Baltic wrote
Got some 180+ more at the attic(unless the mites got them) and some i already traded and sold.:)
Hey Reb he a'int finished yet, last I heard he's up in the attic as I write this listing the other 180 for us all!
NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!
I don't have any, but I do have an internet connection and a membership here at Chess.com....Oh and I also stayed at a Holiday Inn last night, which should account for something...
Seriously, I have access to the public library which I can do inter-library loans from almost 40 libraries.
I have 22 books, most of which cover my favourite openings along with a few excellent middlegame/endgame books. I hope to read some of them sometime.
so many !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Got 2! Asked for three more for christmas! I'm gonna get into Yasser Seirwan. Hope they're good! So 5!
I have about 30, and personally, i think anything over 100 chess books is a bit much :/
I have about 30, and personally, i think anything over 100 chess books is a bit much :/
If you only have all the informants you would have over 100 books.
I have about 30, and personally, i think anything over 100 chess books is a bit much :/
If you only have all the informants you would have over 100 books.
I have most Chess Informants--the games at least--in electronic format, but also have more than a half dozen individual printed volumes, one printed monograph, and all five volumes of ECO, though not the latest edition. I didn't count in my totals any of the electronic editions, nor any of the more than two dozen books and magazines in PDF format. Google Books has available for free download many classic texts, such as The Art of Chess (1905) by James Mason.
Here's mine:
Opening Books
A Killer Chess Opening Repertoire –Summerscale
The Chess Advantage in Black & White- Kaufman
Winning with the Najdorf –King
Complete Defense to Queen Pawn Openings Schiller
Winning with the Schliemann –Tseitlin
Dutch Defense: New and Forgotten Ideas-Minev, Donaldson
Complete Defense to 1.Pk4(A study of the Petroff’s Defense) –Hooper
Complete Defense to King Pawn Openings: Caro-Kann –Schiller
The Ruy Lopez: Winning Chess with 1. PK4 –Barden
The Benoni –hartston
The Modern Defence –Keene, Botterill
The King’s Indian Defense-Barden,Hartston, Keene
The Siclian Defense Book1 –Gligoric, V. Sokolov
The Siclian Dragon –Levy
The Sicilian Sozin – Kottnauer, Botterill, Harding
Ideas behind the Chess openings-Fine
Caro-Kann Defence- Suetin
The Classical Caro-Kann-Kasparov, Shakarov
The Gruenfeld Defence-Hartston
The Dynamic Caro-Kann –Silman
The Meran System –Pedersen
The Slav Defense –Sadler
The Ultimate King’s Indian Attack –Dunnington
Starting out: Benoni Systems –Raetsky,Chetverik
Winning with the Gruenfeld –Adorjan, Dory
The Complete benoni –Psakhis
An Unbeatable White repertoire –Evans, Smith
Trends: Benko Gambit –Jacobs
Nunn’s Chess openings-Nunn,Burgess,Emms,Gallagher
The Chigorin Queens Gambit –Dunningtopn
B12 Caro-Kann –Seirawan
The Sicilian Scheveningen –Kasparov,Nikitin
The Grand Prix Attack –Lane
The Ruy Lopez Exchange –Panczyk, Ilczuk
How to play the Albin Counter Gambit- Schiller
New Ideas in the Four Knights –Nunn
