Nice.
If you purchase ten books a year, on the average, for 38 years, your collection will look like this:
my chess book collection
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I spy some old Chess Lifes even more than 38 years old, I believe.
Good eye. I do have a lot of old back issues of
"Chess Review - The Picture Chess Magazine"
"Chess Life and Review"
"Inside Chess"
etc.
The nice thing about all those books is how used they look!
EZap wrote:
MrEdCollins wrote:
Nice.
If you purchase ten books a year, on the average, for 38 years, your collection will look like this:
Is there "My 60 Memorable Games" and "The Pride and the Sorrow of Chess".
I have a two copies of Fischer's My 60 Memorable Games, one in paperback and one in hardback (and not the butchered new algebraic edition, but the old descriptive editions) but no, I do not have a copy of Paul Morphy: The Pride and Sorrow of Chess.
Mr Ed Collins ,
may I ask you to name those big tomes in your picture?
I'm very curiouse about them.
I can see one is Chess by Polgar , but I cant recognize others .
Thanks
If you go to my website, you can see a high resolution photo of the books.
http://www.edcollins.com/chess/chess-books.htm
Click the photo for a high resolution pic. (Note that your browser might be set up to automatically scale the image to fit the page. If so, you should turn that feature off, to see the full image.)
I also list all of my books, by title, underneath the photo.
The large book directly next to the "Chess - 5334 Problems, Combinations, And Games" by Laszlo Polgar is "Pal Benko - My Life, Games And Compositions" by Pal Benko.
Ooh...San Antonio 72...
I was going to be impressed with the collection until I saw Ray Keene titles in there :)
I also have always loved Modern Chess Opening Traps by William Lombardy. I read that one a lot as a kid. I need to get another copy...
So, where do you live and when are you not home? ;-)
Seriously, I am more than a little envious. A litle curious also: What's been read and what hasn't?
Question. How many times have you read each one? I am at the other end. Just starting out. I have read one and now asking Santa for another one this year. But I wonder how many I need or if I should just keep re-reading what I already have.
You might want to pop some shims under your bookcases on the outer edges, to keep them level 
MrEdCollins wrote:
Nice.
If you purchase ten books a year, on the average, for 38 years, your collection will look like this:
I have a comparable collection I'm ashamed to say 
Hey guys, Matt here, i just had surgery yesterday, and im sitting at home hopped up on vicoden, so i thought i would take this oppertunity to share my collection of chess books with my friends here on chess.com (thats you guys).
1.Standard chess openings
2.nunns chess openings
3.starting out the pirc/ modern
4.starting out the caro-kann
5.starting out the ruy lopez
6.starting out the nimzo indian
7.starting out the sicilian
8.play the french
9. 7 ways to smash the sicilian
10. play the sicilian kan
11.italian games and evans gambit
12.how to win in the chess opening
13.pawn poewr in chess
14.complete book of chess strategy
15.chess strategy for the tournament player
16.lessons in chess strategy
17.mastering positional chess
18.the amatures mind
19.how to reassess your chess
20.the reassess your chess work book
21.the 7 deadly chess sins
22.my system
23.chess visualization course book I tactics
24.chess tactics for the torunament player
25.boby fischer teaches chess
26.chess tactics for kids
27.how to beat your dad at chess
28.chess tactics work book
29.practical chess exorcises
30.art of attack in chess
31.the king in jepardy
32.chess endgame quiz
33.just the facts
34.silmans complete endgame course
35.the immortal game
36/37. comprehensive chess course vol. I & II
38. mensa guide to chess
39. chess players bible
so there you have it guys, thats all the chess books i have collected over the years. feel free to critique my collection, ie wich books you think are just fat that needs to be trimmed, call me a jack @$$, or what ever. Im feeling the love today, lol.