Library

 

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This list is divided into the following sections: (i) Opening Books; (ii) Trends in openings; (iii) Endings; (iv) General Instruction; (v) Best Games and Details of Well Known Players; (vi) World Championships; (vii) Correspondence Chess; (viii) Informators; (ix) Local news, history etc.; (x) Magazines; (xi) British Chess Federation Yearbooks and Grading Lists; (xii) SCCU Grading lists; (xiii) Kingpin; (xiv) Popular Chess; (xv) Tapes; (xvi) Videos; (xvii) Novels; (xviii) Computers; (xix) Chess Problems/studies; (xx) Chess History/Anecdotes

 

Opening books

The Ideas Behind the Chess Openings – R Fine (1943)

Modern Chess Openings 9th edition – W Korn (1957)

A Pocket Guide to the Chess Openings – R C Griffith and H Golombek (1958)

Practical Chess Openings – Reuben Fine (1973)

How to Open a Chess Game – Evans, Gligoric, Hort, Keres, Larsen, Petrosian & Portisch (1974)

King’s Gambit – R G Thimann (1974)

The Marshall Attack – Wade/Harding (1974)

The Chess Opening for You – Larry Evans (1975)

An Opening Repertoire for the Attacking Club Player – Levy and Keene (1976)

The Scotch – Botterill and Harding (1977)

Chess Openings for You – B Cafferty (1979)

The Batsford Guide to Chess Openings – L Barden and T Harding (1979)

Colle System – G Koltanowski (1980)

Opening Tactics for Club Players – S Samarian (1980) 2 copies

Grunfeld – A Study by Leading Correspondence Players (1981)

Modern Chess Openings 13th edition – W Korn (1982)

Beating the Sicilian – J Nunn (1984)

Catalan Opening – O Moiseyev and G Ravinsky (1984)

Play the Tarrasch – L Shamkovich and E Schiller (1984)

Developments in the Sicilian Najdorf 1985-87 - T Hosking and R Wade

An Opening Repertoire for Black – Marovic & Parma (1987)

How to Play the Caro-Kann Defence – Keene and Taulbut (1989)

New Ideas in the French Defence – N Short (1991)

The Sicilian Labyrinth Vol. 1 – L Polugajevsky (1991)

The Sicilian Labyrinth Vol. 2 – L Polugajevsky (1991)

Chess Master v Chess Amateur – M Euwe and W Meiden (1992)

C18-C19 – Korchnoi (1993) [N.B about the French Defence Winawer]

The Nimzo-Indian Defence – Keene and Taulbut (1993)

An Opening Repertoire for the Attacking Player – Keene and Levy (1994)

Caro-Kann Exchange Variation B13 –Luccioni (1995)

The Guioco Piano – E Gufeld and O Stetsko (1996)

Winning Quickly with Black Counter-Attack from Move One – Neishtadt (1996)

The Sicilian Taimanov – J Plaskett (1997)

The French Tarrasch – J Emms (1998)

Easy Guide to the Dragon – M Golubev (1999)

The Sveshnikov Sicilian – N McDonald (1999)

French Winawer – N McDonald (2000)

Sicilian Grand Prix Attack – J Plaskett (2000)

R.H.M. Survey of Current Chess Openings Sicilian Defence Kan Variation

 

Trends in openings

Trends in the Sicilian Najdorf Vol. 2 – J Gallagher (1994)

Trends in the French Winawer Vol. 2 – V Kovacevic (1994)

Trends in the Smith-Morra Gambit Vol. 2 – Natasha Regan and Susan Lalic (1997)

Trends in the Sicilian Kalashnikov – B Lalic (1997)

Trends in the Modern Benoni Vol. 3 – C Ward (1997)

Trends in the Sicilian Najdorf Vol. 3 – B Lalic (1998)

 

Endings

Basic Chess Endings – R Fine (1941)

How to Play Chess Endings – E Znosko-Borovsky (1942)

Practical Chess Endings – Keres (1984)

Batsford Chess Endings – Speelman, Tisdall, Wade (1994)

Chess Endings for Beginners 11th edition – J H Blake

 

Middle Games

100 Remarkable Endings – P Wenman (1944)

The Art of the Middle Game – Keres and Kotov (1981)

Practical Middlegame Techniques – D Kopec (1997)

General Instruction

The Chess-Player’s Companion – Staunton (1892)

The Complete Chess Guide – F J Lee and G H D Gossip (1907)

Staunton ’s Chess Player’s Handbook – E H Bermingham (1915)

Half Hours with Morphy – Rev. E E Cunnington (1922)

The Game of Chess – Dr Tarrasch (1935)

Chess for Match Players – W Winter (1936)

The Art of Chess Combination – E Znosko-Borovsky (1936)

Chess Strategy – Edward Lasker (1944)

Chess Questions Answered – R Bonham and R Wormald (1945)

Chess Mastery by Question and Answer – Reinfeld (1946)

Chess – R F Green (1948)