Mystery of Najdorf – Raicevic,Jukic,Boto
Chess Informant No. 1-22
New In Chess No. 80
Open Ruy Lopez C80-81 –Korchnoi
Chess openings traps and zaps –Pandolfini
Winning with the closed Sicilian –Lane
Surveys: 34 Opening Variations
* The Complete Grunfeld- Suetin
* The Contemporary Anti- Dutch –Martin
* Winning with the Ruy Lopez Exchange- Soltis
* Grob’s Attack – Bill Wall
* The Sicilian Defence- Gufeld
* French Defence, Tarrasch Variation C05-06 – Bareev
* Open Ruy Lopez – Flear
* The …a6 Slav –Flear
* 101 Chess Opening Surprises –Burgess
* The Scandanavian Defence-Plaskett
* Starting out: 1.d4! –Cox
* The Scandanavian –Emms
* Winning with the Cole System –Smith ,Hall
* How to open a chess game-Evans,Gligoric
* French Defence: Steinitz, Classical & Other System –Psakhis
* Chess Openings For Black Explained- ALburt,Dzindzichashvili
* Chess Opening for White Explained –“ “
* Mastering the French –Harley,Mcdonald
* Play 1.e4 e5!: A complete Repertoire for black in the open games-Davies
* Winning with the Nimzoindian-Keene
* The Complete King’s Indian –Keene, Jacobs
* Practical Chess openings-Fine
* Starting Out: Closed Sicilian –Pallisser
* Play the Nimzo-Indian Defence-Gligoric
* Sicilian Defence B86-87-Beliavsky ,Mikchalchishin
* The Essential Center-Counter-Martin
* Understanding the Chess openings:The Queen’s Indian –Soltis
* The Nimzo-indian Rubinstein- Dunnington
* Mastering the Spanish-King, Ponzetto
* Queen’s Indian Defence –Efim Geller
* Starting out: Modern Benoni-Vegh
* Beating the Anti-King’s Indian: Gallagher
* The Complete Pirc-Nunn
* The New Classical King’s Indian-Nunn ,Burgess
* The Open Spanish-Krasenkov
* The HedgeHog-Suba
* The Gambit-Yudovich
* Starting out 1.e4: A Reliable Reportiore for the Improving Player –Mcdonald
* The Trompowsky –Davies
* How to play the English opening –Povah
* Mastering the King’s Indian Defence-Bellin,Ponzetto
* Mastering the Modern Benoni & Benko Gambit –Bellin, Ponzetto
* Trends in the Advance French Vol. 2 –Wade
* Understanding the Leningrad Dutch-Beim
* Queen’s Gambit Accepted- Neishtadt
* The Complete Sveshnikov Sicilian –Yakovich
Strategy ,Tactics, Studies books
Grandmaster Secrets: Endings –Soltis
Granmaster Secrets : Openings –Soltis
Chess Fundamentals –Capablanca, de Firmian
Analyzing th end game –Speelman
The Middle game Book 1 –Euwe,Kramer
My System –Nimzovich
Turning Advantage into victory in chess –Soltis
Winning Chess Tournaments for juniors –Snyder
The Middle Game in chess –Fine
200 Challenging Chess Puzzles –Greif
Combinations The Heart of Chess-Chernev
The King Hunt –Cozens
Development of a chessmaster-Schiller
The Final Countdown- Hajenius,van Riemsdijk
Practical Knight Endings – Mednis
Practical Chess Endings: Keres
Chess Endings Essential Knwoledge – Averbakh
The Chess Sacrifice –Vukovic
303 Tactical Chess Puzzles-Wilson,Albertson
Master The Game of Chess – Sehgal
Winning with chess Psychology –Benko, Hochberg
From Beginner to expert in 40 Lessons –Kostyev
Training For the Tournamnet Player-Dvoretsky,Yusupov
How to play good opening moves-Mednis,Hochberg
Chess Catechism –Evans
Alexander on Chess –Alexander
The Art of Defense In Chess- SOltis
The Art of Positional Play –Reshevsky,Hochberg
