‘84 1st= Jon Berry & Jean Hebert (both Canada 3rd= J. Wright & N Preo. 15 88pp competed. 64 of the best games annotated, some with diagrams. X-tables & £7.75 photos. AN SB VG

1984/4 The Longest Game by Timman NIC 2019 The 5 Kasparov-Karpov World Championship Matches, starting in Moscow 365p & ending in 1990 (NY/Lyon). Many annotated games in figurine AN with £17.50 diagrams. Photos. VG+

1985/6 61st Hastings International Chess Congress 36pp Programme to the event including blank X-tale for all sections, with the GM table completed by hand. VG £2.50

1985 New York – The Manhattan C.C. International by T. Taylor 1st Lobrun; 2ndDlugy & Lau; 4th Lein; 5th Gruenfeld; 7th Benjamin; 8th 106p Fedorowitz; 9th Polgar, Z. 45 games with diagrams. AN SB VG+ £8.00

1985 1st Anglo-Pacific Invitational Chess Championship (correspondence) by Caissa 2003 E.Osbun 1st R. Chapman (NZ). 2nd C. Pare (Canada); 3rd M. Salm (Aus.) 135 gms in 182p figurine mostly annotated. Diagrams £7.50 X-table. SB AN F

1985 Garry Kasparov – New World Chess Champion by Kasparov Pergamon ‘86 All 24 annotated games from his match vs Karpov, plus moves of the 48 117p games in the 1984-85 encounter. AN SB VG+ £8.00

1985 Manoeuvres In Moscow – Karpov – Kasparov II Keene & Goodman Batsford ‘85 After the abortion of the 1st encounter with Kasparov on the point of winning, 124p this was round 2. 24 games in figurine, annotated, with diagrams. Plus all £4.00 the politicking. SB VG

1985 British Championships at Edinburgh R. O’Brien 1st J. Speelman. Plus winners of all other sections. 425 game scores in AN 106pp typed. G- £3.00

1986 British Championships Kleinwort Grieveson

1986 World Chess Championship – London 1986 Kasparov vs Karpov. Programme of the event with details of players, sponsors’ adverts, officials etc. Small booklet. PB VG £1.75

1986 Kasparov vs Karpov - London / Leningrad 1986 1st ed. Chequers ‘86 The Book Of The World Championship. 24 games of this delayed final recorded in 3 different formats; (a) moves only in figurine; (b) diagrams only £8.00 (c) with annotations. Drawings, cartoons, 14 photos etc. Stiff card covers. AN. paper starting to yellow o/w VG

1986 The Centenary Match – Kasparov – Karpov III by Keene & Goodman Batsford 86 124p The London – Leningrad split World Championship match. PB AN paper starting to yellow, as is usual. o/w G £6.00

1986 GLC Chess Challenge Programme. Good portrait photos of the leading competitors e.g. Larsen; 32pp Spassky; Short; Dlugy, Poluagevsky; Portisch, Ribli & the Brits plus a £2.50 representative game of each from previous tournaments. G

1986 GLC Chess Challenge – Bulletin. 1st Flear (last minute entry); 2nd= Chandler & Short; 4th= Nunn & Ribli; 6th= Polugayevski, Portisch & Spassky. Larsen - nowhere. Rd-by-Rd pairing, 81pp results & games 204 in all, some annotated with diagrams. X-table. All £4.00 games from the Masters’ Section. A4 card covers; stapled. G

1987 Lloyds Bank Masters - London A 187 player 10 Rd. Swiss. Prize List with 1st= Chandler & Wilder (USA); 72pp 3rd= J. Benjamin (USA) & Ernst (Sve); 7th= Adams, Anand, Ivanov, Karolyi, £2.50 Nunn & Plaskett. No frills – just game scores in AN typed & prizelist. A4 stapled. G

1987 London-Leningrad World Championship Games by Kasparov Pergamon ‘87 141pp All 24 games annotated by Kasparov. “Among the best analytical works ever published” (Timman in NIC) AN SB VG £8.00

1987 Showdown in Seville Kasparov–Karpov IV Keene, Goodman & Spanier Batsford 1987 126pp. Kasparov won the final game to draw the match & retain his title. All 126p 24 games in figurine annotated in detail with diagrams. £6.50 SB AN F

1987 World Chess Championship in Seville by Ken Neat Cadogan ‘93 127p All 24 games in AN annotated with diagrams. SB G+ £5.00

1987 Kasparov v Short – Speed Chess Challenge by Ray Keene Thames ‘87 96pp 6 televised games with a diagram for every move. Many photos. AN SB VG £7.50

1988 Pilkington Glass World Championship Quarter Final – Short vs Speelman. Official Souvenir Programme. 22pp The complete introduction. Large format (A4) SB VG+ £2.50

1998/9 World Cup Chess by Kavalek Bloomsbury The story of the new GMA’s first tournament as it broke away from FIDE. 285p 1,600 games, some annotated. Photographs & charts. DW £8.00 AN VG+

1988 Bulletin of the British Championships at Blackpool. B. Jacobs 60pp 1st Mestel; All 305 game scores in figurine, plus Andrew Martin’s 12 annotated Games of the Day. Winners listed of all 46 sections. A4 £3.50 paperback stapled. G

1989 Bulletin of the British Championships at Plymouth. B. Jacobs 1st M. Adams. 2nd= King, Mestel & Norwood. All 296 game scores in figurine 60pp + 12 games annotated by Andrew Martin. Winners in all 47 sections listed. £3.50 A4 paperback stapled. G

1990 Bulletin of the British Championships at Eastbourne B. Jacobs 50pp 1st Plaskett; 2nd Hodgson; 3rd Mestel. All 293 game scores in figurine. Winners listed of all 42 sections. A4 paperback stapled. G- £3.50

1990 Kasparov v Karpov 1990 by Kasparov, Geller, & Lein. Pergamon ‘91 151p All 24 games annotated at length. SB AN VG+ £5.00

1990 The Longest Game – The 5 Kasparov-Karpov Matches by Timman NIC The 5 matches lasted 6 years starting in 1984, involving 144 games of 365p which Timman selects the 50 best/significant to annotate with anecdotes & £20.00 insights. Figurine SB VG+ $33

1991 New York Open 1991 Editrice ‘94 62pp 1st A. Goldin (Russia) 119 competed. 100 selected games, in figurine. the £5.00 best 2 annotated. SB AN F

1991 Kasparov – Karpov: Battle Of The Titans – New York - Lyons Batsford ‘91 The latest chapter in the fight for the World Championship. Keene desribes 124p the action both on and off the board. 24 games in figurine, annotated & with £5.00 diagrams. SB VG

1992 Fischer – Spassky II – The Return of a Legend Batsford ‘92 130p All 30 games annotated with diagrams. AN SB F- £7.50

1992 Bobby Fischer – The $5,000,000 Comeback Davies, Pein & Levitt Cadogan ‘92 30 annotated gms plus the circumstances surrounding the match. Won by 131p Fischer 10-5. Details of the Fischer-designed clock used in the match. £7.50 SB AN F ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 1993 Introduction to The Times World Championship 1993 by Keene Batsford ‘93 74pp Small booklet leading up to the Kasparov-Short Final PB AN F £2.00

1993 Kasparov- Short 1993 The Official Book of the Match: by Keene Batsford ‘93 146p 20 games in figurine with annotations aided by the players. Plus background material. SB AN VG+ £5.00

1993 Another copy signed by Short at a subsequent local Simul. VG+ £6.00

1993 Kasparov v Short - World Championship by King & Trelford Cadogan ‘93 128p 20 annotated games with diagrams. SB AN G+ £4.75

1993 Das Ska-Mephisto-Turnier Munchen 1993 by Hartmut Metz Ed. Olms 94 1st Shirov ahead of Gelfand, Gurevitch, Adams et al. 65 annotated games 125p with the rest, mostly draws, in raw score. Many photos. In German. HB £7.50 with pictorial covers. AN Some slight damp staining to top page edges o/w VG

1995 Kasparov vs Anand – World Chess Championship by D. King Cadogan ‘95 128p All 18 gms in figurine & annotated. Kasparov won 10½-7½. SB AN F £5.00

1995 Kasparov V Anand by Keene Batsford ‘95 128p All 18 games annotated with diagrams. SB AN VG £5.00

1995 5th Smith & Williamson Young Masters 28pp 1st Parker. X-tables of the 10 sections plus 80 gms some annotated. SB AN F £4.00

1995 San Francisco 1995 GM Invitational Tournament by J. Eade Hypermodern 12 player Round Robin format. 1st Korchnoi; 2nd= Nunn & Gulko; All game 144p scores annotated to varying degrees. Mini biographies & full page photos of £10.00 all players. SB AN F-

1996 Karpov v Kamsky World Championship 1996 B. Jacobs 34pp The raw score of the 18 games played, but probably more about the scores of Championship matches from 1986 onwards. SB VG £2.00

1996 Man v Machine: Kasparov v Deep Blue Keene & Jacobs BB 1996 Historical background to man v computers, and full analysis of the 6 gms 112p which Kasparov won 4-2. 13 b&w photos. Figurine & diagrams SB £5.00 F

1997 Kasparov v Deeper Blue – The Ultimate Man v Machine Challenge by D. King Batsford ‘97 The UK coverage by Danny King with exclusive Kasparov interview. 112p SB AN F £5.00

2000 Super Tournaments 2000 by Soloviev Chess Stars 300 annotated games with diagrams from all the strongest tournaments of 2000, from Corus (Jan.) to World C.C. (Dec.). Games by the following:- Anand (44 gms); Shirov (43); Kramnik (22); Kasparov (20); Khalifman (36); £15.00 446p Adams (17); Bareev (20); Gelfand (27); Ivanchuk (18); Leko (22) & Svidler (22). SB AN F

2004 World Championship – Kramnik vs Leko by Keene H. Simpole 14 games to determine the next World Champion. Figurine & with diagrams. 157p Much other material on the origins & history of the championship. Edited by Dave Regis who signed the inside cover. £8.00

2005 San Luis (Spain) 2005 World Championship by Gershon & Nor Quality 2007 442p 1st Topalov; 2nd= Svidler & Anand. All 54 deeply annotated games in figurine. 165 colour photos, large & small. X-table “An outstanding book about a truly outstanding tournament”. A great effort by Quality Chess. SB £15.00 VG+

2006 Topalov v Kramnik – 2006 World Championship – On the Edge In Elista Russell ‘07 by Topolov & Ginshev A match that had everything – positional play; sharp tactics; accusations of cheating; political interference, threatened lawsuits and a game forfeited £10.00 220p under protest. This is Topalov’s personal take on it all. 16 games annotated by Topalov. SB AN F

2007/8 Reggio Emilia 2007/8 Marin & Garrett 1st UK ed. Quality Ch. ‘09 1st Zoltan Almasi. 2nd= Hua Ni, V Gashimov & P Harikrishna; Book 288p celebrates 50 yrs of the famous Italian tournament. 45 gms annotated by £12.00 the players. Many photos. X-tables of the previous 49 tournaments in this series. SB AN F+ $30

2007 From London to Elista – The Inside Story of the World Championship Matches that Kramnik Won Against Kasparov, Leko & Topolov by Bareev & Levitov NIC 2007 44 annotated games in AN with many diagrams and photos. Much background 400pp material. ECF Book of the Year 2008. SB F £15.00

2013 Carlsen’s Assault On The Throne by Kotronias & Logothetis Quality ‘13 304p The full story of Carlsen’s knife-edge win over Anand to win the World Championship, & his career leading up to it. 116 colour photos. A superior £18.00 production. HB F $30

2013 65th West of England Championship & Congress Keverel 2013 32pp 22 annotated gms with diagrams.10 photos. Comb-bound. F £2.50

2016 World Championship – Carlsen vs Karjakin by Alburt & Crumiller 334p New York. All games & 4 tie break games, Many photos all in colour. Rd-by £16.50 Rd. game analysis by Kramnik. SB VG+

2018 Carlsen v Caruana World Championship in London by Keene & Jacobs Everyman ‘18 Foreword by Short. 12 games plus preliminary & tie break games, all deeply 208p annotated with diagrams. SB F- £9.75

2018 Carlson vs Caruana - Duel Of Giants by Niclas Huschenbeth 1st ed. 2018 152p 56 annotated games played between these two since 2010. SB F- £12.50

There follows a small selection of tournament books, researched, typeset and published by Tony Gillam (The Chess Player). All are in the same format; i.e. A5 in size; yellow paper in clear plastic folder. AN F+. Each one contains all the games & analysis known to exist at the time of publication. 1867 Dundee 1st Neumann; 2nd Steinitz; 3rd De Vere. 62 games 47pp £7.00 1868/9 London 1st = Blackburne & De Vere. 140 games 55pp £7.00 1870 Baden Baden 1st Anderssen; 2nd Steinitz. 77 games 47pp £7.00 1886 London & Nottingham 91 games 57pp 1887 London 1st= Burn & Gunsberg 51 games 51pp £7.00 1893 New York – “Imprompto” Tournament 91 games 51pp £7.00 1895 7 Cable Matches between USA & UK 68 games 71pp £7.00 1902 8 Cable Matches between USA & UK 66games 75pp £7.00 1886 London (1st Blackburne) & Nottingham (1st= Burn/Schallop) 91gms 59pp £7.00 1887 London (1st = Burn & Gunsberg) 51 games 51pp £7.00 1899 Vienna (1st Maroczy) 66 games 47pp £7.00 1900 New York (1st Lipschutz) 30 games 31pp £6.00 1913 New York 2nd National & Rice Club Tourneys. Capa won both 87pp £7.00 1915 New York 1st Capa 2nd Marshall) 56 games 65pp £7.00 1920-1 6 English Tournaments 168 games 63pp £7.00 1921-2 Kiel, Triberg & 2 others 109 games 51pp £7.00 1923/4 Hastings & Weston S-M (Euwe won both) 101 games 63pp £7.00 1926 Hastings, Weston S-M & 2 others (Euwe won) 152 gms 83pp £8.00 1928 The Hague 2nd Olympiad (1st Hungary) 544 games 79pp £8.00 1929 Ramsgate (1st Capablanca) 64games 51 pp £7.00 1935 Margate (1st Reshevsky) & Tallin (1st Schmidt) 87 games 67pp £7.00 1936 Margate (1st Flohr & Ostende (1st Lundin) 121 games 83pp £8.00 1937 Margate (1st = Fine & Keres 3rd Alekhine) 56 games 75pp £7.00 1938 Plymouth & Bournemouth 1939 (1st Euwe) 106 games 75pp £7.00 1951 Birmingham 1st World Junior (1st Ivkov; 2nd Barker Eng.) 99 gms 56pp £7.00

4. Game collections of specific players

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4. Game collections of specific players.

Books by McFarland & Co. This US company publishes chess books that are larger, heavier and more comprehensive than most other firms are able to do, which, of course, comes at a price. These are all pre- owned but all as good as new. The original price is indicated as struck-through alongside our own, by way of comparison.

Capablanca, Capablanca – a compendium of games, notes, articles, illustrations & other rare 1989 archival material. by E. Winter £31.00 349pp Indexes of games, players & lists of tournament & match records, sources, £25.00

Fine, R Reuben Fine: A Comprehensive Record of an American Chess Career 1929 – 1951 2004 by Aiden Woodger. 882 games in AN, many annotated. Brief biography. X-tables. Photos.

392pp Indexes of openings & opponents. Tournament & Match record. Bibliography. £27.00 SB F+. £35

Menchik V. Vera Menchik – A biography of the 1st Woman’s World Champion 2016 By Robert B. Tanner. 1st ed. 350 annotated games in figurine with diagrams. (a) List of tournament & Match results; (b) List of County & British Team match results.(c) Simul $50.00 316pp results; (d) Index of opponents & results. (e) Bibliography: (f) Index of games. (g) General index. Red cloth boards with white titles. F+ $50 £35.00

Nimzowitsch Aron Nimzowitsch – On The Road To Chess Mastery 1886-1924 By Per Skjoldager & Jø rn Erik Niesen. (a) Appendix of his puzzles & studies (17) : (b) Appendix of his father’s £65.00 games & problems: (c) Bibliography: (d) Index of games by opponent: (e) 456pp Index of Openings: (f) Index general) £33.00 Many photographs, sketches, X-tables etc. Blue cloth boards with silver gilt titles.

Reshevsky, S Samuel Reshvsky by Stephen W, Gordon 1997 1,768 games, covering 8 decades, in figurine, some annotated & with 406pp diagrams. X-tables. Indexes of opponents & openings. Biographical £29.00 summaries of each decade. SB F+

Steinitz, W William Steinitz, Chess Champion, A Biography of the Bohemian Caesar by K Landsberger Highly detailed biography. Index of sources (131); Index of illustrations (46); 487pp Index of annotated games (15); Dark blue cloth boards with silver gilt titles. F £35.00

The US Chess Championship 1845 - 1985 1986 . Traces the story from the first (C. H. Stanley) to Alburt in 1985, through the history of the times and annotated games played by the winners. McCormick 296pp This copy bears the blind ownership stamp of Hanon W. Russell, & Soltis Russian language expert and founder of the chess publishers Russell £33.00 Enterprises. AN. Brown cloth boards with gilt titles. 2 small marks to endpapers o/w VG+

The Zurich Chess Club, 1809 – 2009 2011 435pp By Richard Forster – Foreword by V. Kramnik.

349 games & positions; 280 photos, 361 diagrams 68 tables, appendices £45.00 etc. The club was the venue for several major international tournaments, all of which are covered. £29.00 Green cloth boards with white titles. AN F+

And now follow titles in alphabetical order of subject

Adams, M Michael Adams – Development of a Grandmaster 1st ed 1991 Pergamon 144pp 50 annotated games from the age of 8 to GM. PB AN VG+ £10.00

Alekhine On The Road To The World Championship - 1923 – 1927 Pergamon ‘84 The 1st English translation of a German book published in 1977 looking at 99 217pp of his games leading up to his world championship. SB AN G+ £9.75

Alekhine The Games of Alekhine 1927 – 1935 & 1937 – 1946 Caparros Scribe 1992 1,577 gms. In figurine notation, chronological order & alphabetically by 385pp opponents’ names for reference & study. £9.50 HB with pictorial cover. F

Alekhine Alexander Alekhine Games 1902 – 1920 Vol 1. ed. by Khalifman Ch. Stars ‘02 464 games with annotations in languageless figurine notation, plus diagrams 423pp o/w English is used. X-tables for full tournament results. SB AN F £12.00

Alekhine My Best Games 1908 – 1923 1st ed Bell 1927 LN3248 Dark green cloth boards with bright gilt titles. “One of the best chess 267pp books ever written”. 100 games & annotations. Insc. Good specimen of a £24.50 hard-to-find classic VG-

Alekhine My Best Games 1908 – 1923 Reprint Bell 1939 Another copy with bright green cloth boards. VG £12.50

Alekhine My Best Games 1908 – 1923 Reprint Bell 1973 Another copy with maroon cloth boards & red DW slightly nibbled & page edged foxed. o/w VG £10.00

Alekhine My Best Games of Chess 1924 – 1937 reprint Bell 1949 285pp 120 games with added piquant and balanced memoir by du Mont following the player’s death in 1946. G+ £7.00

Alekhine My Best Games of Chess 1924 – 1937 Bell 1962 Another copy DW chipped & worn Insc. G- £8.50

Alekhine My Best Games of Chess 1924 – 1937 Bell 1972 Another copy. red DW Insc. Foxing to page edges o/w VG+ £10.00

Alekhine Alekhine’s Best Games of Chess 1938 – 1945 1st ed. Bell 1949 117pp 42 gms selected by C. H. O’D Alexander that complete the trilogy. DW o/w VG £9.50

Alekhine Alekhine’s Best Games of Chess 1938 – 1945 Bell 1952 Another copy. DW in protective sleeve. Insc DW nibbled VG- £9.00

Alekhine Alekhine’s Best Games of Chess 1938 – 1945 Bell 1952 Another copy DW. Insc. VG- £10.00

Alekhine Alexander Alekhine’s Chess Games 1902-1946 McFarland ‘98 1st ed. 2,543 games, many annotated with 1,868 diagrams. By Skinner & Verhoeven. AN. Fully indexed. Maroon cloth boards. The definitive work, 807pp being a large, heavy volume (2.2kg). F- Originally published at £80 and £49.00 currently selling for $95 in the US.

Alekhine Alekhine’s Greatest Games of Chess Batsford ‘89 670pp All 3 Bell books & their 262 games under one cover. PB with crease in cover o/w VG £12.00

Alekhine Alekhine’s Best Games Batsford ‘97 117 games selected from the Master’s works and turned into algebraic 304pp notation by John Nunn. Foreword by Kasparov & Intro by Nunn £10.00 PB VG+

Alekhine The Unknown Alekhine 1905 – 1914 by Reinfeld 1st ed. Pitman 1949 277pp 102 annotated games from his early career that Alekhine by-passed in his own works. HB in protective cover. VG+ £12.00

Alekhine On The Road To The World Championship 1923 - 1927 Pergamon ‘86 217pp

Alekhine 100 Instructive Games of Alekhine – Development of a Chess Genius. Dover 1959 278pp A republication of the 1949 original Unknown Alekhine.SB VG £8.00

Alekhine Complete Games of Alekhine Vol. 1 1892-1921 Olomouc ‘92 334 games in figurine albebraic with diagrams collected by Kalendovskyn & 187pp Fiala. X-tables & biographical material.HB F £10.00

Alekhine, Alexander Alekhine Games Vol. 1 1902 - 1922 Ch. Stars ‘02 423pp 464 games with Informator-style analysis. X-tables & diagrams. SB AN F- £12.00

Alekhine Alekhine In Europe & Asia by Donaldson, Minev & Seirawan I.C.E. 619 games, in their context, some annotated & with diagrams. Indexes of 118pp Openings, Opponents & ECO codes. Large format, card covers . VG £12.50

Alekhine The Chess Legacy of Alekhine by A. Kotov Moscow ‘54 Part 1 Openings – Combinations – Attacking the king. 182 annotated games 456pp with diagrams. 9 photos. Various indexes. Pages yellowing slightly on edges £6.75 o/w G. In Cyrillic

Alexander The Best Games of C. H. O’D Alexander Golombek & Hartston OUP 1976 70 gms. 8 page tribute by Milner-Barry. DW sunned on spine. Printed on 167pp green paper (tribute to his Irishness?) VG+ £22.00

Anand Vishy Anand: World Champion: Life & Games by Anand & Nunn Gambit ‘12 3rd enlargement of the 1998 original. 87 annotated gms & biography by 542pp Sean Marsh. AN SB F £19.00 £13.25

Anand Vishy Anand – Chess Super-Talent Norwood Batsford ‘95 144pp 35 annotated gms with diagrams . PB AN A VG+ £4.95

Anand Vishy Anand: My Best Games of Chess – Learn by studying the games and Gambit 2012 analysis of the hottest player of the 1990s! 240pp 40 annotated games with diagrams. AN VG+ £8.50

Anderssen The Chess Games of Adolf Anderssen – Master of Attack. 1st ed. Pickard ‘96 897 gms with languageless analysis & 80 of his problems. Memorial essay for 340pp the 1st time in English. PB AN VG+ £12.00

Arkell Arkell’s Odyssey – The Autobiography of a Grandmaster Keverel ‘12 A reprint of the first edition that sold out very quickly. A clear and unvarnished record of his life from Day 1, with all its highs and 123pp lows. 70 annotated games in chronological order tell the very readable story £5.00 of his rise to GM-ship and beyond. Foreword by Michael Adams 50 photographs, 4 in full colour. SB AN F+

Benjamin Joel Benjamin – American Grandmaster : Four Decades of Chess Adventures. Everyman ‘08 by Benjamin 268pp 128 gms PB AN Front endpaper excised o/w VG+ £7.50

Benjamin Another copy. Foxing on endpapers o/w G £4.75

Bisguier The Art of Bisguier – Selected Games 1961 – 2003. by Bisguier Russell ‘08 100 games set in context and annotated, with good photos. Playing under 272pp the shadow of Fischer has led to an under-estimation of his talents, hereby £9.00 corrected. PB AN F+

Blackburne J Mr. Blackburne’s Games At Chess – Selected, Annotated & Arranged by Himself Longman, Green 1899 Royal Octavo (9" x 6") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt embossed rook and blind stamped ruled edge to cover. Edited, with a biographical sketch and a brief history of blindfold chess by P. Anderson Graham.LN3036) (Betts 29-15) 1st ed. His most notable successes were 1st= with Steinitz at Vienna 1873 1st at Berlin 1881 ahead of 331pp Paulsen, Schallop, Chigorin, Winawer and Zukertort and 2nd to Tarrasch at £100.00 Manchester 1890. Section of 28 of his problem compositions, mostly 3- movers. Section of 157 games played blindfold. Index of games. Condition: Top & bottom of spine rubbed. Neat insc. on front end paper o/w VG copy

Blackburne Blackburne’s Chess Games – Selected, Annotated & Arranged by Himself. Edited Dover 1979 with a biographical sketch by P. A. Graham (ed.) 407 games with diagrams & some annotated.+ 28 problems with solutions. 331pp Pictorial card cover G £8.00

Boleslavsky Isaac Boleslavsky – Selected Games by J. Adams Caissa 1988 180 games in AN with annotations & diagrams, after a biographical 288pp introduction. Tournament & match records. Blue cloth boards with DW. VG+ £15.00

Bologan Victor Bologan – Selected Games 1985-2004 by Bologan Russell 2007 236pp 52 annotated games with photos, X-tables, etc. PB AN F £12.00

Botvinnik Botvinnik – 100 Selected Games Botvinnik Dover 1960 272pp Republication of the 1951 work. PB Cover creased o/w VG- £7.50

Botvinnik Another copy VG £9.00

Botvinnik Another copy. Endpapers and page edges foxed o/w G £7.00

Botvinnik Weltgeschichte des Schachs No. 23 – Botvinnik Hamburg 400 gms with diagram every 5 moves. Part of Dr. Wildhagen’s ground- breaking and still collectable series. With booklet of added notes by Botvinnik. AN. Red cloth split 5cm on spine. o/w £20.00 G+

Botvinnik Botvinnik’s Best Games 1947 – 1970 (Cafferty trans.) 1st ed. Batsford ‘72 111 games annotated by the author. Biography of this period. Tournament 237pp results & record vs leading players Insc. indicating that this book was gifted to its owner by B. H. Wood after they played each other in the Leics vs £12.00 Warwicks match 1972 (BHW won). HB DW nibbled o/w G

Botvinnik Another copy 4th impression Batsford ‘92 234pp Given new title Mikhail Botvinnik – Master of Strategy. VG £10.00

Botvinnik Selected Games 1967 – 1970 (K. P. Neat trans.) 1st ed. Perg. ‘81 312pp 40 annotated games, & his recollections of Lasker, Euwe & Alekhine & summarises his work in computer chess. PB AN VG £12.50

Botvinnik Selected Games 1967 – 1970 (K. P. Neat trans.) 1st ed. Perg. ‘81 Another copy but HB with slight foxing to page edges o/w VG+ £13.00

Botvinnik M. M. Botvinnik Vol 1 Games 1924 – 1940 by Egon Varnusz Schmidt ‘99 242pp 300+ games in languageless figurine AN. Diagrams & X-tables. Indexes of openings & opponents. With unintentionally hilarious intro. £9.50 PB VG

Botvinnik Half A Century of Chess by Botvinnik 1st ed Pergamon ‘84 278pp 90 games from 40 years personally selected by the author and newly annotated. HB AN F £20.00

Bronstein 200 Open Games Batsford ‘74 240pp The 200 games are all his and all open 1.e4-e5. DW VG £7.25

Bronstein 222 Partitas Madrid 1993 127pp All Games with diagrams but no analysis. Small format. PB F £4.50

Bronstein The Sorcerer’s Apprentice by Bronstein & Furstenburg. Cadogan ‘96 200+ of his games, in figurine with diagrams explained in accessible 304pp language for the amateur player, with tips on how to improve the readers’ £14.00 own skills. 20 photos of him. SB VG+

Burn, A. Amos Burn – The Quiet Chessmaster by R. N. Coles Winter ‘83 A4 pages in typescript. 62 well-annotated games in AN. Career summary with 82pp tournament records. Indexes of games, openings & opponents. Short biography of the author. Blue card covers. Limited edition though not £20.00 numbered. VG

Capablanca Weltgeschichte des Schachs No. 14 - Capablanca Hamburg ’63 571 gms with a diagram every 5 moves. Part of Dr. Wildhagen’s ground- breaking and still collectable series. Tournament record. Extra booklet. Red £22.00 cloth boards with gilt titles. VG

Capablanca Het Schaakphenomeen José Raoul Capablanca Y Graupera 1949 By Euwe & Prins. LN 3050 175 annotated games with diagrams; 50 ‘s-Gravenhage / additional “fragments” from diagrammed positions. Combinations; X-tables Batavia 381pp etc. Dark blue cloth boards with titles in bright gilt. A quality publication and quite scarce. Bottom corners bumped o/w VG £40.00

Capablanca My Chess Career (1st ed.) Bell 1920 212pp 35 gms A classic work by the Cuban master VG £17.50

Capablanca My Chess Career Dover 1966 194pp Republication of the 1920 original with added fore-& afterword by Chernev. SB VG+ £5.00

Capablanca My Chess Career Another copy VG- £6.50

Capablanca The Immortal Games of Capablanca by F. Reinfeld (1st ed. 1942) Ch. Review 112 gms. Good early Reinfeld with biographical intro. Insc. From the library of 239pp R. A. Slade, former West of England Champion. Boards bumped & well-used £15 .00 o/w G

Capablanca The Immortal Games of Capablanca Reinfeld Dover 1990 An unabridged & unaltered republication of the 1942 original. PB F £7.50

Capablanca Capablanca’s Hundred Best Games Golombek (1st ed.) Bell 1947 270pp Includes memoir by du Mont. A little foxing to endpapers o/w G £7.50

Capablanca Capablanca’s 100 Best Games of Chess Golombek Bell 1970 Another copy DW chipped Insc. o/w VG £9.95

Capablanca The Unknown Capablanca Hooper & Brandreth (1st ed.) Batsford ‘75 201pp 203 of his (mostly) little known games, with complete records of his tournaments etc. DW VG £9.50

Capablanca Capablanca – A compendium of Games, Notes, Articles, Correspondence, McFarland 2011 Illustrations, and other Rare Archival Material. By Edward Winter. The definitive work on Capa’s career, a republication of 349pp the 1989 hardback original which was the ECF’s Book of the Year.2011. £15 .00 SB AN VG+

Capablanca Capablanca by V. N. Panov Spain 1973 242pp Coleccion Escaques No. 44. 70 annotated games with diagrams. SB VG £4.25

Carlsen Fighting Chess With Magnus Carlsen by Mikhalchisin & Stetsko Olms 2012 Career overview to date & 64 best games annotated. 280pp Fully indexed. AN SB F £13.75

Caruana, F Fabiano Caruana: His Amazing Story & Most Instructive Games NIC 2018 61 annotated games with diagrams trace his meteoric rise to become the 3rd 207pp highest ranked player in the world at the age of 22. By Alexander Kalinin. 13 large photos SB AN F+ £10.00

Charousek Charousek’s Games of Chess by P. W. Sergeant 1st ed. Bell 1919 146 annotated games. Biographical intro. Good portrait. LN3052. Brown 221pp cloth boards. VG £27.00

Colle Colle’s Chess Masterpieces Reinfeld Dover 1984 92pp 51 gms. SB Unabridged reprint of the 1936 original VG+ £9.50

Denker If You Must Play Chess by A. S. Denker 1st ed. Pitman 1947 55 annotated games with added context of the circumstances in which it was 190pp played, most with diagrams. Green DW nibbled on rear top edge. LN 1727 £20.00 G+

Denker Another copy with damaged DW in clear protective cover. Small neat insc. o/w G £17.50

Denker If You Must Play Chess by A. S. Denker 1st ed. McKay 1947 Another copy. Red cloth boards. Inscription suggests this copy was purchased in Simla, India, in 1949. VG £18.00

£20.00 De Vere The English Morphy? By O. Hindle & R. H. Jones Keverel 2001 The Life & Games of Cecil De Vere – 1st official British Chess Champion. 100 130pp games, most with annotations, and the story of his short career and sad demise. Well illustrated. Short-listed for Chess Book of the Year 2001. £5.00 Figurine algebraic. SB F+

Euwe, M From My Games by Dr. M Euwe – Former Champion of the World Bell 1938 234pp 1st edition. HB Pictorial DW in clear protective cover. VG+ £17.00

Euwe, M From My Games 1920 – 1937 Dover 1975 234pp 75 games each annotated by Euwe and introduced by Reinfeld. Indexes of openings & opponents. Unaltered republication of £8.25 the 1939 original. SB VG+

Fischer My 60 Memorable Games Fischer. 1st ed. Faber 1969 384pp Game intros by Larry Evans. Fischer’s classic book an essential in any library. HB with DW 1st UK edition. VG+ £20.00

Fischer My 60 Memorable Games 1st UK SB edition 1972 £14.00 384pp Identical to 1969 edition G+

Fischer Bobby Fischer Rediscovered by Andy Soltis Batsford ‘03 287pp 100 annotated gms up to his last match vs Spassky in 1992. AN SB VG+ £12.00

Fischer My 60 Memorable Games Faber 1972 Another copy PB £12.00

Fischer My 60 Memorable Games Fischer Faber 1988 284pp Another copy with black covers. SB with some creasing/wG+ £9.50

Fischer My 60 Memorable Games Batsford ‘08 Commemorating Fischer’s death that year, with a republication, unaltered 384pp except for the change to algebraic notation & eye-catching cover. SB F £9.50 £15.00

Fischer My 60 Memorable Games Faber 1990 A 1990 reprint of the original. SB with Black covers (front one creased). o/w G 384pp £8.50

Fischer Profile of a Prodigy – Life & Games of Bobby Fischer Brady (1st ed) Kaye 1965 250pp 75gms. 100pp of biography by probably the first player to fully recognize £14.00 Fischer’s potential. DW VG+

Fischer Another copy with DW in amateur plastic cover. OW G £10.00

Fischer Another copy with no DW Insc. o/w G £7.00

Fischer Profile of a Prodigy – The Life & Games of Bobby Fischer Brady Mckay 1969 250pp Another copy but in PB. Cover browning o/w G £5.00

Fischer Bobby Fischer by Frank Brady Batsford ‘74 435pp 90 games. Originally published in the US in this updated edition as Profile of a Prodigy. With much biographical material, £14.00 X-tables, photos etc. DW VG+

Fischer The Games of Robert J. Fischer Wade & O’Connell Batsford ‘81 462pp 770 gms. Contributions by Barden, , Keres et al. G+ £12.00

Fischer Another copy PB VG+ £10.00

Fischer Fischer’s Chess Games Intro by Keene OUP 1980 166pp All known games in languageless figurine with some analysis. Full tournament record & X-tables. PB AN VG £7.50

Fischer Learn From Bobby Fischer’s Greatest Games by Eric Schiller Cardoza ‘04 224pp 24 games that exemplify a specific lesson. AN PB F £10.00

Fischer How To Beat Bobby Fischer by E. Mednis 1st ed. Bantam ‘74 246pp 61 of Fischer’s losing games fully analysed with diagrams. Small PB G+ £5.00

Fischer A Legend On The Road – Fischer’s 1964 Simul Tour by J. Donaldson Russell 2005 198pp 191 games and full details of itinerary; opponents’ memories, photos. Etc. 2nd ed. revised & enlarged. PB AN F £15.00

Fischer Bobby Fischer’s Conquest Of The World Chess Championship Bell 294pp By R. Fine. All games from the 1972 match. DW G+ £8.50

Fischer Bobby Fischer – Career & Complete Games – by Karsten Muller Russell 2009 408pp Foreword by Evans. Opening survey by Soltis. 735 gms annotated plus diagrams. AN SB F £17.50

Fischer The Chess of Bobby Fischer by R. Burger, plus Brady & Kashdan. 1st Chilton 1975 373pp 100s of positions from his games with analysis to show the nature of Fischer’s thinking and skills. DW chipped. o/w VG £12.75

Fischer Bobby Fischer’s Games Of Chess. 15 yr. old Fischer’s 7 page autobiographical London ‘59 introduction gives a rare insight into his early career. Includes all 13 games from the 1957 US Championship & all 20 games from Portoroz. Foreword by Golombek. DW £25.00 chipped. VG

Fischer Bobby Fischer – Great Players Series compiled by Billy Patteson Ch. Digest A set of 5 books containing his games from the early years onwards. They are early Chess Digest publications in typescript & PB, published in 1971. No individual game analysis but concentrating more on the openings he was using at the time. Some The set tournament background. Not coffee table material but probably of some historic interest. They are:- £25.00 (a) Games 1958 through 1959. 58pp (b) Games 1960 through 1961 51pp (c) Games 1962 through 1965 72pp (d) Games 1966 through 1968 50pp (e) Games 1969 through 1971 92pp Reasonably clean condition for their age, with no actual damage.

Fischer Bobby Fischer – A Study of His Approach To Chess. By Elie Agur Cadogan ‘92 1st edition. Foreword by Kasparov. Numerous illustrative game segments in figurine with diagrams. At this time Fischer was involved in a re-match with £8.50 276pp Spassky & this book was aimed at what to look out for in his play. SB

Fischer Bobby Fischer Rediscovered. By Andy Soltis Batsford ‘03 Soltis takes a fresh & in-depth look at 100 masterpieces that helped make 287pp Fischer a living legend. Figurine notation with diagrams. 1st ed. SB VG. £12.00

Fischer Both Sides of the Chessboard. by Byrne & Nei with Intro by Euwe Batsford ‘74 21 annotated Fischer’s Candidates games leading up to, and including his 211pp 1972 victory. DW VG £10.00

Geller, E. P. The Nemesis: Geller’s Greatest Games Quality 2019 480pp 130 of his best games in figurine with diagrams, annotated by himself. Indexes of opponents & openings; Tournament & Match record. Pictorial HB. F+ £33 £25.00

Geller, E. P Grandmaster Geller At The Chessboard. Gillam ‘69 Trans. by Cafferty from Geller’s autobiography of 1962. 86 annotated games. 181pp SB G- £7.50.

Geller, E. P The Application of Chess Theory. Pergamon 84 262pp Author annotates 100 of his best games from a 35 year career, grouped according to opening in Part 1, and against World Champions in Pt. 2. AN £12.00 SB VG

Gligoric Svetozar Gligoric’s Chess Career 1945 – 70 by D. Levy 1st ed. Collins 1972 63 annotated gms with diagrams. Short biography. This copy is signed on the 192pp title page by both the author, David Levy, and the subject, S. Gligoric. DW £7.75 G

Gligoric Svetozar Gligoric’s Chess Career 1945 – 70 by D. Levy 1st ed. Collins 1972 192pp 63 annotated gms with diagrams. Short biography. DW VG £9.75

Gligoric Svetozar Gligoric’s Chess Career 1945 – 70 by D. Levy 1st ed. Collins 1972 Another copy but no DW with some foxing to page edges o/w G+ £7.75

Gufeld, E Chess: The Search For Mona Lisa Batsford’01 Autobiographical review of his life & chess career followed by many of his 257pp games, annotated with diagrams. SB AN VG+ £6.25

Hort, V Legendary Chess Careers – Vlastimil Hort, by Karolyi Evolution ‘16 Interview between Hort & Karolyi, followed by 24 of his most memorable 125pp games in figurine with diagrams often in discussion with the writer, and £17.50 annotated accordingly. 8 photos. SB F+

Karpov Karpov’s Strategic Wins - 1 1961-85 The Making Of A Champion Quality ‘11 By Tibor Karolyi. 76 games in chronological order & in figurine with diagrams, concentrating on his grasp and use of strategy. Indexes of games, £15.00 458pp opponents, tournament record, etc. SB F+ $30

Karpov Karpov’s Strategic Wins – 2 1986 – 2010 The Prime Years Quality ‘11 By Tibor Karolyi. 67 games in chronological order & in figurine with diagrams, 576pp concentrating on his grasp and use of strategy. Indexes of games, opponents, tournament record, etc. SB F+ £15.00 $30

Karpov Anatoly Karpov’s Best Games Karpov 1st US ed. Holt 1996 175pp 43 gms. AN PB VG £8.50

Karpov The Games Of Anatoly Karpov by O’Connell & Jimmy Adams Batsford ‘74 368pp 347 games up to 1974 Candidates ¼-Final, mostly annotated. Fully indexed with X-tables, career record etc. DW VG £8.25

Karpov The Complete Games of World Champion Anatoly Karpov. Batsford ‘76 By O’Connell, Levy & Adams. 569 games in figurine, most with diagrams. X- 373pp tables of tournaments involved. Indexes of tournament & match records, £7.50 openings & endings and opponents. 8pp of photographs. SB VG-

Karpov Chess Is My Life Karpov & Roshal (1st ed. 1980) Pergamon 359pp 111 gms plus lots of biographical detail. SB VG+ £12.00

Karpov Chess Is My Life Karpov (1st ed. 1980) 359pp Another copy showing evidence of past dampness o/w G £5.00

Karpov Karpov’s Collected Games Levy Hale 1975 543 gms. Some biographical detail, and a few games have analysis. Many 303pp photos. Tournament record etc. DW VG £8 .00

Karpov Another copy: published in US but with fewer games (“All 530 available encounters RHM ‘75 1961 – 1974”) 15 photos. Red cloth boards with DW in plastic cover. small stamp of Fiddler’s Green San Francisco on back page. VG+ £8.00

Karpov The New King – The Road to the World Championship Bantam ‘76 By R. Byrne. All the games involved in the Candidates and Final annotated 178pp Small paperback VG- £3.50

Karpov Karpov’s Strategic Wins Vol. 1 1961-85: The Making of a Champion Quality 2011 76 games thoroughly annotated, and fully indexed. PB AN F+ £15.00 458pp

Karpov Karpov’s Strategic Wins 2: 1986 – 2010 – The Prime Years Karolyi Quality 2011 576pp 67 games thoroughly annotated & fully indexed PB AN F+ £15.00

Karpov How Karpov Wins by E. Mednis 2nd enlarged ed. Dover 1994 383pp 100 games examined critically. PB VG+ £8.50

Karpov Anatoly Karpov – His Road to the World Championship by Botvinnik Pergamon‘78 158pp 24 key games from the 3 matches leading up to his coronation, analysed by Botvinnik, Karpov’s official second. PB VG £4.75

Karpov The Best of Karpov by Markland OUP 1975 61 annotated games up to his challenge against Korchnoi for the World title, which he won, of course, and a sticker was added to the cover to that effect. £4.75 272pp Diagrams & X-tables. SB AN VG

Karpov Anatoly Karpov’s Games As World Champion 1975-77 Batsford ‘78 By O’Connell & Levy. Karpov played 10 strong international Tournaments 221pp during this period and won 8 of them outright. The games show how. X-tables £6.75 etc. DW AN VG

Kasparov Garry Kasparov – New World Champion Pergamon All 24 games from the match with Karpov deeply analysed by the author. 25 117pp photos. HB AN VG £7.25

The following 3 titles were all published by Everyman as a matching set to follow up his previous My Great Predecessors series. Concentrating on his struggles against Karpov to wrest the World title from him. All with matching DWs they were originally priced at £30 each. These are all in Fine condition and are on offer for £15.00 each one.

