Last updated: 19th October 2011
Exeter Chess Club's library is sitting in a number of cardboard boxes in my attic. If you want to borrow any of them, please send a pigeon attached to a message in the usual way.
Status: MIA = Missing
Notation: A = Algebraic, D = Descriptive
Status |
Notation |
Category |
Author |
Title |
Publisher |
Date |
MIA |
A |
Endgames |
Averbakh, Y. |
Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge |
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D |
Endgames |
Averbakh, Y. |
Comprehensive Chess Endings (vol. 2) Bishop Against Knight Endings, Rook Against Minor Piece Endings |
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D |
Endgames |
Averbakh, Y. and I. Maizelis |
Comprehensive Chess Endings (vol. 4) Pawn Endings |
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D |
Endgames |
Averbakh, Y. and N. Kopayev |
Comprehensive Chess Endings (vol. 5) Rook Endings |
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D |
Endgames |
Averbakh, Y. and V. Checkover |
Comprehensive Chess Endings (vol. 1) Bishop Endings, Knight Endings |
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D |
Endgames |
Averbakh, Y. with V. Henkin and V. Checkhover |
Comprehensive Chess Endings (vol. 3) Queen and Pawn Endings, Queen Against Rook Endings, Queen Against Minor Piece Endings |
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MIA |
D |
Endgames |
Chernev, Irving |
Practical Chess Endings |
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D |
Endgames |
Fine, Reuben |
Basic Chess Endings |
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D |
Endgames |
Mieses, J. |
Manual of the End Game |
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D |
Endgames |
Sutherland, M.A. and H.M. Lommer |
1234 Modern End Game Studies |
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A |
Endings |
Chernev, Irving |
Capablanca's Best Chess Endings |
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A |
Endings |
Onions, Tim and Regis, Dave |
Ten Ways to Succeed in the Endgame |
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D |
General |
Assiac |
Adventure in Chess |
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A |
General |
Federation Internationale des Echecs |
Laws of Chess 1980 |
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A |
General |
Federation Internationale des Echecs |
The Official Laws of Chess |
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A |
General |
Fox, Mike and Richard James |
The Complete Chess Addict |
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D |
General |
Golombek, Harry, ed. |
The Encyclopedia of Chess |
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D |
General |
Green, R.F. |
Chess |
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General |
Hurst, Sarah |
Curse of Kirsan: adventures in the chess underworld |
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A |
General |
Kazic, Bozidar |
The Chess Competitor's Handbook |
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MIA |
A |
General |
Keene, Raymond |
Chess Terminators: the rise fo the machines from Deep Blue to Hydra |
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A |
General |
Keene, Raymond with Nathan Divinsky and Jeff Sonas |
Who Was the Strongest? Warriors of the Mind II |
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General |
Knight, Norman and Will Guy |
King, Queen and Knight: A chess anthology in prose and verse |
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A |
General |
Kurzdorfer, Peter |
The Tao of Chess: 200 Principles to Transform your Game and your Life |
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D |
General |
Murray, H.J.R. |
Short History of Chess |
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A |
General |
O'Connell, ed. |
The Batsford Chess Yearbook |
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A |
General |
Regis, David and others |
100-odd years of Exeter Chess Club |
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D |
General |
Reinfeld, Fred |
The Human Side of Chess |
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D |
General |
Reinfeld, Fred |
The Treasury of Chess Lore |
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D |
General |
Richards, D.J. |
Soviet Chess |
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D |
General |
Sunnucks, Anne |
The Encyclopaedia of Chess |
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D |
General |
Thomas, A.R.B. |
Chess for the Love of It |
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D |
General |
Tiller, Terence, ed. |
Chess Treasury of the Air |
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A |
General |
Vol.12< > |
The Chess Player |
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A |
General |
Walker, J.N. |
Test Your Chess: Piece Power |
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D |
General |
Whyld, Ken |
Guinness Chess: The Records |
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D |
General |
Wood, B.H., ed. |
History of Chess |
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D |
Instruction |
Abrahams, Gerald |
Chess (Teach Yourself) |
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D |
