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Here is my list of books from my library. I am interested in swapping titles.

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. 2, 20,21

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

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

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 –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 Carrer-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 Matches,Tournaments,Collections

Best of Chess 1988 – 1995 Game sof Worlds top ten –Chess Asia

World Championship Chess 1990 Cycle-Chess asia

                                             1993 Cycle –Chess asia

Fischer vs Spassky 5M illion 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

Moscow Marathon 1984/1985 World Chess Ch. –Speelman,Tisdal

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

            

 


lukeyboy_xx
u have already done this topic!!
TheOldReb
Sheeesh !! Some folks definitely have too much free time on their hands!
lukeyboy_xx
Reb wrote: Sheeesh !! Some folks definitely have too much free time on their hands!

Defantely


sniperghost360

GEEZ DO U HAVE ANY TIME 2 ACTUALLY PLAY CHESS WITH ALL OF THOSE BOOKS 2 READ?


baltic
it's just a hobby broWink
DrNyet

I have the same disease and enjoy such lists. happy.png

SeniorPatzer

Do you mark up and write in your books?

TatteredGreen

This is a great library.

TuckerTommy
That stuff is available online as ebooks or pdf!

ActuallySleepy
Pics or gtfo
eMSyarief94
TuckerTommy wrote:
That stuff is available online as ebooks or pdf!

I actually curious about this too! wink.png

Kennison
Didn’t seem to help the rating much. But this was 11years ago.
Glaucon333

There is no way he has read all those books. Look at all the opening books!

joseph1000000

Here is my list of books from my library. I am interested in swapping titles.

What exactly do you mean by: " sad.pngswapping titles."?

Qoxiz
Thanks
Strangemover

Simply copy and paste this list in any forum where folks are looking for advice on how to improve. @kindaspongey needs a rival. 

magazinesworldwide

It seems that you are an avid reader. Enjoy your reading.