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- A. Alekhine “New York
International Chess Tournament 1924”
- level: qualified
- 220 pages, year: 2004
- Many experts consider that it's the best book about tournaments. 110 games. Took part in the competition: Capapablanca, Em. Lasker, Alekhine,
Marshall, Bogoljubov, Janowsky, Reti, Maroczy, Tartakower, Ed. Lasker, Yates.
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- A. Alekhine “The Book of the Nottingham International Chess Tournament”
- level: qualified
- 320 pages, dimensions (in inches): 0.66 x 8.50 x 5.50, year: 2002
- About the historical supertournament of 1936 where took
part 5 world champions which had had the chess crown for 67 years! More about.
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- A. Alekhine “World Chess Championship 1937”
- level: qualified
- 220 pages, dimensions (in inches): 0.50 x 8.50 x 5.50, year: 2002
- It's about the rematch Alekhine - Euwe in 1937 (where
Alekhine played especially well).
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- A. Alekhine
“Sixty-Six Master Games Played in the London International
Chess Tournament, 1932”
- level: qualified
- 108 pages, dimensions (in inches): 0.25 x 8.50 x 5.50, year: 2003
- About the main tournament of 1932. More about.
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- S. Tarrasch “St.
Petersburg 1914: international chess tournament”
- For any qualified players and for everybody interested
by chess history
- 267 pages
- The Petersburg supertournament of 1914 had got a special
place in chess history: the first rivalry between Lasker and Capablanca, the first grand
success of Alexander Alekhine. (In general, it was the most important tournament in the
start of 20th century, and there were created a good many of high-level games.) There are
"wise, instructive, witty" (Vassily Smyslov in the foreword for Russian edition)
annotations to games of Siegbert Tarrasch. And the annotations are not short! The author
also tells about the events on the tournament in detail.
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- A. Nimzowitsch "Carlsbad
International Chess Tournament 1929"
- level: qualified
- 160 pages
- Carlsbad is a most important chess tournament of 1929. It's also a main sportive success
of Nimzowitsch in his career (1st place).
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- D. Bronstein “Zurich
International Chess Tournament, 1953”
- For qualified players and for everybody interested by
chess history
- 349 pages, dimensions (in inches): 0.72 x 9.21 x 6.48
- About the candidates tournament of 1953 - most strong one
in the history of those tournaments as most of experts think. The detailed comments
and an interesting story about each round. Probably, the most popular chess book of the
second part of 20th century. Chess writer Boris Vainstein assisted to Bronstein.
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- M. Botvinnik “Championship
Chess”
- level: qualified
- Minus: the descriptive notation ("1.P-K4")
instead of new notation - algebraic ("1.e4").
- 204 pages, dimensions (in inches): 0.53 x 8.46 x 5.66
- About the USSR "absolute
championship" of 1941 (one of the strongest tournaments in chess history). Also took
part: Keres, Smyslov, Boleslavsky, Lilienthal, Bondarevsky. 75 commented games (as always
with very solid commentaries of Mikhail Botvinnik).
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- M.
Botvinnik “World Championship
Match: Botvinnik vs. Bronstein”
- level: qualified
- 128 pages, year: 2004
- All 24 annotated games of WC match of 1951.
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- M. Tal “Tal - Botvinnik,
1960”
- level: qualified
- 224 pages, dimensions (in inches): 0.58 x 9.02 x 6.04
- It's about the World Championship match of 1960. 21 games.
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- M.
Botvinnik “World Championship
Return Match: Botvinnik vs. Tal”
- level: qualified
- 128 pages, year: 2004
- All 21 annotated games of WC match of 1961.
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- S. Tarrasch
“300 Chess Games” (Deeply annotated all 22 games of the great match Tarrasch
- Chigorin, 1893)
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- A. Alekhine “The International Chess
Tournament in New York in 1927”
- level: qualified
- The strange fact: practically not available in English
- Took part: Capablanca, Alekhine, Nimzowitsch, Marshall,
Spielmann, Vidmar. The detailed comments of all 60 games. Here is a very interesting
article about the meaning of the tournament (especially the part about Capablanca).
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- S. Tarrasch “Ostend
1907: international chess tournament”
- For any qualified players and for everybody interested
by chess history
- available in Russian
- 60 games. Took part: Tarrasch, Chigorin, Schlechter,
Marshall, Janowsky, Burn.
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- E. Bogoljubov “The International Chess
Tournament in Moscow in 1925”
- level: qualified
- available in Russian
- Took part Capablanca, Lasker, Rubinstein, Bogoljubov and
many famous grandmasters, all the best soviet masters.
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- M. Botvinnik “The Rematch
Alekhine - Euwe”
- level: qualified
- available in Russian
- About WC match in 1937.
- Such book of Alexander Alekhine
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- M. Botvinnik “Match-tournament:
world chess championship, Hague – Moscow, 1948”
- level: qualified
- available in Russian
- Took part 5 leaders of world chess: Botvinnik, Euwe, Keres,
Reshevsky, Smyslov. The convincing victory of Botvinnik (14 points out of 20,
"+8"), advantage of 3(!) points to Smyslov (2nd place). Botvinnik became
6th world champion. Keres also made a book about the competition.
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- A. Nimzowitsch “San Remo
1930”
- level: qualified
- available in Russian
- About the main tournament in 1930. The first supertournament of Alekhine as 4th World
Champion.
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- A. Nimzowitsch “Bled 1931”
- level: qualified
- available in Russian
- About the main tournament in 1931 (26 rounds).
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- G. Kasparov “2 Matches” (1987)
- level: high-qualified
- available in Russian
- The detailed story about 2nd (1985) and 3rd (1986,
match-revenge) world championship matches "Garry Kasparov vs. Anatoly Karpov".
Very deep, complex commentaries to all the 48 games (24+24).
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