The Bookshelf
Problems
J W Abbot: "121 Chess Problems (1883)"; Mrs W J Baird: "700 Chess Problems (1902)"; Frank Healey: "200 Chess Problems (1866)"; Anatoly Karpov: "Chess Kaleidoscope"; W Lewis: "100 Chess Problems (1827)"; Bruce Pandolfini: "Checkmate!"; J & W T Pierce "English Chess Problems (1876)"; Laszlo Polgar: "Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games"; C F Stubbs: "Canadian Chess Problems (1890)"; John Thursby: "75 Chess Problems (1883)"; E. Wallis: "777 Chess Miniatures in Three (1909)"; Chess Problems [22,000 - no solution set]
Game Collections
Alexander Alekhine: "My Best Games of Chess 1908-1923"; AVRO 1938 Chess Tournament; David Bronstein: "Zurich International Chess Tournament 1953"; Graham Burgess: "The Quickest Chess Victories of all Time"; Jose Capablanca: "My Chess Career"; Irving Chernev: "The 1000 Best Short Games of Chess"; Frederick Edge: "Paul Morphy: The Chess Champion (1859)"; Robert Fischer: His Games from 1955-1960; His Games from 1960-1967; Robert Fischer: "My 60 Memorable Games"; Eduard Gufeld: "Leonid Stein: The Master of Risk Strategy"; J Hajtun: "Selected Chess Games of Mikhail Tal"; David Hooper & Dale Brandreth: "The Unknown Capablanca"; Garry Kasparov: "Fighting Chess: My Games and Career"; Garry Kasparov: "My Great Predecessors - Part I - Steinitz Lasker Alekhine"; "Part II - Euwe Botvinnik Smyslov Tal"; "Part IV - On Fischer"; Viktor Korchnoi: "Chess is My Life"; Johann Lowenthal: "Morphy's Games of Chess"; Bruce Pandolfini: "Bobby Fischer's Outrageous Chess Moves"; Bruce Pandolfini: "Kasparov and Deep Blue"; Roberto Franco-Perez: "God Of War - Bobby Fischer At The Peak of Power"; Fred Reinfeld & Reuben Fine: "Alekhine vs Bogoljubow (World Chess Championship 1934"; Fred Reinfeld: "Keres' Best Games of Chess 1931-1948"; Fred Reinfeld & Reuben Fine: "Lasker's Greatest Chess Games 1889-1914"; Renaud & Kahn: "The Art of the Checkmate"; Richard Reti: "Masters of the Chessboard"; Russian Championship 2004; Yasser Seirawan: "Winning Chess Brilliancies"; Igor Stohl: "Instructive Modern Chess Masterpieces"; Jan Timman: "Secret Matches: The Unknown Training Games of Mikhail Botvinnik"; US Championship 2005; Robert Wade: "The Games of Robert J. Fischer"; World Chess Championship 2005
Openings
Jacob Aagaard: "Dutch Stonewall"; Jacob Aagaard: "Starting Out: The Gruenfeld"; Lev Alburt: "The Alekhine for the Tournament Player"; Chris Baker: "A Startling Chess Opening Repertoire"; Michael Bashman: "The Killer Grob"; Michael Bashman: "Play the St. George Opening"; Graham Burgness: "101 Chess Opening Surprises"; Anatoly Bykhovsky: "Closed Spanish Zaitsev"; Angus Dunnington: "The Ultimate King's Indian Attack"; Mark Dvoretsky: "School of Chess Excellence - Vol. 4 - Opening Developments"; John Emms: "Easy Guide to the Ruy Lopez"; John Emms: "Play the Najdorf: Scheveningen Style"; John Emms: "Starting Out: The Scotch Game"; Yakov Estrin: "Gambits"; Reuben Fine: "The Ideas Behind the Chess Openings"; Reuben Fine: "Modern Chess Openings (6th edition)"; Reuben Fine: "Practical Chess Openings"; Forintos & Haag: "Winning with the Hungarian Attack"; Joe Gallagher: "Starting Out: The Kings Indian"; Efstratios Grivas: "Beating the Fianchetto Defences"; Eduard Gufeld: "Winning with the Torre Attack"; Al Horowitz: "New Traps in the Chess Opening"; Byron Jacobs: "Winning with the Benko Gambit"; Anatoly Karpov: "Caro-Kann B17"; Anatoly Karpov: "How to play the English Opening"; Viktor Korchnoi & Vadimir Zak: "King's Gambit"; Tony Kosten: "Easy guide to the Najdorf"; Alexander Khalifman: "Opening for White According to Kramnik, Vol 3, 1.Nf3"; Bogdan Lalic: "The Marshall Attack"; Gary Lane: "The Bishop's Opening Explained"; Gary Lane: "Vienna Game"; Gary Lane: "Winning with the Scotch"; McDonald & Harley: "Mastering the French"; Yakov Neishtadt: "Catastrophe in the Opening"; Nijboer & van der Stricht: "Tactics in the Chess Opening III - French Defence"; David Norwood: "Winning with the Modern Defense"; John Nunn: "The Complete Pirc"; John Nunn: "King's Indian Revised"; John Nunn: "Nunn's Chess Openings"; Richard Palliser: "Starting Out: Closed Sicilian"; Jan Pinski: "The Benko Gambit"; Jan Pinski: "Italian Game and Evans Gambit"; Jan Pinski: "The Two Knights Defense"; James Plaskett: "Sicilian Grand Prix Attack"; Lev Psakhis: "The Complete French"; Roush, Lance & Cornell: "Scandinavian Defense: Portuguese Variation"; Jonathan Rowson: "Understanding the Grunfeld"; Eric Schiller: "The Ultimate Tarrasch Defence"; Eric Schiller, ed: "Unorthodox Chess Openings"; Eric Schiller & Joel Benjamin: "Unorthodox Openings"; Yasser Seirawan: "Winning Chess Openings"; Leonid Shamkovich & Eric Schiller: "Kasparov's Opening Repertoire"; Andy Soltis: "Understanding the Chess Openings - Queen's Indian Defense"; Jon Speelman: "Modern Defense"; Tseitlin & Glazkov: "The Complete Vienna"; Van Der Tak & Nijboer: "Tactics in the Chess Opening I - Sicilian Defence"; Endre Vegh: "Starting Out: The Modern Benoni"; James Vigus: "The Pirc in Black and White"; Chris Ward: "Dragon-Yugoslav Attack [B79]"; Chris Ward: "Improve Your Opening Play"; Chris Ward: "Starting Out: The Nimzo-Indian"; John Watson: "Mastering the Chess Opening, Volume 1"; John Watson: "Play the French"
Strategy & Tactics
Yuri Averbakh: "Chess Middle Games: Essential Knowledge"; Jose Capablanca: "Last Chess Lectures"; Irving Chernev: "Logical Chess"; Mark Dvoretsky: "School of Chess Excellence - Vol. 2 - Tactical Play"; Paul Keres: "The Art of the Middle Game"; Aleksander Matanovic: "Anthology of Chess Combinations"; Ludek Pachman: "Complete Chess Strategy 1 - First Principles of the Middle Game"; Ludek Pachman: "Complete Chess Strategy 2 - Principles of Pawn Play and the Center"; Ludek Pachman: "Complete Chess Strategy 3 - Play on the Wings"; Ludek Pachman: "Modern Chess Strategy"; James Plaskett: "Starting Out: Attacking Play"; Fred Reinfeld & Irving Chernev: "Chess Strategies and Tactics"; Fred Reinfeld: "Hypermodern Chess"; Yasser Seirawan: "Winning Chess Tactics"; Vladimir Vukovic: "The Art of Attack in Chess"; F Wilson: "303 Tricky Chess Tactics"
Improve/Evaluate Your Game
Lev Alburt: "Comprehensive Chess Course - Vol 1"; Alexander Baburin: "Winning Pawn Structures"; Valeri Beim: "How to Play Dynamic Chess"; Pal Benko: "Winning with Chess Psychology"; Graeme Buckley: "Multiple Choice Chess II"; Irving Chernev: "The Russians Play Chess"; Irving Chernev: "The Russians Play Chess"; A D de Groot: "Thought and Choice in Chess"; Angus Dunnington: "Starting Out: Defensive Play"; Angus Dunnington: "Can You Be a Positional Chess Genius?"; John Emms: "More Simple Chess"; Janos Flesch: "Planning in Chess"; Tim Harding: "Winning at Correspondence Chess"; Garry Kasparov: "Kasparov Teaches Chess"; Daniel King: "How Good is Your Chess?"; Daniel King: "How to Win at Chess: 10 Golden Rules to Follow"; Neil McDonald: "The Art of Planning in Chess"; Alexander Kotov: "Play Like a Grandmaster"; Dan Kretschmer: "How To Beat ANYONE At Chess"; Edward Lasker: "Chess for Fun & Chess for Blood"; Emmanuel Lasker: "Common Sense in Chess"; David Levy: "How Fischer Plays Chess"; Edmar Mednis: "From the Opening into the Endgame"; Jacques Mieses: "Instructive Positions From Master Chess"; Yakov Neishtadt: "Test Your Tactical Ability"; Aron Nimzowitsch: "My System"; Sam Palatnik: "The Tarrasch Formula"; Fred Reinfeld: "Chess by Yourself"; Fred Reinfeld: "Chess for Amateurs"; Richard Reti: "Modern Ideas in Chess"; Matthew Sadler: "Tips for Young Players"; Jeremy Silman: "The Reassess Your Chess Workbook"; Andrei Volokitin: "Perfect Your Chess"
Endgames
Yuri Averbakh: "Comprehensive Chess Endings Vol. 1 - Bishop Endings & Knight Endings"; "Vol. 2 - Bishops vs Knights & Rook vs Minor Piece"; "Vol. 4 - Pawn Endings"; "Vol. 5 - Rook Endings"; Irving Chernev: "Capablanca's Best Chess Endings"; Irving Chernev: "Chessboard Magic! - 160 Brilliant Chess Endings"; Mark Dvoretsky: "School of Chess Excellence - Vol. 1 - Endgame Analysis"; Mark Dvoretsky: "School of Chess Excellence - Vol. 3 - Strategic Play"; Max Euwe: "A Guide to Chess Endings"; Reuben Fine: "Basic Chess Endings"; Bern Rosen: "Chess Endgame Training"
Chess Miscellany
Henry Bird: "Chess History and Reminiscences"; Al Horowitz: "The World Chess Championship, A History"; Hanon Russell: "Russian for Chess Players"; Patrick Wolff: "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess";
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