Instruction |
Abrahams, Gerald |
The Chess Mind |
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D |
Instruction |
Alexander, C.H.O'D. |
Alexander on Chess |
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D |
Instruction |
Bott, Raymond and Stanley Morrison |
The Chess Apprentice |
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2 |
D |
Instruction |
Capablanca, J.R. |
Chess Fundamentals |
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D |
Instruction |
Chernev, Irving |
Logical Chess: Move by Move |
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D |
Instruction |
Cordingly, E.G.R. |
The Next Move Is… |
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D |
Instruction |
Cunningham, E.E. |
Chess Traps and Stratagems |
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D |
Instruction |
Euwe, M. |
The Development of Chess Style |
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MIA |
D |
Instruction |
Fischer, Bobby with Stuart Margulies and Donn Mosenfelder |
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess |
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D |
Instruction |
Golombek, H. |
The Game of Chess |
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D |
Instruction |
Hollings, F. |
The Beginner's Book of Chess |
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A |
Instruction |
James, Richard |
Move One! A Chess Course for Beginners |
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MIA |
D |
Instruction |
Kotov, Alexander |
Think Like a Grandmaster |
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MIA |
D |
Instruction |
Pritchard, D. Brine |
The Right Way to Play Chess |
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D |
Instruction |
Reinfeld, Fred |
Chess in a nutshell… |
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D |
Instruction |
Reinfeld, Fred |
Improving Your Chess: The Nine Bad Moves and how to avoid them |
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D |
Instruction |
Reshevsky, Samuel |
How Chess Games are won |
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D |
Instruction |
Tarrasch, Siegbert |
The Game of Chess |
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D |
Instruction |
Thomas, A.R.B. |
Chess Techniques |
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A |
Instruction |
Walker, J.N. |
First Steps in Chess |
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MIA |
A |
Instruction |
Webb, Simon |
Chess for Tigers |
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D |
Instruction |
Wenman, P. |
One Hundred Chess Gems |
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A |
Instructional |
Davis, Steve and David Norwood |
Grandmaster Meets Chess Amateur |
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D |
Instructional |
Euwe, Max and Walter Meiden |
chess master v chess amateur: How to benefit from your opponent's mistakes |
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D |
Instructional |
Lasker, Edward |
Chess: The Complete Self-Tutor |
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D |
Instructional |
Love, John and Hodgkins, John |
Further Chess Ideas |
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A |
Instructional |
Onions, Tim and Regis, Dave |
Ten Ways to Succeed in the Middlegame |
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D |
Instructional |
Reinfeld, Fred |
Chess by Yourself |
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A |
Magazines |
Kingpin |
Volume 15 (Summer 1989) |
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A |
Magazines |
Kingpin |
Volume 21 (Autumn 1993) |
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A |
Magazines |
Kingpin |
Volume 22 (Winter 1993/1994) |
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A |
Magazines |
Kingpin |
Volume 23 (Autumn 1994) |
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A |
Magazines |
Kingpin |
Volume 24 (Spring 1995) |
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A |
Magazines |
Kingpin |
Volume 26 (Autumn 1996) |
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A |
Magazines |
Kingpin |
Volume 27 (Summer 1997) |
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A |
Magazines |
Kingpin |
Volume 28 (Spring 1998) |
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A |
Magazines |
Kingpin |
Volume 29 (Autumn 1998) |
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A |
Magazines |
Kingpin |
Volume 30 (Spring 1999) |
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A |
Magazines |
Kingpin |
Volume 31 (Autumn 1999) |
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D |
Middlegame strategy |
Abrahams, Gerald |
Technique in Chess |
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D |
Middlegame strategy |
Euwe, M and H. Kramer |
The Middle Game: Book 2: Dynamic and Subjective Features |
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D |
Middlegame strategy |
Euwe, M. |
Judgment and Planning in Chess |
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D |
Middlegame strategy |
Keres, Paul and Alexander Kotov |
The Art of the Middle Game |
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D |