3 Steps To Chess Mastery –Suetin
Attack & Defence in Modern Chess Tactics-Pachman
The Art of Chess –MASon
Easy Endgame Stategies – Robertie
The 10 Common Chess Mistakes –Evans
A World Champions Guide to Chess –Susan Polgar
Chess Tactics For Champions –Susan Polgar
Guide to Good Chess – Purdy
# Teach Yourself Visually Chess –Edwards
*Complete Chess Strategy 1 -3 –Pachman
*Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur-Euwe, Meiden
Master Class Typical Mistakes –Mcdonald
Mastering Chess Tactics –Mcdonald
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Chess –Wolf
Comprehensive Chess Endings 1 -5 – Averbakh,Maizelis,Kopaev,Chekover
Chess For Beginners –Horowitz
Chess Board Magic –Chernev
Planning in Chess- Flesch
Chess for Fun & Chess for blood- Ed Lasker
Chess Endings Made Simple –Snape
Wining Chess –Chernev, Reinfeld
Inside the Chess Mind-Aagaard
Secrets of Rooks Endings-Nunn
Understanding Chess Move by move –Nunn
Improve Your Chess now- Tisdall
New Ideas In Chess –Evans
Winning Chess Tactics For Juniors –Hays
Chess Endings For the practical player
School of Chess Excellence VOl. 1 to 4 –Dvoretsky
Secrets of Chess Training –Dvoretsky
Attack and Defense- Yusupov, Dvoretsky
The Middle Game book 2 –Euwe,Kramer
Play Like a GM –Kotov
Think Like a Gm –Kotov
Train Like a GM –Kotov
The Soviet School of Chess- Kotov, Yudovich
A Contemporary Approach to the Middlegame –Suetin
Plan Like a GM –Suetin
Understanding the Sacrifice-Dunnington
Chess Endgame training –Rosen
Pandolfinis’ Endgame Course –Pandolfini
How to use Computers to Improve Your Chess –Kongsted
Understanding Pawn play in chess –Marovich
The Art of Chess Combination- Znosko-Borovsky
The Soviet Chess Conveyor-Shereshevsky
The Art of planning in chess-Mcdonald
Defence and Counterattack- Florian
Why You lose at chess –harding
How to calculate chess tactics-Beim
The Art of Attack in chess –Vukovic
The brilliant touch in chess –Korn
Winning Chess Tactics –Seirawan,Silman
Biographical Books
Lasker's greatest games - Fine and Reinfeld
The Unkown Capablanca-Hooperdt
Chess At the top 1979 to 1984 –Karpov
Beyond the 13th Move –Torre
Gary Kasparov’s Fighting Chess-Kasparov,Speelman,Wade
My Best Games of Chess 1935-1957-Smyslov
Reshevsky’s Best games of chess- Reshevsky
Jon Speelman’s Best Games of Chess – Speelman
Devlopment of a GM –Adams
Morphy’s Game of Chess –Sergeant
Capablanca's Laste lectures
The Chess Games of Adolph ANderssen –Burnett,Pickard
John Nunn’s Best Games –Nunn
Chess Praxis –Nimzovich
Nimzovich –The Hypermodern –Reinfeld
Grandmaster Achievement –Polugaevsky
Mikhail Tal’s Best Games of Chess –Clarke
The Closed Openings in action –Karpov
The Development of A Chess Style –Euwe,Nunn
My Life and Games –Kramnik,Damsky
My 300 Best Games –Karpov
The Games of Anatoly Karpov –O’conel,Adams
My Best games of chess VOl 1 1908 -1923 –Alekhine
100 Instructive games of Alekhine –Reinfeld
CJS Purdy;s Fine art of Annotation Vol. 1 to 3 –Purdy
My 60 Memorable Games –Fischer
Learn from Bobby Fischer’s Games –Schiller
How to beat Bobby Fischer –Mednis
Bobby Fischer: from genius to legend –Gufeld
Profile of A Prodigy –Brady
How Fischer Plays Chess- Levy
Bobby Fischer and His approach to chess-Agur
