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Series CAISSA EDITIONS Books by CAISSA EDITIONS (Yorklyn, DE) (no responsibility for completeness!) Invitation Chess Tournament of the City of London Chess Club London 1900. Caissa Limited Editions Volume II. (Facsimile reprint; 1973) Dale A. Brandreth Berliner Grossmeister-Turnier, Dezember 1924. (Facsimile reprint; 1978?) Dale A. Brandreth Margate 1939. (1979) A. van der Linde Das erste Jartausend der Schachlitteratur (850-1880). Caissa Limited Editions Volume III. (Facsimile reprint; 1979) Dale A. Brandreth (editor) Stahlberg – Nimzowitsch 1934. (1979?) Ercole del Rio The War of the Chessmen. La Guerra degli Scacchi, o sia Il Re de ’Giuochi. Edited and translated by Christopher Becker. Caissa Limited Editions Volume IV. (1984) Ilyin-Genevsky, Alexander Notes of a Soviet Master. Caissa Limited Editions Volume V. (1986) Kmoch, Hans Bled 1931 International Chess Tournament. (translation of the Russian 1934 edition by Jimmy Adams; 1987) Adams, Jimmy Mikhail Chigorin - The Creative Chess Genius. (1987) Kennedy, Rick / Sheffield, Riley The Marshall Gambit in the French and Sicilian Defences. (1988) Dale A. Brandreth Mexico City 1932. (1988) Levenfish, G. (editor) Moscow 1936 International Chess Tournament. (translated from the original 1937 edition and edited by Jimmy Adams; 1988) Adams, Jimmy Johannes Zukertort. Artist of the Chessboard. (1989) Owen, John C. The Match Tournament at St. Petersburg 1895-6. A Turning Point in Chess History. (1989) Adams, Jimmy (editor) Baden Baden 1925 International Chess Tournament. (1991) Brandreth, Dale (editor) Hastings 1936/37 International Chess Tournament. (1992) Brandreth, Dale A. / Hoffer, Leopold London 1893. Black and White Masters' Tournament. (1992) Shibut, Macon Paul Morphy and the Evolution of Chess Theory. (1993) Addendum (1993) Tarrasch, Siegbert, Dr. St. Petersburg 1914 International Chess Tournament. (1993) Goldman, Warren CARL SCHLECHTER ! Life and Times of the Austrian Chess Wizard. (1994) Owen, John C. Budapest 1896 International Chess Tournament. (1994) Williams, William L. Jr. The Williams Gambit. (1995) Hilbert, John S. Buffalo 1901 and 1894 Chess Tournaments. (1996) Grivainis, Kon Winning Correspondence Chess. How to beat the data bases. (1997) Hilbert, John S. NAPIER The Forgotten Chessmaster. (1997) Krylenko, Nikolai/Rabinovich, Ilya (ed.) The Second International Chess Tournament Moscow 1935. (1998) Crain, Tom Schlechter's Chess Games. (1998) Tarrasch, Siegbert, Dr. Nuremberg 1896 International Chess Tournament. (Translated and edited by John C. Owen; 1999) Nezhmetdinov, Rashid Nezhmetdinov's Best Games of Chess. (2000) Hilbert, John S. / Brandreth, Dale Shady Side: The Life and Crimes of Norman Tweed Whitaker, Chessmaster. (2000) Hilbert, John S. Essays in American Chess History. (2002) Hilbert, John S. The United States Chess Championship New York 1940. (2002) Osbun, Erik First Anglo-Pacific Invitational Chess Championship. (2003) Phillips, Alan Chess: Sixty Years On with Caissa and Friends. (2003) Andris Fride Vladimirs Petrovs: A Chessplayer’s Story from Greatness to the Gulags. (2004) Gillam, A.J. Ostende 1906 International Chess Tournament. (2005) Marco, Georg / Schlechter, Carl KARLSBAD 1907 International Chess Tournament (2007) Translated from German by Robert Sherwood (Ralf Binnewirtz, in December 2008).
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