Middlegame strategy |
Lasker, Edward |
Modern Chess Strategy |
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D |
Middlegame strategy |
Lisitsyn, G.M and B. Cafferty |
The Strategy of Chess |
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2 |
AD |
Middlegame strategy |
Nimowitsch, Aron |
My System: A Chess Treatise |
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D |
Middlegame strategy |
Pachman, Ludek |
Pachman's Modern Chess Strategy |
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D |
Middlegame strategy |
Vukovic, Vladimir |
The Chess Sacrifice |
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A |
Multimedia |
Corel |
Chess (CD-ROM) |
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A |
Multimedia |
Davies, Nigel |
Foxy Openings: Sicilicide (video) |
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A |
Multimedia |
Martin, Andrew |
Foxy Openings: The King's Gambit (video) |
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MIA |
A |
Multimedia |
Ward, Chris |
Foxy Openings: Anti-Sicilian Systems (video) |
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A |
Openings |
Arkell, Susan |
Trends in the Caro-Kann Panov-Botvinnik, vol. 2 |
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D |
Openings |
Barden, Leonard |
The Ruy Lopez: Winning chess with 1 P-K4 |
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D |
Openings |
Barden, Leonard with William Hartston and Raymond Keene |
The King's Indian Defence |
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A |
Openings |
Burgess, Graham |
The King's Indian for the Attacking Player |
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A |
Openings |
Chandler, Murray |
The complete c3 Sicilian |
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MIA |
A |
Openings |
Davies, Nigel |
The Chess Player's Battle Manual |
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A |
Openings |
de Firmian, N (ed.) |
Batsford's Modern Chess Openings (15th Edition) |
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D |
Openings |
Harding, T.D. |
Counter Gambits |
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D |
Openings |
Harding, Tim |
The Classical French |
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D |
Openings |
Hartston, William |
The Gruuml;nfeld Defence |
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D |
Openings |
Horowitz, I.A. |
Chess Openings: Theory and Practice |
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A |
Openings |
Kasparov, Gary and Raymond Keene |
Batsford Chess Openings 2 |
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D |
Openings |
Keene, R.D. |
Flank Openings |
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MIA |
D |
Openings |
Keene, Raymond and David Levy |
An Opening Repertoire for the Attacking Player |
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A |
Openings |
Keene, Raymond and Shaun Taulbut |
French Defence: Tarrasch Variation |
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A |
Openings |
Keene, Raymond with James Plaskett and Jon Tisdall |
The English Defence |
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A |
Openings |
Leach, Colin |
Bishop's Opening |
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A |
Openings |
Levy, D.N.L. |
1 b4 Sokolsky Opening |
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D |
Openings |
Marovic, Drazen and Bruno Parma |
An Opening Repertoire for Black |
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D |
Openings |
Marovic, Susic |
King Fianchetto Defences |
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MIA |
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Openings |
Martin, Andrew |
The Modern Defence |
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A |
Openings |
Matanovic, A. (editor) |
Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings Volume A |
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A |
Openings |
Matanovic, A. (editor) |
Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings Volume B |
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A |
Openings |
Matanovic, A. (editor) |
Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings Volume C |
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A |
Openings |
Matanovic, A. (editor) |
Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings Volume D |
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A |
Openings |
Matanovic, A. (editor) |
Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings Volume E |
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D |
Openings |
Neishtadt, Ya. |
Queen's Gambit Accepted |
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A |
Openings |
Nunn, John |
The Benoni for the Tournament Player |
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A |
Openings |
Nunn, John |
The Complete Pirc |
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A |
Openings |
Nunn, John |
The Pirc for the Tournament Player |
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A |
Openings |
Nunn, John with Graham Burgess, John Emms and Joe Gallagher |
Nunn's Chess Openings |
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A |
Openings |
Onions, Tim and Regis, Dave |