Kasparov Garry Kasparov On Modern Chess: Part 2 Kasparov vs Karpov 2008 Covers the period 1975 – 1985 including the 1st & 2nd matches. 76 deeply- 424pp annotated games. DW HB AN F £15.00

Kasparov Garry Kasparov On Modern Chess Part 3: K vs K 1986 – 1987 2009 Covers the London/Leningrad & Seville matches. 51 deeply annotated games 432pp and the wider politics described. DW HB AN F £15.00

Kasparov Garry Kasparov On Modern Chess Part 4: K vs K 1988 - 2009 2010 Covers their 5th & final match for the World title in New York & Lyon, plus 432pp other games between them. 66 deeply-annotated games. The changing £15.00 landscape of world chess politics at the time is also described. DW HB AN F

Kasparov Learn From Garry Kasparov’s Greatest Games Schiller Cardoza ‘05 20 gms have easy-to-follow analysis, with diagrams. Career record up to 240pp publication date. Indexes of openings & opponents, SB VG+ £8.50

Kasparov Gary Kasparov’s Best Games Keene Batsford ‘93 63pp 12 gms well analysed & diagrams. 25 photos. Large format. AN Insc. F £7.50

Kasparov Kasparov’s Fighting Chess 1993 – 1998 by Karolyi & Aplin Batsford ‘06 336pp 60 annotated games in figurine with diagrams. Indexes of openings & opponents. Insc SB AN F- £16 £8.00

Kasparov Kasparov’s Fighting Chess 1999 – 2005 by Karolyi & Aplin Batsford ‘06 336pp 77 annotated games in figurine with diagrams. Indexes of openings & opponents. SB AN VG+ £16 £8.00

Kasparov My Games Batsford ‘83 163pp 372 of his earliest games mostly in figurine, with diagrams. Intro by Mikhail Botvinnik. SB VG £7.50

Kasparov Fighting Chess – Games and Career by Kasparov & Wade Batsford ‘85 185pp 77 of his early games in figurine, annotated by the author plus one by Botvinnik. Indexes of openings & opponents. X-tables of his tournaments up £7.25 to 1985. SB VG+

Keres Paul Keres’ Best Games Vol. 1 Closed Games by Varnusz 1st ed. Pergamon ‘87 192pp 170 gms well analysed, plus good photos. AN large pictorial HB F £12.00

Keres. Another copy. Slight foxing to some page edges o/w VG- SB £9.50

Keres Paul Keres’ Best Games Vol. 2 Open & Semi-Open Games Varnusz Pergamon ‘90 278pp 239 games well-analysed with diagrams. 1st ed. 13 good photos. AN Large £12.00 pictorial HB F

Keres Keres’ Best Games of Chess 1931 – 1940 Reinfeld Bell 1946 224pp 77gms with 4pp intro by Keres. Insc. G+ £7.50

Keres Paul Keres – Photgraphs and Games Paide 1995 Multi-lingual introductions. c.60 photos, many informal. Almost 2,000 game 479pp scores in AN. Tournament record & some X-tables. Pictorial HB. F £12.00

Keres The Early Games of Paul Keres Keres trans. & edited by Golombek. Jenkins1964 192pp 26 gms extensively analysed by the master. DW Insc. VG £10.00

Keres The Early Games of Paul Keres Keres trans. & edited by Golombek

Another copy DW Insc. G £9.00

Keres The Early Games of Paul Keres Keres trans. & edited by Golombek Another copy DW Ex lib. G- £7.50

Keres The Middle Years of Paul Keres Keres trans. & edited by Golombek Jenkins1966 208pp 53 gms analysed by the master DW Front endpaper excised o/w G £9.50

Keres The Middle Years of Paul Keres Keres trans. & edited by Golombek Another copy VG- £9.50

Keres The Later Years of Paul Keres trans. & edited by Golombek 1st ed Jenkins 69 192pp 80 gms analysed by the master. DW VG+ £14.00

Khalifman Khalifman – Life & Games By Gennady Nesis Everyman 00 97 annotated games in figurine, with diagrams, & biographical context. 208pp Tournament record plus Indexes of openings & Opponents SB £9.25 AN F-

Koltanowski With The Chess Masters Falcon 1972 Autobiographical work with 75 annotated games of his against the likes of 147pp Colle, Yates, Sietz, Maroczy, Keres, Tarrasch, Tartakower et. al. with £10.00 diagrams. With numerous photographs, cartoons, etc. SB F

Sultan Khan Mir Sultan Khan BCM Quarterly No 10 by R. N. Coles BCM 1965 91pp 60 annotated games in AN. Indexes of openings & opponents, Tournament record. PB G £10.00

Korchnoi My Best Games Vol. 1: Games with White Olms 2001 50 annotated games with diagrams between 1951 – 2000. Indexes of 208pp opponents & openings. Pictorial HB AN F- £12.00

Korchnoi My Best Games Vol. 2: Games with Black Olms 2001 50 annotated games with diagrams from between 1952 – 2000. BCF Book of 204pp the Year 2001. Indexes of opponents & openings. Pictorial HB AN F- £12.00

Korchnoi Viktor Korchnoi’s Best Games by Korchnoi 1st ed. 1978 Philidor 294pp 72 games plus diagrams. HB VG+ £8.50

Korchnoi Chess Is My Life – Autobiography & Games 1st ed. Batsford ‘77 168pp 75 games, some annotated. AN DW VG+ £9.50

Korchnoi Korchnoi’s Chess Games Levy & O’Connell (ed.) Intro by Hartston OUP 1979 291pp c. 1,700 games in figurine algebraic notation. Many tournament X-tables. SB VG £9.50

Kramnik Kramnik – My Life & Games Kramnik & Damsky Everyman 00 208pp 178 annotated gms in figurine with diagrams most in biographical context. £9.00 SB AN VG-

Kramnik Vladimir Kramnik – The Inside Story of a Chess Genius Quality ’18 By Carsten Hensel 30 colour photos Many game scores but the emphasis is $30.00 256pp on the life story. Tournament record. Excellent photo section, many in colour. Index of names. Glossary of terms. Pictorial HB AN F. £15.00

Kupreichik, V The Games of Viktor Kupreichik by G McCormik CEI 1986 81 annotated games after a short biography by Alexei Suetin. 68pp X-tables. SB AN VG+ £10.00

Kurnosov, I The Chelyabinsk Meteorite – Selected Games of Igor Kurnosov. In 2013, aged 28, he achieved the Super GM rating of 2700 and was then run over by a car and killed; hence he is not quite a household name, But 50 £11.00 210pp annotated games with diagrams and a host of photographs tell the story. Numerous photos large & small. SB AN F

Larsen, B Bent Larsen’s Best Games – Fighting Chess with the Great Dane NIC 2016 124 games chosen & annotated by Larsen, in figurine with diagrams. Index of $35.00 games; X-tables of relevant tournaments. 26 b&w photographs. Index of 350pp openings. Index of games; Tournament record. SB F+ £20.00

Larsen Larsen’s Selected Games of Chess 1948 - 69 Bell 1970 181pp 50 annotated games in 14 chapters with linking narrative to describe his rise up the ladder. SB VG+ £9.00

Larsen Larsen’s Selected Games of Chess by Larsen 1st ed. Bell 1970 181pp 50 annotated games in 14 chapters with linking narrative to describe his rise up the ladder. DW nibbled o/w VG £12.00

Larsen Bent Larsen – 50 Udvalgte Partier 1948 – 69 (50 selected games) Denmark ‘69 199pp The original version of the above title. Games all in AN. Text in Danish. Striking pictorial HB. VG+ £10.00

Larsen Bent Larsen – The Fighter by Eric Brondum Denmark ‘78 171pp 75 annotated games in AN with diagrams. Biographical material. Several £16.00 photos. English text. Pictorial HB. VG+

Larsen Another copy 1st ed. DW nibbled but in protective cover o/w VG £15.00

Larsen Another copy 1st ed. Slight foxing to endpapers o/w VG- £13.00

Lasker Weltgeschichte des Schachs No. 11 – Lasker Hamburg ’59 573 gms with diagram every 5 moves. Part of Dr. Wildhagen’s ground- breaking and still collectable series. With booklet of added notes. AN. Red £22.00 cloth. VG-

Lasker Dr. Lasker’s Chess Career Pt. 1 1889-1914 by Reinfeld & Fine 1st ed 1935 75 annotated games with appreciations of the player by Kmoch, Nimzowitsch, Reti, Spielmann & Tartakower, plus biographical section. Published by Printing 165pp Craft but printed in the USA. Tea stains to bottom edges of 2nd half of book & £16.00 2cm split to rear of spine o/w G

Lasker Lasker’s Greatest Chess Games Dover 1963 75 games annotated by Reinfeld & Fine. A republication of the 1935 original 165pp Dr. Lasker’s Chess Career 1889 – 1914. £6.00 SB G+

Lasker Emanuel Lasker – The Life Of A Chess Master Hannak 1st ed. Deutsch ‘59 320pp 101 gms lightly annotated with foreword by Albert Einstein and very readable biography. DW VG £20.00

Lasker Emanuel Lasker – The Life Of A Chess Master Hannak 1st ed. NY 1959 Another copy but the US edition by Simon & Schuster with different DW G+ £20.00

Lasker vs Pillsbury Brandreth ‘60 All 14 of the games played between these 2 GMs with extensive annotations ??? from many sources. Short biographies and contemporary tributes to both 66pp players. £20.00 A scarce early work by Dale Brandreth. Typescript, comb bound; G

Lasker Emanuel Lasker Vol. 1: 2nd edition ed. by J. Gilchrist Gillam 1967 All 283 known tournament & match games up to 1921. No annotations but source books are given. Tournament record for this period £12.00 112pp and X-tables. Short intro by Ken Whyld. Indexes of openings & opponents. Large format. Typescript. SB VG

Lasker Emanuel Lasker Chess Champion Vol. 2 reprint ed by J. Gilchrist Gillam 1968 218 games Fully indexed with X-tables. No annotations but sources given. 13 86pp tournament X-tables. Large format. Typescript. SB VG £12.00 Lasker Emanuel Lasker 2nd World Champion by Isaak & V Linder Russell 2010 81 annotated games in figurine. Indexes of openings, games & opponents. 264pp Tournament & match records. Foreword by Andy Soltis. X-tables of the big £12.50 tournaments. Much biographical history besides. SB VG

Marshall My Fifty Years of Chess 1st ed. 1942 Ch. Review Autobiographical work. 140 annotated games. Good photos. Insc. Maroon 242pp cloth boards with bright gilt titles. VG £19.00

Marshall My Fifty Years of Chess 1st ed. 1942 Ch. Review Another copy with small damp stain to lower spine & front endpaper excised o/w VG- £15.00

Marshall Marshall’s Best Games of Chess Marshall Dover 1960 140 gms analysed and in biographical context. A republication of the 1942 242pp original entitled My 50 Years of Chess. SB VG £10.00

Great American Chess Players: 1.- Frank J. Marshall by P. Wenman. 1st ed. Short Leeds 1948 Marshall biography & tournament record. VG 100 annotated games with 150 diagrams. A little foxing to

204pp endpapers o/w VG. Short biography & tournament record.VG £12.00

Mequinho – Perfil De Um Genio (Mecking – profile of a genius) Biography of the Brazilian prodigy & GM, Henrique Mecking, by Rubens A. Filguth. Mecking H With 90 annotated games, 68 diagrams & 18 b&w photos. Born in 1952, after 1972 he £10.00 was the strongest player born in the West. Text in Portuguese. SB with weak binding o/w G

Mitchell, R. P. Mitchell – A Master of British Chess by J.du Mont Pitman 1947 108pp Biographical chapter followed by 36 annotated games with diagrams. Good portrait photo. HB VG+ £20.00

Morphy, P Paul Morphy Ed. Olms ‘89 A facsimile reprint of Maroczy’s 1909 book of 400+ games by Morphy, in the 436pp original German. 3rd edition (1989) by Olms of Zurich. Dark blue buckram £20.00 boards with purple DW F+

Morphy, P Morphy’s Games of Chess: Being the Best Games Played By The Distinguished London 1872 Champion In Europe and America, with Analytical & Critical Notes by J. Löwenthal The only collection of his games made with Morphy’s direct input. LN 3157. 485pp Maroon cloth boards with blind stamped pattern & chessboard design in bright gilt. Insc. Some foxing to page edges. No physical damage to pages or cover. £25.00 G

Morphy Morphy’s Games of Chess by J. Löwenthal Batsford ‘85 150+ games. Facsimile reprint of the 1860 1st ed. The only collection of 485pp Morphy's games made with his help. DW VG+ £15.00

Morphy Morphy’s Games of Chess by P. W. Sergeant 1st ed. Bell 1916 300 gms with 36pp biography. LN 3222 Green cloth boards splitting on rear 352pp spine o/w G+ £15.00

Morphy Morphy’s Games of Chess P. W. Sergeant 1st ed. Bell 1916 Another copy 10 cm split to rear of spine o/w G £15.00

Morphy Morphy’s Games of Chess by Sergeant 3rd ed Bell 1919 352pp 300 gms with 36pp biography. LN 3223 Green cloth boards re-backed retaining original cloth. Insc. G £12.50

Morphy Morphy’s Games of Chess by P. W. Sergeant 1925 rep. Bell 1925 352pp LN 3224 club stamp & insc. o/w VG £15.00

Morphy Morphy’s Games of Chess. Sergeant. An unabridged ed. of the original Dover 1957 352pp As before with added 5pp introduction by Reinfeld. SB VG £8.00

Morphy Morphy Chess Masterpieces by Reinfeld & Soltis Collier 1974 40 annotated games and his legacy analysed by 2 noted writers. 239pp PB VG- £7.99

Morphy Half-Hours with Morphy by Rev E. E. Cunningham London ‘02 3rd & revised edition. LN 3192. Small format. Maroon buckram boards with gilt 80pp titles. 45 games & studies. Insc. on title page & blind stamp showing 35, £12.00 Tennyson Avenue, Wanstead E11 o/w G

Morphy Half-Hours with Morphy Fifth (revised) edition London 80pp Another copy. Not in LN. Insc. on front endpaper of Birmingham Chess Club – £12.00 Midland Institute. o/w G

Morphy Paul Morphy & the Evolution of ChessTheory by M. Shibut Dover 2004 An unabridged republication of the original Caissa Editions work of 1993. 416 359pp games + addendum. Postscript by the original publisher, Dale Brandreth. £10.00 Indexes of games, openings. Game scores in AN with diagrams. SB VG+

Najdorf Najdorf: Life and Games by Lissowski, Mikhalchishin & Najdorf . 1st Batsford ‘05 131 gms in figurine with diagrams. c. half annotated by the GM. SB AN 256pp F £9.50

Najdorf Najdorf X Najdorf Russell 2016 A warts & all biography by his daughter, with annotated games from his long 208pp career selected by Timman. Many photos. Fascinating into his life and times. £15.00 Career time-line. Index of games. SB AN F £9.75

Nakamura Fighting Chess with Hikaru Nakamura by K. Müller & R.Stolze Olms 2012 47 annotated games in figurine with diagrams. The 1st book devoted solely to 231pp the American. Photos. Tournament & match record, bibliography. Indexes of £12.75 games & openings. SB AN F

Napier, W. E. Napier: The Forgotten Chessmaster by John Hilbert Caissa 1997 321 games in AN, many with notes. Extensive historical background. Especially strong on New York City area chess around the turn of the century.

Tournament & match record. Indexes of games & openings. Red cloth boards 354pp £25.00 with titles in bright gilt, From the late Dale Brandreth’s classic Caissa Editions series of game collections & tournaments. F+

The Praxis Of My System – Illustrated by 109 games from my contests with many Printing Craft Niemzowitsch illustrative articles & introductory talks & 132 diagrams 1936 1st English Edition edited by J. Du Mont. Photo of the master. Indexes of

opponents, stratagems & openings. Original brown cloth boards. Gilt titles on 369pp £22.00 spine faded, bottom edge of which is also slightly rubbed. o/w G. One of the game’s great classics.

Nimzovitsch Hypermodern Chess by F. Reinfeld Dover 1958 221pp 58 games with diagrams. Unabridged republication of the 1948 ed. entitled Nimzovich: The Hypermodern. Indexes of openings & opponents. SB VG £7.75

Nimzowitsch Aron Nimzowitsch: A Reappraisal. By Keene 1st US ed. McKay 1974 120 games illustrating the author’s treatise. Republication of the Bell 1974 334pp original, with X-tables, diagrams etc. A well-respected early work. HB £9.75 DW VG

Nimzowitsch Aron Nimzowitsch: A Reappraisal. By Keene 1st ed. Bell 1974 Several copies available HB DW Insc. VG £8.00

Nimzowitsch Aron Nimzowitsch: A Reappraisal – Improve your chess by studying the games Batsford ‘99 of the master of positional play. By Keene New algebraic edition. Tournament & match record. Indexes of opponents & 256pp openings. SB VG £9.75

Nunn John Nunn’s Best Games Batsford’ 95 40 games in figurine with diagrams from 1983 - 1993, annotated by a world 320p expert, plus anecdotes relating to the game. SB VG+ £9.25

Nunn Secrets Of Grandmaster Chess Batsford ‘97 335pp “An expanded edition of a modern classic”. 24 of his best & most instructive games in figurine, deeply annotated with diagrams. Indexes of openings & opponents.

Petrosian Tigran Petrosian – His Life & Games by V. Vasiliev Batsford ‘74 50 games well-annotated by Suetin & Petrosian himself, with diagrams. Translated & edited by his fellow Georgian, Mike Basman. Published after his victory in the Candidates to challenge for the World Championship. Also,

much biographical material. Tournament record. Indexes of openings, games, 247pp £25.00 names & places. 1st ed. DW in the Batsford style of the day. The clear plastic jacket that has kept the jacket pristine has created marks on the back endpapers, as is usual. o/w VG+

Petrosian The Games of Tigran Petrosian Vol 1. 1942 – 1965 Ishi 2012 Compiled by E. Shehktman. 1,089 gms in figurine, most with annotations plus 480pp some diagrams & input by other writers, inc. Gligoric & Krogius. Indexes of £17.50 openings & opponents. SB F-

Petrosian The Games of Tigran Petrosian Vol. 2 1966 – 1983 Ishi 2012 Compiled by E. Shekhtman. 1,062 gms in figurine most with annotations plus 448pp some diagrams. An appreciation by Spassky. Indexes of openings & £17.50 opponents. SB F-

Petrosian Petrosian’s Best Games of Chess 1946 – 63 by P. H. Clarke Bell 1964 205pp 60 games with diagrams. Indexes of opponents & openings. 1st ed. DW. Insc. £14.00 Petrosian Another copy 1st ed. with club stamp & DW rubbed. £12.00

Petrosian Another copy 1973 reprint. Red DW Signed “P. H. Clarke”. F+ £15.00

Petrosian Another copy 1973 reprint. Red DW F+ £14.00

Petrosian Another copy 1971 reprint. VG £11.00

Petrosian Petrosian the Powerful by Soltis & Ken Smith Ch. Digest 158pp 30 annotated games with diagrams & 12 chapters of biography. PB AN VG £10.00

Petrosian Tigran Petrosian – World Champion by A. O’Kelly de Galway 1st ed. Pergamon 65 119pp Biography & 30 annotated games. Tournament record. HB F £10.25

Petrosian Another copy SB VG £9.50

Petrosian Another copy SB G £9.00

Phillips Chess: 60 Years On With Caissa and Friends Caissa ‘03 200 annotated games with diagrams and memories, games & photos of 185p his British contemporaries from the 2nd half of the century. Signed copy £15.00 SB AN F

Pillsbury Great American Chess-Players II :: H. N. Pillbury Wenman Mitre ‘48 152pp 100 gms lightly analysed with 102 diagrams plus 4 pp biography. Small format. VG+ £10.00

Pillsbury Great American Chess-Players II :: H. N. Pillbury Wenman Mitre ‘48 152pp Another copy foxing to endpapers o/w VG- £10.00

Pillsbury Pillsbury The Extraordinary Soltis & Smith Ch. Digest ‘90 144pp Biography & 30 annotated games in AN with diagrams. Biographical material £10.00 at the start. Good photo. SB AN F-

Polgar Breaking Though – How The Polgar Sisters Changed the Game of Chess Everyman05 125 annotated games in figurine with diagrams. photos in b&w and colour. 320pp Biographical material. High production standards. Indexes of openings & £12.50 opponents. HB DW AN F-

Polgar, J. Judit Polgar - How I Beat Fischer’s Record – aided by M. Marin Quality 2012 85 annotated games in figurine with diagrams & 50+ personal pics. Indexes $30.00 of records, games, results, openings & opponents. Insc. Pictorial HB 384pp F- £12.00

Polgar The Polgar Sisiters – Training or Genius? By Cathy Forbes Batsford ‘92 The author tackles the question with the help of many annotated games in 178pp figurine with diagrams. SB AN VG £6.25

Pollock, W. H. Pollock Memories: A Collection of Games Problems etc. Moravian Ch 145p A facsimile edition of Mrs. Frideswide Rowland’s tribute to her great friend, first published in 1899. 145 games plus problems & endings. HB F+ £18.00

Polugayevsky Grandmaster Preparation 1st English Translation Pergamon ‘81 The 1st half is devoted to the evolition of the Polugayevsky Variation against 240pp the Sicilian. The 2nd half is devoted to a collection of his games which illustrate his ideas expounded in the 1st half. Indexes of openings & opponents. Large. £12.00 Pictorial HB AN F-

Polugayevsky Another copy, but in SB VG £9.50

Portisch Selected Games of Lajos Portisch by Egon Varnusz Batsford ‘79 Biographical notes with 90 annotated games with diagrams. Tournament & 207pp match records. Indexes of games & openings. Gilt title on spine is rubbed o/w £10.00 G+.

Portisch Portisch nagymester byJozef Hajtun Budapest ‘78 Biography followed by 50 games annotated in Hungarian. Tournament record 352pp up to 1977. Tournament record. Index of opponents. 26 b&w photos. £8.00 Pictorial HB. F

Portisch Grandmaster Lajos Portisch by Dr. E. Gelenczei Gillam ‘68 34 annotated games from various stages on his road to the title. SB G 43pp £5.25

Pupols Viktors Pupols – American Master by Larry Parr Thinkers ‘83 90 lightly annotated games in AN, with diagrams. Tournament & match record. £7.50 77pp Indexes of opponents & openings. 10 Photos etc. SB VG

Reshevsky Reshevsky On Chess 1st ed. 1948 with Pitman sticker pasted in. Ch. Review 110 of his games from 1920 annotated by the author. Tournament & match 272pp record & photographs. Indexes of opponents & openings Insc. “J. A. Fuller”. £9.75 HB VG

Reshevsky Reshevsky’s Best Games Of Chess Dover 1960 273pp An unaltered republication of the 1948 original entitled “Reshevsky On Chess”. SB G £5.00

Reshevsky How Chess Games Are Won Reshevsky 1st ed. Pitman 1962 60 of his gms as the author addresses his subject. Indexes of opponents & 212pp openings. Pink DW VG+ £9.00

Reshevsky Another copy. No DW & club small stamp above title o/w VG+ £9.00

Reshevsky How Chess Games Are Won Reshevsky 1st softback ed. Pitman 1973 Another copy VG £9.00

Reshevsky Samuel Reshevsky by Stephen. W. Gordon. McFarland’97 406 large pages: 1,768 games in Figurine, some with diagrams. Some useful X- tables. Indexes of openings & opponents. Summaries of his career in each decade. £29.00 The biggest game collection of Reshevsky… or anyone else for that matter. SB F+

Reti Reti’s Best Games of Chess Golombek 1st ed. Bell 1954 70 gms & studies & memoir. Indexes of openings & opponents. Light foxing to 173pp endpapers o/w VG- £10.00

Reti Reti’s Best Games of Chess Golombek Dover 1974 Unabridged version of 1954 original. Cover a little creased o/w VG £7.00

Reti Reti’s Best Games Of Chess Simpole ‘08 173pp Effectively a republication of Golombek’s 1954 original, with a new 3 page intro by Keene. SB F+ £7.00

Rubinstein, A Rubinstein Gewinnt! – 100 Glanzpartien Des Grosse Schachkünstlers (Rubinstein Wins! 100 brilliant games by the great chessmaster). Biography by Dr. Jacques Hannak Wein 1933 and annotations by Hans Kmoch. 1st edition. This is not the Barnie Winklemann translation of 1941 nor subsequent Dover editions – it’s the original 1st ed. LN 3262. Olive-green cloth boards with Art

Deco cover design in gilt. Portrait photo protected by tissue paper. Spine is 151pp £28.00 dulled, but the gilt titles & patterns on the front still shine brightly. The whole is generally clean and intact. AN VG

Rubinstein Rubinstein’s Chess Masterpieces – 100 Selected Games Kmoch N. York ‘41 Indexes of opponents & openings. Tournament & match record. HB with gilt 192pp titles. 1st ed. with extensive neat marginalia, esp. to endpapers. o/w G £6.50

Rubinstein Another copy with boards more rubbed but only a single insc. G £6.50

Rubinstein An unabridged unaltered republication of the 1941 original Dover 1960 192pp SB G+ £6.50

Rubinstein Another copy Dover 1960 Red cloth boards have been added to the Dover ed. with some marking to 192pp endpapers o/w G £7.75

Rubinstein Akiba Rubinstein: Uncrowned King ICE 1994 By J. Donaldson & N. Minev, 1st ed. 321pp 474 annotated games from between 1897 – 1920, AN Diagrams, X-tables, £14.75 photos & fully indexed. SB F $28

Sanakoev World Champion at the Third Attempt by Sanakoev Gambit 1999 256pp 59 annotated games in figurine with diagrams annotated by a Correspondence World Champion, analysing his decision-making process – e.g. when to sacrifice & £7.75 when not. Career record. Indexes of opponents & openings. SB AN F

Schlecter Schlechter’s Chess Games by T. Crain Caissa ‘98 811 games in AN. An original work which gives all Schlechter’s games found in an exhaustive decade-long search. It complements the Goldman book by

giving many more games, but no notes, and a brief biography with photos &

cross-tables for his major tournaments. One of the late Dale Brandreth’s £17.00 Caissa Editions titles of tournaments & game collections. Red cloth boards 287pp with titles in bright gilt. AN F+

Shirov Alexei Shirov’s Best Games by Nikolai Kalinichenko Moscow 05 736pp 500 gms figurine with languageless analysis. o/w text in Cyrillic. AN Pictorial £9.50 HB F

Shirov Fire On Board – Shirov’s Best Games Cadogan ‘97 82 annotated games in figurine + chapter on his favoured Botvinnik Variation. 236pp Indexes of opponents, openings, variations & endgames. £10.00 SB AN VG+

Shirov Fire On Board Pt 2 1997 - 2004 Everyman 05 53 deeply-annotated gms in figurine + diagrams. Foreword by Shirov. Indexes 192pp of opponents & openings SB F+ £18 £10.00

Short, N Nigel Short’s Best Games by R. Keene Batsford ‘93 12 annotated games in figurine from prior to his World Championship match 64pp vs Kasparov. 22 photos. £8.00 Pictorial HB. Large format. F

Short, N Nigel Short: Chess Prodigy by David Short Faber 1981 Edited by Barden; analysis and comments, G. Botterill & D. Short. 67 258pp annotated games Career record up to 1981. £6.25 Small thick paperback. SB AN VG

Short, N Nigel Short – World Chess Challenger by R D. Keene Batsford ‘92 144pp 40 annotated games in figurine with diagrams and tournament record. SB AN F £7.50

Smyslov V. V My Best Games of Chess 1935-1957 RKP. 1958 1st edition. 67 games annotated by Smyslov edited by P. H. Clarke. HB DW 154pp protected by clear plastic. Some small neat marginalia on c. 6pp. £8.25

Another copy. RKP Insc. & signed “Peter H. Clarke”. HB & DW protected in clear cellophane cover, making the DW spotless. VG+ £12.00

Smyslov My Best Games of Chess 1935-1957 Dover 1972 67 games annotated by Smyslov edited by P. H. Clarke. A republication of the 154pp RKP 1958 original. SB VG £8.50

Smyslov 125 Selected Games Pergamon ‘83 The ex-World Champion chooses & analyses his favourite games. 20 good 250pp photos. Tournament & match record. Indexes of opponents & openings. AN. £9.25 Pictorial HB VG

Sokolov Sokolov’s Best Games Sokolov Cadogan ‘97 50 annotated games in figurine with diagrams & historical context by John 157pp Nunn. Indexes of opponents & openings. SB F £8.95

Spassky Spassky’s 100 Best Games by Bernard Cafferty (1st ed.) Batsford ‘72 256pp 21page biographical foreword by Len Barden. Tournament & match record. Indexes of openings & opponents. DW VG £9.75

Spassky Spassky’s 100 Best Games by Cafferty Batsford ‘73 Includes an extra game from the Fischer match + winning move puzzles. DW. 256pp with Cafferty’s address sticker on front endpaper – the author’s own copy! £ 12.00 VG

Another copy DW £9.75 As above SB VG- £8.00

Spassky Boris Spassky: Master of Tactics by Cafferty Batsford ‘91 (100 Games 1949 –‘72) 4th ed. 256pp A republication of the 1973 book. SB VG £9.50

Spassky Boris Spassky: Master of Initiative by Raetsky & Chetverik Everyman 06 150 positions from his game, with the preceding moves in figurine. The £9.00 160pp following analysis illustrating his strengths. SB AN F-

Spassky The Best Games of Boris Spassky by Soltis Pitman 1973 288pp 70 lightly annotated games from between 1949 – ‘71. DW VG £9.50

Speelman, J (My) Best Games 1970 - 80 Unwin ‘83 47 deeply annotated games in AN with diagrams. Indexes of players, 328pp £8.50 openings & themes. SB VG+

Speelman, J Jon Speelman’s Best Games by Speelman Batsford ‘97 38 gms in figurine with diagrams looked at in depth with career context. SB 240pp £9.50 AN VG+ £16.00

Spielmann, R The Chess Career of Rudolf Spielmann Vol. 1 by Jack L. Spence 1961 75 games from between 1905 – 1923 annotated and each with a diagram.

Photos & sketches of various opponents. Tournament & match record. Errata £25.00 262pp page. Deep red cloth boards & gilt titles. A much sought-after title. VG

Speilmann, R Rudolf Speilmann – Portrait eines Schachmeisters in Texten und Partien by Koblenz 1996 Michael Ehn. 288pp 35 well annotated games & 40 pictures. Blue cloth boards & gilt titles, behind a crisp DW. HB Text in German F+ £12.00

Staunton Howard Staunton – The English World Champion BCM 1975 By Keene & R. N. Coles. BCM Quarterly No. 17. 181pp 60 annotated games with diagrams, plus many contemporary illustrations. £7.50 Small rubbed patch on front cover o/w VG

Staunton Howard Staunton – Uncrowned Chess Champion of the World. Montreal ‘74 By Bryan M Knight 1st ed. of a volume to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Staunton’s death. A printed sticker announces that only 300 copies were bound by hand within 240pp hard covers, of which this is No. 039 and signed by Bryan M. Knight. Photos £25.00 and games in the style of those times. Black cloth boards with silver gilt title on spine. VG

Stein, L Leonid Stein – Master of Attack by R. Keene Hale 1976 1st ed. Short biography with X-tables & 64 annotated games. There would 155pp have been more had he not died aged 39. Indexes of opponents & openings. £14.00 Black cloth boards with silver gilt titles on spine. F

Stein, L Another copy. SB with pictorial covers. Reprint with corrections & additions. VG+ TUI 1988 £10.00

Steinitz William Steinitz Selected Chess Games. Devide Dover 1974 109pp 78 + 6 added gms. A corrected and expanded republication of the 1901 original. SB VG £6.00

Steinitz Wilhelm Steinitz – 1st World Champion by I & V Linder Russell ‘14 200pp 90 games but also an in-depth account of his career and contributions to chess. With photos, X-tables etc. PB AN F+ £12.00

Steinitz The Games of Wilhelm Steinitz – First World Champion Pickard Pickard ‘95 260pp 1,022 gms many with language-less analysis. PB AN VG £9.50

Sultan Khan Malik Mir Sultan Khan – His Life & Games by U. Geilmann Beyer 2018 216pp 183 games annotated in AN. Tournament & match record. 31 illustrations. SB F+ £15.00

Sultan Khan Mir Sultan Khan by R. N. Coles BCM 1977 64 games annotated in AN and set in historical context. X-tables and photos. 144pp Typescript.. BCM Quarterly No. 10. Binding at spine is tender but intact. o/w £10.00 G

Szabo, L My Best Games Of Chess Pergamon ‘86 124 games selected and annotated with diagrams by the author. Full 209pp tournament & match record. Indexes of opponents & openings. Large pictorial £15.00 HB blue cover in the Pergamon style of the period. AN VG+

Taimanov Taimanov’s Selected Games by Taimanov Cadogan ‘98 60 annotated games grouped by strategical motif to maximise 198pp instructional value. SB AN F- £10.00

Tal Mikhail Tal’s Best Games 2 1960 – 1971 The World Champion. Quality 2015 By Tibor Karolyi. 66 games in figurine with diagrams, many featuring €30.00 Botvinnik in the earlier years. Indexes of games; opponents; names; 357pp classification etc. Pictorial HB. Tal’s mother was asked how many hours a day £15.00 he trained for. She answered “About 24 – give or take”. F

Tal Weltgeschichte des Schachs No. 25 Tal Hamburg 61 419 gms with diagram every 5 moves. Part of Dr. Wildhagen’s ground- breaking and still collectable series. With booklet of added notes. AN. Red £22.00 cloth with gilt titling still bright. VG+

Tal Weltgeschichte des Schachs No. 25 Tal Another copy with cloth less bright £17.50

Tahl 222 Partitas Madrid 1990 Diagram with each game but no analysis. Small format. 127pp SB AN F £4.50

Tal The Unknown Tal – 1951-1956 Selected Games Of World-Champion M. Tal by V. S. Francisco 1960 Zemitis 33 annotated games with diagrams. The games are/were “practically unknown 96pp outside Latvia and little-known anywhere”. Only 500 copies printed. £10.00 Typescript. SB G

Tal Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936 – 59 Thomas 1st ed. Batsford ‘80 192pp c. 415 gms in languageless analysis. Paper yellowing as is usual. AN. Ex lib. DW G- £7.00

Tal Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936 – 59 Thomas Batsford ‘80 Another copy SB Paper yellowing o/w G+ £7.00

Tal Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1960 – 66 Thomas 1st ed. Batsford ‘79 160pp c. 414 gms in figurine. languageless analysis. Tournament X-tables. indexes of openings & opponents. DW VG £7.50

Tal Another copy in SB VG £6.75

Tal Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1967 – 73 Thomas 1st ed. Batsford ‘79 176pp c. 500 gms in figurine with languageless analysis. Tournament X-tables. £7.50 indexes of openings & opponents. HB DW VG+

Tal The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal by Tal. Cadogan ‘97 A republication of the 1976 ed. 100 gms in figurine analysed by Tal with full context. Biography takes form of an interview. Foreword by Nunn. £12.00 496pp Tournament & match record. Indexes of opponents & openings. SB F

Tal Mikhail Tal: Tactical Genius by Raetsky & Chetverik Everyman ‘04 Short biography. Some of his best games analysed but mostly puzzles from 160pp Tal’s positions to test the reader, who can thereby pretend to be Tal for a few £9.50 minutes. SB AN F-

Tal Selected Games of Mikhail Tal by j. Hajtun 1st ed. Pitman 1961 145pp 64 annotated games with diagrams. Good portrait photos £10.00 HB VG+

Another copy G £8.00

Tal Selected Games of Mikhail Tal Hajtun Dover 1975 145pp 64 annotated gms. A republication of the 1961 ed. SB VG+ £7.50

Tal Attack With Mikhail Tal Tal & Damsky Cadogan ‘94 In this, his last book, Tal shows how to unleash devastating attacks in all kinds - of position using his games in figurine with diagrams. AN HB Ex Lib. Front £5.00 198pp endpaper excised o/w G

Tal Tal’s Winning Combinations by Tal & Khenkin 1st ed. 1980 Routledge 271 diagrams from his games at the start of numerous winning combinations, 409pp and the process and outcome of each. £18.00 DW VG+

Tal The Life & Games of Mikhail Tal by Tal. RHM 1976 100 annotated games with diagrams, autobiographical notes etc. This is one 517pp thick paperback with some wear to covers o/w G+ £8.00

Tal Mikhail Tal’s Best Games of Chess by P. H. Clarke Bell 1973 195pp 50 gms annotated by a respected writer. Indexes of openings & opponents. Red DW chipped o/w VG £11.50

Tal Mikhail Tal’s Best Games of Chess by Clarke 1st ed. Bell 1961 Another copy. Good portrait photo. VG £10.50

Tal Mikhail Tal’s Best Games Of Chess 1951 – ‘60 Hardinge ‘02 A digitised version of the 1961 1st ed ..50 annotated gms with diagrams. 195pp Indexes of openings & opponents. Explanation of the no-longer-used £6.00 descriptive notation. SB VG+

Tal Mikhail Tal – Master of Sacrifice. By Clarke Batsford ‘91 A republication of the 1961 Bell original. Intro by Keene: Preface by Clarke. 195pp 50 annotated games with diagrams. Indexes of opponents & openings. SB £7.00 F

Tal The Chess Psychologist World Champion Tal. by A Liepnieks U.S. 1961 1st ed. 60 annotated games + Tal’s chess quiz positions. Indexes of games, 174pp openings & opponents. Pictorial HB with DW. £9.50

Tal The Chess Psychologist World Champion Tal. by Liepnieks ISHI 2012 174pp Republication of the 1961 original. 60 annotated gms. SB F+ £8.00

Tal Tal The Magnificent by Andy Soltis Ch Digest 90 30 annotated games in AN with diagrams. Interesting biographical insights into 204pp the periods before & after his title win in 1960. SB F+ £9.00

Tal Study Chess With Tal by Tal & Koblenc Batsford ‘81 Intro by Tal. 40 of Tal’s games in which explanations are made and 91

questions asked of the reader, the answers to which are given at the end. £7.50 178pp Indexes of opponents & openings. SB G

Tal Tal Since 1960 by W. H. Cozens BCM Quarterly No. 16 1974 74 annotated games 1960 – ’74. Indexes of openings & opponents. 101pp SB G+ £10.00

Tarrasch, S Tarrasch’s Best Games of Chess by Reinfeld 1st ed. Chatto 1947 183 annotated games with diagrams. Indexes of openings & opponents 385pp DW G- £9.00

Tartakower My Best Games of Chess 1905 – 1930 by Tartakower. Bell 1953 Translated by Golombek.. 100 games annotated with some diagrams. 250pp Tournament match record covering this period. Indexes of opponents & openings. 1st ed. DW in Bell’s classic knights pattern of the time, protected in £12.00 clear plastic, leaving the DW spotless. VG+ .

Tartakower Another copy. With insc. on front endpaper:- “Presented by The Lady Dunsany in memory of The Rt Hon. Lord Dunsany President of the Sevenoaks Chess Club 1903 – £10.00 1957”. Spine rubbed.

Teichmann The Chess Career of Richard Teichmann by Jack Spence Gillam 1995 80pp Revised edition by A. J. Gillam. Biography trans. by A. J. Swift. Tournament & match record. 142 games in figurine with diagrams. Context of games plus some £5.00 annotations. Card covers. VG-

Thomas Chess For The Love Of It A. R. B. Thomas RKB 1973 82pp The author reflects on his career through games. Indexes of opening & opponents. HB DW VG. £7.50

Thomas Chess For The Love Of It A. R. B. Thomas RKB 1973 Another copy inscribed on front endpaper “ For Bruce Hayden from ARB. To be read in small doses only – and never at night” £8.00 HB DW VG+

Thomas Another copy in SB £5.00

Timman Studies & Games Cadogan 96 Mixture of his studies and best games. Some contact with rainwater at some 192pp point causing ruckling at the tops of some pages. SB AN G- £4.75

Timman Timman’s Selected Games - Chess The Adventurous Way Cadogan ‘95 80 annotated games in figurine from 1983–’94 Indexes of opponents & 254pp openings. SB F- £9.00 Timman Another copy with some evidence of water staining to top edges of c.first 50 pp o/w G £5.00

Topalov Veselin Topalov – Ex-World Champion-Selected Games by Guliev BCP 2017 90 deeply-annotated gms in figurine between 1991 – 2016 with diagrams.

Foreword by Topolov. Indexes of openings & opponents. £12.50 467pp Pictorial HB F+

Torre, E Legendary Chess Careers – Eugenio Torre with Tibor Karolyi Evolution ‘16 Interview between Torre & Karolyi, followed by 24 of his most memorable £19.95 games in figurine with diagrams often in discussion with the writer, and 121pp annotated accordingly. 7 photos. SB F+ £14.00

Treybal Treybal’s Best Games - Life & Work of a Czech Chess Master by Ladislav Prokes. Prague ‘46 Dr. Karel Treybal (1885 – 1941) a top Czech player was executed by the Nazis, and this book was intended as a tribute a.s.a.p. after the war. 168 games in AN with diagrams & some context and analysis. Several photos of 202p him in action esp. inflicting a win against Tarrasch. D. Blue cloth boards, with £40.00 title in gilt on spine (in English) – the rest of the text is in Czech. Scarce item. LN 3136. VG+

Yates One-Hundred-And-One Of My Best Games Yates 1st ed. 1934 Printing Craft 182pp 100 gms plus 9 added by Winter & Watts after Yates’ early death. A much sought after work. Club stamp Spine dulled o/w VG- £20.00

Yates Another copy. Insc. o/w VG £25.00

Yates One-Hundred And One Of My Best Games McKay 1935 Published a year after the 1st ed. to US standards with sounder binding. Red 182pp cloth boards. Ex-libris plate partly torn out and some light foxing on front £25.00 endpapers o/w G+

Yates One-Hundred-And-One Of My Best Games Yates Moravian Facsimile of the 1934 original. HB F+ £20.00

Weltgeschichte des Schachs (The World History of Chess)

In the pre-computer age, Dr. E. Wildhagen of Hamburg drew up plans to compile and publish a series of books of games by all the chess greats, and from many countries. He had a master plan of 40 projected titles, appearing at a rate of c. Wildhagen one every 6 weeks, though they did not appear in numerical sequence. E.g. the 1st to appear was No. 11 (Lasker), 2nd was No. 18 (Euwe part 1) and 3rd was No. 23 (Botvinnik part 1). The principle was that all games would have a diagram after very 5th move by Black, so that the game could be followed without reference to a physical chessboard. They were all published with red cloth boards and contain between 350 and 550 games, together with a smaller separate appendix (sometimes lost). Usually with players’ full tournament record, opening index, algebraic notation etc. German forewords. Although, on his death, the series came to an end before completion, they have proved very collectible.

Lasker No. 11 in the series. Edited by L. Rellstab 1959 573 gms. AN With separate appendix, spine a little dulled o/w VG £22.00

Capablanca No. 14 in the Series. Edited by Brinckmann 1963 568 gms. AN With separate appendix. Spine a little dulled o/w VG £22.00

Keres No. 21 in the series. 1960 500 gms AN With separate appendix. Spine dulled & 12cm split in cloth on spine. o/w +G £18.00

Keres Another copy 1960 Re-backed retaining original red cloth, though gilt lettering has dulled. o/w G £12.00

Botvinnik No. 23 in the series 1959 400 games. AN With separate appendix. Spine a little dulled & 4cm split in cloth on front of spine. o/w VG- £20.00

Tal No. 25 in series 1961 419 games. AN With separate appendix. Clean cloth boards with bright gilt titles. VG+ £25.00

Tal Another copy as before but spine slightly dulled VG £20.00

Soviet Chess No. 33 in series covering period 1917 – 35 1960 400 games AN With separate appendix. Red cloth boards with spine dulled & one small damp stain on front. o/w VG £18.00

Soviet Chess No. 36 in series 1963 400 games. AN With separate appendix. Red cloth boards with spine dulled o/w VG £18.00

5 - Game Collections – General

Fiscal games

5. Game Collections - General

Alekhine 107 Great Chess Battles 1939-1945 edited & trans.by E. Winter OUP 1980 256pp A collection of the writings of Alekhine’s wartime exile, mostly in Spanish, but £9.00 translated for the 1st time into English. AN HB VG

Alekhine Another copy SB £9.00

Alekhine 256pp Unabridged republication of the OUP 1980 edition. AN SB F Dover 1992 £9.95 Alekhine Another copy. more wear £5.00

Barden Modern Chess Miniatures with W. Heidenfeld. 1st ed. 1960 Routledge 161 annotated games of 25 moves or under, mostly from the 1950s. Index of 148pp players DW VG £9.00

Barden Another copy. Signed on the endpaper “A. R. B. Thomas - Hastings Jan. ‘61” and on the title page “Leonard Barden”. VG £12.00

Beheim Chess With The Masters 100 Classic Games 1834 - 1962 Thames ‘63 Each game annotated with its historical context. DW VG 1st UK 271pp edition. VG £8.50

Beheim Chess With The Masters 100 Classic Games 1834 - 1962 Thames ‘63 Another copy minus DW Insc. VG £6.50

Bird, H. E Chess Masterpieces 1875 London 1875 150 games with annotations from the previous 25 years. HB with decorative 140pp titles in gilt. Bright gilt edges to all pages. VG £70.00

Blanshard, C. T. Classified Chess Games with Notes c. 1904 45 games each with several side-lines explored. Maroon cloth boards with 95pp gilt titles. LN 320l VG £18.00

Bronstein, D 200 Open Games Dover 1991 Concerned only with quality e4-e5 games, each with diagrams & analysis. 240pp DN SB VG+ £8.00

Burgess et al The World’s Greatest Chess Games with Nunn & Emms Robinson ‘98 112 annotated games in figurine & 900+ diagrams looking at arguably the 559pp greatest games of all time. Foreword by Vishy Anand. Indexes of openings & £8.00 players. SB VG+

Burgess et al The Mammoth Book of The World’s Greatest Chess Games Robinson ‘04 703pp Expanded ed. with 125 annotated games in figurine. SB VG+ £9.50

Burgess, G Chess Highlights of the 20th Century – The Best Chess 1900 – 1999 in Historical Gambit 1999 Context. One annotated game per year in figurine with diagram. Plus headlines from 208pp the chess world and world in general. 40 good photos. Pictorial HB £9.50 F £20

Cafferty, B The Soviet Chess Championships with Mark Taimanov Cadogan ‘ 98 52 games from 1920 – 1991 in figurine with annotations & diagrams from 224pp every championship 1920 – 1991, with X-tables . Excellent b&w photos. £12.00 Black cloth boards with silver gilt titles AN DW VG+ £20

Chandler Rampant Chess – 60+ great games by Scottish Masters 2008 With K. Ruxton. 13 Masters, from Aagaard to Shaw, contribute their 5 best 200pp games in figurine, with analysis & diagrams. SB F £9.75 £15

Chernev The 1,000 Best Short Games of Chess 1st UK ed. Hodder 1957 Gms arranged thematically with brief notes. Internally clean DW a bit rubbed 555pp but in its own clear plastic jacket. o/w £15.00

Chernev The 1,000 Best Short Games of Chess 1st UK ed. Hodder 1957 Gms arranged thematically with brief notes. Gilt lettering on spine fading & 555pp back endpaper fraying o/w G- £10.50

Chernev The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played Faber 1966 “62 masterpieces of chess strategy”. Ex-Lib DW in protective cover with 277pp some damage to endpapers. & tape stains. o/w G- £5.00

Chernev The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played Faber 1973 Another copy with some foxing on page edges o/w G- £5.00

Chernev A new edition of this perennial favourite Batsford ‘14 312pp A reprint of the above title. SB AN VG+ £16.00 £7.50

Chernev Chess Strategy and Tactics – 50 Master Games with Reinfeld 1st ed. NY 1933 50 games, annotated with diagrams, in chronological order to show 101pp developments in chess style from Steiniz on. Photo portraits of Capa, £20.00 Alekhine, Kashdan & Flohr. Red cloth boards with fine split on spine & bright gilt titles. VG

Chernev Chess Strategy and Tactics – 50 Master Games with Reinfeld McKay 1946 179pp A republication of the 1933 original. 50 games in chronological order to show developments in chess style. . DW VG £12.00

Chernev The Russians Play Chess 1st ed. McKay 1947 Shocked by the 2 heavy losses of strong US teams to a bunch of (then) relatively unknown Russians, Chernev seeks to discover who they are and 200pp how they came to be that good. £12.00 50 annotated games. Red cloth boards LN 3328. VG

Chernev The Russians Play Chess Dover 1964 Enlarged edition of the 1947 original. 56 annotated master games. SB paper 215pp browned. G- £7.50

Chess Review The Golden Treasury of Chess Arco 1958 571 game scores, many with diagrams. HB with DW. Indexes of players & 326pp openings . VG+ £12.00

Chess Stars Super Tournaments 2000 Soloviov 2001 300 games from 13 top tournaments held in 2000. All deeply annotated by a 446pp suite of 6 GMs, in English & with diagrams. £9.25 SB AN F- £20

Clarke P. H. 100 Soviet Chess Miniatures. 1st ed. Bell 1963 174pp DW in classic 1960s style. VG. £10.00

Clarke P. H. 100 Soviet Chess Miniatures 1st ed. Bell 1963 Another copy. no DW o/w VG £8.75

Clarke P.H. 100 Soviet Chess Miniatures New York ‘73 174pp Another copy, except that this was the for US market with a strikingly different DW. F- £15.00

Clarke P. H. 100 Soviet Chess Miniatures… Dover 2000 174pp Unabridged republication of the Bell original. SB . F+ £9.00

Cload, R Battles Of Hastings – A History of the Hastings International Congress Pergamon 1st ed 1991 141pp 36 annotated games & 40 photos taken at the event. SB F- £10.00

Coles Battles-Royal of the Chessboard 1st ed. Williams ‘48 155pp 50 annotated gms with diagrams in chronological order from McDonnell to Smyslov. DW in protective clear cover. VG+ .£9.00

Coles Battles-Royal of the Chessboard Cadogan ‘95 Another copy SB VG+ £5.00

Divinsky, N Around The Chess World In 80 Years Vol. 1 BCM Quarterly No. 5 BCM 57 annotated games between Lasker & Pillsbury, Rubinstein, Capa, Alekhine & Botvinnick plus a statistical study of their significance. Good b&w photos of £10.00 85pp all combatants except Pillsbury. SB Typescript, G

Divinsky, N Around The Chess World In 80 Years Vol. 2 BCM Quarterly No. 8 BCM 1965 82 annotated gms involving Capa, Alekhine, Botvinnick & Rubinstein, during 99pp a 40 yr span. Typescript. Yiddish stamp and a few pencilled notes. £7.50 Front pages loose o/w G-

Du Mont 200 Miniature Games of Chess 1st ed. Routledge ‘41 Lightly annotated games grouped according to opening. Outright blunders by the loser £6.75 avoided. VG-

Du Mont 200 Miniature Games of Chess 2nd impression Routledge ‘42 Another copy. Insc. Light foxing to endpapers. o/w G £5.00

Du Mont Chess – More Miniature Games 1st ed. Routledge ‘53 222pp 200 annotated games of c. 20 moves grouped by opening. VG £6.00

Eales, R. G Cambridge Chess Chess 1978 92p 64 annotated games with diagrams played by Cambridge University students during the late 1960s & ‘70s. SB F £9.50

Euwe Meet The Masters! Pitman 1940 Euwe examines the credentials of the 8 GMs due to play in the AVRO 279pp tournament. Annotations for each one and excellent portrait photos. HB Pale £6.50 spots on covers o/w G-

Euwe From Steintz To Fischer Belgrade ‘76 c. 50 games in figurine from each World Champion up to Fischer (600 in all) 223pp Annotated Informator-style. Photo, short biog of each in English plus £4.75 tournament records. SB AN VG.