The Immortal Games of Capablanca –Reinfeld
The Art of Sacrifice in chess –Rudolph Spielman
Botinnik’s 100 Selected Games 1926-1946 –Botvinnik
Kasparov’s VOl. 1-6 –Chess Asia
Tigran Petrosian: His life and Games –Vasiliev
Spassky’s 100 Best Games –Cafferty
The Games of Robert James Fischer – O’Connell
Kasparov’s Chess Openings-Borik
#Achieving the aim –Botvinnik
Interview with a GM –Summerscale
My best Games 1978 –Karpov
A Memorial to Steinitz –Devide
The Test of Time –Kasparov
My 50 Years of Chess- Marshall
Fire on Board: Shirov’s Best Games – Shirov
Why Lasker Matters-SOltis
The Blockade-Nimzovich
William Steinitz:Selected Chess Games –Devide,Hooper
My Chess Career-Capablanca
Anatoly Karpov: His road to the world championship –Botvinnik
The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal- Tal, Nunn,Chandler
Gary Kasparov:His career in chess-Yudovich
Tigran Petrosian : Master of Defense 1946 to 1963 –Clarke
Aron Nimzovitch: Master of planning –Keene
Chess is my Life : Korchnoi
Karpov -Korchnoi Match 1978 -R. Keene
Chess Matches,Tournaments,Collections
Best of Chess 1988 – 1995 Games of Worlds top ten –Chess Asia
World Championship Chess 1990 Cycle-Chess asia
“ ‘ ‘ 1993 Cycle –Chess asia
Fischer vs Spassky 5Million Comback –Davies,Pein,Levitt
“ “ “ The Chess Match of the Century –Gligoric
Best Chess Games 1970 -1980 –Speelman
The GM’s Mind –Avni
The Golden treasury of Chess- Horowitz
1992 Fischer –Spassky 10:5 – Matanovich
Korchnoi_karpov match 1978-Keene
Moscow Marathon 1984/1985 World Chess Ch. –Speelman,Tisdall
World Champion from Ruy Lopez to Fischer –Santos,Ramirez,Valdez
5 Crowns: The Complte Karpov- Kasparov Duel –Seirawan,Tisdal
World Chess Championship 1995:Kasparov vs. ANand: King
The World Chess Championship 1948-1969 –Glogoric,Wade
Great Chess Victories and Defeats –Byrne
500 Master games of Chess- Tartakover
Zurich Int’l Chess Tournament 1953 –Bronstein
The book of the Nottingham Int’l Chess Tournamnet –Alekhine
The 1974 Canidates Semi-finals –Santos, Ramirez, Mendez
The Leningrad Interzonal 1973 –Torre,De Castro
Interzonal Chess Biel 1993 –Chess Asia
Interzonal Chess Manila 1990 –Chess ASias
World Chess Olpympiade 1988,1990,1992,1996 –Chess Asia
Various Tournament books from 1988 to 1997 ( Iceland, Spain, Belgium, France,)
# Chess Match between Steinitz and Blackburne –Steinitz
Folkstone 1933 Int’l Team Chess Tournament –Kashdan
Trophy Chess: Lessing Rosenwald Tournament -1954 -1955 –Evans
The World Chess Crown Challenge:Kasparov –Karpov Seville 1987 –Bronstien
2nd Intl’ Chess Tournamnte Moscow 1935 –Krylenko
Soviet Union vs World 1970 –Petrosian,Matanovich
Mammoth Book of Greatest Chess Games –Nunn, Emms, burgess
Chess Magazines
Chess Asia
VOl 14 #1
VOl 17# 3
Vol 16 # 2
VOl 17 # 4
Vol 17 # 2
Vol 14 # 2
Vol 8 # 2
Vol 7 # 4
VOl 9 # 2
Vol 7 # 3
Vol 8 # 4
Vol 11 #2
Vol 10 # 4
VOl 12 # 3
Vol 11 # 1
Vol 9 # 1
Vol 3 # 4
Vol 4 # 2
Inside Chess
Vol 7 # 13
Vol 5 # 7
VOl 6 # 24
Vol 10 # 10
Vol 7 # 10
Chess Life
July 2005
July 2006
Aug 2005
May 2005
Got some 180+ more at the attic(unless the mites got them) and some i already traded and sold.:)
Wow! Guess some one had plenty of time to write that! Ummm.......get a life!
