Books on Chess Composition



Alan C. White “Sam Loyd and His Chess Problems”
level: for all chess amateurs
476 pages, dimensions (in inches): 8.50 x 1.05 x 5.50

A. Troitzky “360 Brilliant and Instructive End Games”
level: for all amateurs of chess composition
Dimensions (in inches): 0.50 x 8.50 x 5.50

V.Nabokov "Poems and Problems"
218 pages
Writer Vladimir Nabokov was a normal chess problemist (some of his compositions were published in chess magazines). He was creating chess problems during all his life.

Books of GM Yakov Vladimirov (about him)

Y.Vladimirov “Masterpieces of Chess Composition. Samuel Loyd.” (2002)
level: for all amateurs
100 selected problem (no comments, diagrams & solutions exist only) of great composer. Short article about Loyd.

Y.Vladimirov, Y.Fokin “Leonid Kubbel” (1984)
level: qualified
available in Russian

Y.Vladimirov “Masterpieces of Chess Composition. Leonid Kubbel.” (2002)
level: for all amateurs of chess composition
100 selected artworks (no comments, diagrams & solutions exist only) of great composer. Short article about Kubbel.

Y.Vladimirov “Masterpieces of Chess Composition. Alexey Troitzky.” (2002)
level: for all amateurs of chess studies
100 selected studies (no comments, diagrams & solutions exist only) of great composer. Short article about Troitzky.

Y.Vladimirov “Masterpieces of Chess Composition. Henry Rinck.” (2002)
level: for all amateurs of chess composition
100 selected artworks (no comments, diagrams & solutions exist only) of great composer. Short article about Rinck.

Y.Vladimirov “Masterpieces of Chess Composition. V. & M. Platovs.” (2002)
level: for all amateurs of chess studies
100 selected studies (no comments, diagrams & solutions exist only) of famous composers. Short article about Platovs.

Y.Vladimirov “Masterpieces of Chess Composition. R.Reti & J.Fritz.” (2002)
level: for all amateurs of chess studies
100 selected artworks (no comments, diagrams & solutions exist only) of Reti & J.Fritz. Short article about Reti and about Fritz.

E.Umnov “Chess Problem of XIX century” (1960)
available in Russian

E.Umnov “Chess Problem of XX century, 1901-1944” (1966)
available in Russian

Other Books about Chess Problems

Other Books about Chess Studies