Euwe Bobby Fischer & his Predecessors in the World Championship Bell 1976 74 well-annotated games from Capablanca in 1914 to Fischer in 1972, 200pp comparing Fischer’s strengths & weaknesses to previous champions. DW £7.50 small club stamps o/w VG

Evans, Larry Modern Chess Brilliances Hypermodern 287pp A new ed. (1994) by the Hypermodern Press in AN. Indexes of players & openings. SB F £11.00

Fauber, R. E. Impact Of Genius – 500 Years of Grandmaster Chess ICE 1992 With the help of 229 annotated games the author illustrates how new ideas in 390pp chess are borne out of societal changes. Light foxing to page edges o/w VG £7.50 SB AN

Fine, R. The World’s Great Chess Games 1st US ed. Bonanza ‘51 Many annotated games with diagrams in chronological order, together with NY 287pp short biographies of significant players from Philidor on. DW in clear plastic cover, faded on spine. o/w VG+ £12.00

Fine, R. Another copy except that this was published by Deutsch (1st UK ed.) with a totally Deutch ’52. different DW, also in clear plastic cover. VG+ £12.00

Fine, R Another copy revised & expanded from the 1st editions. SB VG £7.50 Dover ‘83 Fine, R Chess Marches On! McKay 1946 A stocktaking exercise in the wake of WWII. 50 games by modern masters, deeply annotated & diagrams. Unusual in having an intact DW and even more unusual in having been signed on the front endpaper by 6 players: B. H. Wood; A. J. Butcher; W. Ritson-Morry; B. Reilly; B. Barton-Eckett & R. L. £20.00 221pp Aldis. With, on separate papers, the completed X-tables of 2 blitz tournaments the 6 played and Section ‘A’ of the 1st Northampton Congress June 1952. VG

Fine, R Chess Marches On! A vivid record of chess activities in the leading centres of Ch. Review the world 1945 1st edition. A post-war world-wide stocktaking exercise. e.g. Ch. 31 How 221pp Good is Alekhine? 50 annotated games. Insc, “J. A. Fuller”. Spine rubbed £10.00 o/w G

Fine, R Chess Marches On! Ch. Review 45 Another copy DW nibbled along edges but a rare survivor. Inscriptions on 221pp front end-paper include W. Ritson-Morry, B. Reilly, R. L. Aldis, B. H. Wood; £12.00 A. J. Butcher & B. Barton-Eckett. All of these played in a double round rapidplay on 26-02-‘47, won by Wood for whom this was probably the prize. Result chart included

Gligoric, S The World Chess Championship with R. Wade. 1st ed. Batsford ‘72 191pp All games from 1948 – 1969 with the author’s personal knowledge of all the participants. DW VG £8.50

Golombek Fifty Great Games of Modern Chess 1st rep. Bell 1943 88pp Annotated games 1900 – ‘40. DW rubbed. Signed “H. Golombek Morecombe ‘81”. Wartime-quality paper yellowing o/w G £7.00

Golombek Fifty Great Games of Modern Chess 1st rep. Bell 1943 Other copies G- £4.50

Grekov, N Soviet Chess 1st English ed. 1949 Ch. Review 105 games tracing and explaining the rise and rise of the Soviets. Bookplate “Awarded to J. A. Fuller – 2nd prize in the British Correspondence Tourney 1952/3” and signed “J. A. Fuller”. John Fuller (1928 – 2005) was London U-18 champion 1946 and British U-18 256pp champion the same year (beating Gordon Crown in 10 moves in the final round). He did well in the 1949 British championship and at Hastings 1949-50 but then played little other chess. His greatest service to English chess was £20.00 that at school in Harrow he was friendly and played often with a keen player who remained interested in the game and who later became the most significant benefactor English chess has ever known - Jim Slater. Maroon cloth boards, spine slightly faded o/w VG

Grekov, N Another copy No DW o/w VG+ £18.00

Heidenfeld, W Draw! 1st ed, London 1982 64 games (only one of them his) deeply annotated by the author were all 216pp drawn, but nevertheless exciting, interesting and instructive. He died shortly before publication. Proof-read by Nunn who corrected a few oversights & £20.00 contributed an appreciative foreword. Black cloth boards. VG+

Horowitz, A Chess: Games To Remember. 1st UK edition Pelham 1973 266pp 261 games (I per page) with a diagram with a single sentence header to indicate what to look out for. HB DW VG £7.00

Another copy with no DW o/w VG £6.00

Horowitz, A From Morphy To Fischer – A History of the World Championship Batsford ‘73 291pp 120 annotated games and many stories relating to the title matches. The author died shortly before publication. 1st UK edition. DW VG+ £7.50

Ingram, L. C. The Cream of Tournament Chess Part One Chess 1948 75pp 50 games between 1851 – 1878, in parallel descriptive & Algebraic notation. Subsequent volumes s were planned but never published. LN3340. £9.00 PB VG

Foldeak Chess Olympiads 2nd enlarged ed. Corvina ‘69 416pp Gms, X-tables, players etc. from all Olympiads from London 1927 (1st) – Lugano 1968 (18th). DW VG £10.00

Gligoric, S The World Chess Championship with R. Wade 1st ed. Batsford ‘72 All the matches from 1948 (Botvinnik) to 1969 (Spassky). 191pp For each one there are all lightly annotated game scores, progressive score £8.50 charts and settings. DW VG

Golombek Fifty Great Games of Modern Chess 1st ed. Bell 1942 88pp Gms selected from 1900 – 1940 Insc. G £6.50

Golombek Fifty Great Games of Modern Chess Bell Another copy G £4.75

Karolyi & Aplin Genius In The Background Quality 2009 11 chapters each dedicated to a little-known player who has greatly 382pp contributed to the successes of the big stars, as coach, guide or mentor etc. Includes c. 150 of their best games to illustrate their quality as players in their own right. SB F £16.00

Karolyi & Aplin Kasparov: How His Predecessors Misled Him About Chess Batsford ‘09 130 games in figurine with diagrams which were won by his world champion 271pp heroes from the past, but which led to him losing when he tried to copy them too closely. A bit tongue-in-cheek. SB £9.75 F £15

Kasparov, G Kasparov On Modern Chess – Part 1 Revolution in the 70s Everyman ‘07 The writer goes through c. 150 games in figurine with diagrams to illustrate & 416pp explain how Fischer set new standards that were followed by the likes of £15.00 Karpov onward. DW AN F+ £30.00

Kazic, B. M. International Championship Chess – A complete record of FIDE events Batsford ‘74 273 games, with lists of FIDE events, GMs & IMs etc. Indexes of games & 360pp positions. Many photos & tournament X-tables. DW VG+ £12.00

Keene Duels of the Mind – The 12 Best Games of Chess Batsford ‘91 Lightly-annotated games in figurine from Andersson to Kasparov. Excellent £8.25 96pp photos. Pictorial HB VG+

Keene The Spectator Book of Chess – An Anthology 2001-2004 Hardinge ‘04 All the weekly columns from the Spectator magazine during this 3 year span, 152pp each with an annotated game with diagram and a problem/puzzle. SB VG+ £5.50

Keene Contenders for the Crown Batsford ‘94 14 annotated games in figurine from potential World Champions. Table of 160pp results between the main contenders. SB AN F £7.50

Keene/Divinsky Warriors of the Mind - A Quest for the Supreme Genius of the Chess Board. Hardinge ‘89 With Nathan Divinsky An attempt at producing a list of 64 of the great players in rank order, using a 342pp combination of games, results & mathematics. Hence Morphy comes in at 11th : Tal 14th ; Alekhine 18th ; Tchigorin 59th! etc. 19 portraits, games & £9.00 charts DW AN prize sticker on incident cover o/w F

Keres/Hochberg Power Chess – Great Grandmaster Battles From Russia Mckay 1991 Edited by Burt Hochberg, who selected 22 of the 40 games that appeared in the US magazine Chess Life, under the name of Keres. Updated where £12.00 281pp necessary e.g. to algebraic notation Scarce item. SB VG+

Klein, C Chess Games Of Legends Cory 2018 138pp 20 legendary GM games, narrated, illustrated & analysed, with a diagram and explanation every 2 moves. SB F £8.00

König, I Chess from Morphy to Botvinnik – A Century of Chess Evolution. Bell 1951 107 annotated gms classified by openings. Inscribed “To A. R. B. Thomas 1st ed. 202pp with best wishes from I. König – London 14.5.1951”. VG £15.00

König Chess from Morphy to Botvinnik – A Century of Chess Evolution. Bell 1952 Another copy 1st reprint. DW VG £9.50

Korn The Brilliant Touch–Chess Brilliancies Collated & Commented on. Pitman 1950 101pp 240 gms. Signed “J. A. Fuller”. Index of games. HB VG- £6.00

Kotov The Soviet School of Chess with Yudovich Moscow ‘58 390pp Biographies & gms of many Soviet players, both men & women. DW Some light pencil marginalia & foxing on page edges o/w G £5.00

Kotov The Soviet School of Chess with Yudovich Moscow ‘58 Another copy. Insc. “A. R. B. Thomas Paignton 1959”. English VG £10.00

Levy/O’Connell Oxford Encyclopaedia of Chess Games Vol. 1 - 1485 - 1866 OUP 1981 c. 4,000 games + openings in figurine. Indexes of players, openings & 527pp endings. . A few small portraits. Vol. 2 never appeared. £20.00 DW VG+

Lombardy Snatched Opportunities on the Chessboard – Quick Victories in 200 recent master Batsford ‘72 games 1st UK ed. 340pp 200 annotated gms notable for their brevity. DW VG+ £10.00

Another copy without DW o/w G+ £7.00

McDonald, N The Giants of Power Play Everyman2009 88 annotated games from a range of GMs, from Morphy, Alekhine, Bronstein, 239pp Geller & Topolov. SB AN F+ £15.00 £10.75

Mason Social Chess – A Collection of short & Brilliant Games with Historical & Practical London 1900 Illustrations 131 annotated games plus a 32 page discursive introduction. Artistic gilt 174pp design on red cloth boards. LN 3196 . Cloth starting to split on spine o/w a nice clean copy. G+

Moffat, W Memorable Chess Games, Brilliants & Miniatures with Notes Stroud 1913 Only 365 copies were printed of this private project. 321 games arranged by 188pp opening. Original purple cloth boards with bright gilt titles. LN 3212. The porous quality of the paper has tended to attract some light foxing on page £55.00 edges and endpapers. o/w G

Moran World Chess Championship – Steinitz to Alekhine. 1st UK ed. Batsford ‘86 Overview of all matches up to 1939 + all gms in figurine, some annotated. 204pp Index of openings. SB VG+ £10.00

Motwani The Most Instructive Games of the Young Masters Everyman ‘99 26 gms + readers’ challenges, all in figurine. His “young masters” include 176pp Anand, Adams, Kamsky, Topalov, Polgar et al. Indexes of game, puzzles £5.00 & openings. SB AN VG+

Pachman, L Decisive Games In Chess History Dover 1987 65 annotated games that all had a bearing on the outcome of some important 259pp match or tournament. Plus the relevant tournament charts. SB VG £7.50

Phillips, A Chess: 60 Years On With Caissa and Friends Caissa ‘03 144pp 200 games in figurine annotated by gifted British amateurs, c. half involving the author. 38 rarely-seen photos. SB F+ £9.00

Prins, L Master Chess – a Comprehensive Collection of Outstanding Tournament Games. (translated from the Dutch). 1st ed. Pitman 1950 205pp 32 Games & 19 fragments all taken from the 1930s, each with an interesting £15.00 intro. Errata slip. A little foxing to endpapers o/w VG

Pritchett, C Best Games of the Young Grandmasters with Danny Kopec Bell 1980 218pp c. 80 gms in figurine with annotations. The 8 GMs involved include Miles, Kasparov, Timman etc. PB AN VG £7.50

Pritchett, C Great Games By Chess Legends Everyman ‘18 This is 2 of his earlier books, Giants of Innovation & Great Chess Romantics, 319pp put together as one, with the games of 5 great masters from each. 70 games £23.00 in figurine with diagrams, deeply annotated. Indexes of players & openings. SB AN VG+ £15.00

Reinfeld, F British Chess Masters Past & Present. 1st ed. Bell 1947 93pp 52 gms from 1821–1946 by Masters, now all past DW G £6.50

Another copy bearing the insignia of King Edward V1 Grammar School Birmingham in bright gilt on the front cover (Alexander & Tony Miles’ alma mater). Hand-written index £4.00 of openings o/w G-

Reinfeld, F Chess Masters On Winning Chess – 19 Great Masters Analyze Their Finest Collier ‘74 Games. Intro by Horowitz “The product of one of Reinfeld’s most fruitful ideas”. Neatly hand-written 260pp index of openings. Index of sources of annotations. SB 10 pp ruckled at top £4.50 corner o/w G

Reinfeld, F A Treasury of British Chess Masterpieces 1st ed. Chatto 1950 244pp 100 annotated gms 1798 – 1948. with intros to each. Index of openings. Some light foxing to endpapers o/w G+ £12.00

Reinfeld, F Great Games By Chess Prodigies – the outstanding early games of Morphy, McMillan Capablanca, Reshevsky & Fischer 1st ed 1967 56 clearly annotated games with introductions to each. Over half being by 246pp Fischer. DW VG+ £12.00

Reinfeld, F Great Short Games Of The Chess Masters Collier 1969 80 games of mostly under 20 moves with diagrams at the crunch point, and 221pp the mistakes fully explained.. Small SB G- £4.50

Reinfeld, F Chess Strategy and Tactics - Fifty Master Games Selected and Annotated. with 1st ed. Irving Chernev. Black Knight Press New York 1933 Summaries of each player involved, with some photos. Glossy paper. 101pp Maroon cloth boards with 1cm split at rear top of spine. Fine portrait of £20.00 Steinitz. VG

Reinfeld, F Chess For Amateurs – How To Improve Your Game. revised reprint Pitman 1956 10 “lessons” using a different opening as the basis for each one, and a 98pp concise summary of what has been demonstrated. HB DW

Reshevsky, S Great Chess Upsets 1st ed. Faber 1976 312pp 70 annotated games by Masters from Anderssen to Karpov., with contexts. DW VG+ £10.00

Reti, R Masters of the Chessboard. Bell 1958 211pp 66 games, biographies & styles of the masters from Anderssen to Alekhine. "One of the finest works on the game." HB G+ £10.00

Reti, R Masters of the Chessboard Bell 1961 Another copy. DW G+ £10.00

Reti, R Masters of the Chessboard Batsford ‘87 Another copy. SB G+ £9.00

Sergeant, P. W Championship Chess – An historical & critical study of the game and the master Eyre 1938 players down to the 1937 match for the title, with 52 selected championship games in detail.

Sergeant, P. W Championship Chess – Great Games by World Champions Dover 1963 257pp Overview of the World Championship up to 1937 plus 66 annotated gms. SB VG+ £9.00 Another copy by Dover slightly more wear £6.00

Stǻhlberg, G Chess And Chessmasters 1st ed. Bell 1955 The Swede’s 1st book to be translated into English looks at 21 top 20th 130pp century players, with Golombek adding a chapter on Stǻhlberg himself. 44 £19.00 games with diagrams. Classic Bell DW F-

Stǻhlberg, G Chess And Chessmasters 1st ed. Bell 1955 Another copy. Insc. DW with small brown spot, but in protective cover. VG+ £18.00

Soloviov, S Super Tournaments 2000 Ch. Stars 01 300 games in figurine with diagrams, all from top tournaments in the 2000s. 446pp X-tables for each event. Detailed analysis of each game. Index of openings. £15.00 SB F £20

Spielmann, R The Art Of Sacrifice In Chess McKay 1976 198pp The authur defines the different types, and provides 37 illustrative games with diagrams at the crucial points. PB G £4.50

Steiner, L Kings Of The Chess Board 1948 (Steiner’s First Australian Book) Sydney 1949 58pp 26 well-annotated games from his European tour of that year sponsored by the Australians, and descriptions of his opponents. SB with DW VG Scarce £19.00 item

Stohl, I Instructive Modern Chess Masterpieces Gambit ‘01 318pp 50 “sensational” games in figurine from the 1990s deeply analysed with notes and diagrams. Indexes of openings & players SB VG+ £14.00

Taimanov, M The Soviet Championships (with B. Cafferty) Cadogan ‘98 Covers the years 1920 (Alekhine) – 1991 (Minasian). X-tables & annotated 224pp games from all 58 events. 16 sharp b&w photos. DW AN spine a little £12.75 sunned o/w F-

Tarrasch, Dr. S Die Moderne Schachpartie Olms 1986 Edition Olms 3rd reprint of this facsimile of the Leipzig 1916 original. 223 455pp annotated games with diagrams grouped by openings. £20.00 HB DW F+

Tartakower, S Die Hypermoderne Schachpartie

Tartakower, S: 500 Master Games of Chess Bell, 1952 308pp Comprises Book 1 Open Games: Books 2&3 Semi Open & Closed Games, Insc. Club stamps. d. blue cloth boards rubbed o/w internally G. £5.00

Tartakower 500 Master Games of Chess (3 books in 1 volume). With Du Mont Dover 1975 665pp Games from c.1850 – 1950 grouped into openings. SB VG+ £10.00

Tartakower 500 Master Games of Chess (3 books in 1 volume). With Du Mont Dover 1975 Another copy slightly more worn £10.00

Another copy £8.00

Timman Timman’s Titans – My (10) World Chess Champions NIC 2016 Biographical introductions to each one, with personal memories. before a 332pp selection of their games. C. 120 games in figurine. Indexes of names & £12.00 games. SB AN VG+

Wade, R. G. Soviet Chess London 1968 288pp A history of chess in Russia, with 120+ annotated games from Tchigorin – Stein. 15 significant X-tables. Also problemists & lady players. Black cloth boards. DW F £14.00

Wall, B 500 Sicilian Miniatures CEI ‘83 107pp

Wellmuth The Golden Treasury of Chess 1st ed. 1943 Ch. Review 304pp 540 gms with a few notes. 15 good photos that do not appear in later editions. Indexes of players & openings. Blue cloth boards £15.00 with gilt titles & chessboard design. VG

Wellmuth The Golden Treasury of Chess Arco 1958 326pp 571 gms in larger ed. with Wellmuth’s name dropped. DW VG £12.00

Wenman, P. Games From Monte Carlo Leeds 1945 87pp 50 lightly annotated games from the 1901 – 04 tournaments. LN5258. blue cloth boards rubbed o/w G .£9.50

Wenman, P One Hundred Chess Gems 4th ed. Leeds 1943 144pp Small format. Insc. VG £4.50

Wenman, P Gems of the Chessboard Pitman 1945 84pp 57 lightly annotated games with a key diagram to each. Red cloth boards. G £5.50

Wicker, K. 200 Modern Brilliances Batsford ‘81 133pp Miniatures each with a diagram & notes. £5.50 G+

Wilson, F Lesser-Known Chess Masterpieces 1906 – 1915 1st Dover 1967 ed. 369pp All 335 gms taken from the British Year-Book of Chess. SB F- £10.00

Wilson, F Lesser-Known Chess Masterpieces 1906 – 1915 1st Dover 1967 ed. Another copy with some neat red underlining o/w G £7.00

Wilson, F. Classical Chess Matches 1907 – 1913 Dover 1975 227pp 157 games from 19 matches as reported in The Year Book of Chess. SB G+ £10.00

Winter, W Kings Of Chess – Chess Champions of the 20th Century Dover ‘66 A Selection of annotated games by Lasker, Capablanca, 271pp Alekhine, Euwe, & Botvinnik, with short biographies and photos £9.50 of each. An unabridged and corrected republication of the 1954 original by Carroll & Nicholson. SB VG.

Winter, E. G World Chess Champions 1st ed. 1981 Pergamon 185pp Tournament & match records of all players. Indexes of games & openings. Photos of all champions up to Karpov. Perceptive £9.00 biographical accounts of each along with 40 of their best games.

6 – Endings

By A. Ciucurencu (1917-77)

6. Endings.

Alburt, L Just The Facts! – Winning Chess Endgames (& N. Krogius) Circ 2005 410pp US Book of the Year 2001. SB AN VG £15.00

Averbakh, Y Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge 1971 reprint Pergamon 135pp A classic work, translated by Peter Clarke HB VG- £6.50

Averbakh, Y Another copy 1982 reprint. SB VG+ £7.50

Averbakh, Y Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge 2nd ed. Pergamon 87 97pp £7.50

Averbakh, Y Pawn Endings with I. Maizelis. Ch. Digest ‘74 911 examples with diagrams, many from studies. Indexes of 318pp players, composers & analysts. DW VG+ £12.00

Averbakh, Y Queen & Pawn Endings. 1st UK ed. Batsford ‘75 The 2nd title to appear in Averbakh’s classic series, which was 144pp edited by K. J. O’Connell, with further input by T. D. Harding & Dr. £10.00 Neat. 268 examples, each with its own diagram. DW VG+

Averbakh, Y Bishop v Knight Endings 1st UK ed. Batsford ‘77 165pp 3rd title in the series. 325 examples, each with its own diagram. £9.25 Foreword by Averbakh. DW VG+

Another copy minus DW but with titles in bright gilt. £7.50

Another copy DW Ex Lib with front endpaper excised o/w G- £6.75

Averbakh, Y Bishop Endings 1st UK ed. Batsford ‘77 4th title in the series. 370 examples each with its own diagram.. Sole 167pp B; vs opposite & same colour Bs. Prefaces by Editor & Translator. £10.00 DW VG+

Averbakh, Y Knight Endings with V. Chekhover 1st UK ed. Batsford 77 5th title in the series. 267 positions each with its own diagram. 133pp Prefaces by the Editor & Translator. DW VG+ £10.00

Averbakh, Y Rook v Minor Piece Endings. 1st UK ed. Batsford ‘78 6th title in the series. 312 examples, each with its own diagram. 162pp Translator’s Preface. DW VG+ £10.00

Averbakh, Y Another copy, with single name insc. & some water staining to final chapter o/w G- £4.75

Averbakh, Y Queen v Rook/Minor Piece Endings (& Chekover & Henkin) Batsford ‘ 78 7th volume in the series. Translator’s Foreword. Covering Q vs R + 1st UK ed. 174pp (N or B) with or without pawns. 323 positions, each with its own diagram. DW VG+ £8.00

Another copy Ex lib. o/w G £4.75

Averbakh, Y Rook v Minor Piece Endings DW 1st UK ed. Batsford ‘78 162pp 312 diagrams DW VG £12.00

The following series of 5 titles is a development of the earlier successful and popular Batsford series, incorporating subsequent developments in the art. The later titles have become increasingly scarce to a point where, at one time, a number of experts were of the opinion that Vol. 5 was a “phantom book”, i.e. planned but never actually completed or published. But here it is – a collector’s piece. All large format with attractive pictorial covers. Comprehensive Chess Endings Vol 1: Part 1 Bishop Endings & Part 2 Pergamon rep Averbakh, Y Knight Endings. with V. Chekhover. ‘91 Prefaces to the English ed. & 1st ed. 3 full pages by Averbakh. 553 213pp positions each with its own diagram & analysis. Indexes of players £17.00 & analysts. AN SB F-

Comprehensive Chess Endings Vol. 3: Part 1: Queen & Pawn Endings: Pergamon 1st Averbakh, Y Part 2: Queen vs Rook Endings & Part 3: Queen vs Minor Piece Endings. ed. ‘86 With V. Henkin. 734 positions each with its own diagram. 2 page preface by the 309pp author. Indexes of players & analysts. AN SB VG+ £17.00

Averbakh, Y Comprehensive Chess Endings Vol. 4: Pawn Endings. With Ilya Maizelis Pergamon 1st (2 earlier colleagues had died.) ed ‘87 766 positions each with its own diagram & analysis. Indexes 296pp of players & analysts. AN. HB. club stamp on page edges o/w £15.00 VG+

Comprehensive Chess Endings Vol. 5: Rook Endings. Pergamon 1st Averbakh, Y With N. Kopayev as Maizelis was now dead. ed. ‘87 Reputedly scarcest of the set. 808 positions each with their own diagram. Preface by the author. 326pp Indexes of players & analysts. AN HB £22.00 Club stamp on page edges o/w VG+

Ban, J The Tactics of End-Games Pitman 1963 240 positions explained. HB with pictorial front cover. Index. VG+ 214pp £7.50

Barden, L How To Play The Endgame In Chess Collins ‘75 203 diagrams, each accompanied by explanations & advice on best £7.00 128pp play. DW VG+

Beliavsky, A Winning Endgame Technique with A. Mikhalchishin Batsford ‘01 Many examples with diagrams and advice in figurine on best play. £7.00 192pp Indexes of games and composers. SB AN F

Beliavsky, A Winning Endgame Strategy with A. Mikhalchisin 1st ed. Batsford ‘00 208pp Many examples with diagrams and advice in figurine on best play. 100 test diagrams with solutions together at the back. Indexes of £6.75 games and composers. SB AN F-

Beliavsky, A Modern Endgame Practice (with A. Mikhalchisin) Batsford ‘03 A development of their previous title with 422 diagrams/ examples of 208pp how to exploit opponents’ errors in figurine. 36 tests with solutions £7.50 at the end. SB F £15

Blake, J. H. Chess Endings for Beginners. Not in LN. 5th ed. c. 1904 Routledge 75pp Red cloth boards with gilt titles. Small insc. Small format o/w G £10.00

Bouwmeester Modern End-Game Studies for the Chess-player Bell 1959 128pp Translated by Golombek & signed by him above his name on the title page. DW in protective jacket. Some foxing to early pages o/w £10.00 G

Bouwmeester Another copy. DW G £6.50

The following set of 4 books represented the culmination of many year’s work, aiming to present all known information about the basic endgame, together with the best related studies. This is a matching set in red bound cloth with gilt titling. From the library of the late R. A. Slade, former champion of the West of England and several counties. All in identical condition, in German. We are hoping to keep the set together for a price of £40.00 o.n.o.

Chéron Lehr-Und Handbuch der Endspiele: Band I Turm-Endspiele Berlin 1960 354pp (Endings involving rooks) 559 diagrams. AN Insc. VG+

Chéron Lehr-Und Handbuch der Endspiele: Band II Berlin 1964 468pp (a) Elementary mates (b) Pawn Endings (c) Knight & Bishop Endings. 905 diagram AN Insc. VG+

Chéron Lehr-Und Handbuch der Endspiele: Band III Berlin 1958 343pp Endings involving queens (b) promotions. 578 diagrams. Insc. AN VG+

Chéron Lehr-Und Handbuch der Endspiele: Band Iv Berlin 1970 328pp 240 diagrams. Insc. AN VG+

Chernev Capablanca’s Best Chess Endings OUP 1978 60 complete games with the endings starting from diagrammed 288pp positions. Indexes of openings, themes & opponents. His £10.00 tournament & match record. Pictorial HB AN VG+ Chernev Another copy. OUP 1978 SB £7.00

Chernev Another copy Dover 1982 SB VG £5.50

Chernev Practical Chess Endings 1st ed. Faber 1962 318pp 1 diagram & analysis per page. Stylish DW VG+ £8.00 Chernev Another copy. DW Water stains to top of early pages. o/w G £5.00

Chernev Another copy DW VG 1973 reprint £7.25

Chernev Chessboard Magic! A Collection of 160 Brilliant Chess Endings Dover 1960 Intro by Fine. Each example fits neatly onto a page with its diagram 162pp & solution. Index of composers SB G £4.50

Chernev 200 Brilliant Endgames Fireside ‘89 “The last work by one of America’s most treasured chess writers”. 223pp Preface by Pandolfini; Intro by Adam Hart-Davis. One diagram per £9.50 page with accompanying solution. SB AN F-

Cunnington, E. Selected Chess Endings 1st ed. Routledge’03 88pp Red cloth boards with gilt titles. LN 2202. small format £10.00

Emms, J The Survival Guide To Rook Endgames Everyman 99 160pp SB AN F- £7.50

Euwe A Guide To Chess Endings with D. Hooper 1st ed. Routledge ‘59 248pp Intro by the authors. Indexes of players, composers & analysts. £7.00 DW VG

Euwe A Guide To Chess Endings with D. Hooper Dover 1976 248pp An unabridged republication of the McKay 1960 original. Some chips to DW top & bottom of spine o/w G- HB £6.00

Fine Basic Chess Endings McKay 1941 573pp Various editions, all in good condition. Slight differences in the shades of blue on the HB covers. £9.00

Flear, G Improve Your Endgame Play Everyman 00 160pp Basic explanations & exercises for all categories, by a respected author and player. SB AN VG £13.0 0 £7.50

Griffiths, P. C Exploring The Endgame Black 1984 50 annotated games with diagrams, but concentrating on how the 220pp endgames arose and are played out. Signed by author. £6.00 p1 is loose o/w VG SB AN

Griffiths, P. C The Endings In Modern Theory & Practice Bell 1976 The 108 diagrams from known games are starting points for discourses on 176pp how one should best proceed. HB DW £8.00 Signed by the author. VG

Hooper A Pocket Guide To Chess Endgames reprint Bell 1973 197pp 800 positions from simple mates to rook endings. DW VG+ £4.00

Hooper A Pocket Guide To Chess Endgames reprint Bell 1979 143pp Entry level work explaining the basic principles. Green SB VG+ £4.00

Hooper Practical Chess Endgames Insc 1st ed. Routledge ‘60 143pp Entry level work explaining the basic principles. SB G+ £3.75

Hooper Practical Chess Endgames Routledge ‘73 143pp Entry level work explaining the basic principles. SB VG+ £3.75

Hooper A Pocket Guide To Chess Endgames Bell 1980 197pp 800 positions from simple mates to rook endings. SB VG+ £7.50

Horowitz How To Win In The Chess Endings 1st UK ed. Kaye 1957 234pp 171 diagrams DW VG+ £6.50

Ch. Informant Encyclopaedia of Chess Endings. Vol. 1 Pawn Endings Belgrade 1982 1,610 pawns-only endings, each with a diagram and identifying the best 383pp continuations in language-less figurine notation, with computer help & a team of experts inc. Botvinnik, Hort, Hübner & Miles et al. Index of games. £10.00 HB DW F

Ch. Informant Encyclopaedia of Chess Endings. Vol. 2 Rook Endings. (part 1) Belgrade 1985 1,727 rook endings, each with a diagram and identifying the best 422pp continuations in language-less figurine notation, with computer help & a £10.00 team of experts inc. Karpov; Kasparov; Nunn; Timman et al. Index of games HB DW F

Ch. Informant Encyclopaedia of Chess Endings. Vol. 3 Rook Endings. (part 2) Belgrade 1985 1,746 rook endings, each with a diagram and identifying the best continuations in language-less figurine notation, with computer help & a 426pp team of experts inc. Karpov; Korchnoi; Kasparov; Nunn; Timman, Miles et al. Index of games. HB DW F £10.00 Ch. Informant Encyclopaedia of Chess Endings. Vol. 4 Queen Endings Belgrade 1989 1,781 queen endings each with a diagram and identifying the best 446pp continuations in language-less figurine notation, with computer help & a team of experts inc. Nunn; Speelman et al. Index of games. HB DW F £10.00

Ch. Informant Encyclopaedia of Chess Endings. Vol. 5 Minor Piece Endings Belgrade 1993 2017 endings each with a diagram and identifying the best continuations in 563pp language-less figurine notation, with computer help & a team of experts inc. £10.00 Nunn; Speelman; Timman; Karpov et. al. HB DW F+

Informator Encyclopaedia of Chess Endings – Vol. 5 Minor Piece Endings 1993 563pp Mostly languageless but multilingual where necessary. AN DW VG+ £10.00

Jacobs, B. Modern Practical Endings B vs N Tournament Chess 1992 58pp 17 complete games in figurine and diagrams from the start of the endgame to the conclusion. Easily followed. F £3.50

Karolyi Endgame Virtuoso – Anatoly Karpov (with N. Aplin) NIC 2007 358pp Karpov’s 105 best endgames. AN SB F- c.£25.00 £12.00

Keres, P. Practical Chess Endings. 1st UK ed. Batsford ‘ 74 Pages 191 – 206 (dealing with Bishop endings) missing due to binding 262pp error. DW o/w G+ £5.00

Keres, P. Practical Chess Endings. 1st UK SB ed. Batsford ‘ 74 262pp Preface by Keres. Separate sections on Pawn, Queen, Rook, Bishop & Knight endings. £7.00

Kosten, T Winning Endgames Crowood ‘87 119pp SB Figurine VG £7.00

Levenfish Rook Endings with Smyslov 3rd impression. Batsford ‘75 From the simplest to most complex in this category, analysed with 318 £8.00 224pp diagrams. Index of Names AN DW VG

Löwenfisch Teoria de Finales de Torre (with Smyslov) Barcelona ‘60 196pp The Theory of Rook Endings – the Spanish version. SB G £3.75

Mednis The King In The Endgame CEI 1997 104pp Correctly used the K can be as good as a minor piece, according to Tal. SB AN F £6.75

Mednis Rate Your Endgame (upgraded by Colin Crouch) Cadogan ‘92 239pp Features testing move by move, awarding marks for good answers. SB AN some light foxing to inside covers o/w G £5.50

Mieses, J Chess Endings from Modern Master Play. 2nd ed. Routledge 1901 2nd ed. LN 2194 Red cloth boards with gilt titles. Small format. 33 115pp diagrammed starting points, each having the correct plan explained. G £10.00

Mieses, J Manual Of The End-Game Bell 1947 70pp

Müller, K Fundamental Chess Endings – A new endgame encyclopaedia for the 21st century. Gambit 2002 F. Lamprecht Foreword by Nunn. 11 categories each with comprehensive analyses in 416pp figurine, explanations & diagrams & exercises at the back. Indexes of £10.00 players & composers. SB VG+ £20.00

Nesis, G Exchanging to Win In The Endgame Translated by J. G. Gorodi Batsford ‘91 Ways of doing this are shown from actual master games & episodes, in 168pp words with diagrams. Moves in figurine. SB VG+ £7.25

Nunn J. D. M. Nunn’s Chess Endings Vol. 1 Gambit ‘10 A renowned expert explains ideas in real-game situations. 319pp SB AN F £18.00 £11.75

Nunn J. D. M. Nunn’s Chess Endings Vol. 2 Gambit ‘10 Continuing his explanations but concentrating on those involving 1 or 2 351pp rooks, the most complex. SB AN F £18.00 £11.75

Nunn, J. D. M. Tactical Chess Endings 1st ed. Unwin 1981 Positions categorised according to main ideas (mate, promotion etc.) 204pp diagrams to aid the text. DW AN VG+ £8.00 Nunn, J. D. M. Tactical Chess Endings Batsford ‘88 208pp 1st SB edition of the 1981 original. VG+ £8.00

Nunn, J. D. M. Secrets of Rook Endings. Batsford 1992 Comprehensive coverage of all types of ending involving R+P vs R. 534 320pp diagrams. Figurine. SB VG+ £18 £9.00

Nunn, J. D. M. Secrets Of Pawnless Endings. Batsford 1994 Comprehensive coverage of all significant 4 & 5- man endings without 320pp pawns. 458 diagrams. Figurine. SB VG+ £18 £9.00

Nunn, J. D. M. Secrets Of Minor-Piece Endings. Batsford ‘95 Comprehensive coverage of many types of this combination. 382 diagrams. 288pp Figurine. Index of players & composers. SB VG+ £9.00 £18.

Nunn, J. D. M. Secrets of Rook Endings. Gambit 1999 352pp An expanded edition of his original Batsford book, now under his own label, 573 diagrams. Exercises with solutions. Figurine. SB VG £9.00 £15

Another copy with water staining at front of book – hence price £2.00

Onions& Regis Ten Ways To Succeed in the Endgame 1997 53pp Simple set-out for Juniors. With cartoons. Signed. SB AN F £4.75

Pandolfini Endgame Workshop – Principles for the Practical Player. Russell ‘09 A set of 30 lessons from recognising & using the Opposition to Rook Tricks. 251pp Index of concepts. SB AN F £9.50

Rabinowitsj I. L Paard-en Lopereindspelen (knight & bishop endgames) 1st ed. 1948 Holland 114pp 117 diagrams. LN 2261 VG £20.00

Ravenscroft, E Fifty Forced Mates – A Collection of Gems Hollings LN 2133 no date. Errata slip passed in. All intended to be solved by sight. 40pp Small format. Not a classic but v. scarce. G £15.00

Reinfeld, F Reinfeld on the End-Game In Chess Dover 1957 Analyses 62 examples from master play up to 1940 in everyday language. 177pp Indexes of endings & themes. SB VG £6.00

Another copy £4.00

Reinfeld, F Practical Endgame Play Pitman 1946 177pp The communicator par excellence explains it all in this 1st ed. DW with £5.00 chips out of the top edge o/w G

Schuster, T End Games In Chess – The Essential Techniques for Winning Lutterworth’77 64pp Translation of the 1975 German original. AN SB G+ £4.25

Shereshevsky, Endgame Strategy Pergamon ‘96 Foreword by Yusupov. Based on classic examples from GM chess & with 218pp modern examples & games. Indexes of players & materials. SB £7.00 AN VG

Shereshevsky, Endgame Strategy Moscow 1988 303pp SB VG £2.25

Smith, K Essential Chess Endings Explained Move By Move Vol. 2 Intermediate to Master Ch. Digest ‘92 292pp 272 examples from diagrams, lucidly explained. SB AN F- £7.75

Speelman, J Batsford Chess Endings with Tisdall & Wade. 1st ed. Batsford ‘93 Large format designed for ease of reference. Covers all types of endgame 448pp position. SB AN VG+ £10.00

Speelman, J Endgame Preparation Batsford ‘86 The author’s follow-up to Analysing The Endgame. 177pp 282 diagrams. Indexes of players, analysts & themes. Figurine, £7.50 SB AN VG

Speelman, J Analysing The Endgame 1st ed. Batsford 1981 3 sections – (a) Basic Endings; (b) Limits of analysis: (c) Practical endings. 143pp Indexes of players, composers, material & themes.

Speelman, J Analysing The Endgame 2nd edition revised Batsford ‘88 172pp Figurine. SB pages starting to yellow slightly o/w G+ £8.00

Staudte, H. H Das 1X1 Des Endspiels Berlin 1965 255 diagrams with explanations in German. Index of players. 164pp SB G £3.00

Tattersall, C A Thousand End-Games Vol. I - a Collection of Chess Positions that can be Won Leeds 1910 or Drawn by the Best Play 480 positions. Green thick card covers. Pale brown water stain to spine, but 211pp internally clean and undamaged. Binding still strong LN2218 . G+ £30.00

Tattersall, C A Thousand End-Games Vol. II - a Collection of Chess Positions that can be Won Leeds 1911 or Drawn by the Best Play 520 positions with solutions at the back. Makes a matching pair with £30.00 200pp previous Vol. 1

Tattersall, C A Thousand End-Games Vol. I - a Collection of Chess Positions that can be Won Leeds 1910 or Drawn by the Best Play 480 positions. Green thick card covers. Pale brown water stain to spine, but 211pp internally clean and undamaged. Binding still strong LN2218. Signed on £30.00 the front endpaper “H. J. Pearman – Prizewinner in the Observer’s 18th Solving Tourney. 1915 Brian Harley” . G+

Tattersall, C A Thousand End-Games Vol. II - a Collection of Chess Positions that can be Won Leeds 1911 or Drawn by the Best Play 520 positions with solutions at the back. Makes a matching pair with 200pp previous Vol. 1. Both volumes have had their spine reinforced £30.00 professionally with black bookbinder’s tape. Signed “H. J. Pearman” in Harley’s handwriting. A matching pair with the previous Vol. 1.

Tattersall, C A Thousand End-Games Vol. I. - a Collection of Chess Positions that can be Won Leeds 1911 or Drawn by the Best Play Another copy. Light brown cloth boards with titles in bright gilt. Clean copy 211pp with no mark or other issues. VG+ £40.00

Another copy with D. Blue cloth boards, & titles in bright gilt. Insc. “(To) J. 211pp Wilson Esq. - Winner Lincolnshire Chess Association Senior Tournament £40.00 1911 - 12

Tattersall, C A Thousand Chess Endings Vol. 1 NY 1974 211pp A facsimile SB edition by Hippocrene Books of the original. Intro by Frank Brady. SB VG+ £10.00

Tattersall, C A Thousand Chess Endings Vol. 2 NY 1974 200pp A facsimile edition by Hippocrene Books of the original. Intro by Frank Brady. SB VG+ £10.00

Troitzky 360 Brilliant & Instructive Endgames Dover 1968 192pp A republication of the 1961 original. SB VG+ £7.00

Ward, C Endgame Play Batsford ‘96 5 main sections, starting with 1st principles. Many practical test positions. 128pp Figurine. SB VG+ £7.00

Wenman 100 Remarkable Endings Leeds 1944 52pp Not much actual endgame instruction – just sudden endings. SB £4.00 G

Whitaker 365 Selected Endings with Hartleb 1960 Heidelberg Bi-lingual German/English. 2 diagrams per page with solutions in final section. PB VG- £7.50

Whitworth Mattison’s Chess Endgame Studies intro by Hildebrand BCM 1987 79pp 60 studies by the Latvian PB AN F £8.00

7 - Problems, Studies & “Puzzles”

Problem indeed – that bishop can’t move

7. Problems, Studies & “Puzzles”

Addison The Book of Extraordinary Chess Problems Crowood ‘89 120 diagrams giving some of the more unusual/crazy positions. 115pp DW AN VG £6.00

Alberston, B 606 Puzzles For Chess Nuts with Fred Wilson Sterling 2008 Positions designed to sharpen the instincts at 3 levels: Beginner, Intermediate, 367pp Tournament. SB F £8.00

Alberston, B 212 Surprising Checkmates with Fred Wilson Russell 2011 Positions with 1, 2, and 3 checkmates, all designed to increase a player’s skill & 152pp speed analysing & solving chess problems. SB F £7.50

Alberston, B 303 Tactical Chess Puzzles with Fred Wilson Sterling 2002 Sharpening-up exercises at 3 levels – beginner, intermediate & tournament, with 222pp one-word clue above each diagram. Official US Mensa Puzzle book. SB with front cover folded. o/w G+

Alberston, B Chess Mazes Russell 2004 204 positions to scan for the best way to avoid a threatened mate by making best 138pp use of your pieces. SB F+ £8.00

Alberston, B Chess Mazes - 2 Russell200 8 Same formula as previously with 205 more educative examples . Introductory 141pp chapter containing advice for the job in hand. SB F £8.00

Alberston, B Take & Mate – 200 Chess Problems With A Twist Sterling 2006 200 3-mover positions, in which (a) White moves (b) Black replies with his best 128pp reply (c) White make his 2nd move and should be able to mate on his 3rd move. £8.00 Answers given. SB F

Anderson,G F Adventures Of My Chessmen 1914 - 1923 Stroud 1924 160pp 120 problems composed between these dates, mostly in 2, 3 & 4 moves, all with solutions and explanations for some. Foreword by the author & Introduction by W. H. Thomson. Published in the style of books in the Christmas Series as it’s by the £30.00 same publisher. 1st ed. LN 2686. Red cloth boards with gilt titles. Insc. Corner bumped o/w VG.

Andrade, B. J. Andradiana Chess 1961 81pp 256 selected problems with solutions; & his favourite quotes about the problem art. Foreword by C. H. O’D Alexander. VG+ £15.00

Andrews, H The Chess Problem with E. N. Frankenstein, B. G. Laws & C. Planck Cassell 1st ed. (1887) 400 problems & solutions from these 4 great composers, grouped separately for 332pp each, with career prizelist for each. LN 2476. Maroon cloth boards with patterned £65.00 endpapers. Clean copy. VG

Andrews, H The Chess Problem with E. N. Frankenstein, B. G. Laws & C. Planck Tynron 1989 Revised facsimile edition of the 1886. 400 problems & solutions from these 4 great 332pp composers. Includes an essay on the Problem Art. £17.50 PB VG+

Anon. Album Russia 2001 - 2003 Moscow 2005 The 817 best problems & studies of 113 Russian composers, which were published 192pp during 2001 – 2003, are collected (similar to Album FIDE). SB F £8.00

Akobia, I World Anthology of Chess Studies Vol 1: 4,232 Studies with Stalemate Tblisi 1994 544pp 6p intro in English – the rest is languageless. AN VG- £10.00

Akobia, I World Anthology of Chess Studies Volume II – 4492 Studies with Mate Georgia ‘94 214pp 2 page explanatory preface in English by Akobia. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles & rook design £10.00

Archakov, V. The Harmony of the Pawn Study with M. A. Zinar Kiev 1990 144pp 221 diagrams with analysis of positions with king & pawns only. SB with pictorial cover. G+ £3.00

Archakov, V. On A Small Chess Battlefield Kiev 1983 144pp 264 diagrammed positions, mostly mates in 2 or 3 involving a moderate no. of pieces. HB G+ £3.50

Bakcsi, G Kevésbábos Magyar Feladványok Sport ‘82 (Hungarian Chess Problems with 2 – 12 pieces.). 840 positions from a range of composers inc. Gyula, Benkö & Attila (the Hun) 320pp Benedek. HB VG+ £5.00

Barden, L Leonard Barden’s Chess Puzzle Book Faber 1977 149pp c. 300 positions with several different challenges to the potential solver. DW chipped o/w G £6.00

Barnes, B Pick of the Best Chess Problems Elliot 1976 157pp 200 2-movers with comprehensive solutions. PB AN VG £2.00

Barnes, B Complete Mansfield Vol. 1 1911 – 1930 1996 Waterthorp e 52pp 210 of Mansfield’s earliest compositions with solutions and comments. 5 photos. & signed letter from the author. PB AN VG+ £8.00

Beasley, J. D. Some Flights Of Chess Fancy UK 1989 Self-published problems, mostly containing an “element of unorthodoxy”. Inscribed as sent to the Cornish problemist, Dr. M. E. M. Jago as a reward for his participation 42pp in the “Bournemouth Fairies” of 1989. SB comb-bound. VG £7.50

Belchikov, N. I Chess Composition in Belorussia Minsk 1981 144pp 462 diagrams with solutions. SB with pictorial cover. VG+ £2.50

Blackburne S. Terms & Themes of Chess Problems. (1907) Routledge Preface by A. F. Mackenzie. Printed by Will Lyons, Kentucky USA but over-pasted 169pp by a Routledge, London sticker. 314 diagrams with solutions and explanations. LN2543. Insc. Olive cloth covered boards bearing attractive chess piece design. £30.00 VG+

Blackburne S. Terms & Themes of Chess Problems. (1907) Routledge Another copy but PB version with black tape on spine. VG £20.00

Bondarenko, S The Development of the Chess Study Kiev 1982 394 diagrams from between c. 1900 – 1925 with analysis. From master composers 232pp like Kubbel & Troitsky etc. SB. G £3.00

Bondarenko, S The Contemporary Chess Study Kiev 1987 175pp 378 diagrams with analyses. SB VG £2.50

Bouwmeester Modern End-Game Studies For The Chess-Player. Trans by Golombek Bell 1959 100 positions with full explanations next to each one. Classic Bell DW of the period. 155pp VG £14.00

Chekhover, V Chess Studies and Endings Moscow 1959 72pp 84 diagrams with solutions. PB with pictorial cover G £2.50

Chepizhny, V. Chess Compositions 1977-1983. Moscow ‘83 452 diagrams with analyses & solutions. SB with pictorial cover. VG 256pp £3.00

Cordingly, E. 122 Chess Problems, Studies & End Games for the Novice & Student Player. London ‘45 99pp Compositions by Mansfield, Penrose, Loyd et al. G £5.00

Davies, I The Chess Player’s Alice 1990 Cross references connections between chess and Alice in Wonderland. 40pp Typescript VG+ £5.00

Dawson Five Classics of Fairy Chess Dover 1973 An unaltered republication of 5 privately published pamphlets by Dawson between 1935 – 1937. They were Caissa’s Wild Roses (1935); C. M. Fox: His Problems 145pp (1936); Caissa’s Wild Roses In Clusters (1937); Ultimate Themes (1938) & Caissa’s £20.00 Fairy Tales (1947). SB Some marks to bottom of 1st 2 pp not visible when closed o/w G

Dickens, A A Guide To Fairy Chess Q Press ‘67 60pp Limited ed. of which the first 30 were not for sale, and this is No. 9. Addenda slip pasted in. SB F- £14.00

Dickens, A. A Guide To Fairy Chess Q Press ’69 Limited ed. of which this is No. 370. Addenda slip. Ex Lib. This copy was owned by 60pp the problemist Dr. M. E. M. Jago, notorious for using his books as working £12.00 documents; hence the card cover is worn and grubby, but internally clean. G-

Dickens, A A Guide To Fairy Chess 2nd ed. republication of the original Dover 1971 66pp Preface by T. R. Dawson. A comprehensive introduction to the art. Large format. SB £10.00

Dickens, A Another copy 2nd ed. Limited edition of 525 copies of which this is No. 465 and is one of their Q Press “specially bound de luxe copies” i.e. large pictorial HB. ‘69 £12.00

Dickens, A The SeriesHelpmate with John Rice 1st ed. Q Press ‘71 Limited ed. of 300 of which this is No. 90. Red card covers in large format. Short 36pp CVs of both writers. Includes handwritten letter from Rice to Dr. Jago thanking him £18.00 for submitted problems. G

Dickens, A Another copy No. 231 of 300. Red card covers etc. VG £18.00

Dickens, A The SeriesHelpmate with John Rice 2nd ed. Q Press ‘78 Limited ed. of 300 of which 250 were numbered – this is one the 50. Much enlarged 49pp from 1st ed. PB A4-sized VG £18.00

Dickens, A 100 Classics of the Chessboard with Ebert.1st ed. Pergamon 83 217pp Range of types: 2 & 3-movers, historic & weird. SB AN VG £5.00

Dickens, A 100 Classics of the Chessboard with H. Ebert Cadogan ‘95 Another copy PB VG £5.00

Dickens, A Alice In Fairyland 1976 A lecture given to the Lewis Carroll Society. Limited ed. of 250 copies: Nos 1 – 100 24pp signed by the author. £12.00 Copy No. 52 “Anthony Dickins” . VG

Another copy 2nd ed. VG+ £6.00 1979

Ellerman, A 1001 Problemas Grabo 1945 Inscribed in Spanish. “To my friend Herman Verde – sincerely A. Ellerman. B. Aires 28/iv/49.” Preface in Spanish by Alain White from his new home in S. Carolina and 313pp dated May 1944. Ellerman (18893-1969) was one of the greatest composers of 2- £35.00 movers and this was his most notable work. Wartime quality paper has yellowed. o/w G-

Feast, F. B. Chess Cameos - A Treatise On The 2-move Problem 90pp 144 positions by various composers in the various categories. Blue cloth boards. Small format. LN2782. F- £18.00

FIDE Fide Album 1914-1944 / III 1975 199pp The 806 problems adjudged the best by a special committee set up for the purpose of awarding meaningful titles. Section III signified Fairy Chess problems. With solutions. All text in 3 languages – German, English & Russian. Blue cloth boards £25.00 with title in white. VG+

FIDE FIDE Album 1945 – 1955 Zagreb196 4 Tri-lingual throughout. 5 sections i.e. 2-movers, 3-movers; more-movers; Fairies & Studies. In the 1st section alone, there were 2593 entries of which 496 were 479pp selected. 6 positions per page. Altogether 1891 top quality problems, with solutions. £22.00 Fully indexed. Card covers with 1950s style design. G.

FIDE FIDE Album 1956-58 Zagreb 1961 Same formula as preceding book. English representatives include Barnes, Lommer, 187pp Mansfield, Rice, Roycroft, Russ, et al. 661 problems in total. Fully indexed. Card £20.00 covers in 1950s style. G

Dr. S. Gold 200 Schachaufgaben. (200 chess problems) Wien 1883 Thought to be the 1st published problem book by a native-born Hungarian. b.1835. He moved to Vienna where he became the 1st & only chess tutor of Carl Schlecter. Eventually moved to New York c.1892, where he lived in the Bronx, dying there in 1920. £45.00 133pp These problems are all by him. The covers are of paper which has dried out and become brittle. The inner pages have yellowed around the edges but are relatively sound, and the diagrams themselves are clear. The whole is ripe for renovation. LN2458 V. scarce item, hence price

Gosling John Brown – The Forgotten Chess Composer? 1st ed. Matador ‘11 209pp The author has assembled as much biographical facts as are known and 50 of his problems. Signed by author. PB AN F+ £10.00

Grief, M 200 Demanding Chess Puzzles Stirling ‘96 143pp Mostly 3, 4, & 5-movers. With solutions. SB Crease on cover edge o/w VG £5.00

Grondijs, H The Revised Edition Of the Works Of Simkhovich Fruth 1997 Biographical & auto biographical notes on the composer F. M. Simkhovich , who 236pp reputedly died in the seige of Leningrad, along with Troitsky, the Kubbel brothers and half a million others. £15.00 157 of his compositions. Fully indexed. Ltd edition of 350 copies, of which this is No. 239. SB VG.

