Tournament Books?

I've been reading through Timman's Curacao, and I've found myself really enjoying the tournament book formation (compared to, say, annotated game collections (which are fine, too!)). I have the book on the Botvinnik-Tal return match as well, but I was wondering if there were any recommendations for really good tournament books out there.

I think I've heard someting about Bronstein's book on Zurich (1953?) and one done by Alekhine (on a New York tournament in the '20s, I think). Any other good ones?

Bronstein's book is famous. In more recent times, this book is outstanding.

There's also Sicilian Love, on an Open Sicilian-themed tournament organized to celebrate Polugaevsky's birthday in 1994 (Anand, Ivanchuk, Kamsky, Karpov, Polgar, Ljubojevic, Salov, Shirov). Great if you play the Open Sicilian as either side.

One of the great classics is The Hastings Tournament 1895 by Cheshire.

My humble suggestion from my humble  chess library.

Bronstein Zurich 53? YES! But, the true please! This books is writen  with his friend Boris Vainstein! Yes! The wonderful text of this book is not of Bronstein, but Vainstein! Bronstein confessed!
Zurich 53 - Najdorf? YES, and YES! Maybe even better than "Devik" and Vainstein!
Tal - Botvinnik? Extrordinary! Fischer-Spassky, Timman? Maervellous! Couracao-Timman-Great!
But I sugerior something more refined, uncommon and infrequently reported in the literature chess player? Here goes, right from my bookshelf for this Forum.

PS: The Botvinnik Book is a MUst of chess literature, but, the story
behind this title,  shows the "litlle man" hiden in this great player! A shame the way he  "stealed" the title of the USSR of that year.

Hastings, Cheshire wonderful, but this rarity of Crouch is so
wonderful with their analysis, corrections, explanations, that make it a modern classic as few.

Have fun!

Among more recent tournament books, I like Mihail Marin's book on the  Reggio Emilia 2007 tournament. That tournament had Korchnoi, Gashimov, David Navara, and several other players whose names should be known to every avid chess fan.

Rather than show you the cover, here's a link to a review of the book:

http://www.chessvibes.com/reviews/review-reggio-emilia-20072008

Thanks for your suggestions, everyone. I'm compiling a list and checking it twic--er, sorting it in order of personal priority, anyway. I confess that I have a soft spot for chess history, so some of the books about the older tournaments appeal to me. However, I don't intend on neglecting recent stuff entirely, so thanks for the San Luis and Reggio Emilia suggestions.

I just noticed, the AVRO tournament hasn't been mentioned yet, and neither has Piatgorsky. Take a look at those two as well.

without controversy, I hope. A great future theme for this Forum

Well, as the covers ... sorry Mr. SmyslovFan. By other hand,  I'dont like chessbive  reviews. I'don't buy a book by criticism of chessbives, just that.

Funny I have the book Reggio Emilia 2007 (hundreds and hundreds of chess books that I have most are tournaments and biographies) and is a beautiful, a great book, yes, ( Marin is a fantastic chess writer)  but did not buy it for what  is written  in chessvibes, but because a friend recommended me.  I do not buy a book by what  some commercial sites write about it, but by the category of the author, the historical and intellectual honesty of those who write, and I trust more in the community than in chess  reviews and reviewers who often didn’t read the books that are criticized.  I will better buy a chess book if  a member of this forum suggest it,  that  for the reviews! It's amazing how some critics can make reviews of  dozens and dozens of books, thousands and thousands of pages in a few months! Truly reviewers’ machine! I know very well how runs  the publishing market in chess and how small and hardworking companies that make great chess books fights to have space in the market dominated by those who we know. I know very well who is in chess Jmmy Adams, Edward Winter, Vlastimil Fiala, Michael Ehn, Lissowski, Richard Forster, Jimmy Adams, Jeremy Gaige, Ken Whyld, Isaac Linder, Voronkov,  Tim Harding, Kasparov, Sosonko, Per Skjoldager and Jørn Erik Nielsenand, Daniel Ackermann, Hilbert, , I know very well what it means Quality Chess, Mc Farland, Russell Enterprises, Olms and do not need others to tell me any reasons why this book is very good, even if it is junk ! Polugayevsky wrote that 90% of chess books should never have been written because they are really bad. Some truth in this "boutade" of Polu.

