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Chess Book Reviews

This is basically a list of books now or formerly in my chess library. I plan eventually to write a more or less complete review of every volume. My collection is heavily biased towards older works — even some from the 19th Century. That said, any chess publisher reading this should feel free to get in touch to get my postal address. If I am sent books, I guarantee to review them!

By the way, some of the books in the list below are marked "for sale". If you want to buy one or more, drop me a line.

• Abrahams, Not Only Chess: A Selection of Chessays [read review] (sold)

• Abrahams, Technique in Chess [read review] (sold)

• Abrahams, The Chess Mind [read review]

• Abrahams, The Pan Book of Chess [read review]

• Abrahams, Test Your Chess [read review]

• Adorjan (ed.), Black is OK! quarterly [read review] (sold)

• Alekhin, Nottingem 1936

• Aljechin, Meine besten Partien 1908-1923 [read review] (for sale)

• Aljechin, Auf dem Wege zur Weltmeisterschaft 1923-1927 [read review]

• Aljechin, Das New Yorker Schach Turnier 1927 [read review]

• Alekhine, New York International Chess Tournament 1924 [read review]

• Alekhine, My Best Games of Chess 1908-1923 [read review]

• Alekhine, My Best Games of Chess 1923-1937 [read review]

• Alexander, A Book of Chess [read review]

• Alexander, Alexander On Chess (sold)

• Alexander, Fischer v. Spassky [read review]

• Alexander, The Penguin Book of Chess Positions [read review]

• Alexander, Alekhine's Best Games of Chess 1938—1945 [read review]

• Anon., Castlebar 1969 (official tournament brochure) [read review]

• Anon., The book of the London International Chess Congress 1899 (sold)

• Averbakh, Shachmatnye Okonchanija Ferzevye [read review]

• Awerbach, Was man Über das Endspiel wissen mußte (sold)

• Awerbach, Lehrbuch der Schachendspiele (2 vols.) (sold)

• Awerbach, Bauernendspiele

• Awerbach, Endspiele Springer gegen Läufer, Turm gegen Leichtfigur

• Awerbach, Läufer- und Springerendspiele

• Awerbach, Turmendspiele

• Awerbach, Schachtaktik für Fortgeschrittene

• Bardeleben et al, Der vierte und fünfte Kongreß des Deutschen Schachbundes Hamburg 1885 Frankfurt a.M. 1887 (sold)

• Barden, Chess Puzzle Book [read review]

• Barden, How Good is Your Chess?

• Barden, The Guardian Chess Book (sold)

• Barden and Harding, The Batsford Guide to Chess Openings [read review] (sold)

• Beim, Paul Morphy: A Modern Perspective [read review]

• Benjamin & Schiller, Unorthodox Openings [read review]

• Bijl (ed.), Das II. Internationale Schachmeisterturnier Wien 1882 (sold)

• Bilguer, Handbuch das Schachspiels (sold)

• Bloodgood, The Tactical Grob (sold)

• Botterill & Harding, The Scotch

• Botterill & Keene, The Pirc Defence

• Botvinnik, 100 Selected Games

• Botvinnik, Championship Chess [read review]

• Brady, Endgame [read review]

• Bronshtejn, Mezhdunarodnij Turnir Grossmejsterov

• Bronstein, 200 Open Games (sold)

• Bronstein, Kasparov v. Karpov Seville '87 (IV) (sold)

• Bronstein, The Sorcerer's Apprentice

• Bronstein, Zürich International Chess Tournament 1953

• Bronstein & Smolyan, Chess in the Eighties (sold)

• Bücker (ed.), Kaissiber Nr. 5

• Bücker (ed.), Kaissiber Nr. 9

• Bücker (ed.), Kaissiber Nr. 10

• Bücker (ed.), Kaissiber Nr. 18

• Byrne, Anatoly Karpov: the road to the World Chess Championship (1974 Candidates)

• Cafferty, Spassky's 100 Best Games

• Capablanca, My Chess Career [read review]

• Capablanca, Chess Fundamentals

• Capablanca, Poslednie Shachmatnye Lektsii Kapablanki

• Chalupetzy & Töth, Die Schacholympiade von Hamburg (sold)

• Chernev, The Chess Companion (sold)

• Chernev, Wonders & Curiosities of Chess (sold)

• Chernev, The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played (sold)