Gurgenidze, D “Tiny” Endgames Tbilisi 1999 55 studies by the Georgian GM involving only 5 pieces including the kings. The 60pp moves are in figurine algebraic, so are easily followed, but other text is in Georgian (help needed!). Many small photos of the master. PB F £2.50

Harley, B Mate In Two Moves – The Two-Move Chess Problem Made Easy Bell 1947 216pp G £4.75

Harley, B Mate In Two Moves – The Two-Move Chess Problem Made Easy Dover 1970

Another copy. Covers creased G- £3.50

Harley, B Mate In 3 Moves - A treatise on the 3-move problem Chatto 1943 198pp Intro by Alain White. Indexes of composers & related publications. Blue cloth boards with spine a little faded. o/w G £9.00

Herbstman, A Schaakpartij en Compositie (Chess Games & Composition) (1948) Tijdstroom 1st Dutch translation from Russian. LN 2732. Loose erratum page. 73 problematic 55pp positions from actual games DW frayed but intact. £18.00 o/w G

Herbstman, A Studies St. Petersburg 2000 64pp Small diagrams with solutions the back of the book. SB F £3.00

Hochberg, B Award-Winning Chess Problems Sterling ’05 95pp 124 two-movers with hints & solutions. PB VG £5.50

Hoffman, F. Problemschach – 407 Aufgaben & Studien (407 Problems & Studies) Berlin 1985 252pp DW VG £7.50

Howard, D. M. My 100 Best Chess Problems. 2002 Numerous cartoons, anecdotes, sayings etc. to brighten mood as one struggles to 97pp solve. SB VG £7.50

Howard, D. M. My 100 Best Two-Movers 55pp Solutions with explanations to each problem. SB VG+ £6.00

Howard, K S. How To Solve Chess Problems McKay 1945 171p HB 1st US ed. LN2893 G+ £12.00

Howard, K S. How To Solve Chess Problems Dover 1961 171pp Corrected & revised version of the 1945 original. PB AN VG £7.50

Howard, K. S. Classic Chess Problems by Pioneer Composers 1st ed. Dover 1970 155 positions in sections, each based on 1 composer. 109pp SB AN VG- £8.00

Howard, K. S. Chess Problems by 8 American Composers Dover 1972 102p 19th century composers. HB Ex Lib Club stamps Internally G £3.50

Howard, K. S. Spectacular Chess Problems – 200 Gems by American Composers Dover 1967 117p 2nd ed. with corrections from 1st ed. SB VG £5.00

Howard K. S. The Enjoyment of Chess Problems Dover 1961 222p Unabridged revised ed. of the 1943 original. 200 positions in their various groupings £7.50 with solutions. SB AN G+

Howard K. S. 1 Hundred Years of The American Two-Move Chess Problem Dover 1965 95pp An account of the key figures & their styles, followed by a collection of 210 positions, & finally the solutions. SB VG+ £7.00

Jones, R. H. The Two-Move Chess Problems of Godfrey Quack Keverel 48pp 76 problems with solutions and explanations. Biographical end-piece by Barry Barnes IM. Comb-bound. F+ £4.00

Kalandadze, I Eternal Movement – 111 Chess Studies Tblisi 1993 Dedicated to the ideas of perpetual movement in chess composition. Also some on the themes of stalemate, checkmate & positional draw. 1 diagram per page with 123pp solution. AN & pictorial key to piece names inside back cover. PB with pictorial £1.50 design on cover. o/w it’s in Georgian

Kasparov, G Garry Kasparov’s Chess Puzzle Book Cadogan ‘95 All positions are taken from actual games, rather than specially composed. But the 89pp challenge is the same – White to play and win. Tests in sections with solutions. SB £5.00 VG

Kasparyan, G 542pp Domination In 2,545 Endgame Studies Progress ‘80 Translated from the Russian. Brown faux leather-covered boards with silver gilt titles. F- £20.00

Kasparyan, G Domination In 2,545 Endgame Studies. Revised ed. Raduga ‘87 542pp Translated from the Russian. Brown faux leather-covered boards. with gilt titles. F- £20.00

Kasparian, G Studies, Articles, Analyses Moscow 1988 288pp 400+ diagrams; good photo portrait. SB G+ £2.50

Kasparian, G Secrets of the Studiest Erevan 1984 1,000 + diagrams with sources & solutions given. Brown cloth boards with gilt 280pp title & blind stamped design. VG £3.50

Kasparian, G Remarkable Studies Yerevan ‘82 327pp 1,056 positions with composer, source & solutions close to hand. HB with pictorial design. Paper yellowing as is common o/w G+ £3.00

Khenkin, V The Final Check – An Anthology of Mating Combinations Moscow 1979 335pp Blue cloth boards with pictorial design in gilt. VG £4.00

Kipping, C. S Selected Gems From Chess Amateur “Gems” 1 – 1,000 Stroud 1922 37pp 43 positions, mostly 3-movers, with solutions. LN 2671. PB G £20.00

Kipping, C. S Chess Problem Science: Vol. 1 – The Power of the Pieces (2-movers) Leeds 1937

LN 2807. 72 positions by a range of composers, inc. A. C. White Mansfield, Stubbs 50pp & Mrs Baird et al. Foreword by Alain White. Insc “With Compliments – C. S. £20.00 Kipping” LN2807. VG

Kipping, C. S. The Chess Problem Hobby Stroud 1923 An introduction to the increasingly popular hobby, with definitions of terms and 64pp examples of each. Signed by Kipping to “the Hastings Chess Club”. Foreword by Alain C. White. LN 2677. SB G £20.00

Kipping, C. S. 300 Chess Problems Stroud 1916 Hurriedly done at a moment in time when he expected to be called up and serve in 365pp the Great War, and wished to ensure he left at least some sort of legacy (though this never happened) It was published by the same company as did most of the “Christmas Series”, and resembles them in appearance. Mostly 2 & 3-movers. £85.00 LN 2639. Small scuff to the spine o/w VG

Kofman, R. M. The Selected Studies of S. M. Kaminer & M. S. Liburkin Photos of Kaminer (1908 – 1938) & Liburkin (1910 – 53). Small photos of the 2 160pp £2.50 composers. SB VG

Kofman, R. M. Moscow Selected Problems of Samuel Loyd ‘60 156 diagrams with solutions & years of composition. Full page portrait drawing & 6 96pp £3.50 other illustrations. SB G+

Korn American Chess Art – 250 Portraits of Endgame Study 1st ed. Pitman 1975 384pp DW rubbed but in protective cover. o/w internally VG+ £15.00

Korn 384pp Another copy minus DW o/w VG+ £9.00

Kraemer, Dr. A Im Banne des Schachproblems (In the spell of chess problems) Berlin 1951 With Dr. Erich Zepler (Southampton). LN 2958 After the title page “Dem Andenken Alain White’s gewidmet” (roughly translates as In memory of Alain White - who had died earlier that year) followed by 4 page explanatory introduction in German & 158pp English, followed by 198 positions (4 on a page) with solutions on the reverse of the £30.00 page.. SB with artistic pictorial cover. Some of the outer pages (front & back) starting to brown & front corners slightly creased o/w G

Lane, G Find The Checkmate Batsford ‘03 All positions are taken from actual games, rather than specially composed. But the 176pp challenge is the same – White to play and win in a specified number of moves. SB £9.50 VG

Laws, B. G. The Artistry of the Chess Problem ref. the Beauties of the 3 & 4-mover Leeds 1923 20pp LN 2680. A chapter on each aspect, with diagrams & explanations. Reprint of article previously in BCM. PB G Scarce £20.00

Laws, B. G. The Two-Move Chess Problem Bell 1931 Reprint of the 1890 original in the Club Series. Pictorial sepia limp cloth covers. Not 116pp in LN. Back cover a little wrinkled o/w G £9.00

Laszlo, Dr. L Uj Magyar Sakkfeladvany Antologia Budapest 79 515 positions with sources. 44 small portrait photos of the composers involved. 343pp Black cloth boards. AN VG+ £10.00

Lipton & Rice Chess Problems: Introduction to an Art (with R. Matthews) 1st ed. 1963 295pp 265 examples and 364 diagrams for solving. AN DW VG+ £10.00

Lipton & Rice Chess Problems: Introduction to an Art (with R. Matthews) 1st US ed.’65 Published by The Citadel Press New – York. HB with grey cloth boards. Ex libris 295pp plate of G. P. Goold. At the time of publication he was Professor of Latin & Greek at £6.50 Harvard. G

Lytton, C. C. Chessays: 1 Deceptive Chess Problems 16pp (Nom de plume C.C.L.Sells of Australia). Problems with an “obvious” try that will lead the solver down a dead-end side-street, while the relatively well-hidden line £5.00 leads to quite different play. SB VG

Locock, C. D Imagination In Chess Leeds 60 problems with solutions. LN 2798 Green cloth boards with titles in gilt on cover & 95pp spine. 1 page soiled o/w G+ £12.00

Locock, C. D 70 More Chess Problems Stroud 1926 Positions culled from various chess columns with sources & dates given. With some 75pp input by T. R. Dawson, the “Fairy” specialist. Red cloth bound boards with gilt titles. £25.00 Insc. “With congratulations from C. D. Locock”. LN 2700 VG

Lommer, H. M. 1234 Modern End-Game Studies with M. Sutherland 1st 1938 Intro by Chėron. Published by Printing-Craft and one of the earliest uses of AN in 383pp English. Insc. o/w VG £20.00

Lommer, H. M. 1234 Modern End-Game Studies with M. Sutherland Dover 1968 358pp An unabridged & corrected republication of the 1938 original. SB AN VG £8.00 Lommer, H. M 1357 End-Game Studies - The Best Compositions 1935 - 1973 Pitman 1975 234pp Expanded & modified layout concentrates on the artistry of studies, rather than techniques. HB DW AN VG £15.00

Lossa 200 Schachrätsel (200 Chess Puzzles) Beyer 1984 152pp Small format PB AN VG+ £5.00

Mach, Dr. Z Josef Pospisil - Sachove Ulohy 1908 – 1916 – Ceske Melodie II.. Prague 1917 The compositions of Pospisil were celebrated by Alain C. White in the 6th of his Christmas Series, “Ceske Melodie” in 1908, but he continued composing 23pp until his death in 1916, so Dr. Zdenek Mach brought together these 41 problems from his last 8 years, though it is not a Christmas Series book. £35.00 Small format. SB This copy is signed “With best wishes from Dr. Z. Mach 4 June 1921”. LN 2593. Small but very scarce

Mansfield, C Chessboard Delights – Selected From the Sunday Telegraph 1964 - 74 RKP 116 positions & commentaries from his weekly column. PB VG £4.00

Mansfield. C Adventures In Composition: The Art of the Two-Move Chess Problem. Liverpool ‘48 Edited by Alain White. 1st UK Edition. LN 2879. The author explains the various 200pp stages in building up his most famous compositions. A classic work. DW nibbled at £15.00 the corners. o/w VG

Morse, J Chess Problems: Tasks & Records – foreword by Joh Nunn Faber 2001 390pp Revised & updated; now with 850 positions by 350 composers. A standard work. SB VG+ £18.00

Chess Gems – Some of the finest Examples of Chess Strategy by Ancient and Modern 1878 Miles, J. A. Masters – collected and set by John Augustus Miles of Fakenham, Norfolk. 736 diagrammed positions List of subscribers (104). Index of authors. Although Miles does not refer to “problems” as such, he was a problemist having published other books on the subject, and many notable ones purchased a copy, e.g. Grimshaw, Pierce, Ranken, Skipworth, Duffy, LN 2401; Betts:- 32-12 A much enlarged edition of his 1860 original.

Maroon cloth boards with blind stamped patterns front & back & gilt titles still legible. 400pp Short neat Insc. An eagle eyed owner has pointed out some errors by writing e.g. £150.00 “Errata”; “Faulty” “Has dual in 2nd move” beside some diagrams, but the great majority of pages are clear. “This work was selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it”. G.

Neimeijer Dr M Boerenschroom 1965 Wassenaar With Dr. P. Ferenstra Kuiper. A collection of 160 problems from various magazines 47pp & papers. Sources & solutions given. Short intro in Dutch. SB back cover marked £4.00 o/w VG

Norwood, D Chess Puzzles All positions are taken from actual games, rather than specially composed. But the 128pp challenge is the same – White to play and win in a specified number of moves. SB £5.00 VG

Novrup, S Checkmate – 180 Ways To Beat A Grandmaster Cadogan ‘96 111pp All positions are taken from actual games, rather than specially composed. But the challenge is the same – White to play and win, with some helpful tips. SB VG £6.00

Ott, H Kunstwerke Auf 64 Feldern – Schachprobleme schweizerischer Komponisten von 1922 – 1966. (Works of Art on 64 Squares) with K. Kummer & H. Schudel. 230pp 372 compositions with names, original sources & solutions. SB VG.. £8.50

Paros, Dr. G Soviet Chess Compositions 1945 – 1947 (no date c. 1948) Kecskemet 64pp 200 problems & studies in various categories. Text & titles in English. LN2931. AN PB G+ £20.00

A. C. Pearson One Hundred Chess Problems 3rd ed. 1883 The Rev. Arthur Cyril Pearson ( 1836 – 1916) For c. 30 years he composed problems that were both attractive and pleasing to solve. He had the wherewithal to be able to publish them in a book of very pleasing proportions – maroon cloth 133pp boards with beautiful gilt titles, probably helped by his son who was a newspaper £90.00 proprietor. LN 2444. This excellent specimen was signed by him in a flamboyant hand “from A. Cyril Pearson Dec. 1907. VG+

Pickard, S The Puzzle King – Sam Loyd’s Chess Problems Pickard ‘96 Brief biography followed by 710 of his amazing conceptions in 4 sections from 2- 238pp movers to 3- 4- & longer. Also novelty puzzles. Large format. SB F+ £15.00

Prokes, L Book Of Chess Studies (Kniha Sachovych Studii) Prague 1951 623 diagrams with accompanying analysys & explanation. HB 232pp Inscription to R. A. Slade HB VG+ £10.00

Quack, G The 2-Move Chess Problems of Godfrey Quack Keverel ‘97 76 2-movers most of which appeared in The Problemist. Endpiece/ tribute by Barry 50pp Barnes IM. Portrait photo. Comb-bound F

Ravenscroft, E Fifty Forced Mates – A Collection Of Gems Australia ? Errata slip plus the statement “Printed & published by L. T. Central Buses Chess Section S. A.” This could be South Australia rather than South Africa as there is a 32pp Frank Ravenscroft (1880 – 1968) recorded as living in Sydney. Proceeds of the book’s sale were to go to the chess club, but he died soon after publication. Small £5.00 format & scarce item

Rayner, J Chess Problems: Their Composition & Solution. 2nd ed. London 1891 100pp LN 2500 Cover design in red & black on cloth boards. £12.00

Another copy LN2503 5th Ed. London 1921 100pp Brown cloth covers G £5.00

Another copy. Not in LN - Possibly 6th ed. London 1935 100pp Brown cloth covers £5.00

Another copy LN 2504 7th ed. London 1948 100pp Orange cloth boards VG £5.00

Reinfeld, F 101 Chess Problems For Beginners Wilshire 1973 120pp All relatively easy 2-movers with solutions in Reinfeld’s accessible style. 1st 12 pp loose o/w G £4.75

Reinfeld, F Reinfeld On The End-Game in Chess Dover 1957 177pp Unabridged republication of the Pitman 1940 original. SB VG £6.00

Rice, Lipton & The Two-move Chess Problem: Tradition and Development: Some essays on selected Faber Barnes two-move themes. 1966 1st ed. 206pp 355 diagrams / examples illustrating the concepts of Flights, Half-pin, Cross-check etc. DW with rubbed patch o/w G+ £12.00

Rice, Lipton Chess Problems: Introduction To An Art with R. C. O. Matthews 1st ed. Faber 1963 295pp 364 problems. Foreword by C. H. O’D Alexander. DW VG+ £12.00

Rice, J. An ABC of Chess Problems 1st Faber 1970 349pp 292 diagrams with explanations of the terms used in this art, useful to beginner & expert. Also 400 problems to solve. DW VG £10.00

Rice, J Chess Wizardry: The New ABC of Chess Problems Batsford ‘96 Comprehensive definitions of all the terminology associated with the construction & 352pp solving of complex positions, illustrated by the best examples of each type. SB G+ £8.00

Rowland T & F The Problem Art Dublin1887 A treatise on how to compose & how to solve chess problems. A chapter each on 80pp composing & solving with a few illustrative diagrams. LN 2480. Red cloth boards £35.00 with bright gilt titles. VG+

Rowland T & F Chess Fruits Dublin 1884 A selection of direct & self-mates, Picture & letter problems, pos & humorous 172pp sketch. 100+ positions. 4 page list of subscribers. Rd cloth boards, somewhat £35.00 marked though undamaged. LN 2463

Roycroft, J Test Tube Chess – A Comprehensive Introduction to Endgame Study Faber 1972 370pp 433 diagrams DW AN F- £14.00

Russ, C Miniature Chess Problems From Many Countries 1st ed. 1981 Heineman n 262pp 400 Compositions with Solutions and Comments. Errata slip. Blue cloth boards with silver titles & design. VG. £12.00

Russ, C Miniature Chess Problems From Many Countries Unwin 1987 262pp 400 compositions with solutions & comments PB AN VG+ £9.00

Sansom, C End-Game Studies ND 81pp 156 positions & solutions done in early desk-top publishing style. Large format. Glossy SB VG+ £3.00

Shaw, J Puzzle Book Quality 10 352pp

Shumilin, N Exercises In Calculation :: Combinations & Game Positions.. Moscow ‘64 167pp 680 diagrams with solutions in 2nd half of book. £4.00

Smullyan, R The Chess Mysteries Of Sherlock Holmes – 50 tantalising problems of Chess Detection 1st ed 1979 171pp “50 elegant, witty & unique chess problems”. SB AN VG £9.00

Smullyan, R The Chess Mysteries of the Arabian Knights – 50 New Problems of Chess Detection. Hutchinson ‘83 170pp Explores the paradoxes of retrograde analysis in a novel way. PB VG £9.00

Speckmann Das Logische Schachproblem Rau 1980 123pp 156 diagrams PB AN VG+ £8.00

Speckmann W Strategie im Schachproblem 242 Miniaturen. Berlin 1959 Inscription: “To Mr. P. Clarke – To remind you of the simultaneous display at 132pp Scheveningen Chess Club – Okt 12 1960 - 17 won: 3 draw: 0 lost: signed £8.00 President:” SB VG

Speckmann Fremdlinge auf dem Schachbrett (Strangers on the Chessboard) 1982 123pp Self-published with errata slip. 144 miniature “fairies” PB AN VG+ £6.00

Speckmann Schachmatt mit acht Steinen (Checkmate wth 8 pieces) 1994 142pp Self-published 220 problems PB AN VG+ £6.00

Speckmann Schachmatt in 4 und mehr Zugen (Checkmate in 4 or more moves) 1993 242pp Self-published 44 miniatures PB AN VG+ £9.00

Speckmann Schachminiaturen mit schwarzer Dame – Probleme und Studien Beyer 1988 146pp 189 positions all with Black’s queen on board. PB AN VG+ £7.50

Stapff, H. Einführung in das Mȁrchenschach (Introduction To Fairy Chess) 1948 45 diagrams, inc. 9 by Stapff’; 6 by Dawson & 4 by Kniest. SB Pictorial cover. G 24pp £5.50

Tishkov, A. A. Chess Problems – Miniatures (with V. I. Chepizhny) Moscow ‘87 326pp 892 diagrams with analyses in the 2nd part. SB VG £4.00

Troitsky, A. A. Collection of Chess Studies by A. A. Troitsky 1st ed. Leeds 1937 264pp 360 studies plus a 60 page treatise on 2 knights vs pawns. LN 2279 Green cloth boards. Insc. VG+ £25.00

Troitsky, A. A. Another copy with DW. Blue cloth boards. Insc. VG £25.00

Troitsky, A. A. Another copy Blue cloth boards. Insc. & small club stamps o/w VG £18.00

Troitsky, A. A. Another copy. PB with front cover detached. Foxing to page edges. Working copy. £9.00

Troitsky, A. A. 360 Brilliant & Instructive End-Games Dover 1968 192pp A republication of the 1937 original but without the treatise. Intro by Reinfeld. SB VG+ £8.00

Velimirovic, M Mat Plus – Essays On Chess Composition No. 42 2012 120pp 10 articles inc. one by David Shire on Christopher Reeves. 250 new problems to solve. SB VG+ £8.00

Vladimirov ed. Leonid Kubbel’s Collection of Studies Moscow 1984 384pp 656 positions with analyses in the 1st half of the book, plus many more in the 2nd. SB VG+ £3.75

Vladimirov ed. 1,000 Chess Studies Moscow 2003 440pp 4 diagrams per page with sources given. HB with pictorial cover. Index of composers. VG+ £4.00

Wallis, E 777 “Chess Miniatures in Three” £27.00 272pp LN2590 Preface by P. H. Williams in 3 languages. (1908) Brown cloth-covered boards. Narrow format. VG

Another copy but in blue cloth boards (rubbed) and with bookplate of Dermot Macgregor Wallis, E Morrah (1896 – 1974) with his coat of arms. He was a reporter on royal activities, royal biographer & had the title Arundel Herald Extraordinary (worth googling) . G+ £27.00

Wenda, K FIDE World Chess Composition Tournament 1984 - 88 1988 59pp All the entries in the 7 categories with solutions and tri-lingual descriptions. Plus rule book. AN PB F- £3.00

Wenman, P Problems & Puzzles London ‘43 47pp Small format. SB 1st ed. LN 2874 G £5.50

Wenman, P Problems & Puzzles London ‘44 47pp 2nd ed. 1944. 70 positions + solutions. Small format Blue SB G- £4.50

Wenman, P Problems & Puzzles London ‘44 47pp 3rd ed. 1944. 70 positions + solutions. Small format Blue SB G- £4.50

Wenman, P 50 Two-Move Problems Leeds 1944 28pp 4th ed. small format. Pink card covers. VG- £5.00

Wenman, P Six Hundred Problems Ancient & Modern Liverpool194 5 163pp Green cloth boards. LN 2936 G £6.00

Wenman, P One Hundred Published Problems Leeds 1944 32pp All had been published in newspapers but no composers identified here. Green card covers Small format LN 2886 G £5.50

Wenman, P 111 Selected Problems by Famous Composers 2nd ed. Leeds 1945 32pp Small format. yellow card covers. LN 2895 G

White A. C. The White Rooks in Chess Strategy 1974 Hippocren e A facsimile ed. of the original The White Rooks of 1910 & No. 10 in Alain White’s 210pp famous (& v. expensive) Christmas Series. 270 problems by 114 composers. £12.00 PB AN VG+

White A. C. Classic Chess Exercises 1973 Hippocren e 223pp Facsimile of the 1915 original entitled Tasks & Echoes, No. 20 in the Xmas Series. 300 problems from 150+ composers. PB AN VG+ £12.00

White A. C. The White King in Chess Strategy 1973 Hippocren e 212pp A facsimile ed. of the original The White King of 1914 & No. 19 in Alain White’s famous (& v. expensive) Christmas Series. 296 problems by 161 composers. £12.00 PB AN VG+

White A. C. D. J. Densmore and The Densmore Memorial Tourney 1918 A photocopy of the original of 1920 & No. 26 in Alain White’s famous Christmas Series. However, it has been nicely bound in green boards and endpapers. 239pp Biography of Densmore and 50 of his problems, followed by 85 from the Memorial £18.00 Tourney. AN VG

White, A. C. Sam Loyd and his Chess Problems. Dover 1962 An unabridged but corrected republication of the 1913 original, No. 16 in White’s famous Christmas Series. White’s great admiration for and early acquaintance with 471pp Loyd (1841-1911) made this a labour of love. 718 of his problems plus 4 by his £18.00 brother Tom and 26 by brother Isaac, SB VG

Whitworth, T. Mattison’s Chess Endgame Studies BCM 1987

79pp 60 Studies. BCM Quarterly No. 23. Intro by A. Hildband. PB AN VG+ £8.00

Whitworth, T Leonid Kubbel’s Chess Endgame Studies Whitworth ‘84 175pp 300 positions with solutions in figurine notation. Errata slip. Signed “Timothy Whitworth”. SB in clear protective cover. VG+ £14.00

Williams, P. H. The Modern Chess Problem 2nd ed. revised with new preface. (1912) Routledge 252pp Introduction to the art with 100 problems with diagrams & solutions. LN2567. Maroon cloth covered boards & chessboard design. £18.00 VG+

Wood B. H. One Hundred Victorian Chess Problems Wayland 72 128pp All taken from the Illustrated London News between 1850 -90 and very much of their time. DW VG+ £10.00

Wood B. H. One Hundred Victorian Chess Problems Wayland 72 Another copy minus DW £7.00

The following titles comprise books from the library of the noted Studies expert, John Roycroft, author of Test-Tube Chess, who recently “downsized” Throughout his long career, he had many contacts in Eastern Europe and acquired numerous titles rarely seen outside Russia. All are in the language of the city in which they were published, mostly Russian. In the case of the Cyrillic language, difficult for many, at least the algebraic notation is used and numerals are Arabic, like ours. The titles were kindly translated for us by the Russian expert and linguist, Trefor Thynne.

Abramov, L. Y. Chess Up To (or In) 1953 Moscow ‘54 320pp 57 game scores, with analysis & diagrams. X-tables. HB with blind stamping and gilt lettering. Stains to back cover o/w G £4.00 Akobia, L Chess Wizard (Kasparyan) Erevan ‘81 215pp Games with analysis & diagrams. X-tables and photos of him with folk like Bronstein & Petrosian. Pictorial HB covers. VG £5.00

Averbakh, Y Chess Rook Endings Moscow ‘84 351pp The Russian originals of what was to become the classic Batsford series. 804 positions. Pictorial SB VG £4.00

Averbakh, Y Chess Bishop & Knight Endings Moscow ‘80 237pp 548 positions Pictorial SB with bishop & knight design. VG £4.00

Archakov, V In The World Of Chess Composition. Volgograd 190pp 242 analysed positions. SB VG+ £3.00

Archakov, V On A Small Chess Battlefield 1983 Sverdlousk 142pp 264 positions with solutions. Bright pictorial HB. VG+ £3.50

Blechikov, N. I Chess Composition In Belorussia with V. Gebelt & E. Dvizov Minsk 1981 144pp 462 positions from Kubbel in 1928 to 1979. SB VG+ £4.00

Bondarenko, F The Triumph Of The Soviet Chess Study Kiev 1984 173pp 352 positions mostly from the 1920s & ‘30s SB VG £3.00

Bondarenko, F The Contemporary Chess Study Kiev 1987 175pp 378 positions with sources & analysis. SB VG+ £3.00

Bondarenko, F The Formation Of The Chess Study Kiev 1980 171pp 273 positions taken from the 18th & 19th centuries with sources & analysis. SB VG £3.00

Bondarenko, F Development of the Chess Study Kiev 1982 231pp 394 positions from the 1st quarter of the 20th century. SB VG+ £3.00

Bondarevsky My 100 Best Games Moscow ‘57 251pp Games from 1938 – 55 with analyses and diagrams. SB G- £2.00

Chekova, V. A. Chess Studies & Endings Moscow ‘59 72pp 84 positions with sources & analysis. SB VG £2.50

Chepizhny, B. Chess Compositions 1977-82 Moscow ‘83 256pp 452 positions with sources and analysis. SB VG £3.00

FIDE Programme for the Women’s World Championship in Sofia and Borzhomi 1986 between Maya Chiburdanidze & Yelena Akhmylovskaya. 16pp Excellent photos and tournament record of both players. Bi-lingual. A5 Card covers. VG £3.50

Gik, G. Y. Conversations About Chess Moscow ‘85 158pp Signed “To Dr. A. Roycroft from the author G Gik. Happy New Year 31.12.1990”. SB G+ £5.00

Gorgiev, T Selected Studies Moscow ‘59 152pp 156 positions with sources and analysis. SB G £2.50

Gordon, Y ed. Chess Compositions of the Ukraine Album 1996 - 2000 Ukraine ‘ 03 200pp 546 positions from the specified period that have appeared world-wide. SB VG+ £4.00

Grin, A Selected Compositions Moscow ‘85 365pp 5 sections, one each on the output of 1. A. Grin 2.A. Dombrovskis 3.R. Kofman; 4.A. Kopilov and 5. A. Popandopulo. Full page portrait of each. Limp cloth covers with £4.00 small blemish o/w VG

Gurgenidze, D “Tiny” Engames Tbilisi 1999 60pp The Georgian composer, the 1st champion of the world in chess composition, presents his 55 “tiny” (5 piece) endgames. Figurine algebraic with Georgian text. 20 £2.50 small photographs. SB VG+

Gurvich, A. S. Studies Moscow ‘61 190pp 140 positions with sources & much analysis. HB VG £2.25

Herbstman, A Chess Studies 2000 St. Petersburg 63pp Several articles including one on Alexander Herbstman (1900 – 1982). Limp blue cloth covers. F £3.00

Kalandadze, I Eternal Movement In Chess Studies Tbilisi ‘94 124pp 111 positions illustrating the concept of perpetual movement in chess composition. In Georgian. VG £2.50

Kasparyan, G Kasparyan – Studies, Articles, Analyses Moscow ‘88 287pp 400+ positions with sources and analysis. PB VG+ £2.50

Kasparyan, G Studies Moscow 1972 200pp 269 positions with analyses. PB G £2.50

Kasparyan, G Collection Of Studies & Games Erevan 1987 351pp 400 positions plus 124 games with diagrams & analyses. Full tournament record 1926 – 1966. HB with decorative design. VG £3.50

Kasparyan, G 555 Studies and Miniatures Erevan ‘75 307pp Sources given with analyses. Grey cloth-covered boards, corners bumped o/w VG £3.25

Kasparyan, G Secrets Of The Studyist Erevan ‘84 279pp Many positions. HB with faux leather boards & gilt tiles. VG+ £3.50

Katsnelson, L Family Chess Studies 2000 St Petersburg 200pp Selected studies of the IM of composition, plus his articles and stories on chess. Also, studies composed with his 2 brothers. £4.00 300 positions in all. Green limp cloth covers. F

Katsnelson, L Family Chess Studies 2000 St Petersburg 200pp The HB version in red faux leather covers. Signed by the author “To dear John Roycroft – 16.03.00” £5.00

Kofman, R. M. The Selected Studies of Sergey Kaminer (1908-1943?) & Mark Liburkin (1910 – 1953). Moscow ‘81 159pp SB VG £2.50

Kofman, USSR Championships In Chess Composition Moscow ‘56 311pp 435 positions with sources and analysis. SB PB G £2.50

Korolkov, V. A. I Choose An Idea 1998 St Petersburg 223pp c. 200 positions on his chosen theme. Plus 13 good photos. Blue limp cloth covers. F+ £3.50

Korolkov, V. A. I Choose An Idea 1998 St Petersburg 223pp The HB version in green faux leather boards. F+ £4.50

Kotov A. I. Selected Studies & Problems 2003 St. Petersburg 24pp 43 positions with sources & analyses. SB VG+ £2.00

Kuznetsov, A. Colours Of The Chess Spectrum Moscow ‘80 96pp Many positions with sources and analyses. SB VG £2.00

Levenfish, The Theory Of Rook Endgames with Smyslov. Moscow ‘86 255pp 444 positions with sources & analyses SB G £3.00

Melnichenko, Masters Of Chess Composition. Kiev 1984 150pp 445 positions with sources & analyses. SB VG £2.50

Melnichenko, Two Steps In The Kingdom Of Chess Kiev 1988 134pp 328 positions with sources & analyses. SB VG £2.50

Nadareishvili, G Chess Studies In Georgia Tbilisi ‘75 212pp 293 positions with sources & analyses. Inscribed by author HB F £4.50

Nadareishvili, G Mate In Studies with Y. Akobia Tbilisi ‘90 565pp Hundreds of positions HB in faux brown leather F £5.00

Nadareishvili, G Mate In Studies with Y. Akobia Tbilisi ‘90 565pp The PB version. Inscribed to John Roycroft. 22.9.90 VG £3.25

Neiman, M. B. Problems and Studies Collection 1999 St Petersburg 71pp Many positions with explanations. Photo of author at work. SB F £2.50

Razumenko, V The Poetry Of Chess – Selected Studies & Problems 2007 St Petersburg 48pp 70 positions and a few poetic verses SB F £2.00

Razumenko, V The Poetry of Chess with Fokin & Vladimirov 1993 St Petersburg 176pp 242 problems & 121 studies by St. Petersburg composers from the time of Peter the Great to present day. DW VG+ £5.00

Roizman, A. Y Chess Miniatures – 400 Combinational Games Minsk 1978 214pp Game scores with analyses, some with diagrams SB G+ £3.00

Shereshevsky Endgame Strategy Moscow ‘88 304pp SB VG £2.25

Staudte, H Das 1X1 Des Endspiels with M. Milescu Berlin 1965 164pp 255 examples each with title and diagram. SB VG+ £3.00

Troitsky, A. A. Collection of Chess Studies 1935 300pp 300 positions Plus appendix containing 53 examples of 2 knights vs pawns. Blue cloth covered boards. Well-worn through the Stalin years, but intact. £10.00 G-

Vladimirov, Y 1,000 Chess Studies Moscow ‘03 439pp 1st part comprises the diagrams, 4 to a page, and the answers follow in Pt 2. HB VG+ £5.00

Vladimirov, Y Leonid Kubbel Moscow ‘84 There were 3 Kubbel brothers from St. Petersburg, Arvid, Evgany & Leonid all leading players and composers. Arvid made the mistake of mailing one of his 383pp problems out of the country in 1938. He was consequently accused of treason by Stalin’s Secret Police and executed, while the two brothers died of starvation during £4.25 Hitler’s siege of Leningrad. This book is a tribute to Leonid’s compositional skill, with 617 positions. Sketched portrait. PB VG

Whitworth T. G Leonid Kubbel’s 300 Chess Endgame Studies Cambridge 84 175pp Annotations in figurine. Errata slip. SB in protective cover. Signed by Whitworth. £10.00 VG+

Whitworth T. G Endgame Magic with John Beasley Batsford’96 192pp Index of composers. Figurine notation, Appendix A Summary of endgame theory; Appendix G list of sources. SB G- £8.00 Yevreinov, V 50 Selected Studies Moscow ‘97 32pp Diagrams and solutions with each. SB F £1.50

Zaitsev, A Alexander Zaitsev by Arkhangelsky & Kimelfeld. Moscow ‘86 104 analysed games by Zaitsev (1935-1971). He was born with one leg shorter than the other and in 1971 underwent a cosmetic operation to correct it, but he died £4.00 144pp shortly after with a massive haemorrhage, none of which is mentioned here. Signed “To John (Roycroft) from Natalie - Tbilisi In-tourist 1986”. SB VG

Zelepukin, N P Dictionary of Chess Composition 2nd ed Kiev 1985 183pp Plenty of diagrams with most entries. HB VG £2.50

Zinar, M. A.. Harmony Of The Pawn Study Kiev 1990 143pp 200+ pawns-only studies with sources and diagrams. SB G+ £2.25

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Oxford Vs Cambridge always drew in the crowds

8 Instructional

Aagaard, J Attacking Manual – Volume 1 Basic Principles Quality 2008 264pp Deals with activating pieces, momentum, strong & weak points etc. AN PB F £14.00

Aagaard, J Attacking Manual 2 Quality 2010 461pp Takes his advice to the next level. ECF Book of the Year 2010 £20.00 HB AN F+

Abrahams, G Technique In Chess 1st ed. Bell 1961 216pp Classic Bell DW in protective cover. VG+ £8.00

Abrahams, J Brilliance In Chess 1st ed. Pitman 1977 143pp In numerous games & 157 diagrams, the author looks at moments of brilliance, especially his own. DW VG £6.00

Abramov, L Chess Move By Move (with B. Cafferty) Gillam ‘76 111pp 1st English edition. Explains champions’ games with reference to general ideas rather than complexities. SB G £2.50

Adorjan, A Black Is Still OK! 1st ed. Batsford ‘04 224pp How to be more ambitious with Black. Includes c. 50 illustrative £8.00 games in figurine with diagrams. SB AN F-

Alexander C. H Chess 3rd ed. Pitman 1956 General introduction for improving players. Includes 15 196pp illustrative games & 8 portrait photos of top players. DW VG £5.00

Alexander C. H Another copy 5th ed. 8 more up-to-date portrait photos inc. Fischer & £4.00 Penrose. Brown DW G

Alexander C. H Learn Chess: A New Way For All Vol. 2 Winning Methods. Pergamon’63 212pp Insc. SB G £4.00

Alexander C. H The Penguin Book of Chess Positions Penguin ‘76 171pp SB Some light marginalia o/w G £2.00

Alexander Knight Moves – An Original Perspective Of the Knight’s Potential For CEI 1999 (Charles) Movement. Helps enable visualising whether a particular sequence of knight 82pp moves will reach a desired goal. Invaluable in knight endings. £7.50 AN SB F-

Averbakh, Y Chess Middlegames – Essential Knowledge 1st ed. Cadogan ‘96 112pp SB AN VG+ £7.50

Averbakh, Y Chess Tactics For Advanced Players. retailed in UK by Batsford Berlin 1984 328pp 31 full games and many diagrammatic examples. DW AN VG £7.00

Avni, A The Grandmaster’s Mind – A Look Inside the Chess Thinking Gambit ‘04 Process. Avni interviews GMs to uncover their thoughts when analysing 176pp key positions. SB AN VG £14.00 £5.50

Avni, A Devious Chess – How To Bend The Rules And Win Batsford ‘06 144pp Professional psychologist applies his skills to the game. SB AN F £7.50

Baker, C Simple Winning Chess Everyman 99 144pp “A complete self-improvement course” SB AN F- £6.50

Barden, L How Good Is Your Chess? Dover 1976 “Rate your skill by participating in 35 master games”. SB 112pp £6.00 G+

Barden, L Play Better Chess with Leonard Barden Octopus ‘87 Foreword by Korchnoi. From Pitfalls for beginners to avoid - to 153pp mini biographies & selected games by the Master, fully £5.00 explained. Fully illustrated. Large Format AN G

Beim, V Chess Recipes from the Grandmaster’s Kitchen - Gambit 2002 128pp Lessons in chess strategy & thinking methods. Figurine notation. £5.00 SB £13.00 F-

Beim, V Back To Basics – Strategy Russell 2011 224pp Discusses basic concepts e.g. The centre; pawn structure’; weak pawns, the bishop pair etc. SB AN F £9.00

Beim, V The Enigma Of Chess Intuition NIC 2012 Can You Mobilise Hidden Forces in Your Chess? Tackles the vaguest of all the requisite qualities needed for £12.25 268pp success. Figurine notation. Index of players; Index of games (75) Bibliography. SB AN F- c.£25.00

Benjamin, J Better Thinking, Better Chess – How A Grandmaster Finds His NIC 2018 Moves A series of challenges beneath 76 set positions from actual 223pp games that will train one’s thought processes. Also, a set of 40 bullet points to learn, remember and recall at appropriate £15.50 moments, Index of players. SB AN F- $30

Benko, Pal Winning With Chess Psychology with Burt Hochburg. McKay 1991 “What’s the best move? asked Lasker, and answered by the

264pp likes of Fischer, Tal et al. and the reader can use it to win more £6.00 games, regardless of playing strength”. SB F $15

Berliner, H The System – A World Champion’s Approach To Chess Gambit 1999 He explains his set of principles, called The System, that won 175pp him a world title for postal chess. “Readers will be astonished by £5.50 the simplicity & power of his methods”. Figurine notation & diagrams. SB VG- £15

Bologan, V Bologan’s Black Weapons in the Open Games NIC 2014 How to play for a win if White avoids the Ruy Lopez. Against any 528pp line White may choose. Bologan presents 2 options: a common sense one and an aggressive one. Thus it’s 2 books in 1. A big £15.00 book. SB AN F $35.00

Bosch, J The Chess Combat Simulator – Test & Improve Your Chess with 50 NIC 2006 Instructive GM Games 262pp Figurine notation & diagrams. SB 4 pp written on o/w VG+ $25 £10.00

Bouwmeester Winning Chess Combinations Batsford ‘77 138pp Guide to the most common types of combination. SB VG £7.00

Bronstein, D Chess In The Eighties with G Smolyan. 1st UK ed. Pergamon ‘82 115pp Discusses several themes inc. chess as an art form vs the need for a team win. No games. HB F- £5.00

Bronstein, D Secret Notes with S. Voronkov (preface by Kasparov) Ed. Olms ‘07 Bronstein was banned from leaving the USSR for 13 years after refusing to criticise Korchnoi’s defection, When freed, he 230pp travelled Europe extensively and records his experiences therein, but he never saw the result as he died with the proofs still at the printers. Many photos plus 30 annotated games in £9.25 figurine with diagrams from this late period. SB (crease to cover) o/w VG

Bronstein, D The Modern Self-Tutor Cadogan ’96 The author “engages in a frank conversation with the reader discussing how strong players decide their moves based on

king-shelter; deployment of pieces & pawns, attack & defence 148pp etc. c,30 annotated games in figurine with diagrams, Index of £6.50 players. SB AN F-

Buckley, M Practical Chess Analysis –A Systematic Method for Analyzing. 1st ed. Thinkers ‘87 165pp Full & part games with diagrams. PB AN £4.50

Burgess, G The Mammoth Book Of Chess 1st ed. Robinson ‘97 Tactics & Strategy; 900 illustrations; gms; tests etc SB Figurine 537pp £4.95 notation. VG+

Burgess, G The Mammoth Book Of Chess fully revised & updated ed. Robinson ‘09 570pp Something for everyone. Signed by author SB AN F £6.50

Capablanca Chess Fundamentals 3rd reprint Bell 1931 184pp A classic work. Red cloth boards with titles in bright gilt VG+ £7.75

Capablanca Chess Fundamentals 184pp Another copy Insc. DW spine faded & foxed o/w G £4.00

Capablanca Chess Fundamentals reprint Bell 1962 Another copy HB Insc. VG £4.00

Capablanca Another ed. by Harcourt, Brace & Co. Black cloth boards with New York ‘34 title in gilt on spine. Good photo portrait. VG £6.75

Capablanca A. Primer Of Chess 1st ed. Bell 1935 Very easy to follow, with various maxims printed in italics. Errata 281pp slip pasted in. Brown cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. £9.50 LN1611. Some speckled foxing on page edges, o/w G

Charusin, V Tactician’s Handbook No. 1 Alekhine’s Block Pickard 1997 164 illustrative games in figurine with diagrams, all dedicated to the process, beloved by Alekhine, of blockading the 6th or 3rd 95pp £7.50 rank, directly in front of the enemy king, thus choking off its defences. Index of openings SB F

Chernev, I Combinations: The Heart of Chess Dover 1967 Unabridged republication of the 1960 original. 356 diagrams. 245pp £5.25 SB VG

Chernev, I Winning Chess – How To Perfect Your Attacking Play with Reinfeld Batsford ‘13 229pp Pins, forks skewers etc. they’re all here. PB AN F- £6.25

Chernev, I Winning Chess – How To Perfect Your Attacking Play (with Reinfeld) Batsford ‘13 Updated edition of the 1949 original, using figurine notation. 332 229pp diagrams with explanations adjacent, plus a number of £5.75 illustrative games. SB AN F

Chernev, I The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played. Batsford ‘14 Updated and revised edition of the 1960s classic. 62 annotated 312pp games in figurine with diagrams. SB F- £16.00 £7.50

Chernev, I Logical Chess: Move By Move Faber ‘87 33 complete games, analysed move by move, showing the 250pp reader where to place his pieces, ready for the decisive £3.00 moments. SB G+

Chernev, I An Invitation To Chess – A Picture Guide To The Royal Game Fireside with Keith Harkness 221pp Takes the absolute beginner through the early stages of learning £4.50 the rudiments. SB G

Christianson Rocking The Ramparts Batsford 03 Focuses on attacks on the castled king’s position in order to expose the monarch to the enemy, esp. where the kings have 256pp castled on opposite wings, and attacks have to be quick. £7.75 Illustrative games in figurine with diagrams. SB F- £16.00

Coles, R. N. Dynamic Chess: The Evolution & Development of the Modern Game Pitman 1958 Pt. 1 The Hypermodern Revolution & Pt.2 The Russians. 85 184pp annotated games with diagrams illustrative of the 2 themes. HB £9.00

Collins, S The Greatest Ever Chess Strategies Everyman’12 “Examines key games from all eras & analyses the major 176pp strategic ideas, to find the right path more quickly than relying on £7.95 calculation alone”. 76 illustrative games in figurine with diagrams SB AN F £16.00

Collins, S An Attacking Repertoire for White Batsford ‘04 50 complete games deeply annotated to show what White can 192pp achieve after 1.e4 against a range of responses by Black. £7.95 Figurine AN. SB F- £16.00

Cordingly, E. The Next Move Is …. Studies in Chess Combinations Bell 1944 88pp 250 diagram examples by master players organised so that the reader may guess the best next move. Solutions & continuations £6.00 may be checked at the end. VG- HB DW in plastic cover.

Cunnington, E Lessons In Pawn Play Routledge 98pp

Dunnington, A Chess Psychology Everyman 03 “Approaching the psychological battle both on & off the board”. 128pp In 3 sections (a) Psychological factors (b) Practical example & £7.00 (c) 8 Illustrative games in figurine with diagrams.. SB AN F-

Dunnington, A Gambit Play – Sacrificing in the Opening Everyman 03 Many games in figurine with diagrams, illustrating the factors of 128pp time, open lines outposts structure etc. SB AN F £6.50 £15.00

Dunnington, A Starting Out: Defensive Play Everyman 05 In the style of the series, the text is full of notes, tips, warnings 151pp etc. 36 illustrative games in figurine with diagrams. £7.75 SB AN F £14

Dunnington, A Pawn Power Batsford ‘94 5 chapters of guidance followed by illustrative games and testing 111pp diagrams with solutions. Index of whole or part games (70). £7.75 SB AN VG

Dvoretsky, M School of Future Champions No. 1 :: Secrets of Chess Training Olms 2006 With Yusupov. 100+ graded test positions provide material for 218pp self-improvement. SB AN F £15.00

Dvoretsky, M The Art Of Analysis Moscow ‘89 192pp In Russian SB G £2.00

Dvoretsky, M School of Future Champions No. 4 :: Secrets Of Positional Play Olms 2008 With Yusupov. The theme is “prophylaxis” – the idea that 240pp planned prevention through positional play is better than cure. £15.00 SB AN F

Dvoretsky, M Technique For The Tournament Player with A. Yusupov Batsford ‘95 Specialising in the endgame. Index of games (90). Index of 240pp £9.50 studies (19); Index of annotators & commentators (38); All moves in figurine. SB AN VG+

Dvoretsky, M Training For The Tournament Player with Artur Yusupov Batsford ‘93 Guidance as one would expect and hope for from the 189pp acknowledged world’s best trainer. SB AN F- £9.50

Dvoretsky, M Secrets of Chess Training Batsford ‘97 Foreword by Kasparov. BCF Book of the Year 1991. Highly 218pp acclaimed by all. SB AN F- £15.00 £9.50

Dvoretsky, M Secrets Of Chess Tactics Batsford ‘92 275pp “A deep and authentic revelation of some of Russia’s best-kept training secrets” Murray Chandler. SB AN VG+ £9.75

Dvoretsky, M Opening Preparation with A. Yusupov Batsford ‘94 Was a sequel to Training for the Tournament Player “reading the 304pp text & just attempting the analysis will start you thinking in a new way” Murray Chandler. Indexes of openings & variations. £9.50 SB Figurine; F-

Dvoretsky, M Positional Play with A. Yusupov Batsford ‘96 Several sections are written by Yusupov and others e.g. 288pp Khenkin, Kramnik, Bareev & Kosikov. SB; Figurine; VG+ £18.00 £9.50

Dvoretsky, M Attack & Defence – How Creative Thought Develops in a Player The 5th & final book in the series, with contributions from 288pp Krasenkov & Dolmatov. Indexes of players (c.120); Composers £9.50 (4); Games (c. 90) & Openings (c.30). SB; Figurine; F- £18.00

Dvoretsky, M With A. Yusupov. School Of Future Champions No. 1 Ed. Olms Secrets Of Chess Training 2006 219pp Reader is shown how to assess his/her strengths & weaknesses & analyse their own games. Index of players (c.250); SB Figurine; F- £20.00 12.50

Dvoretsky, M With A. Yusupov. School Of Future Champions No. 4 Ed. Olms Secrets Of Positional Play 2008 Examines in depth the concept of “prophylaxis” i.e. prevention is 240pp better than cure. Index of players & analysts (c.200). Index of £12.50 openings (18). SB Figurine F- £20.00

Edwards Jon Sacking The Citadel – The Classic Bishop Sacrifice Russell 2011 Foreword by Karsten Müller. Starting with Greco’s discovery of 400pp the damage done via h7, the author has traced the development of the attack through 308 games up to 2008, all in figurine with £11.25 diagrams. Indexes of players & openings. Bibliography. SB F $25.00

Emms, John The Survival Guide to Competitive Chess: Improve Your Results now Everyman 07 4 sections with many fully annotated games, in figurine with 160pp diagrams, many of his own to illustrate the points he is making. £7.75 SB AN F $15.00

Estrin, Y The World Champions Teach Chess with I. Romanov 1st UK ed. Black 1988 Top games from 13 OTB + 2 postal champions, who write about 208pp £9.50 what they learned from earlier world champions. SB AN VG+

Euwe, M The Road To Chess Mastery with W. Meiden 1st UK ed. Allen 1968 25 games annotated to demonstrate ways in which an amateur 273pp £9.50 might improve. DW VG+

Euwe, M Chess Master & Grandmaster with Walter Meiden 1st UK ed. Allen 1978 25 illustrative games from the early 1970s, between masters & 367pp GMs to illustrate how amateurs might improve their own game £9.00 DW VG-

Euwe, M Chess Master v Chess Amateur with Walter Meiden 1st UK ed. Allen 1973 Avoiding or making the most of amateurs’ errors. Indexes of 315pp openings & topics. VG £8.75

Euwe, M The Middle Game – Book 2; Dynamic & Subjective Features 1st ed.: Bell 1965 246pp DW of the period slightly rubbed o/w G+ £8.50

Euwe, M Another copy Red DW reprint 1973 Bell 1965 £8.50

Euwe, M The Development of Chess Style 1st UK ed. Bell 1968 44 games from Greco to Spassky to illustrate their current style. 152pp DW nibbled o/w VG £9.50

Evans, Larry New Ideas In Chess Pitman 1960 Describes the “stable” & “unstable” elements of a position and 196pp examines them more thoroughly. Bibliography; Index of £8.00 opponents (c.120);Black cloth boards with titles in gilt. G

Evans, L The 10 Most Common Chess Mistakes – and how to avoid them! Cardoza ‘98 218 Examples of Typical Blunders, starting with “Bad 250pp Development” & finishing with “Inattention, & much else in £5.75 between. Index of players. SB AN VG £11.00 Evans, L Evans, L Chess Catechism Fireside ‘70 250pp Evans has enlarged on his articles in Chess Life & set 3 sets of Q&A s covering theory & technique at all levels. SB VG £4.75

Evans, L Chess Questions Answered, including the 10 best games of the Faber 1974 modern era Each chapter starts with a short basic question, which he then spends several pages answering in an understandable manner. Ends with a “Gentle Glossary” & the 10 best games which each 249pp have a diagram at he key point. Finishes with choice of £6.50 candidates for a basic chess library many of which are listed herein. Blue cloth boards, DW VG [

Fine, R The Middle Game In Chess 1st ed. Hollis 1953 442pp 14 chapters with many examples & diagrams. DW chipped VG £8.00

Fischer, R. J. Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess 1st UK ed. Gower ‘72 An early example of “programmed learning”, popular at the time. Pages are intentionally not sequential. Everything is well-spaced £9.50 334pp out to allow for the owner writing in the answers. HB DW VG+

Flesch, J Planning In Chess Batsford ‘83 30 games in figurine with diagrams. Indexes of games & 82pp £4.50 openings. SB AN G+

Franco, Z Winning Chess Explained – How games are won & lost in practice Gambit 2006 50 annotated games in figurine with diagrams to illustrate the 191pp £8.25 theme. Indexes of games & openings. F+ £16

Friend, W Master The Grand Art of Chess Calculation – Improve your chess by Germany ‘12 accurate visualisation and analysis, The author & publisher is a big game preservationist in S. Africa & he likens that to a game of chess e.g. being alert to danger – 386p knights leap like a gazelle, the rhino attack; the eye of the eagle £14.00 etc. 100s of diagrams with plenty of space for notes. Large format. Weighs 1.1kg SB .F-

Gagarin, V (ed) Secrets From Russia – Chess Theory & Analysis Olbrich 1993 80 articles from 40 top GMs Learn some of the secret weapons 477pp of the Soviet Chess School – openings, endings combinations £7.50 etc. SB AN VG £16.50

Gallagher, J 101 Attacking Ideas In Chess: Aggressive concepts from a GM. Gambit 2000 The ideas all numbered in the index e.g. smothered mate; the 128pp fishbone pawn etc. Indexes of themes, players & openings. SB £8.50 figurine. F- £13.00

Gallagher, J 365 Ways To Checkmate: A British Champion challenges you Gambit 2004 Series of diagrams each with a reader’s challenge. 5 ascending 208pp £8.00 levels of subtlety. SB. figurine notation. F-. £14.00

Gaprindhavili Critical Moments In Chess Batsford ‘10 271pp Identifying them in 269 diagrams, followed by the whole game in £8.50 figurine and the critical position identified. SB VG+ £16.00

Gelfer, I Positional Chess Handbook Dover 2001 495 instructive positions in ascending order of difficulty/subtlety. 212pp £7.00 The whole games in figurine with diagram and solution. SB F-

Gelfer, I Positional Chess Handbook. 1st ed. Batsford ‘91 Game fragments in figurine with diagrams. Indexes of players & 212pp £7.75 composers

Giddins, S 101 Chess Questions Answered - Sound Advice on all aspects of Gambit 2008 playing chess. The author poses common questions and responds with games 127pp or positions to illustrate the answer. Diagrams & figurine £7.75 notation, SB F- £14.00

Giddins, S 50 Essential Chess Lessons –chess Gambit 2006 50 annotated 20th century games to illustrate points being made, 159pp which are summarised at the end. SB AN F+ £15.00. £7.75

Gillam, A. J. Simple Checkmates 1st cased ed. Batsford ‘91 128pp 433 diagrams with mates pending. AN G+ £4.50

Gillam, A. J. Simple Chess Tactics 1st cased ed. Batsford ‘90 128pp 438 diagrams with good moves waiting to be discovered. AN VG £5.00

Gligoric, S Shall We Play Fischerandom Chess? 1st ed. Batsford ‘02 144pp Examines Fischer’s idea with explanations and 8 Illustrative games in figurine. SB AN VG £4.50

Goldman, W. H New Ideas In Old Settings Chess 77pp Explores new ideas in the Caro-Kann. SB G+ £3.00

Golombek, H Chess with H. Phillips 1st ed. Witherby ‘59 Its 12 chapters serve as an introduction to most aspects of the 434pp game. General index comprises 10pp of small print. DW clean £4.50 copy VG+

Golombek, H Improve Your Chess Pitman 1976 Takes the reader through all the essential stages – endgame; 160pp openings – middlegame, finishing with 16 instructive, annotated £4.25 games. Fully indexed. DW HB G+

Golz & Keres Chess Combination As A Fine Art Crowood ‘89 Drawn on articles by Kurt Richter with an essay by Keres on 255pp £6.25 Richter’s contribution to the game. SB VG+

Gormally, D Calculate Like A GM: Learn from the World-class Attacking Players Batsford ‘10 In the course of 42 annotated games in figurine with diagrams, by the modern masters from Tal to Carlsen the author dissects 256pp their thought processes & analyses their powers of calculation. £8.50 SB AN VG+ £15

Griffiths, P Better Chess For Club Players. 1st ed. EP 1982 117pp 18 games by club players analysed. Index of themes. SB G+ £4.75

Grivas, E Chess College Vol. 3: A step-by-Step Guide to Chess Excellence Gambit ‘06 Chapters include B vs N; Standard sacs etc. 90 illustrative 111pp games in figurine with diagrams. SB AN VG £13.00 £7.50

Grooten, H Chess Strategy For Club Players – The road to positional advantage NIC 2010 2nd ed. Winner of the Chess Cafe Book of the Year. 412pp Bibliography; Index of players (241); £15.00 All games in figurine with diagrams. SB AN F $30.00

Grover, K. Chess with T. Wiswell. Redman 1951 109pp 1st UK ed. after having had 10 US editions. DW G+ £4.50

Gufeld, E Chess Strategy with N. Kalienchenko Batsford ‘03 Examines every stage of the game, and every diagram comes 272pp with questions to be answered. Illustrative games in figurine with £8.50 diagrams. SB AN VG+ £16.00

Hansen L. B Improve Your Chess by Learning from the Champions Gambit 2009 We must learn from what was discovered in each age of chess- playing – the Romantic age; the Scientific age; the Hypermodern 192pp £7.75 age etc. and Hanson teaches how. c.125 instructive games in figurine with diagrams. Index of openings. SB VG+ £16.00

Hansen L. B Foundations of Chess Strategy – Applying Business Methods to Gambit 2005 Chess Preparation & Training Many illustrative games in figurine with diagrams. Indexes of 176pp £7.75 players & openings. SB F- £16.00

Harding T. D. Why You Lose At Chess contributions by Kottnauer, Botteril & Wade Batsford ‘82 120pp Figurine notation used throughout. SB AN G+ £4.25

Harding T. D. The Chess Computer 1st ed. Pergamon ‘82 215pp From Bletchley Park to the 1980s. Figurine. SB VG+ £5.00

Harding T. D. The New Chess Computer Book Pergamon 87 Updates material as computers become more sophisticated. 312pp £6.00 SB AN VG+

Harding, T. D Better Chess For Average Players OUP 1977 Assumes no more than knowledge of the different moves pieces 237pp make and takes the reader through 30 “Units” or bits of £4.50 knowledge. Many diagrams with the coordinates. -a pioneering UK book. using AN. HB VG+ .