Ten Ways to Succeed in the Opening |
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D |
Openings |
Pachman, Ludek |
Open Games |
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D |
Openings |
Pachman, Ludek |
Semi-Open Games |
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D |
Openings |
Pachman, Ludek |
The Opening Game in Chess |
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D |
Openings |
Pritchard, David |
First Moves: How to Start a Chess Game |
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D |
Openings |
Reinfeld, Fred |
Chess: how to play the white pieces |
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A |
Openings |
Schiller, Eric |
Fianchetto Against the West Indians |
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A |
Openings |
Seirawan, Yasser |
Winning Chess Openings |
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D |
Openings |
Silman, Jeremy |
Accelerated Dragon |
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D |
Openings |
Silman, Jeremy |
Nimzo-Indian for Black |
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A |
Openings |
Soltis, Andrew |
Winning with the English Defense |
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D |
Openings |
Soltis, Andrew and Ken Smith |
How to Play the Sicilian Defense Against All White Possibilities |
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D |
Openings |
Suetin, A.S. |
Modern Chess Opening Theory |
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A |
Openings |
Suetin, Alexei |
The Complete Spanish |
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A |
Openings |
Wall, Bill |
Grob's Attack |
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A |
Openings |
Ward, Chris and Bob Wade |
Developments in the Sicilian: Dragon 1984-1988 |
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A |
Openings |
Watson, John L. |
Play the FRENCH |
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D |
Openings |
Znosko-Borovsky, Eugene |
How to Play the Chess Openings |
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A |
Players and collections |
Adams, Michael |
Development of a Grandmaster |
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D |
Players and collections |
Alekhine, Alexander |
My Best Games of Chess 1924-1937 |
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D |
Players and collections |
Alexander, C.H.O'D. |
Alekhine's Best Games of Chess 1938-1945 |
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D |
Players and collections |
Alexander, C.H.O'D. |
Fischer v. Spasskey, Reykjavik 1972 |
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D |
Players and collections |
Botvinnik, M.M. |
Achieving the Aim |
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D |
Players and collections |
Botvinnik, Mikhail |
One Hundred Selected Games |
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D |
Players and collections |
Bronstein, D. and G. Smolyan |
Chess in the Eighties |
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D |
Players and collections |
Clarke, P.H. |
Mikhail Tal's Best Games of Chess |
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D |
Players and collections |
Clarke, P.H. |
Petrosian's Best Games of Chess |
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D |
Players and collections |
Clarke, P.H. and W.J. Welch |
Spassky versus Fischer |
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D |
Players and collections |
du Mont, J. |
200 Miniature Games of Chess |
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D |
Players and collections |
Euwe, M. |
From My Games |
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D |
Players and collections |
Euwe, Max |
Bobby Fischer and his Predecessors in the World Chess Championship |
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MIA |
D |
Players and collections |
Evans, Larry and Ken Smith |
Fischer-Spassky Move by Move |
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MIA |
D |
Players and collections |
Fischer, Bobby |
My 60 Memorable Games |
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D |
Players and collections |
Foldeak, Arpad |
Chess Olympiads |
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D |
Players and collections |
Gligoric, Svetozar |
Fischer v Spassky: The Chess Match of the Century |
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D |
Players and collections |
Golombek, H. |
Capablanca's 100 Best Games of Chess |
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D |
Players and collections |
Golombek, H. |
Fifty Great Games of Modern Chess |
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D |
Players and collections |
Golombek, H. |
Reti's Best Games of Chess |
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A |
Players and collections |
Golombek, Harry |
4th Candidates' Tournament, 1959: Bled-Zagreb-Belgrade |
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D |
Players and collections |
Golombek, Harry |
Fischer v Spassky |
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2 |
A |
Players and collections |
James, Jeremy and Leonard Barden |
The Master Game |
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A |