More Chess Questions Answered – R Bonham and R Wormald (1948)

Chess for Fun and Chess for Blood – Edward Lasker (1952)

Chess Secrets I learned from the Masters – Edward Lasker (1952)

The Game of Chess – Golombek (1954)

The Game of Chess – Golombek (1955)

Chess Traps and Stratagems – Rev E E Cunnington (1957)

The Chess Mind – G Abrahams (1960)

Technique in Chess – G Abrahams (1961)

Chess Praxis – A Nimzowitsch (1962)

Modern Chess Strategy – L Pachman (1963)

My System – A Nimzowitsch (1964)

Modern Chess Strategy – L Pachman (1963)

My System – A Nimzowitsch (1964)

Common Sense in Chess – Emanuel Lasker (1965)

The Game of Chess – Golombek (1965)

Chess Mastery by Question and Answer – Reinfeld (1966)

The Brilliant Touch in Chess – W Korn (1966)

The Game of Chess – Golombek (1966)

The Pan Book of Chess – G Abrahams (1970)

Modern Chess Strategy – Edward Lasker (1971)

Chess for Pleasure – Elaine Pritchard (1971)

Begin Chess – D B Pritchard (1972)

The Guardian Chess Book – L Barden (1972)

Think Like a Grandmaster – Kotov (1972)

Chess Master v Chess Amateur – M Euwe and W Meiden (1973)

The Guardian Chess Book – L Barden (1973)

The Penguin Book of Chess Positions – C H O’D Alexander (1973)

Chess Questions Answered – L Evans (1974)

Chess Techniques – A R B Thomas (1975)

Complete Chess Strategy Vol. 1 – L Pachman (1975)

Winning Chess. How to See Three Moves Ahead – Chernev and Reinfeld (1975)

Chess Move by Move – L Abramov (1976)

It’s Your Move – R Teschner and A Miles (1976)

Psychology in Chess – N Krogius (1976)

Second Book of Chess Strategy – G M Lisitsyn (1976)

My System – A Nimzowitsch (1977)

Play for Mate – D Hooper and B Cafferty (1977)

The Right Way to Play Chess – D B Pritchard (1977)

Assess Your Chess Fast – O’Kelly de Galway (1978)

Better Chess for Average Players – Harding (1978)

Chess – Paul Langfield (1978)

Test Your Chess IQ Book 1 – A Livshitz (1981)

Test Your Chess IQ Book 2 – A Livshitz (1981)

The Psychology of Chess – Hartston and Wason (1983)

Routledge Chess Handbooks Book VII Practical Chess Playing – R Edwards (1984)

40 Lessons for the Club Player – A Kostyev (1986)

Chess The Complete Self-Tutor – Edward Lasker (1988)

Kasparov Teaches Chess – Kasparov (1988)

Weapons of Chess – Bruce Pandolfini (1989)

The World Champions Teach Chess – Y Estrin and I Romanov (1988)

The Open Game in Action – A Karpov (1990)

Beginning Chess – Bruce Pandolfini (1993)

How Good is Your Chess – D J King (1993)

How to Reassess your Chess Expanded 3rd Edition – J Silman (1993)

The Big Book of Combinations – Eric Schiller (1994)

The Chess-Player’s Handbook – Howard Staunton (1994)

Winning Chess Strategies – Y Seirawan (1994)

Modern Chess Brilliancies – Larry Evans (1994)

Chess for Tomorrow’s Champions – J N Walker (1995)

How to Play Chess – Emanuel Lasker (1995)

Test Your Piece Power – J N Walker (1995)

Chess Middlegames Essential Knowledge – Y Averbakh (1996)

H.O.T. Chess – P Motwani (1996)

Test Your Chess IQ Grandmaster Challenge – A Livshitz (1996)

Teach Yourself Better Chess – W Hartston (1997)

The Mammoth Book of Chess – G Burgess (1997)

The Right Way to Play Chess – D B Pritchard (1997)

Think like a Grandmaster – Kotov (1997)

The Chess Player’s Battle Manual – N Davies (1998)

The Road to Chess Improvement – A Yermolinsky (1999)

The Mammoth Book of Chess – G Burgess (2000)

Excelling at Chess – Jacob Aagaard (2001)

An Invitation to Chess – Chernev and Harkness

Chess and Draughts How to Play Scientifically – A Belasco

Chess Traveller Users Handbook

K and C Ltd The Beginner’s Book of Chess – F Hollings

Kasparov Chess CAL – Kasparov

Know the Game Chess – British Chess Federation

Modern Chess Strategy – Daily Express Chess Series

 

Best Games and Details of Well Known Players

Chess Masterpieces – W H Watts (1924)

Masters of the Chess Board – R Reti (1933)

Rubinstein’s Chess Masterpieces 100 Selected Games – H Kmoch (1941) 2 copies

Chess Marches On! – R Fine (1946)

USA v USSR The Book of the Match (c. 1946)