Harley, B Chess For The Fun Of it Bell 1946 170pp Includes short biographies of & games by 20 players. Indexes of definitions, openings & players. HB DW VG £6.50

Hartston, W How To Cheat At Chess – Everything you wanted to know about chess but were afraid to ask. 96pp A sideways look at the game by a great humorist, with cartoons by the great Bill Tidy. PB VG £4.00

Heisman D. The Improving Annotator From Beginning to Master Expanded ed. Mongoose ‘10 Describes different ways one can review a recent game, so that, 225pp win or lose, one can derive maximum benefit from the process. £9.50 28 of his own games in figurine with diagrams. SB F $20

Heisman, D Elements Of Positional Evaluation CEI 1990 112pp Gives an understanding of how to analyze positions. SB AN VG £4.50

Another copy 4th edition. Revised & Enlarged Russell 2010 216pp Sub-titled How The Pieces Get Their Power. SB AN VG+ $20 £8.25

Henkin, V 1,000 Checkmate Combinations Batsford ‘11 Approx 6 diagrams per page with a 1 phrase clue. 1st English 336pp translation of a Russian classic. SB AN F £16.00 £8.75

Hertan, C Strike Like Judit! – The Winning Tactics Of Legendary Judit Polgar NIC 2018 Inspirational traps, sacrifices & endgame tricks.drawn from 255pp 109 of her games. SB AN F+ $25.00 £12.00

Hickl, J The Power Of Pawns – Chess Structure Fundamentals for Post- NIC 2016 beginners. One simple pawn move can either win or lose the game. The 186pp author shows how. Indexes of games & openings. £8.00 All games in figurine with diagrams. SB AN F- $20

Hooper, D Play For Mate with B. Cafferty. 1st ed. Bell 1977 280 mating combinations demonstrated simply & clearly. Errata 244pp pencilled in lightly. Pictorial DW. V £8.00

Horowitz, I. A. Solitaire Chess – Match your wits against the Greatest GMs Ch. Review ‘62 128pp Play 62 games as White then see what Black played. Full explanations given. HB DW G £5.00

Karpov & Gik Chess Kaleidoscope 1st ed. 1981 Pergamon Covers a variety of topics plus 15 of his games annotated in 168pp detail. Typescript with diagrams. SB AN F £6.00

Kasparov Kasparov Teaches Chess Batsford 86 24 lessons with a game or position to go with each one. 124pp £4.00 SB Figurine notation. pages yellowing slightly o/w G

Keene, R.D Winning Chess Batsford ‘95 Self-rating tests to do before going on to face the GMs. Figurine 144pp notation to all games. SB VG £5.00

Keene, R.D Winning Moves Batsford ‘91 240 positions taken from his columns in the Times, each with a 111pp clue leading to the solution. SB VG £5.00

Keene, R Winning Moves 2 Batsford ‘91 240 positions from actual games where the reader is challenged 111pp to find the killing move, with solutions. SB AN G+ £6.00

Keene, R (ed.) Learn From The Grandmasters Batsford ‘75 14 GMs contribute & annotate 2 of their outstanding games. inc. 120pp Tal, Korchnoi, Larsen, Browne Timman et al. SB VG £5.50

Keene, R. (ed.) Learn From The Grandmasters New AN Batsford ‘98 160pp A slightly different mix of GMs each offering 2 games SB VG+ £7.50

Keene & Levy How To Beat Your Chess Computer Batsford ‘91 Levy represented mankind against computer programmers in the 104pp 70s & 80s. HB AN paper yellowing o/w VG £5.00

Keene/ Schiller World Champion Combinations – the best of 14 Champions Cardoza ‘98 Includes 56 testing diagrams with answers at the end. 84 games 260pp in figurine with diagrams VG £13.00 £7.50

Keene, R The Chess Combination from Philidor to Karpov Pergamon 77 Divided into 4 chapters (a) examples of what is a combination. 162pp (b) Before the Ark Greco, Philidor etc. (c) Morphy to Fischer & £5.50 (d) after Fischer. Illustrative games with diagrams. HB VG

Keene, R How To Beat Gary Kasparov Batsford ‘90 All 39 of his losses between 1981 – 1990 are analysed, with 192pp context, diagrams & X-tables. SB AN G £4.25

Keres & Kotov The Art of The Middle Game Dover 1989 A republication of the 1964 ed. trans. by Golombek. Index of 238pp £4.50 players. Index of middle-game themes. SB VG $11.00

King, D How To Win At Chess – 10 Golden Rules To Follow Cadogan ‘95 127pp SB AN VG+ £7.00

King, D How Good Is Your Chess? Cadogan ‘94 Sit alongside 20 top players & King will award or deduct points 127pp according to your decisions. Figurine AN SB G £5.00

Kmoch, H Pawn Power In Chess 2nd printing McKay 1964 304pp 182 diagrams & c. 160 full or part illustrative games. Red cloth £5.00 boards. G+

Kmoch, H Pawn Power In Chess USA 1990 272pp SB AN VG £7.25

Kongsted, C Beat The Grandmasters – Can You Rise To The Challenge? Gambit 2005 351 positions from real GM games in which you must find the 176pp winning move. Solutions with self-rating system to check £7.50 progress. Figurine notation SB VG £15.00

Korn, W The Brilliant Touch in Chess Dover 1966 240 fascinating positions commented on by the author. SB VG+ £6.00

Kopec, D Winning The Won Game – Lessons From The Albert Brilliancy Prizes Batsford ‘04 with L. Ftacnik. 208pp 64 games annotated to exemplify their theme. SB Figurine VG+ £6.75

Kopec, D Mastering Chess – A Course In 21 Lessons with Chandler & Davies Cadogan ‘94 133pp SB AN VGG £7.00

Kotov, A Think Like A Grandmaster 1st ed. Batsford ‘71 200pp One of the modern classics. Index of names. DW VG £8.00

Kotov, A Another copy £5.00 Batsford ‘73 SB VG £7.00 Kotov, A Another copy Batsford ‘75 200pp SB G+ £5.00

Kostyev, A From Beginner To Expert In 40 Lessons Batsford ‘86 147pp PB AN pages starting to yellow o/w VG £5.00

Kostyev, A 40 Lessons For The Club Player Batsford ‘86 216pp Each lesson drawn from sources old & new, with examples £5.00

Kotronias, V The Grandmaster Battle Manual Quality 2011 90 illustrative games in figurine with diagrams. Author explains 350pp how he became 9X Greek Champion. It’s not easy, but he £9.25 explains it well. SB $35,00

Krogius, N Psychology In Chess RHM 1976 243pp SB pages edges spotting o/w G+ £4.75

Kurzdorfer, P The Tao Book of Chess - 200 Principles to Transform Your Game & Adams 2004 Your Life. 242pp A guide to chess and to the game of life. SB AN VG £4.50

Lakdawala, C Chess For Hawks – Improve your vision, sharpen your talons, NIC 2017 “You will know how to obey the position’s requirements instead 282pp of your natural inclinations (for caution). Are you a dove or a £11.75 hawk?! 60 illustrative games in figurine with diagrams. Fully indexed. SB F+ $25.00

Lamford, P Improve Your Game – 100 Chess Puzzles Deutsch ‘99 Aimed at all levels of player & provides 100 testing positions that £3.95 127pp will both instruct & entertain. No need for a chess set. Figurine. SB VG

Lane, G The Greatest Ever Chess Tricks & Traps Everyman 08 235pp Each trick is named after its devisor with some history about him/her. c110 illustrative games in figurine with diagrams. £9.50 Indexes of openings & games. SB F+ £15.

Lane, G Victory in the Opening – The Art of Winning Quickly Batsford 99 144pp 100+ games in figurine with 3 diagrams per page. SB G £7.50

Lane, G Improve Your Chess In 7 Days Batsford ‘07 Ideal for those with not a lot of time to “swot up”.before an event. 204pp Same formula as previous title. SB AN F £13.00 £7.25

Lane, G Prepare To Attack Everyman’10 Based on Lincoln’s principle “Give me 6 hours to fell a tree and 192pp I’ll spend the first 4 hours sharpening the axe” i.e. preparation. Lane tackles questions of how and when to attack, through 50 £8.75 illustrative games in figurine with diagrams. SB F+ £16.00

Lars B Hansen Foundations of Chess Strategy Gambit 2005 176pp Applying Business Methods to Chess Preparation & Training. C. 200 illustrative games in figurine with diagrams. Indexes of £7.75 openings & players. SB VG+

Lars B Hansen Improve Your Chess By Learning From The Champions Gambit 2009 191pp c. 200 illustrative games in figurine with diagrams. Indexes of £7.75 opening & players. SB VG+

Lasker, Ed Chess & Checkers – The Way To Mastership NY 1919 284pp Printed in the US by D. Appleton & Co. Sub-titled “Complete instructions for the beginner: valuable suggestions for the advanced player. Green cloth boards with chessboard design. An Ex Libris plate from The Book Society with an Ancient Greek £15.00 motif and an illegible signature, below which is a small ink stamp “Marker & Co Ltd. Bombay.” An interesting history. LN 1339. G

Lasker Edward Chess For Fun & Chess For Blood Dover 1962 224pp A long-lived classic. SB F- £4.75

Lasker Edward Chess Batsford ‘73 Using modern teaching methods (programmed learning) goes from basic moves to level of strong club player. It must have 468pp worked because the front endpaper bears a sticker indicating it £9.00 was awarded as a school prize for Mathematics to a pupil who is now a leading expert in both fields. Insc. DW VG+

Lasker Edward Another copy. No DW Black cloth boards with titles in bright gilt. VG+ £7.50

Lasker Edward Another copy adapted by John Nunn for the Algebraic age with some new Batsford 1997 material added. 368pp Indexes of players, openings & endings. SB F £18.00 £9.00

Lasker Eduard Chess Strategy 1st ed. Bell 1915 The BCM of 1914 recorded that Eduard, as he then was, was not related to the World Champion, Emanuel, but that the 30 year old from Poland had just published his first book “Chess Strategy” the 1st edition of which had quickly sold out and a 2nd edition was quickly being prepared. This early English edition, 282pp £20.00 was translated by J. Du Mont, who claimed in his preface that as there were so many improvements & additions, it was effectively the 1st edition of a new book. 48 illustrative games. Neat insc. of William Caldwell. o/w no marks or structural damage. Maroon cloth boards a little rubbed but titles in gilt still clear. G

Lasker Edward Chess Strategy Dover 1959 282pp Insc. “To Rowena” (Bruce) SB G £7.50

Lasker Edward Chess: The Complete Self-Tutor Batsford ‘97 368pp Lasker’s original masterwork edited by John Nunn and re-set in £9.00 figurine algebraic notation, making it “the definitive teaching manual”. SB F-

Lasker, Em Lasker’s Manual Of Chess Dover 1960 349pp Republication of the original 1932 2nd ed. £5.50

Lasker, Em Common Sense In Chess an abstract of 12 lectures given to an audience of London 139pp players in 1895, shortly after he began his 27 year reign as £4.00 World Champion. SB Insc. VG

LeMoir, D How To Be Lucky In Chess – encourage your opponent to self- Gambit 2001 destruct Help for ordinary players to make the most of their abilities. 176pp £8.50 Many illustrative games in figurine with diagrams. SB F £14.00

Levitt, J Secrets Of Spectacular Chess with J. Friedgood Holt 1995 Bibliography; Index of players & composers; Index of openings, 222pp £7.50 themes & definitions. SB Figurine; VG+ $22.50

Levitt, J. Secrets Of Spectacular Chess 2nd ed. Everyman 08 287pp Covers games, studies & problems. Figurine. SB F- £25.00 £10.00

Levitt, J Genius In Chess – Discover & Develop Your Chess Talent Batsford ‘97 128pp Many useful “Talent Tests”. Figurine. SB £13.00 £7.50

Levy, D Learn Chess From The World Champions 1st ed. Pergamon 79 206pp Includes 34 annotated illustrative games. HB VG+ £7.25

Levy, D The Chess Computer Handbook Batsford 84 128pp Glossary; Bibliography ; Figurine SB paper yellowing o/w G £2.50

Linder, I Faszinierendes Schach (Fascinating Chess) 1st German ed. of Russian Berlin 1986 1981 original Figurine notation. Cloth covered boards with chessboard 285pp £5.00 design; DW VG+

Lipnitsky, I Questions of Modern Chess Theory – A Soviet classic Quality 08 Russian experts said it was one of the most influential chess 229pp books of the 20th century, yet never published in English…. until £7.50 now. Updated for the 21st century. SB Figurine VG £16

Littlewood, J How To Play The Middle Game In Chess Batsford ‘00 176pp 300+ instructive examples in Figurine. SB VG+ £15.00 £6.75

Littlewood, P Chess Tactics Batsford ‘04 143pp Figurine notation; SB VG+ £13.00 £8.00

Livshitz, A Test Your Chess IQ – Book 1 2nd ed. Pergamon ‘88 133pp 6 test diagrams per page with solutions on rear. SB AN VG £8.00

Livshitz, A Test Your Chess IQ – Book 2 2nd ed. Pergamon ‘89 133pp 6 test diagrams per page with solutions on rear. SB AN VG £8.00

Livshitz, A Test Your Chess IQ – Grandmaster Challenge 2nd ed. Cadogan ‘93 133pp 6 test diagrams per page with solutions on rear. SB AN VG £8.00

Love, J Tactical Ideas In Chess Bell 1981 Explanation of tactics plus 10 illustrative gms in figurine with 150pp £4.25 diagrams. Insc. SB VG

Love, J Further Chess Ideas with John Hodgkins 1st ed. Bell 1965 Planning – basic ideas & not sequences of Moves (variations) & 177pp covers (a) opening & middlegame) (b) tactical ideas & (c) the £4.75 endgame. Using many actual games, annotated with diagrams. DW. Small insc. o/w G

McDonald, N. Chess Success: Planning After the Opening. Batsford’07 The author shows the key to each opening is the resulting pawn 267pp formation and uses 40+ deeply annotated games in figurine with £7.25 diagrams to demonstrate this. SB AN F £15.00

McDonald, N. The Giants Of Power Play-Learn from Topolov,Geller, Bronstein et al Everyman’ Not forgetting Alekhine & Morphy. 88 annotated games in 239pp figurine with diagrams. Indexes of openings & players. A few £7.75 biographical paragraphs on each player. SB F £15.00

McDonald, N. The Art Of Planning In Chess – Move by Move Batsford 06 247pp 35 21st century illustrative games in figurine with diagrams in which the opening is skipped over, but the rest is analysed £7.75 thoroughly. SB AN F £15

Marin, M Learn From The Legends – Chess Champions At Their Best Quality 2004 65 illustrative game fragments + 7 complete games in figurine 312pp £9.00 with diagrams. Index of games & game fragments. SB F £18.00

Marin, M Secrets of Attacking ChessUnderstanding when, where & how to attack Gambit 2005 c.40 illustrative games in figurine with diagrams. Indexes of 192pp players & openings. SB F £17.00 £8.75

Markos, J Under The Surface Quality 2018 …”invites you beneath the surface (of the play) where you 285pp learn to navigate the depths of chess” HB AN F+ c.£25.00. £15.00

Marovic, D Understanding Pawn Play In Chess. Gambit 2000 “Pawns are the Soul of Chess” it was said and the author shows how true this is. Chapters on Isolated; Hanging; Passed;

Doubled & Backward pawns and chains & islands. All illustrative 208pp £8.75 games in figurine with diagrams. Indexes of players & openings. SB VG+ £15.00

Marovic, D Secrets of Chess Tranformations Gambit 2004 Explains how to transform one advantage into another. Indexes

of players & composers. All illustrative games in figurine with £7.75 208pp diagrams. SB AN F- £16.00

Marovic, D Secrets of Positional Chess. Gambit ‘03 How to exploit the strengths & weaknesses of squares, ranks & files, king, rook, minor pieces etc. The author £7.75 224pp devotes a chapter to each via positions from actual games. SB AN F £17

Matanovic ed Anthology Of Chess Combinations 3 Chess Informant 2005 Informator style languageless approach to 2,709 diagrams in 575pp thematic sections. DW AN F £12.00

Matanovic ed Anthology of Chess Combinations Chess Informant 1995 Informator style languageless approach to 2,001 diagrams in 423pp thematic sections. DW AN F £10.00

Matanovic ed Encyclopaedia of Chess Middlegames – Combinations. Batsf ord ‘80 Chess Informant style languageless figurine approach to 1,817 352pp diagrams in thematic sections. HB DW AN VG+ £12.00

Mednis, E How To Defeat A Superior Opponent Summit 1989 312pp 68 illustrative annotated games in figurine with diagrams SB VG £7.50

Mednis, E Practical Middlegame Tips Cadogan ‘98 33 annotated illustrative games in figurine with diagrams. 173pp £5.00 Indexes of players & openings. SB F-

Mednis, E Strategic Chess – Mastering The Closed Game Dover 1999 30 illustrative games in which closed-type positions occur and is 236pp a guide to playing them more successfully. SB AN F- $9.95 £6.50

Mednis, E From The Opening Into The Endgame 1st ed. Pergamon ‘83 Discusses how to go from a game’s start to the end with the 151pp minimum no. of unpredictable moves in between. HB F- £7.75

Mednis, E From The Middlegame into the Endgame Everyman 05 3rd reprint, indicating good sales & popularity. Many game 220pp fragments with diagrams featuring this passage of play. £6.25 SB AN VG £15.00

Mieses, J Instructive Positions From Master Chess 1st ed. Bell 1938 75pp 125 part games. Green cloth boards spotted o/w G £3.50

Mikhalchisin,A The Centre - A Modern Strategy Guide With Georg Mohr Evolution 16 Concentrates on the struggle from move 1 to control the board’s 276pp centre, using c. 170 illustrative deeply annotated games in £12.00 figurine with diagrams. SB VG+ £25.00

Mirkovic, S Chess School 3 Serbia 2008 3 parts (a) Rook endings (b) Combinations (c) Strategic motives. 181pp Only 1000 copies printed. In English SB AN F- £9.50

Morry, W. R. Chess Theory & Practice – The Elements & The Play with W. Mitchell Wilshire ‘73 200pp Part 1 The Elements of Chess: Part 2 Playing Chess SB G- £2.50

Motwani, P H. O. T. Chess Batsford ‘96 A series of mnemonics to help remember the correct procedures 192pp in various parts of the game, with full explanations. SB AN F £6.50

Müller, K The Magic Of Chess Tactics – A Training Book For Advanced Players Russell 2002 With D. Meyer. Illustrative games or fragments in figurines with 259pp £10.00 diagrams. Index of players. Bibliography. SB F $20.00

Müller, K Chess Cafe Puzzle Book 2 – test & improve your positional intuition. Russell ‘08 Foreword by Susan Polgar. Many test diagrams in various 275pp motifs, with fully annotated solutions. Figurine SB VG+ c.£24 £12.00

Müller, K The Magic Tactics of Mikhail Tal – Learn from the legend NIC 2012 With Raymund Stoltz. Explaining Tal’s breathtaking tactics & 100 332pp positions from his games demonstrating correct & incorrect £15.00 combinations. Also personal memories from Tal’s contemporaries. SB Figurine F $29.00

Naroditsky, D Mastering Positional Chess NIC 2010 Practical lessons of a Junior World Champion. Preface by his 239pp parents. “The 14yr old author repeatedly reinforces the points £9.75 he wishes to make, not only through the illustrative games but also in the summaries & exercises.” Figurine. SB. F- $24.00

Neishstadt, Y Your Move! Batsford ‘90 145pp 344 exercises based on diagrams. Figurine; SB G £4.50

Neishtadt. Y Improve Your Chess Tactics – 700 Practical Lessons & Execises. NIC 2011 383pp Clearly laid out and easy to follow. Figurine SB F- $20.00 £12.25

Nesis, G Tactical Chess Exchanges Batsford ‘91 The art & science of knowing how to exchange to advantage, 121pp and avoiding disadvantage in the process. Translates by J. G. £5.25 Gorodi. Figurine SB paper slightly yellowing o/w G

Nimzowitsch My System – A Chess Treatise Bell 1961 265pp An all-time classic. G+ £5.00

Nimzowitsch My System – 21st Century Edition. Edited by Lou Hays Batsford ‘94 260pp 50 illustrative games in AN with 419 diagrams. Language up- dated, making its guidance even more accessible. SB G+ £7.00

Nimzowitsch Blockade – New Perspectives on Aron Nimzowitsch. CEI 1980 Nimzo’s 1st published book, quickly overshadowed by My 91pp System, but not devalued thereby. 23 games chosen & £7.00 annotated by Nimzowitsch at his publisher’s behest. SB AN Cover spotting o/w G

Nimzowitsch Chess Praxis – The Praxis of my System Dover 1962 Illustrated by 109 of his games & many illustrative articles & 132 364pp diagrams. SB G+ £7.50

Norwood, D Usborne Book of Better Chess Pt. 1 – Improving Your Game Usborne ‘92 128pp Includes Pt. 2 – Chess Puzzles. Multi-coloured with countless diagrams & pictures. SB AN VG+ £4.00

Norwood, D Usborne Guide To Advanced Chess Usborne ‘90 64pp Multi-coloured with countless photos & diagrams SB AN VG+ £4.00

Nunn J. D. M. Secrets of Practical Chess Gambit 1998 How to make the best of your existing talents. Nunn explains 175pp how. All moves in figurine. SB F £15.00 £7.25

Nunn J. D. M. Understanding Chess Move By Move Gambit 2010 8th (!) reprint in 9 years of this popular book. 30 illustrative 240pp annotated games in figurine with diagrams Every move £8.25 explained in everyday English – no jargon. SB AN F- £15

Nunn J. D. M. Learn Chess Tactics – discover the secrets of how to win games. Gambit ‘10 Assumes knowledge of the basic rules, but nothing more. Many 160pp game fragments in figurine serve as exercises to solve, with £6.75 solutions. SB F £13.00

Pachman, L Modern Chess Tactics – Pieces & Pawns In Action Trans. P. H. Clarke McKay 1971 220pp Text is illustrated by 200+ extracts from practical play & 21 annotated games. DW G- £5.00

Pachman, L Modern Chess Tactics – Pieces & Pawns In Action. Trans. P.H. Clarke RKP 1979 220pp Text illustrated by 21 annotated games & 200+ extracts. DW £4.25 chipped. G- small club stamp o/w G

Pachman, L Attack & Defence in Modern Chess Tactics. Trans. by P. H. Clarke RKP 1973 248pp SB G+ £4.25

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Pachman, L The Middle-Game In Chess 1st English ed. RKP 1982 188pp 267 diagrams & 5 annotated games. Insc. AN PB £4.25 VG

Pachman, L Pachman’s Modern Chess Strategy Pitman 1966 318pp Index of games (100+) HB VG £5.00

Pachman, L Complete Chess Strategy 1: Planning The Pieces Batsford ‘75 1st of a trilogy, deals with long-term piece management. 1st ed. 168pp Indexes of games, positions & openings. HB DW VG £6.50

Pachman, L Complete Chess Strategy 2: Pawn-Play & the Centre 1st ed. Batsford ‘76 184pp 92 illustrative annotated games. DW G+ £5.50

Pachman, L Complete Chess Strategy 2: Pawn-Play & the Centre 1st ed. Batsford ‘76 Another copy SB VG £4.75

Pachman, L Complete Chess Strategy Vol 2 Principles of Pawn-Play & the Center USA 1978 184pp Pub. Cornerstone Library NY. SB pages yellowing o/w G+ £5.50

Pachman, L Pachman’s Modern Chess Strategy 1st ed. Trans. by A. S. Russell . Pitman ‘63 318pp c. 300 diagrams illustrating many games & fragments DW rubbed but internally VG £5.50

Pandolfini, B Chess Movie 2 – The Means and Ends Russell 2011 64 endgames from games featuring players from Philidor to Carlsen. For each one a diagram is posted with a diagram for 200pp £8.50 every move until the end, and the logic – or lack of it – explained. SB AN F+ $20.00

Pandolfini, B The Winning Way – The How, What & Why of Opening Chess Fireside ’98 Stratagems 189pp 150 little lessons – 1 per page – with diagrams. Figurine SB VG £6.25

Pfleger Chess: The Mechanics of the Mind with G. Treppner Crowood ‘88 A set of guidelines by which the average player can improve 156pp basic chess thinking & performance, after regular practice. £5.00 SB Figurine notation. F-

Phillips, A The Chess Teacher OUP 1978 25 lessons clearly titled & set out for a chess teacher of juniors 149pp to go through it with them . SB Figurine notation. VG+ £2.75 Plaskett, J Playing To Win . Batsford ‘88 90pp Half the book comprises his 15 best games in figurine annotated by him, with diagrams. The other half consists of his views on £3.25 some pf the problems with modern chess play. G+ Povah, N Chess Training 1st ed. Faber 1981 176pp Elaborates on some of the basic coaching methods & training £4.50 positions. SB AN G+

Pritchett, C Heroes of Classical Chess – Learn from Carlsen, Anand, Fischer, Everyman Smyslov & Rubinstein ‘09 35 annotated games in figurine with diagrams, dissected to 224pp extract lessons applicable to all. SB £16 £9.50

Reinfeld, F The Complete Chessplayer Prentice ‘53 292pp 13 sections covering all aspects of the game plus 13 illustrative annotated master games with diagrams. HB DW VG+ £6.00

Reinfeld, F The Secret of Tactical Chess – A Manual of Chess Victory Collier 1973 Explains “how to construct advantageous situations and turn them into victories” 163 diagrams & problems at the end of each 229pp £3.00 chapter to work through before checking at the back of the book SB

Reinfeld, F How To Force Checkmate Dover 1958 112pp 300 practical immediate checkmates that opponents cannot escape, selected from master play. 2 diagrams per page. SB G £4.25

Reinfeld, F Chess For Amateurs – How To Improve Your Game Pitman 1946 98pp 10 lessons to read/work through before answering the £3.00 questions immediately after. HB G

Reinfeld, F Great Moments In Chess 1st UK ed. Pitman 1964 182pp HB Insc. G+ £5.00

Reinfeld, F Chess In A Nutshell 1st UK ed. London 1960 128pp DW Insc. VG £5.00

Reinfeld, F Chess Traps: Pitfalls & Swindles – how to set & avoid them. 1st ed. Arco 1956 243pp With Horowitz. DW Insc. G+ £8.00

Reinfeld, F Why You Lose At Chess 1st ed. Arco 1957 237pp VG £5.00

Reinfeld, F Win At Chess – Improve Your Play With 300 Forceful Combinations Dover 1958 120pp SB G £2.75

Reinfeld, F Complete Book Of Chess Stratagems Dover 1972 188pp Many situations grouped by common themes, to work out. £4 .00 SB VG

Reinfeld, F How To Think Ahead In Chess: The Methods & Techniques of Fireside ‘79 Planning Your Entire Game with Al Horowitz Pt. 1 Playing as White: Stonewall pattern. Pt. 2 Playing as Black against 1e4:- Dragon Variation. Pt. 3 Playing as Black against £6.50 268pp 1.d4 Lasker’s Defence. Pt. 4 How to exploit your opponent’s weak play. SB VG

Reinfeld. F The Secret Of Tactical Chess – A Manual Of Chess Victory Collier 1974 “How to construct advantageous situations and turn them into 229pp £4.50 victories”. SB G

Reinfeld, F Chess Mastery By Question and Answer Pitman 1944 176pp Insc. 1 page torn o/w G £2.50

Reinfeld, F Chess Quiz McKay 1945 120pp 300 positions to solve with clues given. Insc “J. A. Fuller”. G £3.75

Reinfeld, F Chess Traps, Pitfalls & Swindles.- How to set & avoid them. 1st ed. Arco 1956 With Horowitz. 223 diagrams with full annotations about each 243pp one. DW rubbed but in clear protective cover. o/w G £5.50

Reinfeld, F The Way To Better Chess. Collier 1973 Intro by Al Horwitz which is a tribute to the recently deceased 229pp author. Step by Step instructions for beginners to established £5.00 players, plus 119 illustrated tactical situations. SB G

Reitstein, L Test Your Chess! 240 Positions from South African Games. 1991 84pp SB AN VG £5.00

Renaud, G The Art of The Checkmate with Victor Kahn 1st ed. Bell 1955 208pp DW Some foxing on endpapers o/w G £6 .00

Renaud, G The Art of The Checkmate with Victor Kahn Dover 1962 208pp Part 1 Picturesque Mates. Part 2 Typical Mates e.g. Greco’s, £6.00 Boden’s & Blackburne’s mate etc. Plus quizzes. SB VG

Reti, R Modern Ideas In Chess 1st ed. Bell 1923 “This pioneer work is a classic of chess literature” Whyld. 181pp Original brown cloth boards with bright gilt titles. Insc. VG £9.00

Reti, R Another copy almost identical 1st ed. £9.00

Reti, R Modern Ideas In Chess Dover 1960 181pp A facsimile copy of the 1943 2nd ed. £5.00

Rizzitano, J Understanding Your Chess – Learn from your games and improve Gambit 2004 your results. 84 games, mostly his own, analysed to bring greater 191pp understanding of the points he makes at the start of each. All £9.25 illustrative games in figurine with diagrams. SB AN F- £16

Romero, A Creative Chess Strategy Gambit 2003 The author urges players to continue to be creative, rather than 221pp mechanical once an advantage has been obtained. c. 30 games in figurine with diagrams. SB Water has affected most pp £3.25 making them crinkly, though the binding is still sound.

Rowson, J The Seven Deadly Chess Sins – Scotland’s GM discusses the most Gambit 2001 common cases of disaster in chess. Many illustrative games in figurine with diagrams “Thought- 207pp £8.25 provoking & entertaining”. SB AN F- £17.00

Rowson, J Chess For Zebras – Thinking Differently about Black & White Gambit 2005 255pp Original & widely acclaimed. SB AN VG+ £18.00 £8.25

Sadler / Regan Chess For Life – Understanding how chess skills develop and Gambit 2016 change with the passage if time Several celebrities are interviewed in pursuit of this theme e.g.

223pp Arkell; Miles; Short; Nunn, Cramling et al. each offering games of £9.50 theirs to back-up their observations. All illustrative games in Figurine with diagrams. SB AN VG+ £16.00

Sadler, M Study Chess With Matthew Sadler Everyman ‘12 His 5th book for this publisher – clearly successful as player & 140pp teacher. 53 illustrative games in Figurine with diagrams. £9.75 Indexes of opening & games. SB Insc. F- £16.00

Sakaev & Landa The Complete Manual of Positional Chess Vol. 1 – Opening & NIC 2016 Middlegame: A complete set of instructions & tips for trainers & self-improvers. 320pp 248 illustrative game / fragments in Figurine with diagrams £15.00 SB F- $30.-00

Sakaev & Landa Complete Manual of Positional Chess Vol. 2 Middlegame Structures NIC 2017 & Dynamics. Continues the programme & style of Vol. 1. 374 illustrative 368pp £16.00 games/fragments in Figurine with diagrams. SB AN F- c. £26

Samarian, S Opening Tactics For Club Players Hale 1980 170pp Translated from the French by Elaine Pritchard. HB DW VG+ £5.00

Schiller, E 7 Steps To Better Chess – A Guide To Immediately Making You A Cardoza Better Player 2010 191pp Inc. 54 “Game Lessons” with diagrams, SB AN F $15.00 £7.50

Seirawan, Y Winning Chess - Tactics Everyman ‘04 255pp Clearly explained in words & diagrams, & tests to follow. SB VG £15.00 £9.50

Shamkovich, L Tactical Chess Training 300 Brilliant Tactical Studies from 1985 - 95 Hays 1995 300 diagrams from particular games with the challenge to find the 176pp move from the clue of what to look for e.g. X-ray attack; Back £8.25 rank; Pin: Zugzwang etc. SB AN F- $18.00

Shamkovich, L Chess Sacrifices Batsford ‘76 184pp Sacrifices categorised with numerous whole illustrative games with diagrams. SB with light foxing on endpapers. o/w G £4.00

Shamkovich, L Saving Lost Positions Batsford ‘87 101pp 56 games in figurine each with a diagram at the point at which the £4.50 likely loser finds an unexpected resource to save the day. Pages yellowing o/w G

Shankland, S Small Steps to Giant Improvement – Master Pawn-Play in Chess Quality 2018 331pp Every aspect covered, starting with “Pawns can’t move backwards”. Pictorial HB AN F c. £26. £17.50

Shashin, B Attacking The Queenside Batsford ‘90 Kingside attacks are well-documented, less so for the 112pp queenside, which is often less well-defended. How to exploit this. £4 SB Figurine; pages starting to yellow. o/w G .25

Sheffield, R Tension In The Chess Position CEI 1981 68pp 41 complete games illustrating the development of tension & its effect on a game as in e.g. Petrosian’s games. Amusing drawn £4.00 cartoons. SB AN Pale stains on pp 1 – 4 o/w G

Shereshevsky The Shereshvsky Method To Improve In Chess NIC 2018 Author was specially commissioned by the Russian Federation to rework his 2 earlier classics into 1 volume to inspire and help 352pp a new generation with his training methods. All games in £9.99 Figurine with diagrams SB. AN VG+ £25.00

Short, N Learn Chess With Nigel Short Paul 1993 196pp SB AN VG £4.00

Short, N Nigel Short On Chess Hamlyn 1993 Lessons from his games, plus Best Games section and career £5.75 127pp record. Large format. AN VG

Silman, J The Amateur’s Mind – Turning Misconceptions Into Chess Mastery Siles 1999 2nd ed./expanded. The author catalogued the misconceptions his pupils had about certain positions, and set about correcting them 443pp and setting them out in a book. Glossary of terms. £12.00 SB AN F- $20.00

Silman, J How To Reassess Your Chess - Chess Mastery Through Chess Siles 2010 Imbalances. Expanded 3rd ed. Some amusing colloquial expressions used to describe useful 402pp ideas. What are “the psychopaths of the board” or the “pigs in a £9.75 pen”. It’s all here. SB AN F $18.00

Silman, J The Reassess Your Chess Workbook: How To Master Chess Siles 01 Imbalances. Can be used together with, or independently of his previous 423pp book. 131 problem positions from actual games, plus 281 £9.75 diagrams, with solutions adjacent. Glossary. SB AN VG $20.00

Smith, R Modern Chess Analysis – Techniques that have revolutionised Gambit 2004 chess analysis. Integrates the best of computer analysis with human experience. 176pp Games & fragments in figurine with diagrams. Glossary. Indexes £8.50 of players, composers & openings. SB VG+ £16.00

Sokolov, I Chess Middlegame Strategies Vol. 1 Thinkers ‘17 228pp 37 recent master games examined to highlight the area in question. SB AN F £9.50

Sokolov, I Chess Middlegame Strategies Vol. 2 Opening Meets Middlegame Thinkers ‘18 260pp 30 deeply annotated games exemplifying his chosen themes in the Spanish, Catalan, Benoni & Caro-Kan. SB AN F £9.50

Sokolov, I Winning Chess Middlegames – An essential guide to pawn NIC 2008 structures. Foreword by Michael Adams. 45 deeply annotated games in 286pp figurine with diagrams favourable pawn formations and then £12.50 exploit them. SB AN VG+ c £25

Sokolov, I Sacrifice & Initiative – Seize the Moment to get the Advantage. NIC 2013 Concentrates on examining ways in which a sacrifice can open the door to attack. 92 deeply annotated illustrative 255p games in figurine at the points under discussion. SB AN F- $30.00 £9.50

Soltis, A Chess Mistakes & How To Detect & Avoid Them Unwin 1980 213pp An early Soltis title on the road to mastery. DW VG £9.25

Soltis, A The Art of Defence In Chess Unwin 1980 262pp DW VG+ £10.00

Soltis, A New Art Of Defence In Chess Batsford ‘14 Revised edition of the earlier classic. An arsenal of defensive 228pp techniques: Repairing; Trading; Neutralising; Reinforcing etc, all £7.50 illustrated with games of masters past & present inc. Carlsen. Figurine AN; SB G+

Soltis, A Rethinking the Chess Pieces Batsford ‘04 Examines the way in which the relative strength of pieces can 223pp change during a game, and the factors involved. All games in £9.75 figurine with diagrams. SB F- £15.00

Soltis, A Studying Chess Made Easy Batsford ‘10 Author explains his techniques for learning new materials. 256pp PB AN VG+ £9.50

Soltis, A What It Takes To Become A Chess Master Batsford ‘12 “Packed with tips, tricks & practical exercises for players of all 208pp levels who aspire to greatness”. SB AN F £15 £7.50

Soltis, A What It Takes To Become A Grandmaster Batsford ‘16 “Filled with test-yourself positions & in-depth analysis of 318pp critical moments in GM games”. SB AN VG+ £16.00 £7.50

Soltis, A Your Kingdom For My Horse – When To Exchange In Chess Batsford ‘15 Guide to exchanging or trading off pieces, when’s best to do it, 256pp and when not. All games in figurine notation with diagrams. £7.50 SB AN VG+ £16.00

Soltis, A The Wisest Things Ever Said About Chess Batsford ‘08 304pp Easy-to-remember snippets of wisdom from down the ages, each illustrated with an annotated game in figurine notation.. SB £7.50 AN F £16.00

Soltis, A 100 Chess Master Trade Secrets From Sacrifices to Endgames Batsford ‘13 Each chapter contains 25 essential things to learn in order of 216pp importance. SB AN VG £15.00 £7.50

Soltis, A New Art Of Defence In Chess Batsford ‘14 Newly revised ed. of the 1970s classic to reflect modern thinking. 232pp Includes games played by Carlsen. All games in figurine with £7.50 diagrams. SB VG £16.

Soltis, A Pawn Structure Chess Batsford ‘13 Fully updated version of a chess classic. All moves in figurine 286pp £7.50 notation with diagrams. SB AN F £16.00

Soltis, A Transpo Tricks In Chess – Finesse Your Moves and Win. Batsford ‘07 Guide to reaching a position by a route less often travelled,

218pp usually in the openings. Index of openings. All moves in figurine £7.50 notation. SB AN F- £16

Soltis, A How To Choose A Chess Move Batsford ‘05 Of the c. 30 possible moves in any given position, how does one 240pp pick the best one? Soltis explains. All games in figurine with £7.25 diagrams. SB VG+ £16

Soltis, A The Inner Game of Chess – How to Calculate & Win Mongoose ‘14 324pp Revised ed. Much new material and analysis since the previous 1994 ed. SB AN VG £16 £6.50

Soltis, A David vs Goliath Chess – How To Beat A Stronger Player Batsford ‘16 236pp Goliaths have their weaknesses too. 48 illustrative games in figurine with diagrams. Indexes of players & openings. £7.50 SB AN F £16

Soltis, A Pawn Structure Chess McKay 1976 300pp “Pawns are the soul of chess” & Soltis pins this down to specific openings and characteristic formations. SB VG+ £8.00

Soltis, A The Younger School Of Soviet Chess Bell 1976 252pp A look at how the Russian pipeline of young players worked, and who were the upcoming names at the time. HB DW VG+ £6.50

Speelman, J Jon Speelman’s Chess Puzzle Book Gambit 2008 143pp 250+ themed diagrams. PB AN F £9.00

Spielmann, R The Art of Sacrifice In Chess 1st ed. McKay 216pp DW VG £15.00

Stean, M Simple Chess 1st ed. Faber 1978 116pp 1st ed. Highly regarded work with several annotated illustrative £5.50 master games. HB DW G

Stean, M Simple Chess 116pp Another copy. 1987 reprint by Faber & Faber. SB. Front cover £3.00 creased ow G-

Stean, M Simple Chess – New Algebraic Edition. Dover 2002 160pp Text retained exactly, but improved paper, cover & appearance. SB F- £5.75

Suba, M Positional Chess Sacrifices Quality ‘12 373pp By a winner of the BCF Book of the Year SB AN F c. £25 £17.00

Suba, M Dynamic Chess Strategy Pergamon ‘91 146pp Recounts his chess career & contribution to chess ideas & theory in 36 annotatetd games with diagrams. SB AN VG £5.25

Suetin, A. S. Three Steps To Chess Mastery Pergamon ‘82 192pp SB AN VG £6.50

Suetin, A. S. Another copy with pictorial HB Pergamon ‘82 192pp HB AN VG+ £8.50

Suetin, A. S. Plan Like A Grandmaster Batsford ‘88 266pp Concentrating on the point between the opening and starting the middle-game. Using 354 games & extracts. SB AN G £5.00

Suetin, A. S. A Contemporary Approach To The Middle Game Ch Digest 92 167pp Examines various aspects of strategy e.g. Tactics, Harmony; £10.00 Initiative; combinations etc. – SB AN VG

Tal Tal’s Winning Chess Combinations with V. Khenkin 1st UK ed. Routledge 80 Tal explains 200+ mating combinations…and who better to do it. 409pp DW with protective clear cover. VG+ £16.00

Tal/Koblencs Study Chess With Tal. 1sr English ed. Batsford ‘81 178pp 40 games deeply annotated, some between the 2 authors which was done shortly after the game was finished. SB G £5.00

Tal / Koblencs Study Chess With Tal Batsford ‘13 Using Tal’s games, his former coach shows what can be learned 270pp from them. SB AN F £16.00 £7..25

Tarrasch, The Game of Chess – A Textbook for Beginners & More Experienced McKay 1935 Players 1st ed. 423pp Original blue cloth boards. Book plate G £5.00

Tarrasch, Another copy Chatto 1938

Tartakower, S The Hypermodern Game of Chess Foreword by H. Ree Russell 2015 1st English version. of the 2nd ed. 100s of diagrams added & 411pp reformatting of text to 21st C standards. SB AN VG+ $35 £9.25

Tartakower, S A Breviary Of Chess Routledge ‘46 267pp 4 sections (a) The elements. (b) Openings; (c) Middlegame; (d) Endings. A minor classic of its time. HB G- £6 .00

Taylor, T Pawn Sacrifice! – Winning at Chess the Adventurous way. Everyman 08 239pp The author examines 67 games involving sacs. PB AN VG+ £9.95

Taylor, T True Combat Chess – Winning Battles Over The Board. Everyman 09 208pp Examines 31 illustrative games. PB AN G+ £9.00

Teschner, R It’s Your Move with Tony Miles Batsford ‘76 139pp 345 testing positions plus solutions. PB G- £4.00

Thomas ARB Chess Techniques RKP 1975 173pp 300+ diagrams illustrate the theme. SB VG- £4.00

Timman, J On The Attack!! The Art of Attacking Chess According to the Masters NIC 2006 235pp 33 clearly annotated games from Karpov to Polgar illustrating the £9.00 principles they demonstrate. Figurine AN. SB VG+ £19

Timman, J The Art of Chess Analysis Cadogan ‘97 The original was hailed as a classic, now fully revised & enlarged 206pp by Timman. SB AN VG+ £6.25

Tukmakov, V Modern Chess Preparation – Getting Ready For Your Opponent In NIC 2012 The Information Age 286pp 91 games with analysis & diagrams. AN SB Insc VG+ £9.50

Tukmakov, V Risk & Bluff In Chess – The Art of Taking Calculated Risks NIC 2015 224pp Read, inwardly digest – and bluff your way victory! SB AN F £12.50

Uhlmann, W Open Files Olms 2009 With G. Schmidt. Banned in E. Germany for 25 years, this is the 164pp 1st English translation of an underground smash hit. £10.99 113 games featuring open files. SB AN VG

Vukovic, V The Chess Sacrifice 1st English ed. translator, P. H. Clarke Bell 1968 219pp 100 annotated games. Classic Bell DW VG+ £10.00

Vukovic Another copy. Small club stamp o/w G+ Bell 1968 DW VG+ £8.00

Vukovic Another copy. Reprint Bell 1973 Pale blue DW VG+ £8.00

Vukovic, V The Art of the Attack In Chess. 1st ed. Pergamon 65 422pp 75 annotated illustrative games. PB G+ £8.00

Vukovic, V The Art of the Attack In Chess. Cadogan ‘98 352pp 1st algebraic edition of a classic.

