I just picked up this wonderful book on American chess sets. Chocked full of pictures and ads. A great piece of work!
Please post pics of your chess book collection
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Mar 14, 2017
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Finally, my friend started playing the Sveshnikov, so I had to bone up on it with The Sveshnikov Reloaded...
And its sequel, the Kalishnikov Unloaded...
Just got in from shoveling snow, some lake effect nothing like the east coast, cgrau thanks for sharing some of your favorites, I'll do same when I have more time. BurnAmos, I first came across your video about a year ago, I've base some of my purchases on your collection. What have you added since then? Keep the pics coming.
Mar 14, 2017
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Chessreader156 wrote:
Just got in from shoveling snow, some lake effect nothing like the east coast, cgrau thanks for sharing some of your favorites, I'll do same when I have more time. BurnAmos, I first came across your video about a year ago, I've base some of my purchases on your collection. What have you added since then? Keep the pics coming.
You're very welcome. Great topic. We're really getting dumped on here in southern NH. Maybe 2 feet when all is said and done. Gave me time to do this!
Mar 14, 2017
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Hello Chessrader 156 , Chuck and all the lovers of chess:
Yes Great Topic!
My recent purchases?
Hours with this book, that is my "ado" dream. The Openings of this collection are so great, made with love. Not very easy to find.
A Great Player, a great book! I wait for the 2º Vol, the most important
Rubinstein's Tournament. Analyses - Nimzowitsch, Tarrasch, Spielmann, Lasker, Capablanca, Mieses, Grau, Tartakower, Fine, Pachman, Cohn, Kmoch, It's enough? No! Razuvaev, Timman, Hubner and son on!
No words for this book! Photos, great games, Not very cheap, but worth the money
The superb Jimmy Adams-Caissa and the legendary Moscow 1935 Tournament. A book of the formidable italian chess editor "Caissa".
Extraordinary book about sovit players and URSS Championship 1973-1990. Lots of photos, Interviews, player profiles, commented matches. A great complement of the Voronkov's Book.
And Yes...One of the best books of all times, Kasparov dixit. Level of Tal-Botvinnik, Zurique 53, Carlsbad 1907. The comments ans analysis of Boleslavsky and Bondarevsky are great in depth and honesty without pedantry, are the hallmark of this timeless book.
Mar 15, 2017
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#27
cgrau wrote:
Finally, my friend started playing the Sveshnikov, so I had to bone up on it with The Sveshnikov Reloaded...
And its sequel, the Kalishnikov Unloaded...
That's hilarious, great picture!
Mar 15, 2017
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@cgrau, you might be interested yo know that I have a disturbingly large number of the same books as you, though many are different editions:
Here's a picture of my chess book collection:
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Mar 15, 2017
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We expect better than that from you Macer. You're not even keeping up with Vlad these days. Anyway, here's some more oldies:
BurnAmos
the Mikhalchishin book on the golden age of soviet chess,looks like a must have for the collection. In the early days after the fall of the Soviet Union there all kinds of interesting stuff being offered on eBay. I bid on Grekov's tournament book of Baden-Baden 1925, when it arrived I found that along with the Grekov where Russian translations of two Tartakower books, also the twenties.
Mar 15, 2017
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#32
I would be embarassed to show a pic of my small collection. I just wish I could remember 1% of what I have actually read of it. I have a memory like the Bermuda Triangle. A lot goes in but not much comes out...(-:
Mar 15, 2017
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#33
IpswichMatt wrote:
@cgrau, you might be interested yo know that I have a disturbingly large number of the same books as you, though many are different editions:
You are a very smart man with impeccable taste! LOL
Superb collections, everyone. And again, cgrau never disappoints! So fun to see all those books. Great pics, everyone
Mar 25, 2017
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Franquis wrote:
Superb collections, everyone. And again, cgrau never disappoints! So fun to see all those books. Great pics, everyone
Thanks, Frank!
Mar 25, 2017
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#36
This is a real favorite--how to open files and how to use them--a useful topic very well done. A joy to work through...
Guys thanks for sharing photos of your libraries, I hope more people will post their chess book collections, no matter how what the size of their collection.
Apr 20, 2017
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#38
IpswichMatt wrote:
We expect better than that from you Macer. You're not even keeping up with Vlad these days. Anyway, here's some more oldies:
I especially love the dust jacket on the Pachman book. Mine are long gone.
e-books:
A very recent acquisition on Keres. I can't wait to get into it...