Title: "Handbuch des Schachspiels"
Author: P.R. von Bilguer
Published by: Verlag von Veit & Comp., Leipzig, 1891
Oldest Chess Book.
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Feb 14, 2010
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i own the Tactical Grob by Bloodgood. from 1974. saw it for as much as $97 on amazon.com
Marache's Manual of Chess--c.1885 edition of this 1866 work.
MCO-2 from 1914 or is that 1912? Many Ye Olde Lines in KG etcetera for someone to dredge up and use.
Oldest Chess Mag: American Chess Bulletin 1912 --hot and latest coverage of the Marshall-Janowsky match--I won't spoil it who won.
Favorite Old Mags: Chess Review 1946-1947-1948 complete years.
"Think Like A Grandmaster" - Alexander Kotov (first punlished in English in 1971).
Don't laugh ;-) 1971...So old, I know...
Mar 5, 2010
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Agnel, The Book of Chess, 1848
Lowenthal, Morphy's Games, 1859
Marache, Marache's Manual of Chess, 1866
Staunton, The Chess-Player's Text Book, 1870
Staunton, Chess-Player's Companion, 1877
Gossip, The Chess Player's Manual, 1888
Freeborough & Ranken, Chess Openings, Ancient and Modern, 1889
Dufresne, Lehbuch des Schachspiels, 1892
All my older books came from Tony Mantia of Ohio and his large chess libarary.
Mar 6, 2010
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BWater wrote:
How to Think ahead in Chess--IA Horowitz/Fred Reinfield--1951
Oh gawd...the worst book written in the history of chess!
One of the best Chess books that I have ever read was first published by David McKay in 1917. My copy was published by Dover Publications, in 1965 and cost $1.00 new. I bought a new copy in 2007 with modern notation published by Russell Enterprises, the price now is $20.00. Common Sense in Chess by Emanuel Lasker is an abstract of Twelve Lectures given before an audience of London chess players during the spring of 1895.
I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys playing chess using your reasoning ability rather than a photographic memory.
It and Lasker's Manual of Chess are two of the best books out there.
E-manual for the hip.
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