Walker, J Attacking The King OUP 1976 173pp 55 annotated games to illustrate his theme. SB AN Insc. VG- £

Ward, C Starting Out: Chess Tactics & Checkmates. Everyman 06 172pp c. 450 illustrative diagrams etc. DW AN F- £9.75

Ward, C Chess Choice Challenge with John Emms Batsford ‘98 Diagrams with multiple choice answers for the reader to choose 144pp from, with subsequent analysis. PB AN VG+ £6.50

Ward, C Chess Choice Challenge Vol. 3 Batsford ‘ 04 159pp Many tests. PB AN VG £6.50

Watson, J Mastering The Chess Openings – Unlocking The Mysteries of the Gambit 2006 Modern Openings. Vol 1 335pp SB AN VG+ £20.00 £9.25

Watson, J Mastering The Chess Openings. – Unlocking The Mysteries of the £9.25 Modern Openings. Vol. 2. Focuses on the queen’s pawn openings and the structures to 319pp which they lead. AN SB VG+ £20.00 £9.25

Watson, J Secrets Of Modern Chess Strategy – Advances Since Nimzowitsch Gambit 1998 This profound yet practical work is rounded off with 272pp sections on prophylactic thinking , dynamism etc. £8.25 Award-winning title. SB AN VG £20.00

Watson, J Chess Strategy In Action Gambit 2003 288pp Follow-up to the previous best-selling title. SB AB VG 20.00 £8.25

Webb, S Chess For Tigers OUP 1978 How to play to your strengths and your opponent’s 99pp weaknesses. Illustrations by McLachlan. SB AN VG+ £5.00

Wenzhe, L Chinese School Of Chess Batsford ‘02 288pp The author reveals China’s unique approach to the game, training methods & secrets, that have brought them to the £3.75 heights of world chess achievement. SB AN VG £17

Weteschnik, M Understanding Chess Tactics Quality 2006 “If this book cannot improve your understanding of tactics, 235pp perhaps nothing can”. SB AN F+ £14.00 £7.25

Wiseman Chess Deck – Chess basics the Easy Way Wiseman 09 179pp 1 diagram & teaching point per page, clearly set out. PB AN VG+ £6.00

Wolff, P The Complete Idiot’s Guide To Chess 2nd ed. Alpha 2002 367pp All good basic stuff and much more. PB AN VG+ £8.00

Yermolinsky The Road To Chess Improvement. Gambit 1999 222pp “Solutions to real-life chess problems” SB AB VG+ £18.00 £7.50

Yusupov, A Beyond The Basics – 2 :: Build Up Your Chess Quality 2009 The 2nd level of Yusupov’s training course, in which he uses 284pp selected positions and advice, backed up by tests. SB AN F £14.75

Yusupov, A Beyond The Basics – 2 :: Chess Evolution Quality 2012 The 2nd part of Yusupov’s 2nd level of chess training which 301pp follows the same pattern as the previous book. SB AN F £9.25

Zak, V Improve Your Chess Results Batsford ‘85 201pp 80 annotated games. Insc. PB AN G £4.00

ZnoskoBorovsky How Not To Play Chess Dover 1961 119pp PB F £5.25

ZnoskoBorovsky The Art of Chess Combination Dover 1959 212pp SB VG+ £7.00

ZnoskoBorovsky The Middle Games In Chess 1st reprint (1st ed. 10 months earlier) Bell 1923 226pp Original blue cloth boards with bright gilt lettering. VG £10.00

ZnoskoBorovsky Another copy rewritten and updated by the author Bell 1955 222pp Classic Bell DW of the time. Bookplate. VG £8.00

DVDs Play like Tal: 2 interactive DVDs with GM Simon

Williams. Running time c. 7 hours. Will play on all platforms. Unused – still in unopened £10.00 cellophane package

9 - Magazines & Yearbooks

Dressed for the Occasion

9. Magazines & Yearbooks

BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE. (a) Bound Volumes all with index.

NB: Volumes 1910 - 1925 (5 volumes in total) were all subjected to flood damage in 1960 and consequently bear the following defects to a greater or lesser extent: (a) White water stains to maroon cloth covers: (b) Patches of black mould on cloth and/or endpapers: (c) Pages ruckled in some books. (d) Splitting of the cloth at joint with spine in a few cases. (d) Some red colouring from cloth drifted to page edges. However, the internal stitching and binding is mostly still strong, and a good bookbinder could work wonders. In good condition the early volumes would be valued at well over £100 (each). These are priced accordingly. The cloth colour varies slightly over the years, mostly maroon, but I have used “red” to cover all variations.

1910 552pp Vol. 30 Endpapers stuck together, o/w less damaged than most. £20.00 1912 532pp Vol. 32 Covers & endpapers affected o/w internally sound £20.00 1913 501pp Vol. 33 Covers & endpapers affected o/w internally sound £20.00 1918 370pp Vol. 38 Covers & endpapers affected o/w internally sound £20.00 1919 444pp Vol 39 Covers but pages clean if wrinkled. £20.00 1920 444pp Vol. 39 Staining & ruckling to both covers in- & externally sound £20.00 1925 538pp Vol. 45 Covers stained o/w generally clean internally £20.00

That’s the end of the flood-damaged stock. The condition of the following is as indicated.

1913 500pp Vol. 33. Blue buckram boards with gilt titles. edges of spine & corners rubbed. Also large brown marks on 3pp of the index o/w internally clean £95.00 Insc. G 1927 520pp Vol. 47. Red cloth boards. Club stamp o/w VG+ £60.00 Vol. 49. Maroon cloth boards with blind stamped design. Gilt titles on 1929 500pp spine dulled. Pale stains to leading edge of front cover o/w G+ £60.00

Vol. 49. Maroon buckram boards with gilt titles on spine. Short split in 1929 500pp cloth between spine and front cover o/w clean & structurally sound. VG+ £70.00 572pp Vol. 52. Maroon cloth boards. Small club stamp Titles on spine dulled 1932 o/w VG- £55.00 568pp Vol. 55. Maroon cloth boards. Small club stamp. Gilt titles faded on spine. 1935 o/w VG £55.00 624pp Vol.56. Maroon cloth boards with bright gilt titles on spine. Clean & sound 1936 throughout. VG+ £60.00 624pp Vol. 57. Dark blue cloth boards with bright gilt titles on spine. Clean & 1937 sound throughout. VG+ £60.00 576pp Vol. 58. Dark blue cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. Small neat insc. 1938 o/w VG £55.00 416pp Vol. 60. Maroon Cloth boards. Scarce wartime yr. Gilt titles on spine. 1940 Clean & structurally sound VG+ £60.00 404pp Still published to wartime standards, with paper yellowing as is usual. o/w 1946 G £45.00 Vol. 67. Maroon cloth boards. Ex Libris plate of Leonard R. Reitstein, a 1947 412pp leading figure in S. African chess. Gilt titles. VG £45.00 Vol. 68. Red cloth boards. Paper still to wartime standards, now yellowing 1948 444pp as is usual. Foxing to endpapers & page edges o/w G £40.00 1949 424pp Vol. 69 Maroon cloth boards with gilt titles on spine dulled. o/w G £40.00 1950 412pp Vol. 70 Maroon cloth boards with gilt titles on spine dulled. o/w G+ £40.00 1951 352pp Vol. 71 Maroon cloth boards with gilt titles on spine dulled. o/w G+ £35.00 1952 376pp Vol. 72 Maroon cloth boards with gilt titles on spine dulled. o/w G+ £35.00 1953 348pp Vol. 73 Maroon cloth boards with gilt titles on spine dulled. o/w G+ £35.00 1954 400pp Vol. 74 Maroon cloth boards with gilt titles on spine VG £35.00 1955 376pp Vol. 75 Maroon cloth boards with gilt titles on spine dulled. o/w G+ £35.00 1956 346pp Vol. 76 Maroon cloth boards with gilt titles on spine dulled. o/w G+ £35.00 1957 336pp Vol. 77 Maroon cloth boards with gilt titles on spine VG £35.00 1958 336pp Vol. 78. Maroon cloth boards & gilt titles. VG £30.00 1959 380pp Vol. 79 Maroon cloth boards with gilt titles on spine dulled. o/w G+ £30.00 1960 364pp Vol. 80 Maroon cloth boards with gilt titles on spine dulled. o/w G+ £30.00 1961 364pp Vol. 81. Maroon cloth boards & gilt titles. Small club stamp o/w VG £30.00 1961 Vol. 81 all 12 issues in BCM cordex binder & gilt. titles. Index VG £20.00 1962 372pp Vol. 82. Maroon cloth boards & gilt titles. Small club stamp o/w VG £30.00 1963 380pp Vol. 82. Maroon cloth boards & gilt titles. VG £30.00 1964 372pp Vol. 82. Maroon cloth boards & gilt titles. VG £30.00 1965 368pp Vol. 85. Maroon cloth boards & gilt titles. VG £30.00 1965 368pp Vol. 85. All months in BCM cordex binder & gilt titles. Index VG+ £20.00 1966 368pp Vol. 86. Maroon cloth boards & gilt titles. VG £30.00 1967 368pp Vol. 87. Maroon cloth boards & gilt titles. VG £30.00 1968 388pp Vol. 88 Maroon cloth boards & gilt titles. VG £30.00 1969 380pp Vol. 89 Maroon cloth boards & gilt titles. VG £30.00 1970 372pp Vol. 90 Red cloth boards Small club stamp VG £25.00 1971 476pp Vol. 91 Red cloth boards Small club stamp VG £25.00 Vol. 92 Red cloth boards The year of unprecedented worldwide interest 1972 500pp in chess, hence greater demand for this volume. VG+ £35.00 Vol. 93 Red cloth boards Extra pages to cover all the post- 1973 540pp Reykjavik activities. VG+ £30.00 1974 476pp Vol. 94 Red cloth boards with bright gilt titles VG+ £20.00 1975 560pp Vol. 95 Red cloth boards with bright gilt titles VG+ £20.00 1976 576pp Vol. 96. Red cloth boards Larger than ever edition. VG+ £20.00 1977 592pp Vol. 97. Red cloth boards Still growing!. VG+ £20.00 1978 592pp Vol. 98 Red cloth boards. VG+ £20.00 1979 622pp Vol. 99. Red cloth boards. VG+ £20.00 1983 560pp Vol. 103 Red cloth boards Titles in bright gilt. VG+ £20.00 1988 560pp Vol. 108 Red cloth boards Titles in bright gilt. F £20.00 1989 560pp Vol. 109 Red cloth boards Titles in bright gilt. F- £20.00

(b) Complete volumes in maroon cordex-type binders. Spines lettered in gilt “British Chess Magazine” with year & vol. no. added on. All with magazine covers and indices. All VG+ 1985 564pp Vol. 105 All months in BCM cordex binder & gilt titles. Index VG+ £20.00 1990 567pp Vol. 110 All months in BCM cordex binder & gilt titles. Index VG+ £20.00 1997 678pp Vol. 117 All months in BCM cordex binder & gilt titles. Index VG+ £20.00 1999 679pp Vol. 85. All months in BCM cordex binder & gilt titles. Index VG+ £20.00 2001 Vol. 121. All months in BCM cordex binder & gilt titles. VG+ £20.00 2004 Vol. 124. All months in BCM cordex binder & gilt titles. VG+ £20.00 2006 Vol. 126. All months in BCM cordex binder & gilt titles. VG+ £20.00 2007 Vol. 127. All months in BCM cordex binder & gilt titles. VG+ £20.00

CHESS (edited by B. H. WOOD) These are the Chess magazines, founded by B. H. Wood in 1935 and continuing until his retirement in 1988 when it was taken over by Pergamon Press. All are bound in the same mid-brown cloth and are in good condition throughout. Some have a small, unobtrusive club stamp. All with index from Vol. 11 onwards. Vols 1 – 9 measure 24.7 X 18.7 cm, Vol. Year pp Contents include price 1 1935/6 476 VG Warsaw International Team & Hastings; tables, games £80 2 1936/7 462 VG+ Reports on Nottingham; Margate; games, photos etc. £70 3 1937/8 444 VG Alekhine regains world title from Euwe £70 4 1938/9 450 VG+ Szabo wins Hastings & Alexander wins British. £60

CHESS LIFE: Magazine of the U.S. Chess Federation and “the most widely circulated chess magazine in the world” (they claim). Published monthly with c. 74 pp per issue in large format. Also see below for complete annuals Unbound part sets: All VG 2002 June – November inc. 6 volumes £4.00 2004 Winter edition instead of Nov & Dec. 11 volumes o/w complete £10.00 2005 Jan. missing; 11 volumes £8.00 2006 July – Dec. inc. 5 volumes. Special issue “Women In Chess” £4.00 2010 July missing: 11 volumes Special issue “Woman in Chess” (again) £8.00 2012 Jan. missing; 11 volumes. “The Hip Hop Chess Fed”. £8.00

CHESS REVIEW: Official organ of the U. S. Chess Federation. General Editor: Horowitz; Section Editors: Fine; Chernev, Reinfeld & Rothenberg. Published monthly with c. 28 pp per issue. Bound annually in cloth bound thick boards. Many photos, games, problems, reviews etc. 1942 Vol.10 Black cloth boards VG £40.00 1945 Vol.13 Maroon cloth boards looking a little tired o/w VG £40.00 1946 Vol.14 Red cloth boards VG+ £40.00 1953 Vol.21 Maroon cloth boards a little faded in bottom corner, but with the Ex Libris £40.00 mark of Baruch H. Wood in bright gilt on front cover.

English Chess Federation Yearbooks Invaluable resources for chess historians & archivists, with details of all affiliated counties & their officials, tournaments etc. All early years are in small format, PB and tend to show signs of wear as they’ve been working documents and the paper quality is not of the highest. These later yearbooks were much improved in quality, both in printing and coverage, with many photographs, results, new awards e.g. website, magazine, book, club, etc. Of The Year.

2006 124pp Larger format (A4) F £8.00 2010 122pp Larger format (A4) F £8.00 2011 129pp Larger format (A4) F £8.00 2013 179pp Larger format (A4) F £8.00

CHESSBASE MAGAZINE

6 issues per year covering the previous top tournaments, each one with a DVD held within the back cover containing the contents of the magazine for transference to computer. Each magazine is bi-lingual (English & German) and devotes 1½ pages just listing in small writing, the contents of the DVD All are in mint condition.

2008 #122 - #127 All 6 issues £18.00 2009 3 items missing F £9.00 2010 #134 - #139 orange pictorial covers F £18.00 2011 #140 - #145 pale green pictorial covers F £18.00 2012 #148 - #151 dark green pictorial covers F £18.00 2013 #152 - #156 1 number missing F £15.00 2014 #157 - #162 pictorial covers F £18.00 2015 #163 - #168 pictorial covers F £18.00 2016 #169 - #174 pictorial covers F £18.00 2017 #175 - #178 2 numbers missing F £12.00 2019 1st 3 items F £10.00

CHESS REVIEW ANNUALS

12 US monthly magazines bound in publisher’s original cloth boards. Each full of games, photos, book reviews, problems, cartoons, etc.

1942 Vol. X in black cloth (speckled) with titles in silver gilt. Internally £50.00 very clean & sound. 272pp 1945 Vol. XIII in red cloth boards (speckled) with titles in silver gilt. Internally clean & sound. 432pp £50.00 1946 Vol. 14 in red cloth boards. Title in gold on spine. Internally clean & sound. 528pp £50.00 Vol. 21 in red cloth boards with title in bright gilt on spine, and the 1953 Ex Libris stamp of Baruch H. Wood in gilt on the front cover. Cloth £50.00 lightly speckled on lower corners o/w internally clean & sound. 384pp

CHESS LIFE ANNUAL

Vol. XX1V in publisher’s black cloth boards. Titles in fading gilt on 1969 spine. Journal of the USCF under Editor Burt Hochburg. 12 monthly £50.00 editions, each with large pictorial covers. Large format & weighs 1.7 kg. 540pp VG+

CHESS DIGEST

Editor: Ken Smith.

Short-lived US magazine 1968 – 79.

Vol. 1: 12 monthly issues (Jan. – Dec.) bound as one in publisher’s maroon cloth boards. 288 pages in all. Contributors included 1968 Koltanowski, Larsen, and with articles from Shakhmatny translated £50.00 by Hanon W. Russell. Typescript. With photos, cartoons etc. Large format. F

DEUTSCHE SCHACHZEITUNG: (German Chess Journal) bound volumes.

A matching set of 3, all in maroon cloth boards with gilt titles plus index – each VG+ 1966 416pp VG+ £25.00 1967 416pp VG+ £25.00 1968 416pp VG+ £25.00 1963 4 vols. Sept – Dec. G £4.00 1964 11 vols. Missing No. 2 G £7.50 1965 10 vols. Missing 9 & 10 G £7.00

KINGPIN: A highly satirical, if not downright scurrilous quarterly view of the chess world.

Special Munich Agreement Anniversary Issue. “Piece play for our time” £4.00 No. 14 88/9 36pp N. Chamberlain. VG+

No. 20 1993 48pp Did Steinitz Play Jack The Ripper? £4.00

No. 21 1993 48pp Nigel Short – Shocking Revelations. The Kingpin Questionnaire with Mike Basman. VG+ £4.00 No. 22 48pp Nigel Davies Swindles his way to the GM Title £4.00

No. 23 1994 40pp John Nunn Questionnaire :: Gary Lane’s Agony Column ;; Chess & The Meaning of Life by Nigel Davies. VG+ £4.00

No. 24 1995 45pp Great Swindles of Our Time by M. Pein :: Susan & Bogdan Lalic Questionnare:: Davies on Sleazy World Champions. VG+ £4.00 No. 27 1997 68pp Nosher’s Gambit £4.00 No. 28 1998 69pp New World Champion pictured with Karpov £4.00

No. 29 1998 63pp No Regrets: Boris Spassky At 60 £4.00

No. 30 1999 64pp Chess & Sex: Stuart Conquest’s Survey £4.00

No. 31 1999 Gary Lane’s Agony Column: simple answers to complex questions.

No. 34 2001 Kingpin grows older, wiser & more sensible: Good or bad - Discuss £4.00

NEW IN CHESS: (a) bound volumes, bound in shiny black cloth boards with smart gilt titles. 1985 800pp 12 monthly editions of 66 pages. F £25.00 1996 720pp 8 editions of 90 pages F £25.00 (b) unbound complete sets

NEW IN CHESS magazines: probably the best-presented & most thorough chess magazine. 8 copies per annum & c.100pp per copy. All F 1984 March No. 0 £5.00 1984 September No. 1 £5.00 1984 October No. 2 £5.00 1984 December No. 4 £5.00 Complete set. 1st edition of a complete set of 8 issues, as March & Sept. 1985 1984 were “test” issues. Vols 1 & 2 were combined in 1 cover. VG £24.00 2003 Complete set of 8 stapled items VG £20.00 2004 Complete set of 8 red spines F £20.00 2004 Set of 7 (missing no. 8) F £12.00 2005 Complete set of 8 black spines F £20.00 2005 Missing vol.1 F £15.00 2006 Complete set of 8 dark blue spines F £20.00 2007 Complete set of 8 green spines F £20.00 2008 Complete set of 8 yellow spines F £20.00 2009 Complete set of 8 red spines F £20.00 2010 Complete set of 8 purple spines F 2011 Complete set of 8 Changed to larger format F £20.00 2011 Set of 7 (1 missing) F £12.00 2012 Missing No. Vol. 8 F £12.00 2013 Complete set of 8 F £20.00 2014 Complete set of 8 F £20.00 2014 Missing No. 7 F £15.00 2015 Complete set of 8 F £20.00 2016 Complete set of 8 F £20.00 2017 Complete set of 8 F £20.00 2018 Complete set of 8 F £20.00 Incomplete sets 1986 No.s 1 & 8 Interview with Korchnoi. stapled VG £5.00 1989 No. 3. Interview with Gligoric; Obit of Donner. stapled VG £3.00 1990 No.s 1, 2, 4, 5. Interview with Gulko. stapled VG £10.00 1991 No.s 1. 7 & 8 Interview with Timman. stapled VG £9.00 1992 No.s 1, 2, 4 Interview with Shirov. stapled VG £9.00 1993 No.7 Campomanes tells all stapled VG £3.00 1994 No.s 1, 3, & 7 Interview with Tiviakov stapled VG £9.00 1995 No.s 1&2 Interview with P. Leko & Moscow Olympiad stapled VG £5.00 1998 No.2 2&3 60th Hoogovens special issue stapled VG £5.00 2002 No.s 1 & 8 missing stapled VG £12.00 2003 No.s 1, 2, 3, 4, missing stapled VG £12.00

OPEN FILE – magazine of the Combined Services Chess Association.

No. 6 2001 46pp A4 pages stapled. Inc. 2001 CSCC Championship £2.00 No. 7 37pp A4 pages stapled: Inc. 12th NATO Championships San Remo £2.00 No. 8 26pp A4 pages stapled on 13th NATO Championships at Brest 2002 £2.00 No. 9 2004 21pp A4 pages stapled, mostly of games analyses by Andrew Martin F £2.00 No. 11 2005 21pp A4 pages stapled mostly of annotated games & Tony Miles obit. F £2.00 2007 50pp A4 pages stapled mostly on 2006 CSCC Championships F £2.00 2008 33pp A4.

POPULAR CHESS One of Mike Basman’s efforts / projects.

This started after the demise of Rabbits Review, (see below) and ran to 15 issues between 1982 – 1987.

All are; (a) undated: (b) double-sided A4 sheets (c) stapled in top left corner: (d) contain mostly annotated games in typescript with good clear diagrams. (e) Contain much about the relative strengths of the chess computers of the day (Novag: Tandy: Mephisto etc.) Testing them against each other and/or humans. Much of the other material was submitted by a few of his 300 readers. 3 little-known facts about him are:- (a) “He (Basman) is probably the most important figure in British Chess” wrote Ray Keene. (b) As a small child his babysitter was Clementine Campbell, who became Cleo Laine, the great jazz singer. (c) He is of Armenian parentage.

No. 6 23pp Orange cover: c10 games nicely annotated for learners & diagrams £2.00 No. 7 25pp Blue cover: Annotated games and an article on the Colle System. £2.00 No. 8 22pp Red cover: The pros & cons of swapping pieces; The English. £2.00 No. 9 21pp Pink cover: Articles titled “Superrabbit & “Rockin’Grob” £2.00 No. 10 23pp Green cover: Articles on “Little Horreurs” & Rating ches computers. £2.00 No. 11 21pp Purple cover: “The King’s Gambiteers” & “R & P Endings” £2.00 No. 12 20pp Yellow cover: “The Mighty Morra”; & “Piece Activity” £2.00 No. 13 20pp Green cover: “Pointless Play” & “Pawn Play” £2.00 No. 14 21pp Yellow cover: “Caissa’s Cousin (Chinese Chess); “ticks & ∆s” £2.00 No. 15 22pp Grey cover; Games of the E. Ham Quickplay champion. £2.00

New In Chess Yearbooks.

In addition to the 8 magazines per year, NIC additionally published 4 Yearbooks per annum. Under the Chief Editors, Jan Timman and Dirk ten Geuzendam, they started in 1984 when the Yearbooks were published several times a year, containing opening surveys & theoretical articles by many of the world’s top players. This series highlighted the developments in opening practice & theory, current at the time. General Editors were Gena Sosonko & Paul van der Sterren. The ratings of the 2 players in each game are given, as well as the event at which it was played. These are the original Yearbooks that helped set NIC on the road to great publishing successes.

All 51 items are in top class condition, with either dust wrappers, hard-backs or later SB

NIC was recently acquired by Carlsen’s Play Magnus Group.

1984 868pp Reprint. The foundation for the NIC series was laid out in the Keybook which contains 2,800 topical opening variations, illustrated by £20.00 1,500 complete games, plus diagrams and 2,500 game fragments. All games, here & in the subsequent Yearbooks, are in figurine notation rendering language redundant. Where there is text, it’s in English.

More details may be found in Chess Periodicals by G. Di Felice – Item no. 1613 on page 135.

Marked the beginning of a new era in chess informatics.

Vol. 1 ’84 /A 510pp 800 games annotated by the world’s leading GMs +500 games £10.00 Vol. 2 ’84 /B 512pp 850 games/fragments annotated by leading GMs + 250 games. £8.00 Vol. 3 ‘85/A 510pp 850 games/fragments annotated by leading GMs + 250 games. £8.00 Vol. 4 ‘86 512pp 1,000+ annotated games grouped into particular openings. HB DW £8.00 Vol. 5 ‘86 512pp 1,000+ annotated games grouped into particular openings. HB DW £8.00 Vol. 6 ‘87 496pp 1,000+ annotated games grouped into particular openings. HB DW £8.00 c.600 annotated games with some in separate articles. (a) The Vol. 7 ‘88 240pp Meran Variation; (b) Ruy Lopez: Anti-Marshall (c) Classical Sicilian: £5.00 with 6.Be3 HB DW c. 600 gms some diagrams. Featured articles are French Winawar Voi. 8 ‘88 239pp 7.Qg4 0-0: (b) Caro-Kann with 4…Nd7 (c) Queen’s Indian 7.Qe2 £5.00 HB Vol. 9 ‘88 240pp c. 1,000 games some with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles are (a) Reti Gambit 4…dc4: (b) Grünfeld Prins 7…Na6) & (c) £5.00 Nimzo Indian. HB DW F+ Vol.10 1988 c. 1,000 games some with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles 240pp are:- (a) Slav Gambit 5e4) (b) Grünfeld Exchange with 14.Rc1) & £5.00 (c) Sicilian Scheveningen. HB F+ c. 1,000 games some with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles Vol.11 1989 240pp are:- (a) Petroff Defence 6.Bd3 Bd6. (b) Queen’s Gambit 5.Qc2. (c) £5.00 French Tarrasch with 4…Qd5. HB F+ Vol.12 1989 240pp c. 1,000 games, some with diagrams; Featured theoretical articles £5.00 are: (a) Bogo-Indian with 4.Bd2 c5: (b) Benoni Fianchetto, Vol.13 1989 237pp c. 1,000 games some with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles £5.00 are (a) KID with 9.Nd2 a5. (b) Nimzo-Indian with 4.Qc2 HB F+ c. 1,000 games some with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles Vol.14 1989 239pp are (a) KID with 9.Nd2 c5. (b) Sicilian Alapin: with 2.c3 e5: (c) £5.00 Dutch Stonewall with 2.c3 e5. HB F+ c. 1,000 games with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles are: Vol.15 1990 237pp (a) Nimzo-Indian with 4.Qc2 d5. (b) English Opening with 5 Bd3: £5.00 (c) KID with 9.Ne1 N97. 10. Be3. HB F+ 236pp c. 1,000 games with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles are:- Vol.16 1990 (a) French with 6.h4. (b) Ruy Lopez with 11…Nf2. (c) Slave £5.00 Defence with 5.a4. (d) Bogoljubow Opening with 1…Nc6. HB F+ c. 1,000 games with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles are: Vol.17 1990 237pp (a) Slav Defence with 13.Nd4. (b) Slav Defence with 5.Bg4: (c) £5.00 French with 4…Ne4: (d) Benoni with 7.Bf4 HB F+ c. 1,000 games. Featured theoretical articles (a) Sicilian Defence Vol.18 1990 237pp with 2…h6?! (b) Ruy Lopez with 9…Nd7: (c) QGD with 10. 0-0-0. £5.00 (d) Benoni with 7.Bf4. (e) Leningrad Dutch with 8.b3 HB F+ c. 1,000 games some with diagrams; Featured theoretical articles Vol.19 1991 237pp (a) Sicilian Dragon with 9.0-0-0. (b) French with 6…gf6) (c) Petroff £5.00 with 4. Nf7: (d) Ruy Lopez with 3…Bb4: (e) Vienna Variation with 7.e5: SB F+ Vol.20 1991 c. 1,000 games with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles are: (a) 237pp Pirc Defence Czech System. (b) French Advance with 6.a3: (c) £5.00 QGD Tartakower with 8.Bd3. (d) Vienna Variation with 7.Bc4. SB F c.1,000 games some with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles Vol.21 1991 237pp are: Sicilian Najdorf with 6.Bc4: (b) Slav Exchange with 5…Qb6: (c) £5.00 Grünfeld Exchange with 8 Rb1; (d) King’s Indian 4 pawns with 6…Na6. SB F+ c. 1,000 games some with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles Vol.22 1991 237pp (a) Sicilian Keres Attack; (b) French Tarrasch with 3…a6; c) Caro- £5.00 Kann with 5.Ng5; (d) Ruy Lopez: Marshall Attack; HB F+ c.1,000 games, some with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles Vol.23 1992 237pp are (a) QGD: Anti-Tartakower: (b) Catalan Accepted with 10.Bg5; £5.00 (c) Grünfeld Fianchetto with 9.d5 HB F+ c.1,000 games, some with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles Vol.24 1992 237pp are (a) French Tarrasch: with 4….ed5: (b) Semi-Tarrasch: with 5… £5.00 cd4; (c) Dutch Leningrad with 7….Nc6. HB F+ c.1,000 games, some with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles Vol.25 1992 237pp are (a) King’s Indian: Samisch with 6….Nbd7; (c) French Defence: £5.00 Tarrasch with 13….Ne4 HB F+ c.1,000 games, some with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles Vol.26 1992 236pp are (a) Ruy Lopez with 3….Nge7; (b) Scotch Opening: with £5.00 4….Bc5; (c) King’s Indian: with 9.Bg5. HB F+ c.1,000 games, some with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles Vol.27 1993 238pp are (a) Sicilian: with 4…e5; (c) Slav: with 3.Nf3 dc4; (c) English: £5.00 with 4….e5. SB F+ c.1,000 games, some with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles Vol.28 1993 237pp are (a) Ruy Lopez: Romanishin Variation: (b) Modern Benoni: with £5.00 8.Bd3 0-0 9.h3. SB F+ c.1,000 games, some with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles Vol.29 1993 234pp are (a) Sicilian Scheveningen: (b) Ruy Lopez: Exchange Variation; £5.00 (c) Grünfeld: Exchange Variation. SB F+ Vol.30 1993 235pp c.1,000 games, some with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles £5.00 are (a) Sicilian Poisoned Pawn: with 8.Bf6 SB F+ c.1,000 games, some with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles Vol.31 1994 235pp are (a) Sicilian Najdorf: English Attack; (b) Sicilian: with early £5.00 sacrifices; (c) King’s Indian: Fianchetto Variation. SB F+ c.1,000 games, some with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles Vol.32 1994 238pp are (a) 2 Knights: Lvov Variation. (b) Benoni: with 8.Bd3 0-0 9.h3. £5.00 SB F+ c. 1,000 games some with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles Vol. 33 1994 235pp are: (a) Sicilian: 2.Ne2 by Harding; (b) Grunfeld: 7.Bb5 by £5.00 Krasenkov. SB F+ c.1,000 games, some with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles Vol.34 1994 235pp are Ruy Lopez: Riga Variation by Boll; (b) King’s Indian / Benoni: 4 £5.00 pawns with 9….Bg4 by Ilic; SB F+ c.1,000 games, some with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles Vol.35 1995 235pp are (a) Ruy Lopez: Marshall Attack by Shamkovich. SB F+ £5.00 c.1,000 games, some with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles Vol.36 1995 235pp are (a) Catalan with 7.Ne5 by Nogueiras & Gonzales: (b) English £5.00 Reversed Dragon with 8.Rb1 by Lukacs & Hazai: SB F- c.1,000 games, some with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles Vol.37 1995 235pp are (a) Ruy Lopez: Norwegian Variation by Tisdall: (b) Sicilian: £5.00 Velimirovic Attack by Nikitin; SB F+ c.1,000 games, some with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles Vol.38 1995 235pp are (a) King’s Indian 9.Ne1 with 13.a4 by Golubev; (b) King’s £5.00 Gambit 2…. Nc6 3.Nf3 f5 by Wahls. SB F+ c.1,000 games, some with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles Vol.39 1996 238pp are (a) Benoni: Half Samisch by Kapengut; (b) Old Indian: with £5.00 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 c5 3.d5 e6 by Raetsky. SB F+ c.1,000 games, some with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles Vol.40 1996 238pp are (a) Sicilian: Pin Variation by Bosch. (b) Ruy Lopez: Anti- £5.00 Marshall with 8.a4 Rb8 by Kennaugh. HB F+ Vol.41 1996 238pp c.1,000 games, some with diagrams. Featured theoretical article is £5.00 Queen’s Gambit Accepted by Lukacs & Hazai. SB F+

c.1,000 games, some with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles

are (a) French: Steinitz Variation with 7…cd4 8.Nd4 Qb6; (b) Four £5.00 Vol.42 1997 237pp Knights: Glek Variation witi 4.g3 by Glek. SB F+ c.1,000 games, some with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles Vol.43 1997 237pp are Four Knights: Glek Variation with 4.g3 d5 by Glek; (b) Grunfeld £5.00 Indian: Fianchetto Variation with 6….dc4 by Mikhalchishin. SB F+ c.1,000 games, some with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles Vol.44 1997 234pp are (a) Benoni Hybrid with Ne7 by Tseitlin: (b) Queen’s Gambit £5.00 Accepted: Furman Variation with 6.Qe2 by Raetsky SB F+ c.1,000 games, some with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles Vol.45 1997 234pp are (a) A revolution in the Grunfeld: 5.Na4 !?! by Nadanian; (b) £5.00 Why castle in the Dragon?! By Tiviakov. SB F+ c.1,000 games, some with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles Vol.46 1998 234pp are (a) Timman’s novelty busted, by Rogers. (b) Meran & Anti- £5.00 Meran triptych by Flear, Mikhalichishin & Bagirov: SB F+ Vol.47 1998. 236pp c.1,000 games, some with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles £5.00 are (a) Igor Glak’s 7….Na5 in the Sicilan – 10 years of experience. c.1,000 games, some with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles Vol.48 1998 235pp (a) 7…Bd6 in the Petroff by J. van der Wiel. (b) The Gothenburg £5.00 Bust: Soviet sac 11.Ne6! vindicated after 43 years. (c) Sosonko’s Corner – g2-g4. SB F+ c.1,000 games, some with diagrams. Featured theoretical articles Vol.49 1998 235pp are (a) Four Gambits by Frank Marshall! In the Ruy Lopez, the Slav £5.00 & in the English. SB F+

Correspondence Chess Yearbook.

Similar to New In Chess in style & presentation, using Chess Informant’s style of language-less figurine notation. Published by SI Editrice in Bologna under the editorship of M. Gaiba & M. Tirabassi. Yearbooks were published 3 times a year, with any text in Italian & English. Each issue contains games in figurine & many with diagrams; ratings lists; X-tables of tournaments e.g. Scottish Centenary International; 3 theoretical articles on particular openings/variations. Each game has the players’ names, nationality, rating and the tournament in which it was played.

These 1st six editions are all with SB & in top class condition.

320+ annotated games. Articles on (a) English Opening; (b) Caro Vol. 1 . 1991 224pp Kann & (c) Budapest Gambit. SB F £12.00 c. 320+ annotated games. X-tables inc. British Championship Vol. 2. 1991 224pp (1st Millican). Articles on (a) Grünfeld – Hungarian Var. (b) KID (c) £10.00 Sicilian Najdorf. SB F Vol. 3 1991 Many annotated games in figurine with diagrams. Articles on (a) 244pp Marshall Attack (C89); (b) French Defence (C18) (c) Najdorf Var. £10.00 (B99). Olympiad X-tables. Index of players SB F+ Vol. 4 1992 204pp Many annotated games in figurine with diagrams. Articles on Sicilian Defence B29 & B20 & English Opening Index of players £10.00 A28. SB F Vol. 5 1992 210pp Many games; 6 X-tables; Articles on the Alapin Variation (B22) & the Russian Variation (C42). Index of players. SB F+ £10.00 Many annotated games in figurine most with diagrams. Full ICCF Vol. 6 1992 238pp ratings list in descending order from Jonathan Penrose at the top, £10.00 rated 2720. SB F+

OPEN FILE – magazine of the Combined Services Chess Association.

No. 6 2001 46pp A4 pages stapled. Inc. 2001 CSCC Championship £2.00 No. 7 37pp A4 pages stapled: Inc. 12th NATO Championships San Remo £2.00 No. 8 26pp A4 pages stapled on 13th NATO Championships at Brest 2002 £2.00 No. 9 2004 21pp A4 pages stapled, mostly of games analyses by Andrew Martin F £2.00 No. 11 2005 21pp A4 pages stapled mostly of annotated games & Tony Miles obit. F £2.00 2007 50pp A4 pages stapled mostly on 2006 CSCC Championships F £2.00 2008 33pp A4.

POPULAR CHESS One of Mike Basman’s efforts / projects.

This started after the demise of Rabbits Review, (see below) and ran to 15 issues between 1982 – 1987.

All are; (a) undated: (b) double-sided A4 sheets (c) stapled in top left corner: (d) contain mostly annotated games in typescript with good clear diagrams. (e) Contain much about the relative strengths of the chess computers of the day (Novag: Tandy: Mephisto etc.) Testing them against each other and/or humans. Much of the other material was submitted by a few of his 300 readers. 3 little-known facts about him are:- (a) “He (Basman) is probably the most important figure in British Chess” wrote Ray Keene. (b) As a small child his babysitter was Clementine Campbell, who became Cleo Laine, the great jazz singer. (c) He is of Armenian parentage.

No. 6 23pp Orange cover: c10 games nicely annotated for learners & diagrams £2.00 No. 7 25pp Blue cover: Annotated games and an article on the Colle System. £2.00 No. 8 22pp Red cover: The pros & cons of swapping pieces; The English. £2.00 No. 9 21pp Pink cover: Articles titled “Superrabbit & “Rockin’Grob” £2.00 No. 10 23pp Green cover: Articles on “Little Horreurs” & Rating ches computers. £2.00 No. 11 21pp Purple cover: “The King’s Gambiteers” & “R & P Endings” £2.00 No. 12 20pp Yellow cover: “The Mighty Morra”; & “Piece Activity” £2.00 No. 13 20pp Green cover: “Pointless Play” & “Pawn Play” £2.00 No. 14 21pp Yellow cover: “Caissa’s Cousin (Chinese Chess); “ticks & ∆s” £2.00 No. 15 22pp Grey cover; Games of the E. Ham Quickplay champion. £2.00

RABBITS REVIEW

Another of Mike Basman’s projects.

A5 in size and comprising 32pp. Originally edited by B. Floyd before Basman took over from No. 7 onwards. Often un-dated but advertised as bi-monthly. Aimed at average club players (Rabbits) with articles by the likes of Tim Harding, Nigel Povah, Gallagher & Basman. Typescript. After 21 issues, eventually superseded by Popular Chess.

Oct. 1978 No. 1 Navy blue covers. £2.00 No. 2 Pale blue covers. £2.00 No. 3 Orange covers. £2.00 No. 4 Pale blue covers. £2.00 June 1979 No. 5 Black covers. £2.00 Aug. 1979 No. 6 Pink Covers. £2.00 Feb. 1980 No. 7 Yellow covers. £2.00 No. 8 Pale green covers. £2.00 No. 9 Pink covers. £2.00 No.10 Pale blue covers -- circulation stated to be c. 500 at this stage. £2.00 Oct. 1980 No.11 Yellow covers. 2nd article titles “Fun With Boris”! £2.00 No.12 Pale blue covers. 2nd Anniversary Issue.

ROCHADE (castling) EUROPA: Large format, newspaper-style, German magazine. 12 issues of c. 80pp per year. Unbound complete sets: 2008 All 12 volumes (nearly 1,000 pages!) £10.00 2009 All 12 volumes £10.00 2010 All 12 volumes £10.00 2011 All 12 volumes £10.00 2012 All 12 volumes £10.00 Unbound part sets: 2002 Volumes 7 – 12 inc. 6 volumes £5.00 2005 4 volumes missing: 8 volumes £5.00 2006 5 volumes missing: 7 volumes £5.00 2007 Volume 9 missing: 11 volumes £8.00

SCHACH MAGAZIN 64: In 2008 changed from fortnightly to monthly publication, and in 2010 added colour. Large format. All VG. Unbound complete sets. 2007 All 12 volumes £10.00 2009 All 12 volumes £10.00 Unbound part sets: 2002 17 of 24 volumes £10.00 2008 11 of 12 volumes £10.00

SCHWEIZERISCHE SCHACHZEITUNG: (Swiss Chess Newspaper) Tri-lingual magazine in German, French & Italian. Small format with b&w photographs. 12 issues per year of c. 48 pp. Unbound part sets: 2002 Volumes 6; 8; 9; 10; 11-12: 5 volumes £4.00 2003 Volumes 1-2; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10: 8 volumes £6.00 2004 Volumes 1-2; 4; 5; 7; 8; 9; 10: 7 volumes £6.00

SHAKHMATNY BULLETIN: Published from 1955 – 1990. 12 monthly issues per annum each of 32 pp c. A4 in size. “Best chess magazine in the World” – Fischer. “…remains a very useful source for chess research & theoretical work” – T. D. Harding. (see Chess Café article for his full appraisal). Unbound volumes in Cyrillic. All VG+ 1962 Jan & Dec. missing. 10 volumes £8.00 1965 Feb missing £8.00 1966 Complete set 12 volumes £10.00 1967 Complete set 12 volumes £10.00 1969 Complete set 12 volumes £10.00

ZUGZWANG The official daily journal of Chequers.

Published daily during the London leg of the Kasparov – Karpov World Championship match. The lot

Each copy comprises 3 sheets of A4 paper folded to make 6 X A5 pages. £5.00 Nos. 1 – 28 with only No. 8 missing. Every cover is of a different colour paper. Staples rusting o/w G

10 – Chess Based Literature

In the heat of battle

10. Chess-based literature Mostly reading about various aspects of the game – not much deep analysis. Abrahams, G Not Only Chess – A Selection of Chessays 1st ed. Unwin ‘74 28 chess-based essays, some illustrated with diagrams and moves. 264pp DW VG+ £7.75

Assiac The Delights of Chess 1st ed. 1960 MacGibbon Nom de plume of Heinrich Fraenkel; relates many amusing anecdotes about players 268pp he encountered, some illustrated by games. Drawings by Vicky. DW. Front £8.75 endpaper cut o/w VG

Assiac Another copy minus DW o/w G £5.00

Another copy, now with references to Fischer/Spassky Dover 1974 335pp SB VG £6.50

Assiac Adventure in Chess 1st ed. Turnstile ‘51 Series of articles, enlarged from the author's column in the New Statesman. The 192pp cardboard chess set at the back is intact with all original pieces present. Slight foxing £8.50 on front endpaper, o/w G+

Averbakh, Y Centre-Stage and Behind The Scenes – The Personal Memoir of a Soviet Chess Legend NIC 2011 Reflects on his days as a top GM and an insider when chess was vital to the Soviet 268pp system. A fascinating autobiography. Numerous photos. Index of names. SB £15.00 VG+ c. £25

BCM British Chess Magazine – 1923 – 1932 An Anthology. BCM 1986 124pp A pot-pourri of the more interesting items from those years. SB VG £7.00

Bott, R The Chess Player’s Bedside Book 1st ed Faber 1966 83pp With S. Morrison. Collection of short articles & 16 games. DW G+ £5.50

Another copy Typed insc. O/W G+ £5.50

Brady, F Endgame – The Spectacular Rise & Fall of Bobby Fischer Constable 11 … whom the author knew from the age of 10. Many photos. 388pp “One of the year’s best biographies” Washington Post. £12.75 DW F+ £20

Chandler, M The English Chess Explosion From Miles to Short with R. Keene Batsford ‘81 120pp Some landmarks, games & X-tables en route. PB pages browning. G- £2.00

Chernev, I Wonder & Curiosities of Chess 1st ed. Dover 1974 A collection of 357 numbered items, ranging from snippets to full games, facts & 203pp anecdotes. Indexes of topics & players SB VG- £7.00

Chernev, I The Bright Side of Chess Hollis & Carter 175pp A chapter of anecdotes followed by “bright” games. DW VG £6.50

Coles, R. N. The Chess-player’s Week-end Book Pitman 1950 A pot-pourri of anecdotes, sayings & games. Excellent portraits of the World 162pp Champions by Alex Forrest. Indexes of openings & games. DW G+ £6.50

Darrach, B. Bobby Fischer vs the Rest of the World 1st ed. Stein NY ‘74 240pp An indiscrete biography by relating Fischer’s behaviour and attitudes up to and during Reykjavik 1972. DW nibbled o/w G £9.00

Denker, The Bobby Fischer I Knew and Other Stories with Larry Parr Hypermodern 30 zany stories, 300 games & photos from the golden age of US chess lived through 359pp for 50+ years by the author. Indexes of games & names. £9.00 SB VG

Donner, J. H. The King – Chess Pieces NIC 2008 Donner reflects on the game; full of insults, ironies & self-mockery. 2nd ed. 391pp “Outrageous”. Intro by Tim Krabbé & Max Pam. Indexes of names, games & £10.00 compositions. SB VG c.£22

Donoghue, J The Death’s Head Chess Club Atlantic 2015 A novel set in war-time Auschwitz, there’s plenty of emotion but few laughs. 385pp SB F £13 £4.50

Dvoretsky For Friends and Colleagues Vol. 1 Profession: Chess Coach Russell ‘14 Autobiographical work on his life from childhood to Master-hood to leading chess coach. Many photos & some chess. Games in figurine. Index of games. Water has £4.75 384pp crinkled the leading pages, not noticeable externally priced accordingly. SB AN G-

Dvoretsky For Friends and Colleagues - Vol. 2 Refections on My Profession: Russell ‘15 Continues the story from Vol. 1 focussing on his early developments as a player with 360pp some chess, photos and opinions. £9.75 Games in figurine, with index. SB F- c. £24

Eales, R Chess: The History Of A Game Batsford ‘85 A trained historian traces the origins of the game & its growing popularity to modern 240pp times. 16 B&W illustrations. DW F £12.00

Edge, F. M The Exploits & Triumphs in Europe of Paul Morphy Dover 1973 Unabridged edition of the 1859 original, with introduction by David Lawson. SB VG 203pp £6.00

Edmonds, D Bobby Fischer Goes To War – The True Story of How the Soviets Lost The Most Faber 2004 Extraordinary Chess Match Of All Time. With John Eidinow. 1st ed. The story of the 1972 World Championship. 30 photos DW F £12.00 302pp

Edmonds, D Bobby Fischer Goes To War Another copy - the soft-back version. F- £7.00

Edwards, R The Chess Player’s Bedside Book with R. Keene. 1st ed. Batsford ‘75 149pp A development of the Bott & Morrison book, with 23 added photos & drawings. DW VG £7.50

Edwards, R The Chess Player’s Bedside Book with R. Keene. 1st ed. 149pp Another copy DW Insc. VG £7.50

Forbes Meet The Masters Tournament Chess 19+94 160pp Cathy interviews 10 GMs & 3 others & gives a game from each. 16 photos. SB AN VG £5.50

Geuzendam Finding Bobby Fischer – chess interviews by Dirk Jan van Geuzendam NIC 1994 28 interviews with top players, first published in New In Chess, from Botvinnik & 254pp Najdorf to Polgar, Anand and all the big Ks. £18.00 Pictorial HB F-

Glyn, A The Dragon Variation 1969 Hutchinson 312pp Novel with a chess background. Ex-Lib. HB Endpaper excised G £3.50

Graham, J The Literature of Chess 1st ed. 1984 McFarland The author identifies 135 significant books from the various aspects of the game and 250pp writes c. a page on each. Diagrams & index. Red cloth £17.50 boards. AN F+

Hallman, J. C The Chess Artist – Genius, Obsession & the World’s Oldest Game. Dunne 2003 Explores New York’s chess district & Russia’s chess-obsessed province of Kalmykia. 334pp Combines travelogue & chess history. Bibliography of sources. SB F £9.50

Hartston, W Soft Pawn Hutchinson 94pp Humorous writings by a master of the genre. Bill Tidy cartoons add to the mix. PB VG+ £5.00

Hartston, W How To Cheat At Chess – everything you always wanted to know but were afraid to Cadogan ask. 1994 95pp Humour in word and picture. Illustrations by Bill Tidy. VG+ £5.00

Harwood, G Caïssa’s Web – The Chess Bedside Book 1st ed. Latimer 1975 167pp 12 photo plates plus drawings. DW VG £7.50

Hayden, B Cabbage Heads and Chess Kings Arco 1960 223pp Foreword by Harry Golombek. A series of light-hearted essays on the chess world. Some games. DW. G £10.00

Hochberg, B The 64-Square Looking Glass – The Great Game of Chess in World Literature. Random (ed.) 1st ed. House Writers bring their creativity to bear on the narrative power inherent in chess, from 354pp Woody Allen to Ann Bronte. DW F £10.00

Hurst, Sarah Curse of Kirsan – Adventures in the Chess Underworld. Russell 2002 285pp An exploration of the dark side of chess, not only Kirsan. Foreword by Ken Wyld. A series of pen portraits of well-known players she’s met. Some photos. Fully indexed. £(.00 SB VG+

Johnson, D White King & Red Queen – How The Cold War Was Fought On The Chessboard Atlantic 2007 383pp Tells the story of the Soviets vs the Rest throughout the 20th century. 25 photo plates. DW F £12.00 Kasparov, G Deep Thinking: where machine intelligence ends & human creativity begins Murray 2017 285pp He has some positive thoughts on how can we thrive as humans in a world of thinking machines? DW F £20 £9.25

Kasparov, G Child of Change – An Autobiography with Donald Trelford. 1st ed. 1987 Hutchinson 243pp 64 b&w photos. DW. Ex-Lib but with minimal markings o/w VG £7.50

Kasparov, G How Life Imitates Chess London 2007 271pp Life as a game of strategy. DW F £9.00

Keyes, F. P. The Chess Players 1st English ed. London 1961 Deeply researched novel based on the life of Paul Morphy. DW VG 542pp £5.00

