Long Chess Books

     What are your longer chess books?  How many pages?  Opening manuals or encyclopedias are not eligible. 

Maybe H. J. R. Murray's chess history. I think it has about 900 pages.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708090911/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review883.pdf

     "Jose Raul Capablanca-A Chess Biography" by Miguel A. Sanchez.  553 pages and a deep examination of the Cuban chess genius' life.  Stories that I never had heard before are in this book and many annotated games and the circumstances surrounding these games.  

     "The Middle Game in Chess" by Reuben Fine, 442 pages.  Good book!

How to Reassess Your Chess, 4th Ed., by Jeremy Silman, 658 pages after a 14 page intro.

I also have the Workbook that goes with it and it is 423 pages.

I have the original 1st ed. and I think it's less than 200 pages.

I gave the first ed. to all the high school players I coached in the '90's and all of them read at least parts of it.  If I gave them the 4th edition and workbook they'd have a cow.  You have to REALLY want to go through it to get the pair!

     I found another one---"The Complete Chess Course" by Fred Reinfeld, which is 692 pages long.   Copyright 1953, by Sterling Publishing Company.

This illustrates part of the problem with this topic. The Reinfeld book was originally a bunch of books, published separately. Eventually, it was all put together in one algebraic edition with less than 300 pages.

https://www.newinchess.com/Shop/Images/Pdfs/3706.pdf

In the descriptive edition with all the original material combined into one 1950s package.

That's a good one!  Long and with big pages-perhaps 8 1/2" x 11".

     Another long and good chess book: "Mikhail Chigorin-The Creative Genius" by Jimmy Adams.  Published by New In Chess, 2016.  750 pages.   Chigorin was one of the best players in the late 19th century. 

There are a lot of books of this sort. McFarland has a book about Amos Burn with over 800 pages.

     The Amos Burn biography is 972 pages and the pages seem to 8 1/2 inches by 11 inches.  Excellent and interesting if you like 19th century chess history and I do.