• Clarke, 100 Soviet Chess Miniatures

• Clarke, Mikhail Tal's Best Games of Chess

• Clarke, Petrosian's Best Games of Chess

• Cockburn, Idle Passion: Chess & the Dance of Death (sold)

• Cozens, Lessons in Chess Strategy (Routledge Part III)

• Cozens, Boris Spassky's Road to the Summit

• Cozens, Tal Since 1960

• Davies, Pein & Levitt, Bobby Fischer: The $5,000,000 Comeback

• Devidé (rev. Hooper), William Steinitz Selected Chess Games

• Dufresne & Mieses, Lehrbuch des Schachspiels (20th ed., rev. Teschner) (sold)

• Dufresne & Mieses, Schachmeisterpartien (Bd. I-IV)

• Dvoretsky, School of Chess Excellence 2: Tactical Play (sold)

• Edge, The Exploits and Triumphs in Europe of Paul Morphy the Chess Champion (sold)

• Edwards, Basic Chess Openings (Routledge Part IV)

• Edwards, Chess Tactics & Attacking Techniques (Routledge Part V)

• Edwards, Practical Chess Playing (Routledge Part VII)

• Edwards & Keene, The Chess Player's Bedside Book (sold)

• Euwe, Schach von A bis Z (sold)

• Euwe, The Development of Chess Style (sold)

• Euwe & Meiden, The Road to Chess Mastery (sold)

• Euwe & Meiden, Chess Master Vs. Chess Amateur (sold)

• Evans et al, How to Open a Chess Game

• Fähndrich, Halprin, Marco, Internationales Kaiser-JubilÄums-Schachturnier Wien 1898

• Fine, The Final Candidates Match Buenos Aires 1971

• Fischer, Bobby Fischer's Games of Chess [read review]

• Fischer, Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess (sold)

• Fischer, My Sixty Memorable Games

• Flear, Falkbeer Counter-Gambit [read review] (sold)

• Fox & James, The Complete Chess Addict (sold)

• Gelenczei, Spiel mit gegen Großmeister!

• Geller, Queen's Indian Defence (sold)

• Gizycki, History of Chess (sold)

• Gligoric, Fischer v. Spassky

• Goldman, Berlin 1897 (sold)

• Golombek, Fischer v. Spassky (h/b)

• Golombek, Fischer v. Spassky (p/b)

• Golombek, The Game of Chess (sold)

• Golombek, The World Chess Championship 1948

• Golombek (ed.), The Penguin Encyclopaedia of Chess

• Gottschall, Adolf Anderssen

• Gottschall, Lipke, Mieses u.a., Der sechste, siebente und achte Kongress des Deutschen Schachbundes Breslau 1889, Dresden 1892, Kiel 1893 (sold)

• Harding & Botterill, The Italian Game

• Harding, Counter Gambits

• Hartston, How to Cheat at Chess

• Hartston, Soft Pawn

• Hartston, Teach Yourself Better Chess

• Hartston, The Benoni (sold)

• Hartston, The Kings of Chess [read review] (sold)

• Hartston, The Penguin Book of Chess Openings

• Hartston, Karpov v. Korchnoi 1981

• Harwood (ed.), Caissa's Web

• Herbstman, Das Geheimnis des Schwarzen Königs (sold)

• Hoffer, The Championship Match Lasker v. Tarrasch

• Hoffman, King's Gambit

• Hooper & Brandreth, The Unknown Capablanca

• Hooper, Pocket Guide to Chess Endgames [read review]

• Hooper, Practical Chess Endgames (Routledge Part VI)

• Horowitz, Chess Openings: Theory and Practice [read review]

• Hort & Jansa, Vmeste s Grossmejsterami (The Best Move)

• Ivashchenko, Manual of Chess Combinations 1a [read review]

• Ivashchenko, Manual of Chess Combinations 1b [read review]

• Ivashchenko, Manual of Chess Combinations 2 [read review]

• James & Barden, The Master Game

• James & Hartston, The Master Game Book Two

• Jussupow / Dworezki, der SelbststÄndige Weg zum Schachprofi [read review]

• Jussupow & Dworezki, Effektives Endspieltraining

• Kagan (ed.), Maehrisch-Ostrau 1923 (sold)

• Kamm, Siegbert Tarrasch: Leben und Werk

• Kasparov, The Test of Time (1st ed., 1986) [read review] (sold)