Another copy no DW £3.00

Kingston, T Heroic Tales: The Best of Chess Café .com 1996 – 2001. Russell ‘02 56 substantial articles on a wide range of chess activities. Indexes of games & 431pp positions by player. SB VG £9.00

Knight, N Chess Pieces – An Anthology in Prose & Verse. 1st ed. Sampson ‘49 Corrigenda booklet & corringenda to the corrigenda. 313pp Illustrations by Gibberd based on historic chess pieces. VG £5.00

Knight, G King, Queen & Knight: A Chess Anthology in Prose & Verse. 1st ed. Batsford ‘75 With W. Guy Illustrations by Greenwood. 263 items from many sources throughout the world. £9.50 240pp DW VG+

Landsberger, The Steinitz Papers: Letters & Documents Of The First World Champion McFarlane 02 The editor is Steinitz’s great-grandnephew, who collected all Steinitz’s existing 325pp letters, postcards, newspaper articles etc. translated into English with sources given. £17.50 A fascinating insight into the trials and triumphs of the great World Champion who died penniless. 20 photos. SB F £30

Lasker Ed. Chess For Fun & Chess For Blood Dover 1962 224pp Includes anecdotes & stories of his experiences with some of the great masters. Unabridged edition of the original. SB G £4.75

Lawson, D The Inner Game MacMillan 93 249pp The real story behind the Short-Kasparov World Championship match told by the now President of the ECF. All 20 game scores in AN with diagram of final positions. £5.00 DW VG+

Levy &Reuben The Chess Scene Faber 1974 276pp An introduction to the wider world of chess for the host of new chess fans, post- Reykjavik 1972. DW Ex-Lib G £4.50

Montgomery The Quiet Game 1st 1972 Author’s preface. Foreword by Milner-Barry. A pot-pourri of games, problems & 192pp reminiscences. Indexes of composers, studies & games. DW Ex-Lib G £4.00

Morley, F. V. My One Contribution To Chess 1st ed. Faber 1947 By adding 12 extra squares he makes the board a more level playing field between 110pp expert and novice, and uses that idea to write about much else besides. DW nibbled £7.00 o/w internally VG

Moss S The Rookie – An Odyssey Through Chess (and life) Bloomsbury 408pp Part history of the game, part travelogue, part self-help book, Moss seeks to stop messing about and take it seriously and improve. Red cloth boards. DW with pictorial cover. F £19 £11.00

Munninghoff Hein Donner – The Biography NIC 2020 272pp A captivating biography of a controversial man and the turbulent times in which he lived. SB F+ £23 £15.00

Pachman, L Checkmate in Prague – Memoirs of Ludek Pachman Faber 1975 As a political diary it is both eye-opening & disturbing & also fascinating as an 216pp account of his chess activities and involvement in international chess scene, with anecdotes of many great players. DW F- £9.00

Pachman, L Another copy without DW G+ £7.00

Pandolfini, B The Best of Chess Life and Review. Vol. 1 1933 - 1960 Fireside ‘88 A pot pourri of games, problems, articles, cartoons, photos, plucked from the 611pp archives of the popular US magazine. SB VG £12.00

Pandolfini, B The Best of Chess Life and Review. Vol. 2 1962 – 1988 Fireside ‘88 583pp The recipe as before, with equally delightful results. SB VG £12.00

Ree, H The Human Comedy of Chess – A Grandmaster’s Chronicles Russell 1999 A series of sketches of chess personalities, great & small. A few games in AN & 333pp diagrams. Index of games & positions. SB AN F- £10.00

Ree, H My Chess Russell ‘13 240pp His personal stories of his life in the chess world & observations of those he met. 25 photos. SB VG+ £7.50

Reinfeld, F The Human Side of Chess – The Story of the World Champions; their Triumphs and Faber ’53 Illusions; Their Achievements and Failures. Chapters on Anderssen, Morphy, Steinits, Lasker, Capa, Alekhine & Euwe. With 14 304pp illustrative games and match records. Insc. G+ £4.25

Reinfeld, F. The Treasury of Chess Lore 1st ed. Arco 1955 The author has collected a wide range of writings on all aspects of the game. DW. 306pp Photos. Foxing to endpapers & page edged o/w G £12.00

Reinfeld, F. The Joys Of Chess Collier 1974 288pp Intro by Horowitz. An entertaining pot pourri of anecdotes, cartoons short games etc. SB G £3.50

Reinfeld, F The Treasury of Chess Lore Dover 1959 306pp Another copy SB (creased) o/w G £6.00

Richards, D. Soviet Chess – Chess & Communism in the USSR OUP 1965 201pp An authoritative account of the origins and intertwining of chess & politics in Russia. DW VG £15.00

Schonberg H Grandmasters of Chess Fontana ‘75 277pp Stories of the greats, entertainingly told, from Philidor to Fischer. Photos. PB Paper yellowing slightly o/w G £2.50

Sosonko, G Russian Silhouettes NIC 2001 Born in 1943, Sosonko played under the Soviet regime until 1972 when he defected to the Netherlands. This gave him the dual advantage of having inside knowledge of 206pp the great Russian players, and being able to view that time dispassionately. This 1st ££9.75 of his 3 books was acclaimed for its evocative writing. Photos. PB VG+

Sosonko, G Evil Doer – Half A Century with Victor Korchnoi. Sosonko emigrated to the West in 1972 & his friend Korchnoi followed him in 1976, 314pp causing a major fall-out with the Russian chess establishment. Here they reminisce about those days and much more. 36 b&w photos. SB F+ £20.00 £30

Sosonko, G The Reliable Past NIC 2003 205pp Author continues with his “gallery of wonderful pen-portraits written with a measure of objectivity and detachment” (Kasparov). PB F- £9.75

Sosonko, G Smart Chip From St. Petersburg and other tales of a bygone era NIC 2006 More fascinating portraits of masters, famous & forgotten, and more. Photos 197pp PB F £9.75

Spanier, D Total Chess Abacus 1986 233pp 10 chapters on various aspects of world chess. PB G £3.00

Summerscale Interview With A Grandmaster – the thoughts & games of some of the world’s strongest Everyman ‘01 players. Adams, Short, Polgar, Hodgson, Rowson et al answer all the questions you’ve 144pp never been able to ask, and annotate one of their favourite games. £5.50 SB AN VG+ £15

Winter, E. Kings, Commoners & Knaves – Further Chess Explorations. Russell 1999 452pp “A cornucopia of games, positions, biographies, mysteries, howlers, reviews” etc. SB VG+ £12.50

Zweig, S Kaleidoscope Two Cassell 1951 290pp Stories, the longest of which is The Royal Game. (60pp) G £5.00

11 – Children & Junior Beginners

White grabbed the initiative, right under Black’s nose

11. Children & Junior Beginners

Barden, L Play Better Chess Revised ‘87 153pp Intro by Victor Korchnoi. Gentle introduction to some serious games. Some key photos of famous players of earlier years. Large format. £6.50 VG+

Basman, M D K Superguides - Chess DK 45pp Large format. Everything in technicolour – boards, pieces, players, etc. Basman has been a top junior coach for decades and knows how to get them started. HB G £5.00

Bott /Morrison The Chess Apprentice. 1st edition Collins ‘60 The original title which later morphed into the later 2 titles both of which retained this 208pp formula. Cream cloth boards with d. brown titles & design. Clear diagrams show how £4.50. the pieces move. HB G+

Bott /Morrison Chess For Children Collins ‘76 14th impression of the 1958 original says much for its stature in the ouvre. Many 192pp diagrams with a challenge to the reader. Cartoons by Pat Lindsay. HB F £5.00

Bott /Morrison More Chess For Children Collins ‘74 4th impression of the 1968 original. Same format as before but taking the young 208pp reader just a little further forward. HB F £5.00

Bowley, R. L. Chess For Everyone – An illustrated Guidebook for Chess Beginners Settle Press89 Plain concise language for literate youngsters. Nothing fancy to distract the learning 90pp process. DW F £5.00

Byfield, B Learn Chess Quick: How to play the world’s greatest board game & win Batsford ‘10 With A. Orpin & Illustrated by G. Jolliffe. Cartoons, diagrams and numerous small bits 144pp of guidance on every page. Concentrates on the theme of Mediaeval warfare. £7.00 SB AN VG+

Caldwell, S Usborne Guide To Playing Chess Usborne ‘87 64pp Lots of coloured diagrams, tips, facts, etc. SB; AN; VG+ £5.00

Dalby, E The Usborne Complete Book Of Chess Usborne ‘03 96ppp 90 chapters on the many aspects of the game. Lavishly illustrated. Large format. AN HB DW VG+ £5.00

Fenton, R. S Chess For You – The Easy Book For Beginners MacDonald ‘74 84pp Basic rules explained with diagrams; How & when to attack etc. HB VG £2.50

Filtness, C Play The Game - Chess WardLock’94 80pp Good diagrams, photos etc. ex lib; SB G- £3.00

Fitzpatrick, M Your Move – A Chess Adventure for Young Beginners O’Brien 1990 62pp Part story / part definition of basic terms. B&W cartoons to help the text along. HB with multi-coloured boards. VG+ £5.00

Golombek, H Instruction To Young Chess Players London 1966 An overview of some common openings, what to look out for in the middlegame & 10 152pp illustrative games. No concessions to players of primary school age, but all sound £4.50 advice. HB F

Hall, J Chess Training For Budding Champions – A unique self-training course in the Gambit 2001 essentials of chess Aimed at players who have progressed beyond the beginner level and can play at 176pp junior club level. Lessons are not based on “quick fixes” but provided a well-rounded course in all aspects of chess. Advice for trainers, too. SB F £10.00 £15

Hartston, W Play Chess 2 with Jeremy James. BBC 1981 No cartoons, no colour; no gimmicks, but none the worse for that. Based on the TV 94pp programme of that era. Good, sound advice with accompanying diagrams. HB; DW; £5.00 AN; VG

Hartston, W Teach Yourself Better Chess Hodder 2003 168pp From the updated & re-styled Teach Yourself range of books. Early secondary school age-range. SB VG+ £4.50

James, R Move One! – A Chess Course For Beginners Faber 1990 A few photos & small cartoons at the start of a chapter, but no colour, apart from the 144pp cover. Well set out, with plenty on each page, but not too much. Would suit a serious- minded top junior, who could start in the book at the stage he may have already £5.00 reached, but wishes to advance. SB AN G

James. R The Right Way To Teach Chess to Kids London 2013 219pp A no-frills paperback that teaches the teacher. Mostly text with 80 diagrams it includes a full course for junior school pupils, and points the way ahead. SB AN F- £5.00

Karpov, A Disney’s Chess Guide Batsford 1997 Disney & the then World Champion (Anatoly Karpov) combine to produce a colourful introduction designed to attract the youngest of starters. Small bites at a time e.g. 120pp Chapter V1 “What Does The Queen Do? – 2pp with cartoon & diagrams. etc. HB £5.00 F+

Kidder, H. Illustrated Chess For Children London 1972 127pp Rooted in the theme of mediaeval warfare, with many good hand-drawn pictures. Black cloth boards. VG £4.00

Langfield, P Successful Chess – Winning Moves & Tactics Hamlyn ‘75 45pp Colour photos of the children playing & a mediaeval theme to the drawn pictures. Lots of clear diagrams. Large format. VG £5.00

Marsh, S The Batsford Book of Chess - From Beginner to Winner Batsford 2014 A successor to Bob Wade’s 1st edition (1974) and done to high standards. From piece moves & values to games between World Champions explained. Many diagrams with 208pp explanatory notes. Instructive positions from games by Jack Rudd, Alan Brusey, Tom £10.00 Thorpe, Dom Mackle et al. HB AN F

Morrison S. Chess: A Beginner’s Guide. London 1970 Less highly-coloured than others in this section – a more sober approach to the same 138pp explanations and themes. £4.00 10 b&w photographs. HB DW G

McLeod, W. Chess For Young Beginners – a Completely New Way To Learn Collins ‘77

With R. Mongredian. Colourful cartoons with a Mediaeval theme. Small bites of 62pp £5.00 information, from how the pieces move to forks, sacrifices etc. Large format. HB G

Norwood, D. Usborne Guide To Advanced Chess 1990 This is a move on from the Beginner stage, but still suitable for advancing pupils. No 64pp cartoons. Plenty of colour, diagrams, glossary of terms, tips to remember in separate £5.00 panels etc. Written by a former junior champion SB AN VG+

Norwood, D. Usborne Book of Better Chess 1992 128pp Part 1 Improving Your Game. Part 2 Chess Puzzles. Everything in full colour, but based on diagrams with arrows to focus on relevant bits. Part 2 consists of 24 short sections, each focussing on particular aspect of the game. £5.00 Glossary of terms used. SB AN F-

Norwood, D Grandmaster Meets Chess Amateur with snooker maestro Steve Davis H. Holt 1995 111pp Steve does some thinking aloud about the best way to play, and Norwood confirms or corrects the best way forward. Large format. SB club stamp o/w G £4.50

Nottingham T The Children’s Book Of Chess Batsford ‘78 with Bob Wade. Photographs in their school uniforms are Spassky, Fischer, Karpov, 111pp Short, Hodgson, Smyslov, Kasparov & many others. Concentrates on pieces and themes, with 360 diagrams. Large format. AN Some foxing on the illustrated £4.00 endpapers o/w G

Pritchard, E Chess For Pleasure. Faber 1973 174pp “Pleasantly written intro to the game which should recommend itself to the absolute beginner” HB DW VG+ £4.00

Sadler, M Tips For Young Players Everyman ‘07 5th reprint of 1999 original 160pp PB AN Endpaper has become stuck to inside front cover o/w VG £6.50

Sadler, M How To Win At Chess & Backgammon with B. Jacobs Everyman’07 216pp 119 of which are on chess. An abridged & edited & no-frills version of their earlier chess books.for beginners. SB AN G £2.50

Saunders, J Learn How To Play Winning Chess – History, Rules, Skills & Tactics Hermes ‘11 The title says it all. Lavishly illustrated with 700+ in full colour. 256pp Large format. & weighs 1.3kg. SB AN F+ £8.00

Wade, R Check Out Chess - with Ted Nottingham Puffin 1989 146pp Small no-frills paperback. No colour, but cartoons, chess-based anecdotes, illustrative positions etc. SB; AN G- £2.00

Walker, J. N. Chess For Tomorrow’s Champions OUP 1983 144pp Possibly more suitable to early secondary school learners. B&W, but still plenty of £3.00 cartoons, diagrams, definitions of terms etc. SB AN o/w G

Walker J. N First Steps In Chess OUP 1978 Concentrates on the pieces and how they move. 27 cartoons with a mediaeval theme 136pp all in pencil and mostly full page. Club stamps, but mostly clean. £4.00

Walker J. N Chess Openings For Juniors OUP 1979 A series of whole games with diagrams in which one player makes a mistake that 153pp loses the game and the author explains all. No colour or cartoons. Suitable for the £3.50 studious learner. SB G-

Williams, G The Amazing Book Of Chess – Learn To Play the Popular Game of Skill Chartwell ’95 Teaching about the game and famous people from history who played the 25pp game. Beautifully illustrated. HB VG+ £6.00

12. Openings

A loss was a loss in any language

12. Openings

NB: It can be assumed throughout that books marked as in Figurine will also be in algebraic notation.

Openings books that try to be comprehensive are usually “Big Beasts” This 1st Section on Openings will therefore be the ….

Big Beasts

Kasparov Batsford Chess Openings 2 with Ray Keene 2nd ed. Batsford ‘89 413pp All the main openings & a few odd ones too. Figurine SB VG £8.50

Korn, W Modern Chess Openings 13th edition. With Nick De Firmian Black 1990 Korn brought decades of previous experience to the 708pp production of this MCO now with a youthful helper. SB £8.50 VG

De Firmian Modern Chess Openings – 14th ed. completely revised. Batsford ‘03 708pp From the King’s Gambit to Bird’s Opening & everything in between. Figurine. SB VG £8.50

De Firmian Batsford’s Modern Chess Openings – 15th ed. completely Batsford ‘09 revised. 748pp SB F- £18 £8.00

The Encylopaedias of Chess Openings Produced by Chess Informator of Belgrade or ECO for short. Their series of openings books is organised so that no text is necessary as all moves are in figurine algebraic notation. The full range of openings is broken down into 5 sections: Ch. Informant Book A covers Flank Openings e.g. English; Benoni; Dutch; Reti; Benko; Bird’s etc.

Book B covers Semi-Open Games, e.g. Sicilian, Caro-Kann; Pirc; Alekhine’s Scandinavian etc. except French.

Book C covers Open games and the French.

Book D covers Closed & Semi-Closed games e.g. Queen’s Gambit, Slav, Tarrasch, Tartakower, Albin, Grünfeld etc.

Book E covers Indian Defences e.g. Nimzo; Catalan, Bogo- Indian etc. Experts in the specified openings are used throughout to evaluate each variation.

Some of the titles have gone into a 5th edition, the latest of which is Book B in 2020, The different editions are noted on the cover of each book with a digit in a star. The original prices when new were c. £25.00 each. Current editions are c. £40 each depending on the outlet.

Ch. Informant Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings Book A 1st ed. Belgrade 35 experts identified. Figurine algebraic notation. Green 476pp cloth boards & green DW HB VG £5.00

Ch. Informant Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings Book A 2nd ed. Belgrade Names of players & tournaments in English & moves in 543pp figurine. Very detailed. Weighs 1kg+! £9.00 Green cloth boards. Green DW F-

Ch. Informant Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings Book B 3rd ed. Belgrade Names of players & tournaments in English & moves in 543pp figurine. AN. Very detailed. Yellow cloth boards & DW £12.00 VG+ Ch. Informant 400pp Another copy Book B 1st ed. DW worn o/w G+ £9.00

Ch. Informant Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings Book C 2nd ed. Blue cloth boards with blue-themed DW. Binding at 487pp £11.00 each end tender but intact. o/w G Another copy Book C 3rd ed. VG+ £12.00 Ch. Informant Another copy Book C 5th ed. F- £14.00 £25.00

Ch. Informant ECO Book D 1st ed. Red cloth boards. G £9.00

493pp Another copy Book D 2nd ed. Red cloth & DW VG+ £12.00 Another copy Book D 3rd ed. Red cloth & DW F £14.00

Ch. Informant 670pp ECO Book E 2nd ed. Orange cloth boards & DW F £14.00 ECO Book E 4th ed. Orange cloth boards & DW F £12.00

Ch. Informant Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings Book D 2nd ed. Belgrade 493pp Closed & Semi-Closed openings. Red cloth boards. HB. DW VG+ £7.00 Ch. Informant Another copy but 3rd ed. 551pp. Belgrade 1998. DW F- £8.00

Matanovic et al Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings Book E 4th ed. Belgrade Book E: deals with the following openings: Nimzo- Indian; King’s Indian; Queen’s Indian; Catalan; Bogo- 670pp Indian; No text, but names of players & tournaments in £10.00 English & moves in figurine. Orange cloth boards. DW VG+

Nunn et al. Nunn’s Chess Openings with Burgess, Emms & Gallagher Gambit ‘99 Compiled by 4 experts under the leadership of John 544pp Nunn. Clear tables for ease of reference. Computer- £7.50 checked for accuracy. VG

Schiller, E Standard Chess Openings – 3,000+ Opening Strategies Cardoza ‘02 784pp 2nd ed. An easy-to-read guide with discussions & analysis on each opening. Clear layout. VG £8.50

Schiller, E Gambit Chess Openings – 2,000+ Gambit strategies Cardoza ‘02 784pp 1st ed. Same format is followed as before. Clear layout £8.50 VG

Schiller, E World Championship Openings – 100 openings covered in Cardoza ‘00 depth. The “World’s leading authority on openings” explains 384pp how leading champions started their games & how it £8.50 benefited them; preceded by mini biographies of them VG+

Next come the generalist openings books – not promoting any particular opening, just guidance as to how to play better in that stage of the game. In alphabetical order of the author.

Anand, Opening for White According To Anand by Khalifman Ch. Stars ‘06 Looks at how Anand deals with Black’s various 280pp responses to his 1.a4 and draws conclusions to each £10.00 one. All games in figurine with diagrams, all thoroughly analysed. SB F+ Assiac Opening Preparation with K. J. O’Connell. 1st Pergamon ‘82 ed. 11 well-known opening innovations and how to be 161pp prepared for them & perhaps develop your own prize £5.00 package. G

Barden, L Guide To The Chess Openings with T. D. Harding McKay ‘77 Using several of the most common openings, the 168pp improving player is guided through the characteristics of £4.75 each and how best to meet them. HB DW Another copy SB G £3.00

Benjamin, J Unorthodox Openings with E. Schiller Batsford ‘87 3 groups – (a) The Good, e.g. openings without 1.e4 or 1d4 for Black. (b) the Bad e.g. openings without 1.e4 or 154pp 1d4 for White and (c) the Ugly i.e. rarely seen or read £4.00 of. Many illustrative games in figurine with diagrams. Index of variations. SB G

Bosch, J Secrets Of Opening Surprises Vol. 13 NIC 2011 143pp 17 chapters by different authors, each with a secret to share on their favourite opening. Figurine; SB. VG+ £17 £8.00

Burgess, G Gambits. Batsford ‘95 112pp Pawn sacrifices – when to play or to defy them. SB £7.50 VG+

Another copy Batsford 1st ed. 1976 SB G £3.50

Collins, S Understanding the Chess Openings: How Modern Openings Gambit 2013 are Played Intro to a wide range of popular openings at club level. 224pp 400+ diagrams, Main lines explained. SB VG £7.25

Collins, S A Simple Chess Opening Repertoire for White Gambit 2016 159pp A quick-to-learn king’s pawn repertoire. SB F £7.25

Davis, N Gambiteer II – a hard-hitting opening repertoire for Black Everyman ‘07 Provides an armoury of aggressive ideas for Black. SB £7.50 192pp VG

Davis, N Play 1e4 e5! – A complete repertoire for Black in the Open Everyman Games ‘05 192pp Mostly covers Ruy Lopez but also the Scotch & 2 Knights. Figurine. F £15.00 £8.50

Djuric, S Chess Opening Essentials Vol. 1 with Komarov & Pantaleoni NIC 2008 Vol. 1 The Complete 1.e4 20 open games & even more semi-open variants. Each explained in clear English 358pp with many diagrams. Whole game scores set out in £12.00 coloured sections. Comprehensive yet easily followed. 2nd improved edition Figurine. SB VG+ c.£28

Djuric, S Chess Opening Essentials Vol. 3 The Ideas & Plans Behind NIC 2008 ALL Openings. with Komarov & Pantaleoni 336pp Deals with Indian Defences. Figurine. Index of players. SB F+ c £30 £12.00

Ehlvest, J. Grandmaster Opening Preparation. Quality ‘18 How to balance computer preparation with human 270pp considerations, and to build a repertoire that suits the £14.75 reader. Pictorial HB F-

Eingorn, V. A Rock-Solid Opening Repertoire for Black Gambit ‘12 Based on playing 1…e6 & then exploiting whatever 192pp White tries, bringing him out of his comfort zone. £7.25 Figurine with diagrams. Index of variations. SB VG+

Eingorn, V. Creative Chess Opening Preparation Gambit ‘06 How to seize the initiative & pose novel problems for 159pp your opponent. He discusses experiments in the opening: disturbing the equilibrium; strategic planning & £9.75 opening structures. Illustrative games in figurine with diagrams. Illustrative games in figurine with diagrams SB VG+ £16

Emms, J. Discovering Chess Openings: Building opening skills from Everyman ‘06 basic principles. Ideal for improving players. Glossary. Index of 248pp openings. All moves in figurine with diagrams. SB £8.75 VG+ £15

Evans, L How To Open A Chess Game RHM 1974 A chapter each by Evans, Gligorich; Hort; Petrosian; 227pp Portisch; Keres & Larsen, plus annotated games & £6.00 diagrams. DN SB (with a crease) o/w G.

Fine, R The Ideas Behind The Chess Openings - intro by Sam Sloan ISHI 2012 Fine’s perennially popular 1943 original is published 240pp afresh with the reminder that GMs remember the ideas £7.50 & principles rather than masses of intricate detail. SB F

Giddins, S. How To Build Your Chess Opening Repertoire Gambit ‘03 A user-friendly guide to choosing & planning your 144pp openings. All illustrative games in figurines with £7.00 diagrams. Indexes of players & openings. SB F- £14

Grivas, E Beating The Fianchetto Defences Gambit ‘06 A challenging repertoire v. 5 king’s fianchetto defences. 191pp i.e. KID; Grünfeld; Benko; Benko & Modern. Index of £7.50 variations. Games in figurine with diagrams. Typescript. SB VG £16

Harding, T. D Irregular Openings Ch. Digest ‘74 80pp 8 Chapters inc. The Spike; Saragossa; Anderssen Attack; Van’t Kruijs’; Hippoptamus openings etc SB G £3.25

Harding, T. D .Counter Gambits: Black to Play & Win BCM 1974 204pp Annotated games with diagrams covering most of the named counter gambits. BCM Quarterly No. 15 SB VG £6.00

Hilton, J Wojo’s Weapons – Winning With White Vol. 1 with D. Ippolito Mongoose 10 A tribute to the late A. Wojtkiewicz whose Catalan- 408pp based repertoire won him 100s of US tournaments. They teach his system and offer 75 fully annotated £10.00 games in support. Figurine with diagrams. SB F- c£30

Horowitz, I. How To Win In The Chess Openings Fireside ‘85 A reprint of the perennially popular 1951 original, 192pp showing how to gain an early initiative through £6.50 understanding rather than rote learning. SB VG+ c.£15

Horowitz, I. Modern Ideas In The Chess Openings Cornerstone ‘76 Intended as supplementary to his previous book, or may 167pp be read independently. Examines 12 openings with the £3.00 aid of 205 diagrams & a wealth of complete annotated games. SB pp browning slightly o/w G

Horowitz, I. New Traps In The Chess Opening Faber 1973 One trap on each of its 175 pages, with a diagram at 181pp the vital point alongside all the moves leading up to it. £6.00 All very well spaced out and easily accessed. Each one ideal for a 10 minute study. HB DW VG

Horowitz, I. Chess Opening: Theory & Practice Fireside ‘64 “Definitive study of all the important openings, with 788pp 2,600 fully analysed variations & 439 complete games”. £6.00 Index of openings. SB G

Howson, J. B. 200 Modern Chess Traps In The Fianchetto Openings Barnes ‘71 203pp DW G £4.00

Jacobs, B Mastering The Opening Everyman’01 Deals with every major opening; Many thematic games 176pp illustrate important principles; Revolutionary layout £7.25 allows readers to absorb key ideas. Games in figurine with diagrams SB VG+ £15

Kallai, G Basic Chess Openings Cadogan ‘97 Explains the issues in the main openings after White 192pp plays 1.e4. All moves in figurine with diagrams. SB £7.50 VG+

Karpov A The Closed Openings In Action Batsford ‘89 These are openings that rely on a slower build-up of pressure & avoiding early wholesale slaughter by not 126pp exchanging pawns early on. 52 games in figurine mostly £4.25 played by the author against Kasparov and related in a conversational style as he recalls the actual circumstances and outcomes. SB G-

Karpov, A The Open Game In Action Batsford ‘90 4 main chapters on the Spanish, Russian, Scotch & 111pp Italian Games. 75 complete annotated games in figurine £5.00 with diagrams Index of main variations. SB; VG

Kaufman, L The Kaufman Repertoire for Black & White – A complete, NIC 2012 sound & user-friendly opening repertoire. A book of 2 halves; The white cover opens into 266 pages from White’s point of view. Turn it over & upside 496pp down and a black cover leads to 229 pages from Black’s point of view. Figurine notation & lots of diagrams help to keep the mind focussed. SB VG+ 12.00

Keene, R. D Flank Openings 2nd ed. revised & enlarged BCM 1970 A study of the Reti, Catalan, English & King’s Indian Attack. 96 annotated games plus others without notes. 222pp The 1st ed. sold out in months, necessitating this £5.00 update, compiled with all the energy of a 22 yr old. Typescript, SB AN G

Keene, R. D An Opening Repertoire For White Batsford ‘84 Well set out with diagrams & figurine algebraic notation 160pp helping to follow the pointers. An interesting final £6.00 chapter on his nominations for the 1.d4 Oscars.

Keene, R. D An Opening Repertoire for the Attacking Player with D. Levy Batsford ‘89 124pp 19 chapters each with a different option in figurine with £4.25 diagrams. SB G

Keene, R. D How To Play The Opening In Chess with David Levy Collins ’74 224pp 1st ed. A quick run through the main lines. DW G £3.50

Keene, R. D How To Play The Opening In Chess with David Levy Batsford ‘94 An updating of his 1974 original. Figurine. SB Some fine 162pp underlining & sunning of page edges o/w G £2.50

Kotronias V Beating The Flank Openings Batsford ‘96 It’s all too easy to play routine moves against a quiet 176pp opening by White, & get slowly suffocated. Here’s how to avoid that with the help of 25 illustrative games in £4.00 figurine. Index of variations. SB G+ £14

Marin, M Beating The Open Games Quality ‘08 The author’s own repertoire for Black against 1e4 332pp especially the Scotch, Vienna, Spanish Exchange & £12.00 King’s Gambit. SB. Figurine. AN. VG+ £18

Marovic, D King Pawn Openings with I. Susic Batsford ‘75 Covers options of how to follow up 1.e4 after 1…e5 or 252pp 1…c5. DW insc. & short marginalia on c. 3pp o/w G £4.25

Mednis, E Practical Opening Tips Everyman ‘99 Lots of hints & tips appear in italic throughout the text explaining about the aims of the opening, avoiding bad 159pp variations etc. His writings are syndicated in magazines £6.00 worldwide. Figurine. SB VG

Mednis, E Practical Opening Tips Cadogan ‘97 159pp An earlier edition. SB VG+ £6.00

Pachman, L Open Games Spring Bks ‘65 Deals with a wide range of openings in which Black 291pp replies to 1.e4 with 1…e5. DW G+ £5.00

Pachman, L Another copy. Club stamp; no DW o/w G £3.75

Pachman, L Semi-open Games Spring Bks ‘65 Companion volume to previous title. Club stamp; no 239pp DW o/w G £5.00

Pachman, L Another copy. Club stamp; no DW o/w G £3.75

Pachman, L Indian Systems. P. Nevill ‘62 Preceded the Spring Books series but very much in the 276pp same style. DW rubbed o/w G £5.00

Pachman, L Queen’s Gambit & other Close Games P. Nevill ‘63 283pp DW rubbed o/w G £5.00

Pachman, L Indian Defences Chess Reading between the lines, there seems to have been something of a contretemps in the production of this book. During his time behind the Iron Curtain, Pachman 315pp had passed a manuscript to B. H. Wood who proceeded £4.00 to work on it with a team of colleagues. On being freed, he saw what had been done to update the analysis, agreed to add to it, but declined to have his name associated with it. No publication date is given and paper quality varies from section to section. DW G-

Reinfeld, F How To Play the Queen Pawn Openings London 92pp Index of the 39 openings covered. Well set out & easily followed. HB DW Insc. Some light foxing to endpapers £3.00

Rizzitano, J How To Beat 1d4 Gambit ‘05 A sound & ambitious repertoire based on the Queen’s Gambit Accepted, which gives Black free development 160pp & counterpunching potential. The stolid Colle, weird £7.50 Hodgson Attack & reckless Blackmar-Diemer are also examined. Figurine. Index of variations. SB VG+

Robertie, W Winning Chess Openings – Learn 25 Essential Opening Cardoza ‘02 Strategies Today! Very clearly laid out, with the signature moves of certain 178pp popular openings and a few games in full. SB AN VG+ £7.75

Schiller, E A Gambit Opening Repertoire For White Cardoza ‘98 Much on the Göring Gambit (accepted & declined) & 184pp lesser known ones like the Halsz, Alapin & Ulysses £6.50 Gambits. Well spaced out in the Cardoza style. SB VG+

Schiller, E Fianchetto Against The West Indians Coraopolis ‘88 A repertoire for White when Black fianchettos K-side in 92pp reply to 1.d4 2.c4. Some complete games. Insc. SB £3.00 Figurine AN G

Schiller, E Complete Defence To Queen Pawn Openings Cardoza ‘98 An aggressive counterattacking repertoire based on the 288pp powerful Tarrasch Defence, covers Black openings £7.25 against everything except 1.e4. SB F-

Seirawan, Y Winning Chess Openings Everyman ‘04 An introduction to the moves, strategies & philosophy of 257pp chess openings. Clearly set out for easy access, with £7.00 diagrams on every page. Glossary – Index. SB VG

Soltis, A Understanding The Open Games (Except Ruy Lopez) RHM 1980 With Mednis, & Hartston. Covers mostly the Italian, 142pp Vienna, Scotch, Petroff, King’s Gambit & some others. £5.00 16 complete games to illustrate points made. AN SB VG

Soltis, A Openings Of The Eighties Vol. 2 Ch Digest ‘86 6 defences covered – Benoni; Benko; Grunfeld; KID; 88pp QID & Nimzo Indian. With analysis & diagrams. SB G £2.50

Sokolsky, A.P The Modern Openings In Theory & Practice & their influence Pitman on the Middlegame (trans. Golombek & Strauss) rep. ‘73 241pp Shows how the themes of each opening dominate the whole game in all stages. VG DW £7.50 Sokolsky, A.P Another copy but 1st ed. 1972 DW edges rubbed o/w G £5.75

Suetin, A. S. Modern Chess Opening Theory trans. by D. J. Pergamon ‘65 Richards 322pp An early classic SB G £4.00

Summerscale A Killer Chess Opening Repertoire with S. Johnsen Gambit 2011 New enlarged edition. An easy-to-learn repertoire for 192pp the chessboard assassin. Includes the Barry & 150 Attacks, Anti-Benoni & Anti-Dutch. 67 annotated £7.25 illustrative games. Figurine. SB VG+

Vainshtein, B Introduction to Chess Openings Gillam 1977 76pp Written in conversational style between an old master & 2 beginners. SB G £2.50

Varnusz, E. Play Anti-Indian Systems Maxwell 1991 213pp Starts off with the Torre-Petrosian Attack. SB; Figurine; VG £7.25

Walker, J Winning In The Opening – how to spot & seize on your Cadogan ‘97 opponents’ mistakes. 128pp SB Figurine notation; G+ £5.00

Ward, C Improve Your Opening Play Everyman ‘02 Well set out item by a noted writer, using light bulb & 143pp crossbone icons to flag up important bits. SB VG+ £7.50

Watson, J Mastering the Chess Openings Vol. 1 Gambit ‘06 Unlocking the mysteries of the chess openings. 335pp Dealing mainly with the Open & Semi-Open games. £9.25 Figurine. SB VG+

Watson, J Mastering the Chess Openings Vol. 2 Gambit ‘10 Moves on to the closed games & Indian systems. 319pp Figurine AN SB VG+ £9.25

Watson, J Mastering the Chess Openings Vol. 3 Gambit ‘10 Understanding the English Opening & related 351pp structures. keeping the same format & philosophy as £9.25 the earlier works. Figurine. SB VG+

Watson, J Mastering the Chess Openings Vol. 4 Gambit ‘10 Covers the subjects of Gambits, Preparation, 319pp Fianchettoes & Symmetry. Figurine. SB VG+ £9.25

Wincor, R Baroque Chess Openings – How to Play Your Betters at Citadel 1975 Chess and on Occasion Win The author’s aim is “to reconcile some of the 116pp Hypermodern ideas and some of the Dutch systems, with Lasker’s object of playing psychologically, so as to £7.00 win in style”. And he starts with the game Rowena vs Ron Bruce. SB G

Z-Borovsky How To Play The Chess Openings Hollings ‘37 2 or 3 page topics in uncomplicated language. Green 166pp cloth boards with title in gilt on spine. Only blemish is a £2.25 hand-drawn board on the back endpaper o/w G

Keene, R. D. Flank Openings BCM 1979 Study of the Reti, Catalan, English & K.I. Attack 176pp complex. 3rd ed. Revised & enlarged. BCM Quarterly £3.25 No. 13. Many games in figurine with diagrams. SB G

Now we come to books devoted to a specific opening. Listed here in alphabetical order of the opening’s name. NB: The Spanish & Ruy Lopez are synonymous but Spanish is used here.

S. Jonasson Albin Counter Gambit Uppsala ‘70 43 complete game scores. 16 pp of analysis. Short 34pp biography of Albin with his tournament record. £5.00 Typescript. Card covers. G Typescript. Card covers. G

Lamford, P Albin Counter-Gambit Batsford ‘83 88pp 9 chapters each on a different variation. Indexes of Variations & complete games (60) Figurine; SB G £4.25

Alekhine’s Defence

Eales, R Alekhine’s Defence with A. H. Williams Batsford ‘73 140pp Indexes of games & variations DW VG £5.00

Another copy DW G £4.50 Another copy HB Brown spots on endpapers o/w G £3.75 Alburt/Schiller The Alekhine For The Tournament Player Batsford ‘85 134pp Variations illustrated by illustrative games. SB G- £3.75

Picket. L. Belgrade Gambit in the 4 Knights. Gillam 1976 80 pp Analysis & diagrams. Card covers. Small booklet. G £2.25

Benko Gambit

Gufeld, E. Benko Gambit Batsford ‘88 Sections on Declined & Accepted. Index of variations. 111pp SB paper slightly yellowing o/w £4.25

Benko, Pal The Benko Gambit Batsford ‘74 143pp 8 sections on variations plus 20 annotated games with diagrams. Index of variations. HB DW VG £4.25

Levy, D Benko Counter-Gambit Batsford ‘78 Writes Levy on the cover, ”Black secures the initiative 127pp for at least 20 moves” & “of all the defences to 1.d4 the £4.50 Benko has the best practical results”. Figurine. SB G

Jacobs, B Winning With The Benko Batsford ‘95 144pp 21 deeply annotated games, in figurine with diagrams. Index of Variations. SB VG+ £4.25

Benoni

Nunn, J The Benoni For The Tournament Player Batsford’82 “The Benoni is Black’s most active & aggressive 149pp defence to 1.d4 leading to imbalanced positions which £4.50 are unlikely to yield sterile equality” SB Figurine. G

Raetsky, A Starting Out: Benoni Systems with M Chetverik. Everyman ‘05 Includes Schmidt Benoni, Czech Benoni & Benko 239pp Gambit. 75 complete annotated illustrative games. Light £7.25 bulb icons to highlight points. SB AN VG+

Hartston, W The Benoni Batsford ‘69 Includes 34 complete illustrative games. Covers the 127pp Modern & Czech. Index of variations. HB DW VG+ £5.25

Hartston The Benoni Another copy no DW o/w VG £4.75

Hartston Benoni Batsford ‘77 Index of complete games (54) all in figurine with 111pp diagrams. Index of variations. SB G+ £4.50

Nunn, J The Benoni for the Tournament Player Batsford ‘82 149pp Index of complete illustrative games (250) in figurine with diagrams. Index of variations. SB G £4.50

Psakhis, L The Complete Benoni. H. Holt 1995 No complete games but the early middlegames, arising 256pp from the 20 variations are explored in great depth. £6.50 Figurine with diagrams. Index of variations. SB VG+

Holmes, D The Benoni Indian Defence Evanston ‘72 Mostly from Russian games, 12 lines up to c. move 16, 43pp annotated with diagrams. PB G £1.25

Another copy – the SB version published 1977 £4.00

Norwood, D The Modern Benoni Cadogan ‘94 An expert on this opening uses 40 annotated games in 143pp figurine with diagrams to explore this particular £3.00 landscape. SB 1 loose page o/w G-

Franco, Z The Modern Benoni – A new approach Gambit ‘07 Covers 7 variations & systems. 25 annotated games in 111pp figurine with diagrams. SB VG £7.25

Bird’s Opening.

Moravian Bird’s Opening 1 A02. Olomouc ‘98 Covers 1.f4 and 34 of Black’s 1st moves. Almost 1,800 394pp complete game scores in figurine. SB VG+ £6.00

Moravian Bird’s Opening II A03 Olomouc ‘98 Covers 1.f4 and 37 variants after 1…d5 2,000+ 396pp complete game scores in figurine. SB VG+ £6.00

Moravian Bird’s Opening III A03 Olomouc ‘98 Also covers 1.f4 1.d5. 1,214 complete game scores in 378pp figurine. SB VG £6.00

Robinson, R. 1.P-KB4 – A Guide To Bird’s Opening 248 games, all with diagrams & light notes. Early photo portrait of Bird. Foreword by R. J. Broadbent, signed by 153pp him, made possible by the fact that the author & £18.00 Broadbent were both members of the same club in N. London. Brown cloth boards. Bookplate of the Richard III Society. Some foxing to cloth covers o/w G

Soltis, A Bird’s Opening Ch. Digest ‘73 An early Soltis work that shows the skill to come. 86pp Typescript with diagrams. Card covers. G £3.75

Harding, T. D Bishop’s Opening Batsford ‘73 116pp Covers a number of variants. SB G- £2.25

Leach, C Bishop’s Opening Caissa 1990 260 games in Figurine with notes in the text. SB Insc. & 72pp club stamps o/w G £1.50

Lane, G Winning With The Bishop’s Opening Batsford ‘93 Each section has a number of annotated illustrative 152pp games in figurine. Index of variations. SB . VG+ £4.50

Orlov, G. Black Knights’ Tango – Outwit your opponents from move 2! Batsford ‘98 128pp After 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 Nc6 Then what? 4 main variations explored with game fragments, diagrams & figurine. £6.25 Index of variations. SB F-

Orlov, G The Black Knights’ Tango Outwit White from move 2! Batsford ‘98 1.d4 Nf6; 2.c4 Nc6!? Covers Advance, Fianchetto, QN 128pp & KN variations. Index of Variations. Figurine. SB VG+ £6.75

Hodgson, J Trends in the Blackmar-Diemar Gambit. Trends 1992 34pp 100 master games in figurine, some with diagrams. Brief notes. SB F- £2.25

Schiller, E Blackmar-Diemer Gambit £3.00 81pp

Tejler, A Discover The Blackmar Gambit Vol. 1 Ch. Digest 71 General history and background with games. Card 40pp covers. Typescript. G- £2.00

Tejler, A Discover The Blackmar Gambit Vol. 2 The Gunderam Ch. Digest 71 Gambit. 52 game scores, after an introduction. Card covers. 22pp Typescript. G £2.00

Tejler, A Discover The Blackmar Gambit Vol. 3 The Vienna Defence Ch. Digest 72 100 game scores after an introduction. Card covers. 36pp Typescript. G £2.00

Tejler, A Discover The Blackmar Gambit Vol. 4. Bogoljubow Defence Ch. Digest 72 100 games scores after an introduction. Card covers. 35pp Typescript. G- £2.00

Lane, G Blackmar-Diemer Gambit Batsford ‘95 36 complete games in figurine with diagrams. Index of 128pp variations. SB VG £4.50

Budapest Gambit.

Borik, O Budpest Gambit. (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5) Batsford ‘86 Leads to lively play & attacking chances for Black who 100pp hopes to establish a strong knight on e5. 35 illustrative £4.00 games. Index of variations. SB G

Harding. T Budapest Gambit – The Fighting Fajarowicz: An Exciting Ch. Digest 96 Black Defense 1.d4 Nf6; 2.c4 e5: 3.dxe5 Ne4! Pt. 1 = Ideas; Pt. 2 = Analyses; Pt. 3 = 372 Game 228pp scores, a few with light notes. SB AN VG £6.50

Tseitlin, M The Budapest For The Tournament Player with I. Glaskov Batsford ‘92 Covers deviations after 3…Ng4 or Ne4. 18 annotated 144pp illustrative games in figurine. Index of variations. SB £4.50 VG

Lalic, B The Budapest Gambit Batsford ‘98 160pp 90 illustrative games in figurine with diagrams. SB G- £4.25

Hodgson, J Trends in the Budapest Defence. Trends 1991 42pp 100 game scores in figurine, some with diagrams. Short summaries to introduce each variation. SB F- £2.25

Schiller, E Cambridge Springs Defense CEI 1984 100pp Diagrams on every page to aid text. Indexes of players & variations. PB VG £2.50

Caro-Kann

Hall, J Caro-Kann with K. Smith. Ch. Digest ‘83 101pp Index of variations. Includes the Panov Attack. SB G £3.75

Berg, K Trends in the Classical Caro-Kann 4….Bf5 Trends 1992 38pp 100 game scores in figurine, some with diagrams. SB G £1.25

Lalic, S Trends In The Caro-Kann 4…Nd7 Vol 2 Trends 1995 38pp The 100 most important & helpful games played 1992-5 were selected & put into chapters. SB VG £1.25

Lalic, S Trends in the Caro-Kann Panov-Botvinnik Vol. 2 Trends 1994 42pp 100 annotated games from 1991-3. Figurine SB VG £1.25

Jacobs, B Trends In The Advance Caro-Kann Vol. 2 Trends 1994 43pp 100 games in 10 sections but focussing on 4.Nf3. SB £1.25 VG

Speelman J New Ideas In The Caro-Kann Batsford ‘92 The opening suddenly became popular with top GMs in 155pp the ‘80s and a fresh look at it was advised. Here are £4.00 192 annotated illustrative games from the ‘80s. SB VG

Seirawan, Y Caro-Kann B12. Informant ‘93 Monograph compiled by the American, including 95pp analysis of 173 games with diagrams & languageless analysis in figurine, plus 100 complete games. Index of £4.75 games. SB AN F+

Catalan

Dunnington A Winning With The Catalan Batsford ‘97 “The 1st book to explain the Catalan in a way accessible 158pp to club & tournament players” Covers open & closed £4.25. Catalan systems. 25 annotated illustrative games. Index of variations. SB Figurine. VG+

Neishstadt, Y Play The Catalan Vol. 1 Open Variation Pergamon ‘87 9 chapters. Index of main variations. 6 annotated 244pp illustrative games. SB G+ £4.25

Moiseyev, O Catalan Opening with G. Ravinsky Batsford ‘84 Proofs of this book read & approved by Kasparov. 11 138pp sections on the Open and 5 on the closed variations. £3.75 Index of variations. SB Figurine. G-

Smith & Hall Winning With The Centre Counter 1.e4 d5! Ch Digest ‘91 91pp Written from Black’s point of view. Clearly set out with diagrams. AN c. 6 small notes o/w G £4.00

Colle System.

Smith & Hall Winning With The Colle System Ch. Digest 87 Explanations followed by 27 annotated illustrative 234pp games with diagrams. SB AN G £3.75

Koltanowski Colle System 8th ed. by George Koltanowski Ch. Digest 72 Nine short lessons, followed, in Pt. 2 by 27 annotated 64pp games, and finishing in Pt. 3 by 7 annotated games £5.00 featuring the Colle vs the KID. Pictorial card covers protected by clear cellophane.

Dutch Defence

Pinski, J Classical Dutch Everyman ‘02 160pp 74 illustrative games in figurine with diagrams. Index of complete games. SB VG+ £15 £7.50

Silman. J Dutch Defence with L. Christianson Ch Digest ‘89 219pp 13 different lines explored inc. Classical, Stonewall, Dutch & Staunton Gambit. SB AN G £4.75

Bellin, R Winning With The Dutch Batsford ‘90 185pp 42 illustrative games in figurine with diagrams. SB G £5.00

With Simon Williams & James Vigus. Index of the 17 £8.75 224pp illustrative games & index of variations. SB AN F

Ehlvest, J The Leningrad Dutch Batsford ‘94 Mostly follows the main line & the teachings of Botvinnik 139pp & Taimanov. Index of variations. SB Figurine. VG £4.00

Harding T. D The Leningrad Dutch – Rock solid or flexible – your choice! Batsford 76 179pp Important intro. Index to c. 200 complete games. Index of variations. DW VG £4.00

De Vault The Leningrad Dutch Ch Digest ‘92 Historical intro with 14 lines. Games sections in AN with 266pp diagrams. Index of variations. VG £5.00

Johnsen/Bern Win With The Stonewall Dutch Gambit ‘09 223pp 64 illustrative games in figurine with diagrams.

Beim, V Understanding The Leningrad Dutch – an experienced Gambit ‘02 trainer’s guide to a dynamic opening system. Includes 35 test diagrams with solutions at the end, with 192pp the variations index. SB Figurine. VG+

McDonald, N The Dutch Leningrad 1st ed. 1997 Chess Press General intro giving the historical background followed 144pp by 65 annotated illustrative games. SB. Figurine. VG+ £5.50

Schiller, E Modern Stonewall Dutch Coroapolis‘89 Index of 130+ game references. Index of variations. SB £2.75 100pp G+

English Opening.

