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Colin Crouch Library Books LIST 12.6.20 Box 1 - Games Collections and Biographies Alekhine’s Greatest Games Alekhine / CHO’D Alexander A Alekhine Moran Isaac Boleslavsky Jimmy Adams Half A Century Of Chess Botvinnik Botvinnik, 100 selected Games M Botvinnik Capablanca E Winter Max Euwe Munninghoff Bobby Fischer Goes To War Edmonds and Eidinow Bobby Fischer F Brady My 60 Memorable Games Fischer The Application of Chess Theory E Geller Hubner, 25 Annotated Games R Hubner Karpov, Chess Is My Life Karpov and Rohal Kasparov New World Chess Champion Pergamon Press Gary Kasparov’s Greatest Games Vol 1 Stohl My Games G Kasparov (1983) Fighting Chess G Kasparov Box 2 - Games Collections and Biographies (continued) The Test of Time G Kasparov Kramnik, My Life and Games Kramnik and Damsky Becoming a Grandmaster Keene The Early Games of Paul Keres P Keres The Middle Years of Paul Keres P Keres The Later Years of Paul Keres P Keres Lasker’s Greatest Games Reinfeld & Fine Emmanuel Lasker Vol 2 E Varnusz Super Nezh Nezhmetdinov and Pishkin Checkmate In Prague, Memoirs Pachman Petrosian Life And Games Vasiliev Petrosian Best Games 1946-63 Clarke Great American Chess Players – Pillsbury Wenman Akiba Rubinstein, Uncrowned King Donaldson and Minev Rubinstein Chess Masterpieces Kmoch Nigel Short Quest For The Crown Forbes Boris Spassky B Cafferty Leonid Stein, Master of Risk Strategy Gufeld and Lazarev Leonid Stein, Master of Attack R Keene The Magic of Mikhail Tal J Gallagher The Chess Psychologist Tal Liepnieks Russian Silhouettes Sosonko Linares Linares Ten Guezendam Persona Non Grata Korchnoi Grandmasters Of Chess Schonberg Box 3 – Chess improvement generally Winning Chess (tactics) Chernev and Reinfeld The Chinese School of Chess (2002) Liu Wenzhe The Middle Game Vol 1 Static Features Euwe and Kramer The Art of the Middle Game Keres and Kotov Amateur to IM Jonathan Hawkins The World Champions Teach Chess Estrin and Romanov Pitfalls of the Chess Board Hollings Test Your Chess G Abrahams The Art Of Chess Analysis Timman Secrets of Grandmaster Play J Nunn and P Griffiths Secrets of Chess Training M Dvoretsky Secrets of Chess Tactics M Dvoretsky Chess Praxis A Nimzovich Modern Ideas in Chess Reti Seven Deadly Sins Of Chess Rowson Lasker's Manual Of Chess Lasker Development of Chess Style Euwe The Art Of Defence In Chess Polugaevesky & Damsky The Modern Chess Self Tutor Bronstein Defence and Counter Attack T Florian Chess, How to Fight Back F Reinfeld The Most Instructive Games Ever Played Chernev 107 Great Chess Battles Alekhine Best Chess Games 1970-80 J Speelman Judgment and Planning in Chess M Euwe Box 4 - Openings, Endgames, Anthologies, Tournaments And Ma Openings Reti Opening V Osnos Play Anti-Indian Systems Egon Varnusz Batsford Chess Openings Kasparov and Keene The Centre Counter Du Mont Catalan Open Variation Y Neishtadt Russian Handbook of Chess Openings Gufeld and Kalinichenko Kings Indian Defence, Averbakh Variation Petursson Play the Nimzo Indian Gligoric (Pergamon) The Petroff Defence Raetsky and Tchetverik (pamphlet) Trends in the Modern Benoni D Norwood (pamphlet) Winning with the Philidor Kosten Sicilian Defence, lines with f4 Pickett & Swift Sicilian Defence 2 Paulsen Variation O Moiseev The Sicilian Taimanov J Plaskett Winning with the Kalashnikov N McDonald New Traps in the Chess Openings Horowitz Openings of the 1980’s Vol 2 A Soltis Play the French John Watson (1984) Endgames Domination in 2545 Endgame Studies Kasparyan 1357 Endgame Studies Lommer American Chess Art (= Endgames) Korn Leonid Kubbel's Endgame Studies Whitworth The Tactics of Endgames Ban Chessboard Magic, Endgames Chernev Strategy In The Endgame Reinfeld Anthologies The Encyclopaedia of Chess Anne Sunnucks The Oxford Companion to Chess Hooper and Whyld The Psychology of the Chess Player Reuben Fine Chess Move by Move Paul Langfield The New Chess Computer Book -1985 Harding The Chess