• Kasparov & Shakarov, Caro-Kann: Classical (sold)

• Kazic, The Chess Competitor's Handbook

• Keene & Botterill, The Modern Defence

• Keene, Aron Nimzowitsch: A Reappraisal

• Keene, Becoming a Grandmaster

• Keene, Flankeneröffungen (sold)

• Keene, Speed Chess Challenge: Kasparov v. Short 1987 [read review] (sold)

• Keene, The Evolution of Chess Opening Theory (sold)

• Keene & Goodman, Kasparov v. Karpov (III) (sold)

• Keene & Levy, An Opening Repetoire for the Attacking Player (sold)

• Keene & Levy, How To Beat Your Chess Computer (sold)

• Keene & Taulbut, How To Play The Nimzo-Indian Defence

• Keene & Whiteley, Der entscheidende Zug (sold)

• Keres, Practical Chess Endings [read review]

• Keres & Kotov, The Art of the Middlegame

• Kmoch, Rubinstein Gewinnt! (sold)

• Kmoch, Rubinstein's Chess Masterpieces

• Kmoch, Die Kunst der Verteidigung (sold)

• Kmoch, Pawn Power in Chess [read review]

• Konikowski & Schulenburg, Testbuch des Endspielwissens

• Kotov, Chess Tactics (sold)

• Kotov, Play Like A Grandmaster (sold)

• Kotov, Think Like A Grandmaster (sold)

• Kotov, Mezhzonalnji Shakhmatnyj Turnir v Stokgolme 1952 Goda

• Kotov & Yudovich, The Soviet Chess School

• Kotow & Judowitsch, Schach in der UdSSR (sold)

• Krogius, Psychologie im Schach

• Kübel, Erstes Internationales Meisterturnier des Schachverlages Kagan in Berlin 1920 [read review] (sold)

• Lamford, Improve Your Game [read review] (sold)

• Larsen, 50 Isbrannykh Partij

• Larsen, Larsen's Selected Games of Chess

• Larsen, Karpov v. Korchnoi 1978

• Lasker, The International Chess Congress, St. Petersburg, 1909 [read review]

• Lasker, Gesunder Menschenverstand im Schach (sold)

• Lasker, Lasker’s Manual of Chess

• Lasker, Ed., Chess: The Complete Self-Tutor (sold)

• Lauterbach, Mannheim 1914 (for sale)

• Levitt, Genius In Chess (sold)

• Livshitz, Test Your Chess IQ Book 1 (1st ed.,p/b)

• Livshitz, Test Your Chess IQ Book 1 (2nd ed.,h/b) [read review]

• Livshitz, Test Your Chess IQ Book 2 [read review]

• Livshits & Speelman, Test Your Endgame Ability

• Levy (ed.), Computer Chess Compendium (for sale)

• Manley (ed.), Kingpin No. 11

• Manley (ed.), Kingpin No. 19

• Manley (ed.), Kingpin No. 29

• Manley (ed.), Kingpin No. 40

• Marovic & Parma, An Opening Repetoire for Black (sold)

• Marshall, My Fifty Years of Chess

• Mason, The Art of Chess (rev. Reinfeld) (sold)

• Mazja, Chess School 3

• Mazukewitsch, Seltene Gambits (sold)

• Mieses, Schach: Kurze Einführung (sold)

• Mieses, San Sebastian 1912

• Miskovsky, V zajeti korespondencniho sachu

• Moran, A. Alekhine: Agony of a Chess Genius [read review]

• Neishtadt, Catastrophe in the Opening

• Neishtadt, Siegbert Tarrasch

• Nezhmetdinov, Izbranniye Partii

• Nimzowitsch, Blockade (sold)

• Nimzowitsch, Carlsbad 1929

• Nimzowitsch, die Praxis meines Systems

• Nimzowitsch, Mein System

• Nimzowitsch, My System (sold)

• Nunn, John Nunn's Chess Puzzle Book

• Nunn & Griffiths, Secrets of Grandmaster Play (sold)

• O'Kelly de Galway, The Sicilian Flank Game (sold)

• Pasternjak, Bobby Fischer: Schach-phÄnomen (sold)

• Pickard (ed.), The Games of Adolph Anderssen (sold)

• Pickard (ed.), The Games of Wilhelm Steinitz

• Portisch & Sárközy, Six Hundred Endings

• Ree, The Human Comedy of Chess (sold)