Bagirov, V English Opening - Symmetrical Cadogan ‘95 Covers 6 of Black’s variations. Index of variations. 215pp SB Figurine. VG £4. 75

Bagirov, V English Opening – Classical & Indian Cadogan ‘94 Covers 9 of Black’s variations. Index of variations. 227pp Companion vol. to previous title.SB Figurine. VG £4. 75

Palliser et al Dangerous Weapons: The Dutch. Dazzle your opponents! Everyman ‘09 Marin, M The English Opening Vol. 1 Quality 2010 Page 1 gives 9 diagrams arising from the variations 477pp covered e.g. Karpov Var.; Botvinnik System; Keres Var. & Reversed Rossolimo etc. Well set out quality paper £9.00 etc. SB Figurine. F Marin, M The English Opening Vol. 2 Quality 2010 432pp Mainly Anti-Slav, Anti QG systems. SB Figurine. F £9.00 Marin, M The English Opening Vol. 3 Quality 2010 274pp Covers Closed System & Open Lines. SB Figurine. F £9.00

Cafferty, B English Opening Gillam ‘77 152pp Based on a book by B. Shatskes, originally in Russian. 18 lines & systems explored. SB G £3.00

Povah, N English: Four Knights Batsford ‘82 8 different 4th moves for White examined with the help of 184pp complete annotated games (70) SB AN G- £3.00 Watson, J English:- Franco, Slav & Flank Defences Batsford ‘81 The 4th & final volume of his series on the English. 58 full 113pp or partial games as illustrations. DW G+ £4.50

Korchnoi, V. English Opening – Four Knights Variation. A29 Informant ‘93 Covers the 4 knights with a kingside fianchetto. 126pp Monograph including analysis of 399 games & fragments £4.75 with diagrams & language-less analysis in figurine, plus 100 complete selected games. Index of games. SB AN F+ Sax G. English Opening Symmetrical A33 Informant ‘94 Covers the English Symmetrical. Monograph including 120pp analysis of 411 games & fragments with diagrams & £4.75 language-less analysis in figurine, plus 100 complete selected games. Index of games. SB AN F+

Beliavski English Opening Symmetrical - 3 Knights System A34 Informant ‘’94 Monograph including 596 analysed fragments with 151pp diagrams, plus100 selected games. Index of games. £4.75 SB AN F+

Palkovi, J Hedgehog System Against The English Opening. Caissa 1997 Dedicated to this anti-English system which White may 127pp well need to be aware of. In English. Analysis in figurine. £4.00 Sources identified of game extracts. Diagrams. SB F De Firmian English Attack with John Fedorowicz Batsford ‘04 Was favoured by England’s top players, as a counter to 256pp the Sicilian, hence the name. Index of variations + £7.00 illustrative games. Tactics & sharp play abound, & precise knowledge of variations is vital. SB VG+ £16

Pickett, L. M Four Knights & the Belgrade Gambit Gillam ‘76 80pp Nicely set out & easy to follow. Small format. Card covers. G £2.25

Keene, R. The English Defence …e6; …b6, …Bb7 with Tisdall & Plaskett Batsford ‘87 40 illustrative games in figurine with diagrams, 100pp concentrating on the English exponents of the time – £4.50. Miles, Keene, Stean & Plaskett. SB G

Vaisser, A Four Pawns Attack (Beating the King’s Indian & Benoni. Batsford ‘00 19 deeply annotated games in figurine with diagrams. 144pp Index of Variations. SB VG £6.25

French Defence

Watson, J. Play The French Pergamon’84 212pp Good general introduction. Index of Variations. SB AN Club stamps on title page o/w G £4.00

Korchnoi, V French Defence Winawer Classical Variation C18 Informant ‘93 165pp Monograph including analysis of 578 fragments with diagrams & language-less analysis in figurine, plus 100 £4.75 complete selected games. Index of games. SB AN F+ Harding, T. D The Classical French Batsford ‘91 Covers everything arising from …. 3.Nc3 Nf6 and with 194pp nothing else. Indexes of complete games (c.150) & £4.00 variations. SB Figurine. Club stamps o/w G+ Harding T. D. French: Classical Lines with W. Heidenfeld Batsford ‘79 158pp A precursor to the previous item. SB Figurine. G+ £4.00 Moles J. The French Defence Main Line Winawer Batsford ‘75 Index of complete annotated games. Index of variations. 258pp HB DW VG+ £5.50 Keene, R French Defence: Tarrasch Variation with Shaun Taulbut 1st ed Batsford ‘80 101pp 1.e4 e6. 2.d4 d5. 3.Nd2 36 illustrative games. Index of variations. SB Figurine. Some marginalia £2.00 Keene, R French Defence: Tarrasch Variation (new ed.) with S. Taulbut Batsford ‘87 102pp 42 illustrative games. Index of variations. SB G £2.75

Lane, G Beating The French Batsford ‘94 Shows how to disrupt Black’s plans by annihilating 160pp White’s pawn centre. 44 illustrative games in figurine £5.00 with diagrams. Index of variations. SB VG Richmond, P. French Defence – Tarrasch Variation Gillam ‘80 128pp Everything done in Figurine. with some diagrams. SB £2.00 Harding T. D French: MacCutcheon & Advance Lines Batsford ‘79 180 illustrative games with index. Variations index. 130pp SB Figurine. G+ £2.50 Psakhis, L Advance & Other Anti-French Variations Batsford Mostly Exchange & Advance variations. 19 illustrative 160pp games. SB Figurine. VG+ £4.50 Kosten, T The French Advance 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 the advance in Chess Press question. 92 complete annotated illustrative games. Clearly set 144pp out. SB Figurine. VG+ £5.50

Taulbut, S How To Play The French Defence 2nd ed. Batsford ‘91 Deals with all the main variants. Index to the 70 122pp illustrative games used in the text. SB AN VG £4.50

Sawyer, T French Alapin – Tactics For White Thinkers ‘95 “The King’s Gambit of the French Defence”. 52 87pp annotated games. Concentrates on the little analysed £4.00 3.Be3!? SB F

Kovacevic, V Trends In The French Winawer Vol. 2 Trends ‘94 100 game scores in figurine, some with diagrams. Light 38pp analysis. Short intro. Card covers. F £1.25

Dr. G. Deppe. From’s Gambit Germany 1979 109pp 164 games in AN with diagrams and some analysis. VG £3.00

Wall, B Grob’s Attack (1.g4) CEI 1988 Also known as “The Spike”. 22 1st moves for Black 84pp looked at, before 50 game scores from the likes of Basman, Bloodgood & Grob himself. Gambit ‘04 Grünfeld Defence

Shamkovich The Gruenfeld Defense with J. Cartier Hays 1997 7 chapters & 140 diagrams but the whole is well spaced 191pp out for easier assimilation. Index of variations. SB F £5.50

Suetin, A The Complete Grünfeld Batsford ‘91 15 chapters on the variations, which are in figurine with 306pp diagrams. Index of variations. SB VG £5.50

Nesis, G Tactics In The Grünfeld Batsford ‘92 50 illustrative games in figurine notation with diagrams. 173pp Index of variations. SB VG £5.00

Pein, M Grünfeld Defence: Exchange Variation Batsford ‘81 140 complete games in figurine with diagrams. Club 140pp stamp on front endpaper o/w G £4.00

Hartston, W The Grünfeld Defence Batsford ‘71 Covers variations involving Black’s characteristic K-side 182pp fianchetto, Index to 115 illustrative games. Index of £4.50 variations. HB DW VG

Dearing, E Challenging The Grünfeld Quality 2005 If the Grunfeld is so strong, how should White cope with 205pp it? Here are 50 deeply annotated games that show how. £9.00 SB. Figurine. F- £16

Shipov, S The Complete Hedgehog Vol 1 Mongoose 09 Foreword by Kasparov. Omnivorous, prickly in skin & temper & not afraid to take on a snake or two. Then 500 532pp pages spent on proving the comparison. Now a £10.00 respected weapon in Black’s armoury. Figurine. Index of players, though individual games are not numbered. SB F c.£30

Italian Game

Harding, T.D The Italian Game with G, Botterill Batsford ‘77 136pp Covers the Giuoco Piano; Evans Gambit; 2Knights & Hungarian Defences. Indices of complete games (c. 140) & variations. HB DW G+ £4.25 Gufeld, E The Giuoco Piano with O. Stetsko Batsford ‘96 Includes the Evans Gambit both accepted & declined. 50 160pp Illustrative games in figurine with diagrams. Index of £4.00 variations. SB VG+ £13.

Another copy without DW o/w G+ £4.00

King’s Gambit

McDonald, N The King’s Gambit – a modern view of a swashbuckling opening Batsford ‘98 Pt 1 accepted; Pt. 2 declined Pt. 3 Odds & Ends. 160pp 59 annotated illustrative games with diagrams. £5.00 Figurine. SB VG £15

Thimann, R. King’s Gambit – A Game Collection Gillam 1974 196pp 208 annotated illustrative games with diagrams. £3.00 Internally G

Gallagher, J Winning With The King’s Gambit Batsford ‘92 Chapters on the Fischer, Cunningham, Modern, Schallop 194pp & Classical Defences. 58 complete annotated games in £5.00 figurine with diagrams. Index of variations. SB AN VG+

100 Kings Gambits Zagreb 1972 40pp Game scores in AN between 1834 – 1969. Short intro in Czech. Small booklet in card covers. G- £2.00

Thimann, R Another copy. Covers water-stained but Internally G- £2.00

Korchnoi/ Zak King’s Gambit Batsford ‘86 131pp 25 illustrative games in figurine notations with diagrams. Light foxing on endpapers o/w G £4.50

King’s Indian Defence

Barden, L The King’s Indian Defence with Hartston & Keene Batsford ‘69 A comprehensive work of 8 sections & 22 illustrative 211pp games. HB DW G

Thomas, M King’s Indian Defence - Averbakh System Gillam ‘79 Many illustrative games in figurine & diagrams. 88pp SB G £3.00

Minev, N King’s Indian Defence – Tactics – Ideas - Exercises ICE 1993 A series of diagrams arising from the this opening, 106pp with pointed questions to answer. SB Figurine. G £3.75

Nunn, J.D.M. The Classical King’s Indian Batsford ‘90 111pp Detailed & original (not just old games) analysis by one of the world’s leading experts. 84 diagrams. Index £4.25 of variations. Figurine; SB G

Martin, A King’s Indian - Sämisch Trends 1990 100 game scores in figurine AN with diagrams to 40pp some & a short intro to each section. SB VG- £1.25

Gallagher, J The Sämisch King’s Indian Holt 1995 17 sections follow the multiple variants with 56 240pp annotated illustrative games helping. Index of £5.50 variations. Figurine SB. small neat insc. o/w VG+

Ward, C. The Controversial Sämisch King’s Indian Batsford 04 34 illustrative games (9 by the author) with 224pp annotations in figurine & diagrams. SB VG+ £7.25

Keene, R. D. How To Play The King’s Indian Sämisch Variation Gillam ‘76 24 annotated games with diagrams. 1 game score 80pp inscribed on the front endpaper o/w G £2.25

Emms, J Starting Out: King’s Indian Attack Everyman 05 Can be employed against many lines and 224pp concentrates on attacking the French, Sicilian & Caro- £8.25 Kann. 47 annotated illustrative games. Index of variations. SB F- £15

Smith & Hall King’s Indian Attack Revised 2nd ed. Ch Digest ‘91 Interesting spat with Schiller on 1st page, before 250pp explaining their updates on previous edition. 30 £5.75 annotated illustrative games with diagrams. SB G

Gligoric, S King’s Indian Defence – Mar Del Plata Variation. Batsford ‘02 38 annotated illustrative games with diagrams. SB 160pp Figurine. F- £5.50

Bellin R & Mastering The King’s Indian Defence with the Read & Play Batsford ‘90 Ponzetto P Method Always a popular book but not easily obtainable. 10 204pp sections including on the Mar Del Plata, Petrosian, £5.00 Samisch & Averbakh centres. SB Figurine. G

Vaisser, A Beating the King’s Indian and Benoni – Shock your Batsford ‘00 opponents with the Four Pawns Attack! 144pp 19 illustrative games in figurine with diagrams. SB VG £5.25

Schiller, E. Fianchetto Against The West Indians CEI 1988 Provides a repertoire for White against openings in 92pp which Black fianchettoes his KB. Illustrative games in £4.50 figurine. Card covers. VG

Marovic, D King Fianchetto Defences inc. KID Batsford ‘77 126pp Index of variations SB G £2.00

Panczyk, K Offbeat King’s Indian with J. Ilczuk Everyman ‘04 “Lesser known tries to counter this most popular of 178pp defences” & tackled from both sides. 75 annotated £5.00 games in figurine with diagrams. SB F- £15

Geller, E Kings’s Indian Defence: g3 Systems Batsford ‘80 133pp i.e 1d4 Nf6. 2.c4 g6 3.g3 or 3.Nc3 Bg7. HB G- £2.75

Gallagher, J Beating The Anti-King’s Indians Batsford ‘96 Or… Winning with the KID. A number of White’s 191pp options are examined from the 4 pawns attack to the Blackmar. 29 annotated illustrative games. Index of £3.50. openings. SB AN G+

Kosten, T Latvian Gambit Batsford ‘95 Black plays a King’s Gambit i.e. 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 expecting something familiar and then 2.f5 and White can go very wrong very quickly. Some knowledge is 144pp required. Here are c. 200 complete games showing £6.00 what’s best to play and avoid. Index of variations. AN SB VG+

Kosten, T The Latvian Gambit Lives! Batsford ‘01 The product of analysing 9,000+ games to find the 224pp best lines & variations. 13 chapters. Figurine. SB £8.00 VG+

Kapitaniak, T Latvian Gambit Gillam 1980 35pp 4 variants of White’s 3rd move looked. AN with diagrams SB G £2.00

The London System

Johnsen, S Win With The London System with V, Kovacevic Gambit ‘05 55 annotated illustrative games in figurine with 176pp diagrams. Index of Variations. SB AN VG £15 £5.00

Soltis, A The London System Ch.Digest’ 93 182pp 50 complete illustrative games. SB Marginalia on c. 15 pp o/w in good general condition. £4.25

Romero, A The Agile London System with De Prado NIC 2016 “A solid but Dynamic Opening Choice for White” 13 chapters on how to meet different Black responses. £10.00 335pp 60 annotated illustrated games with diagrams. 60 exercises from set positions. Games & variations indices, SB AN F £25

Wade, R Trends In the London System – Stonewall Attack & Colle. Trends 1992 42pp 100 games scores in figurine, some with diagrams. Brief notes. SB F £2.25 Wade, R The Marshall Attack with T. D. Harding Batsford ‘74 A strong weapon for Black against the Spanish. Index 256pp of complete games (220) & variations. HB DW VG £8.75

Tucker, T. M. The Meran & Rubenstein’s Anti-Meran – An historical Thinkers ‘82 perspective. 18 complete games in AN. Indexes of games, players, -63pp annotators opening variations. SB G+ £3.00

Keene R. D. The Modern Defence with G. S. Botterill 2nd imp. Batsford ‘76 “1…P-KN3: A universal panacea” to 1.e4, d4 or f4. 168pp Indices of complete games (92) & variations. £5.25 HB DW VG

Langrock, H The Modern Morra Gambit Russell 2006 334pp A dynamic weapon against the Sicilian. 11 chapters $30 with many deeply annotated games. Indexes & Appendixes. Figurine. SB VG £10.00

Tiger H Persson Tiger’s Modern Quality 2010 Starts from Black’s 1,,,g6; 2…Bg7 & introduces us to 216pp The Hippopotamus. Into midair, Mad dog & Lazy Variations, amongst others. Indices of complete £9.00 games (68) & variations. Figurine. SB VG+

Harding T. D. Nimzowitsch Defence 1.e4 Nc6 Batsford ‘81 The author’s chatty spiel gives conviction to the idea 144pp the opening is safe & solid with prospects. SB AN G £3.25

Keene, R Nimzo-Larsen Attack Batsford ‘77 1.b3 can be a useful surprise weapon for the 126pp adventurous. 60 complete games, several by Larsen. £2.75 HB DW AN G- Lakdawala, C. The Nimzo-Larsen Attack move by move Everyman 13 Takes the form of a reported conversation between reader & writer i.e. a question such as a reader might 416pp ask is put near a diagram, and the answer is given. £10.00 This goes on for c. 400 pp. A clear tutorial. 70 games. Indexes of games & variations. Figurine SB VG+ £20

Nimzo-Indian Defence.

Sokolov, I Nimzo-Indian Defence E32 – 39 Informator 97 1,275 games with languageless analysis in figurine. 207pp SB VG+ £4.50

Silman, J Nimzo-Indian For Black Ch Digest ‘84 87pp Typescript. Some diagrams. SB Club stamps G- £2.00

Kosten, T Mastering The Nimzo-Indian with the Read & Play Method Batsford ‘98 Examines this “in terms of typical pawn structures & 144pp ideas”. 21 complete annotated games with diagrams. £5.00 Index of variations. SB AN VG+

Ward, C Offbeat Nimzo-Indian Everyman 05 A selection of aggressive anti-Nimzo lines inc. 4.a3; 144pp 4.f3 & 4.Bg5. Index of complete games (47). £4.75 Figurine SB F- £15

Emms, J Easy Guide to the Nimzo-Indian Cadogan ‘98 9 sections of variations. Nimzo quiz. Index of 128pp variations. Figurine. SB VG+ £6.00

Keene / Taulbut How to Play the Nimzo-Indian Defence Batsford ‘82 80 illustrative games annotated in figurine with 133pp diagrams. SB G £4.25

Keene / Taulbut Another copy 2nd ed 1986 90 illustrative games SB G £4.50

Another copy 3rd ed. 1993 8 extra illustrative games, including more recent work by Kasparov. Indexes of games & themes. £5.00 SB

MacDonaldRoss Nimzo-Indian Defence: Leningrad System. Batsford 78 150 games in figurine with diagrams. Indexes of 135pp complete games & variations. Figurine G £3.25

(Smith, K) Nimzo-Indian Defense Chess Digest 82pp Typescript; G £2.25

Myers, H The Nimzovich Defence Chessco ‘74 1.e4 Nc3 2.d4 d5 3.e5. Indexes of variations & 87pp players. 50 complete annotated games. Card covers. £3.00 G

Petroff Defence

Janjgava, L The Petroff – an account of the opening favoured by Kramnik. Gambit 2001 Starts with range of White’s 3rd move e.g. d4; Nxe4; 240pp Nxe5 & Nf3. Index of variations. Figurine SB VG+ £15 £7.50

Hooper, D A Complete Defence To 1. P-K4 – Petroff’s Defence Pergamon 67 Intro by Barden & biographical notes on Petroff. 50 180pp complete annotated games, HB G+ £4.25

Forintos, G Petroff’s Defence with E. Haag Batsford ‘83 Investigates mainly 3.d4 & 3.Nxe5. Figurine. SB 248pp Index of variations. c. 12 words of marginalia o/w G- £2.75

Jusupov Petroff’s Defence C42 Informator 94 Language-less examination in figurine of 626 160pp variations & fragments with diagrams before 100 £4.75 selected complete games. Index of games. SB F

Jusupov Petroff’s Defence -- Modern Steinitz Attack C43 Informator 93 Language-less examination in figurine of 577 151pp variations & fragments with diagrams before 100 £4.75 selected complete games. Index of games. SB F

Raetsky, A The Petroff Defence Variant: 3.d4 Nxe4 4.Bd3 d5 5.Ne5 Nd7 80pp 143 games analysed, 90 of them complete PB G £2.00

Blackstock, L Trends In The Petroff Vol. 2 with R. Wade Trends ‘92 100 games scores in figurine with some introductory 34pp notes to the 10 chapters. SB F+ £2.00

Kosten, T Winning With The Philidor Batsford ‘92 Devotes 10 chapters to named variations. Index of 144pp variations & games. SB AN VG+ £4.25

Pirc Defence

Vigus, J The Pirc In Black & White Everyman 07

Detailed coverage in 5 parts of an enterprising 381pp opening, with 87 deeply annotated complete games in £8.75 figurine with diagrams. SB F £16

Nunn, J The Complete Pirc Batsford ‘94 The master analyst concentrates first on the Austrian 215pp Attack & Classical Variation, before the lesser known £7.75 variants. Figurine SB VG

Nunn, J The Ultimate Pirc with C, NcNab Batsford ‘98 Builds on the earlier work to produce the ultimate 320pp manual for both Black & White. Index of variations. SB £7.75 Figurine. VG-

Botterill, G The Pirc Defence with R. D. Keene Batsford ‘73 6 sections on the Austrian Attack & 5 on the rest. c. 259pp 200 complete annotated games, & variations indices. £4.50 HB DW VG-

Nunn, J. New Ideas In The Pirc Defence Batsford ‘93 48 straight games with annotations, some with 144pp diagrams & all played within c. 3 yrs before £4.00 publication. Figurine SB VG-

Nunn, J The Pirc For The Tournament Player Batsford ‘80 Indexes of complete games (c. 120) & Variations. 130pp Figurine SB VG- £3.25

Hodgson, J Trends In The Classical Pirc Trends 1989 100 game scores in figurine with a short intro to each 42pp of 11 chapters. SB VG £2.00

Hodgson, J Trends In The Classical Pirc Vol. 2 Trends 1992 100 game scores in figurine with a short intro to each 38pp of 10 chapters. SB F £2.00

Fridshtein, G The Pirc Defense Russell ‘71 131pp A thorough examination of its characteristics via several games. SB G+ £3.25

Tomcsanyi, P. The Ponziani Opening Budapest ‘97 13 chapters look at various lines in figurine notation 156pp and many diagrams. SB VG+ £6.25

Queen’s Indian Defence.

Geller, E The Complete Queen’s Indian Batsford ‘92 Black plays 3.b6 with the intention of either 4.Bb7 or 295pp Ba6 & there’s a lot to think about. Index of variations. £5.50 Figurine SB VG+

Gurevich, M Queen’s Indian Defence – Kasparov System Batsford ‘91 Foreword by Kasparov. As the author says in his flowery Preface “he has woven an “Ariadne’s thread” 104pp to guide you on the journey through the labyrinth of this system”. So, success assured. 25 deeply £5.00 annotated illustrative games with diagrams. Index of variations. Figurine SB VG+

König, I Queen’s Indian Defence Pitman ‘47 Intro by J. du Mont. 25 annotated games some 64pp complete. Insc. explaining the circumstances of its £4.00 original purchase. SB DW G

Cafferty, B Queen’s Indian Defence Gillam Translated from B. Voronkov’s original. Explores 11 99pp variations in text & diagrams. SB G- £3.25

QUEEN’S GAMBIT

Pachman, L Queen’s Gambit Chess 1964 Numerous illustrative games in each section/variation. 258pp Green cloth boards. G £4.50

Burgess G. Queen’s Gambit for the Attacking Player with Pederson Batsford ‘94 42 illustrative games in figurine with diagrams. Index 176pp of variations. SB G+ £4.00

Petek, V 100 Partija Daminog Gambita (100 Queen’s Gambits) Zagreb ‘76 Game scores from Steinitz to Portisch. Games index 32pp but no notes or diagrams. Small booklet. VG £2.00

Marovic, D Play The Queen’s Gambit Maxwell ‘91 Argues the case for following classical principles with 370pp notes on 150+ classical games in figurine. Indexes of £6.25 variations and games. SB VG

Beljavski Queen’s Gambit D44 Informator 93 Index of openings & variations. Multilingual titles and 111pp all moves in figurine. 100 selected games. SB VG £5.00

Neishtadt, Y. Queen’s Gambit Accepted Ch.Digest ‘72 99pp A number of variations analysed in depth. Typescript. Card covers. Small club stamps o/w G. £2. 50

Martin, A Queen’s Gambit Accepted TUI ‘89 A precursor to the popular Trends series. 99 game 56pp scores in figurine, with brief comments at the start of £1.50 each section. Marginalia on 6pp o/w G-

Gufeld Eduard Queen’s Gambit Accepted. Batsford ‘86 26 sections on the variations & 6 illustrative games in 120pp figurine with diagrams. SB G £4.75

Watson, J. L. 4.Nc3 Gambit In The Queen’s Gambit Accepted & Slav CEI 1986 A repertoire for White that avoids the possible 63pp dullness of some QP openings. 67 diagrams. SB G £4.00

Schiller, E Queen’s Gambit Declined: Orthodox Variation CEI 1984 98pp 10 chapters on the various branches. Figurine. SB G £2.50

Lalic, B Trends in the QGD without Tartakower & Anti-Tartakower Trends ‘95 100 game scores in figurine. Short intros to Pts 1 & 2. 38pp Card covers. F £2.25

Konikowski, J Queen’s Gambit Declined – Exchange Variation CE1 1985 Includes 36 annotated games with diagrams. Red 58pp card covers. Figurine. G+ £2.25

Schiller, E Queen’s Gambit Declined – Orthodox Variation. CEI 1984 98pp 10 chapters covering the wide scope. Figurine notation. Index of variations, PB VG+ £2.50

Ward, C Unusual Queen’s Gambit Declined - includes Chigorin Defence; Albin Counter Gambit & 2…Bf5 76 annotated illustrative games in figurine with 160pp diagrams. Regular summaries at the end of each £5.50 section. Index of games. SB VG+ £15

Gufeld / Stetsko Queen’s Pawn Opening- New Ideas in the Richter-Veresov Thinkers ‘99 The Chameleon Chess Repertoire. 39 annotated 192pp complete illustrative games & a further 91 game £5.00 scores from shortly before going to press. SB AN VG

Bezgodov, A The Double Queen’s Gambit – a surprise weapon for Black. NIC 2015 151 annotated illustrative games with diagrams. Index 288pp of variations. Figurine. SB F- €25 £9.50

Bellin, R Queen’s Pawn: Veresov System Batsford ‘83 73 complete illustrative games. Indexes of players & 90pp variations. Figurine. SB G- £2.75

Plaskett, J The Queen’s Bishop Attack Revealed. (pseudo Trompovsky) Batsford ‘05 38 complete annotated illustrative games with 219pp diagrams. 22 test positions with answers nearby. £8.00 Index of variations. Figurine. SB VG+ £15

Adams J Richter-Veresov System Gillam 1978 No words, only games - lots of them, plus diagrams. 240pp Figurine. SB G- £2.50

Smith & Hall The Veresov Attack 1.d4 d5; 2.Nc3 Nf6; 3Bg5 Ch Digest ‘94 Nicely spaced out & easy to follow with 1 or 2 200pp diagrams on every page. Table of contents. SB £5.00 AN VG+

Dunnington, A The Chigorin Queen’s Gambit Batsford ‘96 44 illustrative games in figurine with diagrams. 9 160pp chapters. Index of variations. SB VG £4.75

Polugaewski, L Damengambit Queen’s Gambit - Orthodox system Berlin 1985 11 illustrative games in figurine with diagrams. Index 266pp of variations. HB DW G £2.50

RETI

Schiller, E How To Play The Reti. CEI 1988 Includes 45 annotated illustrative games in figurine 104pp with diagrams. SB G+ £3.00

Davies, N The Dynamic Reti Everyman 04 65 annotated illustrative games in figurine with 144pp diagrams prepare a repertoire for White based on £5.50 games of the previous 2 decades. SB F £15 £15 Kuligowski, A Developments in the Reti-System Self-published 100 selected games – Introduced by Grandmaster 60pp Adam Kuligowski. Sections are introduced but no £2.00 analysis in the text. SB AN G

Plaskett, J The Scandinavian Defence Batsford ‘ 04 192pp 12 sections/variations with 44 illustrative games in figurine with diagrams. SB G £6.75

Emms, J The Scandinavian 2nd ed. Everyman 04 176pp 72 complete annotated illustrative games with diagrams. Figurine. SB VG £15 £5.50

Wells, P The Scotch Game …. One of Kasparov’s favourite weapons Batsford ‘98 160pp 88 complete annotated illustrative games with diagrams. Figurine. SB VG £15 £8.00

SICILIAN DEFENCE General books first & then variations in alphabetical order.

Kopec, D Mastering The Sicilian Batsford 01 Covers a number of structures & variations. 70 128pp annotated games in figurine with diagrams. SB F £14 £7.25

Hübner, R Sicilian Scheveningen Variation B80 Informant ‘94 160pp Monograph including analysis of 716 fragments with diagrams & language in figurine, plus 100 complete £4.75 selected games. Index of games. SB AN F+

Soltis & Smith How To Play The Sicilian Against All White Possibilities Ch. Digest ‘87 186pp 8 chapters covering most effective ways for Black to persevere with his plans. Not too dense. AN SB VG+ £6.00

Levy / O’Connell How To Play The Sicilian Defence Batsford ‘78 152pp

Pickett & Swift Sicilian Defence: Lines With P-KB4. Gillam 1976 Concentrates on the line 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 followed by 63pp 3.f4 a system popularised by the Dutch player £2.25 Vinken, striving for a quick K-side attack. 19 annotated games with diagrams. SB G

Soltis, A New Sicilian Gambits Ch Digest ’93 121pp 5 chapters inc. the Moscow, Rossolimo & Fischeresque lines. SB AN VG £4.75

Nesis, G Tactics In The Sicilian Batsford 93 210pp 13 sections on aspects of the Sicilian game with 59 illustrative games in figurine, SB VG £7.25

Tak, A. C Tactics In The Chess Opening : 1 Sicilian Defence NIC 2003 239pp 250 annotated illustrative games in figurine with diagrams arranged by NICKEY, the opening classification system of New In Chess, explained £8.00 herein. Index of players. SB F Aagaard & Shaw Experts vs The Sicilian Quality 04 10 expert players explain how they, as White, tackle 288pp one particular Black line. e.g. Peter Wells faces and beats the Classical line & Golubev takes on the £7.50 Dragon. So, Sicilian players watch out. 65 annotated games in figurine with diagrams. SB VG

Nunn, J. Beating The Sicilian 3 with J. Gallagher Batsford 95 13 chapters each involving a different Sicilian line. 224pp Includes 29 illustrative games. Index of variations. £4.25 Figurine. SB VG+

Levy, D Sacrifices In The Sicilian. Batsford 74 Analyses the sacrificial ideas that arise in Sicilian 166pp games and classifies them – a chapter on each. HB £2.75 DW in clear cover. Ex lib. G-

Levy, D Another copy. SB Vendor’s stamp o/w G+ £4.75

Harding, T. D Sicilian: Lines with …e5 with P. Markland 105pp 16 chapters on the variations after …e5. 96 complete annotated illustrative games in figurine with diagrams. SB. Pages yellowing o/w G £3.75

Polugayevsky, L The Sicilian Labyrinth Volume 1 Pergamon 91 Opening experiences: Attack & Defence in the 181pp Middlegame. 200+ games. Title page signed but not £5.00 clear by whom. Figurine. SB G+

Raetsky, A Starting Out: Classical Sicilian Everyman 07 35 annotated illustrative games. Light bulb & jolly 176pp roger icons flag up the important bits. Index of 176pp variations.

Rotella, T The Killer Sicilian – fighting 1.e4 with the Kalashnikov Everyman 14 An easy-to-learn opening with the potential to up-end 464pp the unwary. Diagrams on every page (almost) & a £10.00 gentle commentary. Figurine. SB VG+ £20

Ivanisevic, I The Taimanov Bible – A Complete Manual For The Sicilian Thinkers Player. With M Perunovic & R. Markus 2016 356pp 13 chapters with exercises & solutions. Figurine. SB £8.00 VG+

Chandler, M The Complete c3 Sicilian Batsford 97 70 illustrative annotated games with diagrams. Index 239pp of variations. Figurine SB Club stamps on page £3.00 edges o/w G

Pedersen, S Easy Guide To The Bb5 Sicilian. Everyman 99 Deals with The Rossolimo & Moscow Variations. 128pp Index of variations. Figurine SB F- £4.50

Soltis, A Beating The Sicilian Defence – Chameleon Variation Ch Digest ‘90 Deeply annotated games from his own repertoire in 108pp AN & with diagrams. SB G £5.00

Ilic, Z The Sicilian With …Qb6 – Dynamic surprise weapons Batsford 98 Covers lines after Black plays 4…Qb6 in the Open 144pp Sicilian after either 2…Nc6 or 2…e6. Index of £4.50 variations. Figurine. SB F

McDonald, N The Sicilian Bb5 Revealed Batsford ‘05 Concentrates on the Rossolimo & Moscow Variations, 211pp avoiding main line Sicilian theory without compromising White’s attacking ideals. Figurine SB £7.25 VG+ £16

Gallagher, J C3 Sicilian Everyman 99 3 Chapters dealing with variations. 70 deeply £15 176pp annotated games in figurine with diagrams. SB VG+ £6.25

Lane, G Winning With The Closed Sicilian Batsford 92 37 annotated illustrative games in figurine with 155pp diagrams. Index of variations. SB VG £4.25

Lane, G The Ultimate Closed Sicilian Batsford ‘01 13 chapters each devoted to a variation. 64 annotated 176pp illustrative games in figurine with diagrams. Index of £6.00 variations. SB F-

Ravikumar, V The Closed Sicilian by Tournament Chess 1993 130pp 41 illustrative games in figurine with diagrams. SB VG+ £5.00

Ward, C Winning With The Dragon Batsford 94 53 annotated illustrative games in figurine with 208pp diagrams. Index of variations. SB VG £4.00

Levy, D The Sicilian Dragon Batsford ‘73 Concentrates on the Rauzer Attack & the Classical. 202pp Index of variations. HB DW G £3.50

Miles T Sicilian Dragon: Yugoslav Attack. with E. Moskow Batsford 79 c. 150 complete illustrative games. Index of variations. 151pp Figurine. SB G £3.00

Ward & Wade Developments in the Sicilian Dragon 1984-88 Quadrant 88 100 games with light notes. Figurine. SB Club stamp 58pp o/w VG £2.00

Silman, J. Accelerated Dragon Main variations plus Maroczy Bind. 12 illustrative 50pp games with light notes. SB VG £3.00

Smith & Hall Grand Prix Attack: Attacking The Sicilian with 2.f4 Ch Digest 95 Clearly set out. 14 complete games, annotated & with 129pp diagrams. AN SB VG £4.25

Hodgson & Day Grand Prix Attack: e4 against the Sicilian Batsford ‘85 89pp Intro & 10 chapters on the variations. 34 complete annotated games in figurine with diagrams. Indexes of £3.75 games & variations. SB G

Grivas, E A Complete Guide to the Grivas Sicilian (4…Qb6) Gambit 05 Various lines and variations from White’s 5th to 10th 144pp move. 12 annotated illustrative games with diagrams. £4.75 Figurine. SB VG+

Rotella, T The Killer Sicilian – fighting 1.e4 with the Kalashnikov Everyman 14 An easy-to-learn opening with the potential to up-end 464pp the unwary. Diagrams on every page (almost) & a £10.00 gentle commentary. Figurine. SB VG+

McDonald, N Winning With The Kalashnikov Batsford ‘95 25 annotated illustrative games with diagrams. The 144pp Main Line & 5 others. Index of variations. Figurine. SB £4.50 VG+

Kinlay, J Sicilian: Keres Attack Batsford ‘81 102pp 35 illustrative games in figurine with diagrams. Paper starting to brown round edges o/w G.

Pickett, L. M. Sicilian Defence 8: Moscow Variation Gillam 1976 1.e4 c5; 2.Nf3 d6; Bb5+ and Black can interpose 78pp either B or N. Both lines are looked at. SB G+ £2.00

Nunn & Stean Sicilian Defence: Najdorf Variation Batsford ‘82 1.e4 c5; 2.Nf3 d6; 3.d4 cxd 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6..and the book starts here. Complete games & diagrams £3.50 186pp were sacrificed to keep it down to a reasonable size. 6 yrs later 100+ pages were added. Figurine. SB G-

Nunn, J (Sicilian) Najdorf For The Tournament Player Batsford 88 A thorough investigation by a master analyst & writer. 298pp Figurine, with diagrams SB G £6,75

Arizmandi, J Mastering The Najdorf with J. Moreno Gambit 04

A complete guide to understanding the most popular 224pp Sicilian system. 7 lines analysed. 52 annotated £7.25 illustrative games with diagrams. Figurine. SB VG+

Adams, J. Sicilian Najdorf – Polugaevsky Variation Gillam ‘78 A fairly dense analysis of the variation in figurine with 232pp diagrams. SB G £2.50

Taimanov, M Sicilian: Paulsen Batsford ‘84 101pp “A flexible & sound system. Author concentrates on variations & lines that do not transpose into the £3.50 Scheveningen. SB G

Polugajewski, L Sizilianisch – Najdorf System – Polugajewski-Variante Berlin 1985 Highly detailed analysis of this variation in 6 chapters. German text apparently by Polugajewski translated £5.00 250pp from his Russian original with moves in figurine. DW VG+

Sveshnikov, E The Sicilian Pelikan trans. by T. F. Thynne Batsford ‘89 This opening, due to the extensive work on it done by Sveshnikov as can be seen here, soon acquired his 280pp name. Index of variations. With complete games & £3.50 more diagrams this could easily have stretched to 400pp or more. Figurine. SB VG

Pickett, L. M. Sicilian Defence 9: Rossolimo Variation Gillam 1977 1.e4 c5; 2.Nc3 Nf6; 3.Bg5 signature move of this 71pp variation, a quieter line than some. A small £2.00 monograph. SB G

Schiller, E Sicilian: Modern Richter-Rauzer Systems CEI ‘76 57 complete games with index. Starts with 6.Bg5 & 59pp follows a few variations. Small monograph. AN SB G- £2.00

Pritchett, C The Sicilian Scheveningen Batsford ‘77 A great many complete games, 34 of which are central to the theme. DW in clear protective cover the £6.75 206pp adhesive of which has stained the corners of the endpapers o/w G+

Buckley, G Trends In The Sicilian Scheveningen. Vol. 2 Trends 1998 33pp 100 game scores in figurine from 1996/7. Short intro to each of 6 chapters. G- £1.25

Soltis, A Beating The Sicilian Defence With The Short-Nunn Attack Ch Digest ‘93 98pp 12 illustrative annotated games exploring the opening Short employed against Kasparov. SB G £4.25

Plaskett, J. Sicilian Sozin Trends 1991 100 game scores divided into 10 sub-variations with £1.50 42pp notes at the start of each. Figurine. SB VG

Lane, G Winning With The Fischer-Sozin Attack Batsford ‘94 160pp 48 annotated games in figurine with diagrams. Several of them employed by Short against Kasparov. £4.25 10 chapters. Index of variations. SB VG

Harding, T. D. The Sicilian Sozin with Botterill & Kottnauer Batsford ‘74 1.e4 c5; 2.Nf3 Nc6; 3.d4 pXd4; 4. Nxd4; 5.Nc3 d6 6.Bc4 the starting point. Covers Black responses 192pp favoured by Velimirovic; Fischer; Najdorf, Bronstein & £5.50 Benko. Indexes of 120 complete games & variations. HB DW VG+

Burgess, G Winning With The Smith-Morra Gambit Batsford ‘94 White offers his c-pawn in exchange for rapid 192pp development & a lively struggle usually ensues. 47 illustrative games in figurine with diagrams. Index of £4.50 variations. SB VG

Flesch, J The Morra (Smith) Gambit. 1.e4 c5: 2.d4 cxd: 3.c3 Batsford ‘81 150pp 15 lines & divergences. Figurine, SB Insc. & notes on 8 pp o/w G £2.50

Smith, K. Sicilian – Smith-Morra Gambit - 1846 Thru 1967 Ch. Digest 74 110 games from history annotated by the “inventor”. 72pp Typescript. Card covers. G £2.25

Langrock, H The Modern Morra Gambit: A Dynamic Weapon vs the Russell ‘06 Sicilian by Hans Langrock 334pp 1.e4 c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.c3. 11 detailed sections. All notation in figurine with diagrams. Index of variations. £10.00 SB VG+

Yakovich, Y The Complete Sveshnikov Sicilian Gambit ‘02 Detailed coverage of an aggressive opening by a 272pp leading practitioner. Moves up to 5…e5 used to be called the Pelikan, now changed. 15 chapters each £5.50 following different lines. Figurine. SB VG+

Rogozenko, D. The Sveshnikov Reloaded Quality ‘05 3 parts + 3 sections with much lucid explanation. 341pp Index of variations. Figurine SB VG+ £10.00

McDonald, N The Sveshnikov Sicilian Batsford 99 43 complete illustrative games with diagrams. Index of 144pp variations. Figurine. SB VG+ £7.25

Rohde, M Play The Sveshnikov! Hays ‘98 5 parts each with a number of chapters. Nicely spread £5.00 175pp out & easy to follow. AN SB VG+

Neverov, V New Ideas In The Sveshnikov Sicilian Batsford ‘96 31 annotated illustrative games with diagrams, 144pp concentrating mostly on the Classical variation. Index £5.00 of variations. Figurine. SB VG+

Gallagher, J Developments In The Sicilian: Sveshnikov 1985-88 Quadrant 100 games with light notes & most with diagrams. 55pp Figurine. SB VG+ £2.25

Buckley G Trends In The Sicilian Scheveningen Trends 1998 100 games covering 6 sub-divisions with short notes 33pp at the start of each. Figurine. SB G £2.50

Pritchett, C The Sicilian Scheveningen Batsford ‘77 Covers most of the current ideas connected with the 206pp variation, assisted by 200 annotated illustrative £7.50 games. HB DW G+

Miles & Moskow Sicilian Dragon: Yugoslav Attack Batsford ‘79 120 illustrative games in figurine with diagrams. 151pp Indices of both openings and games. SB G £4.25

Grefe, J The Offbeat Sicilian – Unorthodox ways to win with White. CEI 1987 Covers the Snyder, Alapin, Chameleon, Vasiukov, 51pp Variations ..& several more – 14 in all, with an £2.50 annotated game on each. Card covers, VG

Soltis, A. Beating The Sicilian Defence Chameleon Variation 9 chapters with an annotated illustrative game with 106pp diagrams at the centre of each. AN SB VG £5.00

Palliser, R Dangerous Weapons: Anti-Sicilians: Dazzle Your Opponent. Everyman 09 With John Emms & Peter Wells. 15 deeply annotated 285pp games in figurine with diagrams. & much else £8.00 besides. SB F £15

Gallagher, J Beating The Anti-Sicilians Batsford ‘95 160pp 45 annotated illustrative games in figurine with diagrams. Index of variations. SB G- £6.50

SLAV & SEMI-SLAV

Sadler, M. The Slav 1997 Chess Press 140 complete annotated games in figurine with 144pp diagrams illustrative of the 14 variations covered. £5.00 SB. VG+ Flear, G The Slav For The Tournament Player Batsford 12 chapters each devoted to one variation. Numerous complete annotated illustrative games in figurine. 150pp Index of variations. Signed by “M. Kuzwiecky” £6.50 (or similar). G.

Markov, Y Winning With The Slav – A solid Opening Repertoire For Batsford ‘94 The Amateur Player with B. Schipkov 76 deeply annotated illustrative games in figurine with 160pp diagrams, explaining the content of the 11 chapters. £4.75 SB VG

Silman, J The Slav VS 1.d4 A solid Opening Repertoire For The CEI ‘96 Amateur Player with J. Donaldson 165pp 7 sections, each covering one aspect of this opening. Games annotated in depth. AN SB VG+ £5.00

Silman, J Gambits In The Slav II CEI ‘93 159pp Pt.1 covers the Winawer Gambit, and Pt.2 looks at the Slav Gambit. Games annotated in depth. AN SB VG+ £5.00

Wells, P The Complete Semi-Slav H. Holt ‘94 304pp 37 deeply annotated illustrative games in figurine with diagrams. Index of variations. SB VG £5.50

Harding, T Queen’s Gambit Declined: Semi Slav Batsford ‘81 169pp 27 chapters, each on a different line. Analysis in figurine. Index of variations. SB page edges slightly £3.25 yellowing o/w G

Sadler, M The Semi-Slav 1998 Chess Press 140 complete annotated games illustrative of the 20 160pp variations covered. Figurine. SB VG £5.00

Konikowski, J Semi-Slav Defence - Botvinnik Variation (D44) S1 Editrice ‘93 244pp 52 different lines each with illustrative games (250 in all) in figurine some with diagrams. SB G+ £4.00

Varnusz, E Semi-Slavisch – Anti-Meraner Germany -92 227pp 226 annotated illustrative master games in AN with diagrams. Fully indexed. SB VG+ £2.50

Knaak, R. Semi-Slav & Meran Trends 1991 100 games covering 13 sub-sections with short notes 46pp at the start of each. Figurine. SB VG+ £1.25

Spanish (synonymous with the Ruy Lopez)

Suetin, A. The Complete Spanish. Batsford ‘91 17 chapters from Bird’s to Zaitsev Variations. Index of 224pp variations. Figurine. SB VG+ £4.50

McDonald, N The Ruy Lopez Move by Move Everyman 11 Sections are headed (a) White plays d2-d3 (b) White 317pp plays d2-d4; (c) Black plays Bc5 (e) Gambit lines. 44 annotated illustrative games. Q&A approach. £10.00 Figurine. SB F- £18

Greet, A Play The Ruy Lopez – a complete repertoire in a famous opening Everyman 06 Chatty foreword by N. Short. 3 parts (a) no 3…a6; (b) 376pp after 3…a6 4th move choices; (c) The Worrall system. £9.50 Index of variations. Figurine. SB F- £15

Taulbut, S How To Play The Ruy Lopez Batsford 13 chapters & 100+ illustrative games in figurine cover 124pp the variations. Insc. & pp browning o/w G- £3.25

Marin, M A Spanish Repertoire For Black Quality ‘11 Starts after 4.Ba4 & journeys through the Chigorin, 232pp Rubinstein, Petrosian, Yates, Worrall systems etc. £9.50 Figurine. SB F- €24

Lane, G The Ruy Lopez Explained. Batsford ‘05 37 annotated illustrative games with diagrams. Well £4.50 160pp spaced out & easy to follow. Figurine. SB VG+

Taulbut, S. How To Play The Ruy Lopez. Batsford ‘87 140 complete annotated games illustrative of the 14 variations covered. Figurine. SB Pages tending to £3.00 yellow o/w VG

O’Connell, K Spanish Open Batsford ‘78 284 complete annotated games illustrative of the 18 135pp variations covered. Figurine. SB G £2.50

Henley, R The Spanish Exchange! With P. Hodges R&D 1994 65 game scores with annotations & diagrams. SB AN 82pp VG+ £4.75

Wade, R The Closed Ruy Lopez with Blackstock & Booth Batsford ‘70 278 complete games incorporated into the 12 256pp sections. Indices of games & variations. HB DW G £4.00

Lalic, B Trends In The Closed Spanish Vol. 2 Trends 1994 100 games over 8 sections with short notes at the 42pp start of each. Figurine. SB VG. £1.25

Barden, L The Ruy Lopez – Winning Chess With 1.P-K4 Pergamon’71 Just 7 chapters yet the table of variations runs to 16 170pp pages. SB £2.50

Harding & Wade The Marshall Attack Batsford 74 A Black weapon against the Spanish. 22 complete 256pp illustrative games covering the 30 variations. £5.00 Variations index & classification system takes up 9 pp. HB DW G

Harding & Nunn The Marshall Attack Batsford 89 Updated theory with many illustrative games in 217pp figurine notation & with diagrams. SB VG £5.25

Anand, V Spanish – Marshall Attack C89 Informant ‘93 Monograph containing 748 fragments in figurine with 175pp diagrams, plus 100 complete selected games. Index £4.75 of games. SB AN F+

Basman, M Play The St. George. Pergamon 87 Any opening used by Miles to beat Karpov must be 122pp worth at least looking at. 5 variations & 2 appendices (Baker’s & Owen’s Defences – the former beat both £7.00 Steinitz & Blackburne). AN SB F-

Basman, M Another copy with spine slightly sunned o/w G+ £5.00

Basman, M The New St. George. Cadogan ‘93 Completely revised, expanded & reset. No index of 167pp variations but you do get a 6 verse poem to its virtues. £7.00 Figurine. SB VG+

Burgess, G Guide To The Torre Attack Gambit 1999 Includes 12 illustrative games of his own. Figurine. SB 192pp 1st section loose o/w G £2.25

Schiller, E How To Play The Torre Attack Ch Digest ‘91 156pp 55 annotated illustrative games in AN with diagrams. Index of variations. SB VG £4.50

Soltis, A The Trompovsky Attack Ch. Digest 95 17 annotated illustrative games with diagrams over 132pp the 8 chapters. Text is not cramped & is clearly set £4.00 out. AN SB VG

Adams, J Trompovsky Attack Gillam ‘79 Games & annotations in Informator language-less 64pp figurine style. Small monograph. G- £2.00

Kryakvin, D Play The Trompowsky Attack Ch. Stars ‘18 Pt.1: 1d4 Nf6 2.Bg5. Pt.2: The Anti-Dutch. All in 264pp figurine. Index of variations. SB F £8.00

Bellin, R Trompovsky Opening & Torre Attack Batsford ‘ 83 60 complete annotated illustrative games in figurine. 90pp pp starting to brown o/w G £6.25

Estrin, Y Two Knights’ Defence Chess Move-by-move index; Blue cloth boards with gilt titles 131pp on spine. VG £4.75

Pinski, J Two Knights Defence Everyman 04 66 illustrative games in figurine with diagrams. 160pp Games index. SB VG+ £7.50

Lane, G. Vienna Game Everyman 00 After 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 most of the book assumes 2…Nf6 144pp and goes from there, and looks at several of White’s £5.00 options. 77 annotated illustrative games with diagrams. Figurine. SB F £15

Harding T. D. Vienna Opening Gillam ‘76 104pp Fine pencil marginalia SB G- £2.00

Rarities

Less common openings trying to catch you out!

Williams, W. L. The Williams Gambit 1.f4 d5 2.e4 !? Caissa ‘97 64pp “Dubious, therefore playable” Tartakower. 34 pages of analysis & 15 annotated games. AN SB G £5.00

Jacobs, J Watch Out! Veresov’s Opening 1.d4 2.Nc3 3.Bg5 Ch. Digest ‘74 46pp “Original” and/or “Formidable”. 5 deeply annotated variations with diagrams. SB G- £2.75

Warzecha Englund Gambit 1.d4 e5 Műnster 26pp Analysis in AN with diagrams. SB G- in German £2.00

Harding T. D. Irregular Openings Ch. Digest ‘74 Includes a range of oddities such as The Spike; 80pp Saragossa; Anderssen Attack; Meadow Hay Opening; Mieses Opening; The Hippopotamus; The Fred and £2.75 many more, backed up with analysis & diagrams. Card covers; G

Smith & Hall (a) Englund & (b) Blackburne-Hartlaub Gambits Ch. Digest ‘94 (a) = 1.d4 e5 2.dx5 Nc6. (b) = 2…d6 Essentially a Black initiative, but against White’s best options in this £6.00 143pp work. All analysis accompanied by 1 – 3 diagrams on every page (almost). AN SB VG+

Taylor, T How To Defeat The Smith-Morra Gambit: 6…a6 Coreopolis ‘93 4 chapters of theory followed by 12 annotated 112pp illustrative games in AN with diagrams. Concise £6.00 summary of general recommendations. SB VG+

Lutes, W. J. Anderssen Counter Attack to the Scandinavian Defence. CEI 1988 1.e4d5 2.ed Qxd5. 3.Nc3 Qa5 4.d4 e5. Historical & 132pp theoretical introductions. Index of variations. AN. SB £3.25 G

Schiller, E Fianchetto Against The West Indians 1988 A repertoire for White when Black fianchettos K-side after 1.d4 & 2.c4. Many illustrative games in figurine & diagrams. SB VG £5.00