Companion Chernev King Queen And Knight Anthology Knight & Guy Chess Treasury of the Air (Radio) Tiller Tournaments Budapest 1896 New York Tournament 1924 Helms Zurich Tournament 1953 D Bronstein Bugojno 1978 (pamphlet) Wade and Blackstock and Thomas Montreal Tournament 1979 27th Chess Olympaid Dubai 1986 M Aaron The Way to Linares Summit Short and Timmann Matches De La Bourdonnais v MacDonnell 1834 G Utterberg Alekhine v Bogolyubov 1930 Yates & Winter Botvinnik Smyslov 1954 H Golombek Karpov Kasparov 1986 London Leningrad Aaron Short v Timmann Candidates Final 1993 Dobosz and Olbich (in German) Kasparov v Short 1993 R Keene Kasparov v Short 1993 D King and D Trelford Box 5 … Miscellaneous Mate in Two Moves, Chess Problems Harley Foreign Language Alekhine Games 1924-1927 (in Russian) Richtig und Falsch (endgames; in German) Richter and Staudte Uberprufe deine Schachphantasie (German) J Przewoznik Theory of Openings Q-Gambit (in German) M Euwe Theory of Openings Nimzo-Indian (in German) M Euwe Reviews, Bound Magazines, Periodicals [some] Chess Players Chronicle Vol 1 1841 Staunton Chess Magazine Vol 36 (1970 – 1971) Russian Chess Review 1992 Vol 1 (book) Russian Chess Review 1992 Vol 2 (book) BCF Yearbook 1993 BCF Yearbook 1995 BCF Yearbook 1996 British Chess Magazine 2001 (bound volume) British Chess Magazine 2002 (bound volume) + Miscellaneous magazines, including New in Chess 2006 / 8 (incl Kramnik Topalov) 44th USSR Championship 1976 (pamphlet) Box 6 The 100 Best Chess Games Soltis Danish Gambit Lutes Endgame Challenge Nunn The World’s Greatest Chess Games Burgess, Nunn, Emms Play the Catalan Neishtadt Benko Gambit Gufeld A Pocket Guide to Endgames Hooper Secrets of Spectacular Chess Levitt & Friedgood Secrets of Rook Endings Nunn Charousek’s Games of Chess Sergeant How to Win Chess Games Quickly Reinfeld Play the Queens Gambit Marovic The World’s Great Chess Games Fine Games from Monte Carlo (1901-1904) Wenman Classic Chess Problems Howard From the Opening into the Endgame Mednis The Complete Pirc Nunn Test Tube Chess (Endgame Studies) Roycroft Fischer Spassky 1972 CHO’D Alexander Nottingham 1936 Alekhine Masters of the Chessboard Reti The Soviet Championships (1920-1991) Cafferty & Taimanov Lasker’s Games Whyld Kings Indian Defence Barden Hartston Keene Complete Mansfield (Comins Mansfield Problems) Barnes The Complete Alekhine (opening) Burgess Grandmaster Preparation Polugaevsky The Seven Deadly Chess Sins Rowson Pawn Power in Chess Kmoch Positional Chess Handbook Gelfer Improve your Chess in Seven Days G Lane The Complete Chess Workout R Palliser Chess Openings for Dummies Eade The Chess Mind G Abrahams The Road to Chess Mastery Euwe and Meiden My System Nimzovitch Invisible Chess Moves Neimann and Afek 1000 Checkmate Combinations Henkin The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal Tal Chessboard Delights C Mansfield Fischer Spassky, Chess match of the Century Gligoric French Classical B Jacobs [+ some Russian and other foreign language books] Geoffrey R Talbot Library Books LIST 17.6.20 The Early Games of Paul Keres Keres and Golombek The Middle Years of Paul Keres Keres and Golombek The Later Years of Paul Keres Keres and Golombek Rubinstein’s Chess Masterpieces: 100 Games Kmoch My System Nimzovitch The Middle Game in Chess Znosko-Borovsky The Art of the Middle Game Keres and Kotov Practical Chess Endings Keres How Good is Your Chess Leonard Barden 500 Master Games of Chess (Vol 1) Tartakower and Du Mont 500 Master Games of Chess (Vols 2&3) Tartakower and Du Mont 200 Miniature Games of Chess J Du Mont Chess: More Miniature Games J Du Mont Winning Chess Traps Chernev Gems of the Chess Board Wenman British Chess Masters Reinfeld The Ideas Behind the Chess Openings Reuben Fine Modern Chess Openings 10th Ed 1965 Evans and Korn Modern Chess Openings 9th Ed 1957 Korn and Collins BCF Yearbook 1958-59 BCF Yearbook 1959-60 BCF Yearbook 1961-62.
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