• Reinfeld, Tarrasch's Best Games of Chess (h/b)

• Reinfeld, Tarrasch's Best Games of Chess (p/b) (sold)

• Reinfeld, The Immortal Games of Capablanca [read review]

• Réti, Modern Ideas in Chess

• Réti, Masters of the Chessboard

• Riedl, das Leben und Schaffen von Klaus Junge (sold)

• Robinson & Edwards, The Art and Science of Chess (sold)

• Roshal & Karpov, Schach mit Karpov (sold)

• Rowson, Chess for Zebras (sold)

• Rowson, The Seven Deadly Chess Sins

• Roycroft, Test Tube Chess

• Rubin, Chess for the Rank and File

• Saidy, The Battle of Chess Ideas (sold)

• Saidy & Lessing, The World of Chess (sold)

• Schereschewski, Strategie der Schachendspiele

• Schiffer, Orang-Utan Eröffnung (sold)

• Schonberg, Grandmasters of Chess [read review] (sold)

• Sergeant, Morphy's Games of Chess (p/b) (sold)

• Sergeant, Morphy's Games of Chess (h/b)

• Schallopp, Leipzig 1877 Internationale Schachkongress (sold)

• Short, Nigel Short: Chess Prodigy

• Shumilin (adapted by Walker), Beat the Masters!

• Smith & Hall, Winning with the Colle System [read review] (sold)

• Smyslov, AusgewÄhlte Schachpartien

• Smyslov, My Best Games of Chess 1935—1957

• Smyslov & Levenfisch, Teorija Ladejnykh Okoncanij

• Sokolsky, die Eröffnung 1.b2-b4 (sold)

• Soltis, The Best Chess Games of Boris Spassky [read review]

• Soltis, Why Lasker Matters [read review]

• Sosonko, The Reliable Past

• Sosonko, Smart Chip from St. Petersburg

• Sosonko, Russian Silhouettes

• Spanier, Total Chess

• Speelman, Best Chess Games 1970-80

• Spielmann, L'art de Sacrifice aux Èchecs

• Staunton et al., Das Schachturnier zu London im Jahre 1851 und Der Schachkampt 1843 zwischen Mr. Staunton und M. St. Amant (sold)

• Stean, Simple Chess

• Studier, Emil Joseph Diemer (sold)

• Suetin, Three Steps to Chess Mastery (sold)

• Szabo, Meine besten Partien

• Tal, Tal-Botvinnik 1960

• Tal, The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal

• Tarrasch, Dreihundert Schachpartien [read review]

• Tarrasch & Schröder, das Internationale Schachturnier des Schachclubs Nürnberg im Juli-August 1896

• Tarrasch, Mieses et al, Der 14. und 15. Kongreß des Deutschen Schachbundes Coburg 1904, Nürnberg 1906

• Tarrasch, Champion-Turnier zu Ostende 1907

• Tarrasch, Der Schachwettkampf Lasker-Tarrasch um die Weltmeisterschaft 1908

• Tarrasch, Das Grossmeisterturnier zu St. Petersburg im Jahre 1914

• Tarrasch, die Moderne Schachpartie [read review]

• Tarrasch, die Verteidigung des Damengambits [read review]

• Tarrasch, Baden-Baden 1925 [read review] (sold)

• Tarrasch, das Schachspiel [read review]

• Tarrasch, Tarrasch's Schachzeitung [read review]

• Tartakower, Glanzpartien 1905 - 1930

• Tartakower, Bad Kissingen 1928 (sold)

• Taulbut, How To Play The French Defence

• Tiller (ed.), Chess Treasury of the Air [read review]

• Vidmar, Das zweite internationale Schachturnier in Karlsbad 1911 [read review] (sold)

• Vidmar, Goldene Schachzeiten [read review]

• Vukovic, Das Buch vom Opfer

• Vukovic, The Art of Attack in Chess

• Wade, Whiteley & Keene, World Chess Championship Botvinnik to Kasparov (sold)

• Waitzkin, Searching for Bobby Fischer

• Webb, Chess for Tigers [read review]

• Wetzell, Chess Master... at any Age [read review] (sold)

• Yermolinsky, The Road to Chess Improvement

• Yudovich, Gambit

• Yudovich, Mikhail Chigorin

• Ziyatdinov, GM-RAM

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