Well brother...I do have a life.... I'm a Prof. Broadcast Video/Sound Editor
and chess is my way of relaxing and spending valuable time.This was my list in text form which i have typed a few months ago when i was trading my books for other titles. I felt it very useful to write it down so that the person to whom i could sell/trade my books with will find it easy to choose.So in short, the list has been done a long time ago for trading/selling purposes. So it's not because i had nothing to do (it's business). It's not just all chess books that i spend time reading bro, I also have books that i read that are related to my job (Lightwave,Avid,Protools, Maya, Flash, After effects, Edius,Studio Max,Photoshop, illustrator,Sound forge and Dreamweaver) in case you've not seen my profile . Most of my chess books are old about 3 to 4 decades old passed on to me by my grandpa to my uncle then to me.I wrote it down not to brag about them, but to share them in case somebody needs to trade for them or buy them.Merry christmas bro!
I have around 25 quite a few of them are for the chess club and 32 if you include the ones that I'm donating to the Library.
Alot of mine are for endgame reference like secrets of rook endings by Nunn. Also I have a plan to build up my opening book collection but I'll need to get some more money before I even think about that.
Here's mine:
[snip]Wow! Guess some one had plenty of time to write that! Ummm.......get a life!
Well brother...I do have a life.... [snip]
You see, listing all these books once is hard enough on the thread, but quoting it repeatedly is worse, and wholly unnecessary.
Over 600. I certainly wouldn't ever try to list them all though! The secret is to try to read (and understand) them! :)
I only have a handful.
But I figure all important chess knowledge is encoded into The Mammoth Book of The World's Greatest Chess Games so it is my favorite to study.
P.S., I think I could study it for the rest of my life and still be learning from it.
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REB: Says he has 300
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HoldemRulzOK: Says that he has over 800!
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I thought I had a lot, but in comparison I am a like a puny pawn.
But you know as well a puny pawn can win a battle of chess and get promoted, but never become a KING.
I have about 100 chess books. Probably about 200 books in my library with other subjects.
Of the 100 chess books I have never PLAYED out all the games on a chess board, some only in my head, and many I just skipped over.
So If I pick up one of the books I always find something different to learn. Many of the book are beginners books that I planned to give away, but since they change the way the books are written I don't give them to new students. Those books just sit there waiting.
They wait for the end of their life as a book.
The best book in my library I alway enjoy, played out and read accasionally is:
"The Adventures of a Chess Master"
by
George Koltanowski
It was written in 1955 and it has blindfold chess information and many short stories of the countries that he toured playing chess. The are very funny, tense and informative. They are written in the old informative method. Book is out of print but sold in Amazon, e-bay as a used book.
Geo was a friend of my and has pass away.
I have more books than I have time to read.
I wish I had time for some of the books on my shelf such as Kasparov's "Great Predecessor" books and Zurich 1953. Who has time to read when it takes hours to play one game!
Fischer said he had read 1000 chess books and had digested the core of each and every one. I dont think I've digested the core of any chess book. How long does it take to digest the core of a chess book.
I'm going a little off topic I know but how influential are the titles of chess books. Would a book entitled "Draw" be a big seller ? Thats kind of like kissing your sister isnt it ? What about "Chess for Tigers"? There is a picture of a ferocious looking tiger playing a nerdy looking guy on the cover. An interesting book which sold very well which reminds me of "Chess for Zebras".
A book which a few years ago caught my eye was "Chess: The Search for Mona Lisa". Isn't that what we all looking for---the mona lisa of chess books! If you ever find that Queen of chess books and read it (whatever the title) then SHAZAM---CAPTAIN MARVEL!
Isnt that why we buy chess books---we're constantly looking for that silver bullet that will release our potential.
Baltic wrote
Got some 180+ more at the attic(unless the mites got them) and some i already traded and sold.:)
Hey Reb he a'int finished yet, last I heard he's up in the attic as I write this listing the other 180 for us all!