Players and collections |
Kasparov, Gary and Bob Wade |
Fighting Chess: Games and Career |
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A |
Players and collections |
Keene, Ray |
World Chess Championship: Kramnik vs Leko |
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A |
Players and collections |
Keene, Raymond |
Aron Nimzowitsch: A Reappraisal |
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A |
Players and collections |
Keene, Raymond |
Tony Miles: England's Chess Gladiator |
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D |
Players and collections |
Levy, David |
How Fischer Plays Chess |
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A |
Players and collections |
Olafsson, Fridrik |
Vid skakbordid I aldarfjordung: 50 valdar soknarskakir (Icelandic) |
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A |
Players and collections |
Regis, David, ed. |
International Chess Congress, London 1922 |
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D |
Players and collections |
Reinfeld, Fred |
Tarrasch's Best Games of Chess |
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D |
Players and collections |
Reinfeld, Fred and Reuben Fine |
Lasker's Greatest Chess Games |
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D |
Players and collections |
Sergeant, Philip |
Morphy's Games of Chess |
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D |
Players and collections |
Smyslov, V.V. |
My Best Games of Chess 1935-1957 |
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D |
Players and collections |
Steinitz, William and Chrles Devide, ed. |
Selected Chess Games |
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D |
Players and collections |
Tartakower, S. and J. du Mont |
500 Master Games of Chess: Book 1 |
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A |
Players and collections |
Timman, Jan |
Botvinnik's Secret Games |
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D |
Players and collections |
Watts, W.H., ed. |
The Book of the London International Chess Congress 1922 |
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D |
Players and collections |
Welch, John and Margaret Clark, eds. |
The Barnstaple Open 1972 |
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D |
Players and collections |
Wenman, P |
One Hundred Chess Games |
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D |
Players and collections |
Yates, F.D. |
101 of My Best Games of Chess |
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D |
Problems |
Barden, Leonard |
Leonard Barden's Chess Puzzle Book |
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D |
Problems |
Barnes, B.P. |
Pick of the Best Chess Problems |
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A |
Problems |
Basman, Michael |
Find the Mate! |
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D |
Problems |
Howard, Kenneth |
Chess Problem Gems by Eight Eminent American Composers |
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MIA |
D |
Problems |
Koltanowski, G. |
En Passant: Chess Games and Studies |
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D |
Problems |
Rice, John |
An ABC of Chess Problems |
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D |
Problems |
Scriven, B. |
100 Chess Problems for the Novice and the Master |
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A |
Problems |
The Problemist |
Volume 20, no. 2 (March 2005) |
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D |
Problems |
Troitsky |
Chess Studies |
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D |
Strategy |
Stean, Michael |
Simple Chess |
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D |
Strategy |
Suetin, Alexei |
Plan Like A Grandmaster |
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D |
Tactics |
Abrahams, Gerald |
Test Your Chess |
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D |
Tactics |
Alexander, C.H.O'D. |
Chess Positions |
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D |
Tactics |
Golz, Werner and Paul Keres |
Chess Combination as a Fine Art |
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D |
Tactics |
Hooper, David and Bernard Cafferty |
Play for Mate |
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A |
Tactics |
Keene, Raymond |
The Chess Combination from Philidor to Karpov |
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MIA |
D |
Tactics |
Levy, David |
Play Chess Combinations and Sacrifices |
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D |
Tactics |
Neishtadt, Yakov |
Your Move! |
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D |
Tactics |
Pachman, Ludek |
Attack and Defence in Modern Chess Tactics |
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D |
Tactics |
Pachman, Ludek |
Modern Chess Tactics |
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D |
Tactics |
Spielmann, Rudolf |
The Art of Sacrifice in Chess |
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D |
Tactics |
Vukovic, Vladimir |
The Art of Attack in Chess |
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A |
Tactics |
Walker, John |
Chess: Attacking the King |
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