I Like covers! And some modern chessbooks covers are horrible, unsightly, some distasteful and instead of promoting the book, seems to kill him at birth! Mastery, the graphic  art of chess books covers  of the years 50-80 was itself replaced by hideous  engravings and ridiculous titles "Smash" "Killing" and so on!

You are right, Smyslov Fan about Piatigorsky, but...

Two books on the same tournament in different years, but different books. One has nothing to do with  other, nothing!

One the left the "First" is a simple book tournament with brief notes of Petrosian, Keres and Reshevsky, and even verbal notes are very brief and almost no analysis (in 5 games we could call analizes). Say that... a book no poor,  but tasteless.Not a great book. Only informative not more.

On The right the 2nd Piatigorsky 66 is one of the jewels of twentieth century chess  literature regarding  Tournaments books! An extraordinary book  where practically every game the two players (except Fischer  that only comments one) "says" about the position, the feelings, the strugle "per si" and where we perceive the different way to see the chess sense of position , the  strategic-tactical approach of our beloved game . We read the coments, analyzes, and we seem to be there alongside the players within their thoughts, their intense struggle, or the post-mortem!
A book of old, as now rarely do, where there was time for the time of chess, where the GM top almost felt the need to write for the amateurs to enhance this passion for the game!

One treasure in my chess book Collection.

With covers and examples of two books, compare!

the mother of all tournament books can be found here:

http://archive.org/details/chesstournament00staugoog

I would add

New York 1924 and 1927 by Alekhine

1948 World championship Keres & Botvinnik

Montreal 1979

1988 USSR Championship (Kasparov, Karpov, young Ivanchuk, old Smyslov etc)

1914 Peterburg (where the first grandmasters were pronounced by Czar -  Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Tarrasch, Marshall)

It's kind of cheating becasue it's not a book about a single tournament but one about a series of tournaments. The Soviet Championships by Mark Taimanov is an absolute classic, but very difficult to find these days.

This may be a question for another thread perhaps, but I wonder... What great tournament books are yet to be published? Are there any tournaments in recent times that have the potential for great reporting?

The recent Candidates was perfect for a tournament book, I'd say. But people asked Quality Chess if they were doing one (as San Luis was so good), and they said it didn't make business sense. So basically they don't sell well enough to make it worth it.

Hastings 1895:

http://www.amazon.com/Hastings-1895-The-Centennial-Edition/dp/1886846014

London 1922:

I recommend getting the one without the generic cover by Harding Simpole which is more expensive:

http://www.amazon.com/London-1922-Geza-Maroczy/dp/1888690615/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1366895292&sr=1-1&keywords=london+1922+chess

Vienna 1922:

http://www.amazon.com/Vienna-1922-Larry-Evans/dp/1936490021/ref=pd_rhf_se_s_cp_2_VR6N

That's a great pity.  I also rate the recent Candidates quite highly.

House of Staunton has many tournament books including AVRO 1938.

http://bit.ly/ZPs0E3 (shortened URL link)

This one is $43.95 which is a bit steep, but they are limited printing I'd guess.

I have a book by Dr. Arthur S. Antler on AVRO 1938. It contains pictures and some games annotated by the players themselves. It's a nice little production, but not nearly as good as the Bronstein book on Zurich.

I know some people prefer Najdorf's book on the tournament. But Bronstein's work is actually a brilliant manual on how to play chess. He gives explanations on the state of theory at the time of the tournament, discusses such elements as the "bad bishop", and many other aspects of chess. If you study Bronstein's book, you will learn how to play IQP positions, endgames, King's Indians, Nimzo-Indians, and all sorts of other types of positions. This isn't just because the positions occurred in the games, it's because of Bronstein's explanations, many of which have been repeated in specialized books on those themes! There hasn't been a better tournament book written than that. 

But for a counterpoint, Andy Soltis seems to prefer Najdorf's book. They are very different in tone from each other. Bronstein's book makes the players look great. Najdorf seemed to focus more on the mistakes that were made. 

I will also recommend the 2nd Piatigorsky, I wish more tournament books followed that format.