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- P. Sergeant “Morphy's
Games of Chess”
- level: except beginners
- 352 pages, dimensions (in inches): 0.73 x 7.98 x 5.40
- Minus: the descriptive notation ("1.P-K4") instead of new notation -
algebraic ("1.e4").
- Commented around 300 games of the genius. Short annotations of Sergeant, Morphy (!), Steinitz, Anderssen. The book has a great
historical interest.
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- W.Steinitz “The Modern Chess Instructor”
- For interested by philosophy and history of chess
- 310 pages, dimensions (in inches): 1.00 x 8.75 x 5.75
- The book has an absolute historical interest. Here is the original text on the
principles of the "classical (scientific) school" in chess!
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- K.Landsberger “The
Steinitz Papers: Letters and Documents of the First World Chess Champion”
- For interested by history of chess
- 325 pages, dimensions (in inches): 1.02 x 10.44 x 7.08, year: 2002
- The author is the Steinitz’s great-grandnephew! The book has a great historical
interest.
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- K.Landsberger, K.Whyld “William
Steinitz, Chess Champion: A Biography of the Bohemian Caesar”
For interested by history of chess
- 539 pages, dimensions (in inches): 1.39 x 9.18 x 6.30
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- E.
Bogoljubov “Mikhail
Chigorin: Selected Games”
- level: qualified
- 128 pages, published in 1987
- About Mikhail Chigorin.
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- F. Reinfeld “Tarrasch's
Best Games of Chess”
- level: qualified
- 385-page
- 183 of Tarrasch's best games. The best games of Tarrasch are very useful for students
because of their strategic and logical power.
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- Em. Lasker
“Common
Sense in Chess”
- For interested by philosophy of chess
- 139 pages, dimensions (in inches): 0.32 x 7.96 x 5.39
- A very important historic work (has a great interest as part of chess history). Emanuel
Lasker develops the ideas of the "classical school".
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- A. Soltis “Frank
Marshall, United States Chess Champion: A Biography With 220 Games”
- For qualified players and for everybody interested by chess history
- 400 pages, dimensions (in inches): 1.10 x 9.22 x 6.20
The author is a FIDE grandmaster. About Frank Marshall.
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- J. Donaldson “Akiba
Rubinstein: Uncrowned King”
- For qualified players and for everybody interested by chess history
- 321 pages
- The book is about one of the greatest chess genius and his big chess heritage.
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- R. Keene “Aron Nimzowitsch,
1886-1935: a reappraisal”
- level: qualified
- The work had received a benevolent response from Robert Fisher. There are (except of the
author's thoughts about Nimzowitsch's heritage and philosophy) commented games after 1928
(which Nimzowitsch had not annotated in his famous books because they were written
before).
- Keen is a rather famous grandmaster, he won England championship several times. And he
is a real "pupil" of Nimzowitsch.
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- H. Golombek “Capablanca's
Best Games”
- For qualified players and for everybody interested by chess history
- 272 pages, dimensions (in inches): 1.00 x 9.00 x 5.50
- Contains 100 of the best games of Capablanca with detailed annotations. H. Golombek is
the famous English grandmaster and writer, he had won English championship 3 times.
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- E. Winter “Capablanca:
a Compendium of games, notes, articles, correspondence, illustrations and other rare
archival materials on the Cuban chess genius”
- For everybody interested by chess history
- 359 pages, dimensions (in inches): 1.01 x 9.14 x 6.18
- 26 historic photos are included.
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- J.Donaldson, N.Minev, Y.Seirawan “Alekhine
in the Americas”
- For everybody interested by chess history
- 47 pages, dimensions (in inches): 0.25 x 10.50 x 8.25
- Over 140 non-tournaments games which were played during Alekhine's tours, some of them
are annotated. Seirawan is a famous grandmaster. Photos, stories, interviews.
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- A. Alekhine “107 Great Chess Battles (1939-1945)”
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- Y. Neishtadt “Paul
Keres Chess Master Class”
- For qualified players and everybody interested by chess history
- 182 pages
- The chess manual based on the games of Keres. About Paul Keres.
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- A. Foldeak “Chess
Olympiads”
- For everybody interested by chess history
- dimensions (in inches): 1.25 x 8.25 x 6.00, year: 1966
- About the first chess Olympiads.
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Look also: Tournaments
& Matches Collections
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- B. Franklin
“The Morals of Chess” (written in 1779)
- For everybody
- The great thinker teaches how to behave playing chess. He is sure that chess is able to
develop some important human qualities.
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- R. Hagedorn “B. Franklin and Chess in Early America”
(1958)
- For everybody
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- Y. Razuvaev,
V. Murakhveri “Akiba Rubinstein” (1980)
- For qualified players and for everybody interested by chess history
- The book is about one of the greatest chess genius and his big chess heritage. It has
received an enthusiastic estimation of the readers all over the world (but English version
is absent (probably) - the very strange fact).
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- M. Euwe, L.
Prins “Capablanca. Chess phenomenon.” (1979)
- For qualified players and for everybody interested by chess history
- The strange fact: practically not available in English
- More than 200 games of Capablanca. 50 (most important in his chess career) are deeply
commented.
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- E. Vasyukov,
A. Narkevich, A. Nikitin “Mikhail Chigorin”
(1972)
- level: qualified
- available in Russian
- The detailed story about the life of the great chess player. There are 63 elected and
deeply analyzed games.
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- Y.
Neishtadt “Siegbert Tarrasch” (1983)
- level: qualified
- available in Russian
- A very solid work about Tarrasch and his heritage.
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- L. Verkhovsky “Carl Schlechter” (1984)
- available in Russian
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- S. Voronkov, D. Plisetsky “David Janowsky” (1987)
- available in Russian
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- P.
Romanovsky “Romanticism in the Art of Chess”
(1959)
- For everybody interested by chess history
- available in Russian
- From Greco to Spielmann.
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- Y. Schaburov “Alekhine” (2001)
- For everybody interested by chess history
- available in Russian
- Probably, the most serious historical work about Alekhine.
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