Tarrasch’s Best Games of Chess – Reinfeld (1947)

Nimzovich the Hypermodern – Reinfeld (1948)

The World’s Great Chess Games – R Fine (1952)

Botvinnik One Hundred Selected Games – M M Botvinnik (1960)

My Best Games of Chess 1924-1937 – A Alekhine (1962)

Grandmaster of Chess The Early Games of Paul Keres – Golombek (1964)

The Immortal Games of Capablanca – Reinfeld (1970)

Great Brilliancy Prize Games of the Chess Masters – Reinfeld (1971)

Best Games and Details of Well Known Players continued

My 60 Memorable Games – Bobby Fischer (1972)

My 60 Memorable Games – Bobby Fischer (1973)

Decisive Games in Chess History – L Pachman (1975)

Bobby Fischer’s Conquest of the World’s Chess Championship – R Fine (1975)

Chess is My Life – Korchnoi (1977) 2 copies

Great Moments in Chess – Reinfeld (1977)

Fifty Chess Masterpieces 1941-44 – R Fine (1977)

The Master Game – J James and L Barden (1979)

The English Chess Explosion from Miles to Short – Chandler and Keene (1981)

Michael Adams – Development of a Grandmaster – Bill and Michael Adams (1991)

Modern Master Play – F D Yates and W Winter (not dated – several pages missing)

Fighting Chess My Games and Career – G Kasparov (1983)

Gary Kasparov – My Games – edited by D Marovic and Z Klaric (1983)

My 60 Memorable Games – Bobby Fischer (1988)

Warriors of the Mind – Keene and Divinsky (1989)

Nigel Short’s Best Games – R D Keene (1993)

Bobby Fischer Complete Games of the American World Chess Champion – Lou Hays (1995)

Anatoly Karpov’s Best Games – A Karpov (1996)

Kramnik My Life and Games – Kramnik and Damsky (2000)

 

World Championships

Championship Chess – P W Sergeant (1938)

Chess The Fisher – Spassky Games – S Reshevsky (1972)

Fischer v Spassky The Chess Match of the Century – Gligoric (1972?)

The Times The Inside Story of the World Chess Championship Fisher v Spassky – Golombek (1973) 2 copies

Karpov – Korchnoi 1974 – W R Hartston/R D Keene (1974)

The New King Anatoly Karpov The Road to the World Chess Championship – R Byrne (1976)

World Championships continued

Karpov v Korchnoi World Chess Championship – Larsen (1978) 3 copies

Korchnoi v Spassky: Chess Crisis – Keene (1978)

Karpov Korchnoi Massacre in Merano – Keene (1981)

Karpov v Korchnoi The World Chess Championship 1981 – Hartston (1981)

Manoeuvres in Moscow Karpov – Kasparov II – Keene and Goodman (1985)

World Chess Championship Botvinnik to Kasparov – Wade, Whiteley and Keene (1986)

An Introduction to the Times World Chess Championship – Keene (1993)

Kasparov Short 1993 The Times World Chess Championship – R D Keene (1993)

World Chess Championships BBC 2 (c. 1993)

 

Correspondence Chess

British Correspondence Chess Association 1906-1981 The Official History of the First 75 Years – D J Rogers (1982)

BCCA Correspondence Chess No 98 (April 1988)

 

Informators

No. 49

No. 50

No. 78

 

Local news, history etc.

Brighton CC Communiques No 7 and 8

Letters to my Brother 1940-1946 – O W Stammer

“George” 1940-1946 A collection of letters from George Stammer to his sister – O W Stammer (1986)

‘ Sussex Chess’ 1989 and 1990

 

Local news, history etc.

‘ Brighton Chess’ – Brian Denman (1994) - republished on this website: see menu above!

‘ Sussex Chess 2005’

 

Magazines

‘Chess’

1954: Vols: 231, 232, 236

1955: Vols: 239, 242, 245 (2), 246 (2), 247, 248, 250-256, 258

1956: Vols: 259-266, 271-276, 281-283

1957: Vols: 284-292, 295-300, 302, 305, 306

1958: Vols: 307-310, 313-320, 321-322 (2), 323-327

1959: Vols: 330-350, 353-354

1960: Vols: 355-362, 369-372, 376

1961: Vols: 381, 400

1962: Vols: 401-403, 405-411, 422

1963: Vols: 423 (2), 424-426, 427 (2), 429-432, 433 (2), 435-436 (2), 437-440, 443-449

1964: Vols: 450-453, 454 (2), 456 (2), 457-458 (2), 459-462, 463-464 (2), 465-471, 472 (2), 473

1965: Vols: 474-482, 483-484 (2), 485-490, 492, 493 (2), 494-497

1966: Vols: 498-499, 503-505, 508, 509, 512-514, 515 2), 516, 517 (2), 518, 519, 520 (2)

1967: Vols: 521-522, 525-532, 533-534 (2), 535-536 (2), 541-546

1968: Vols: 547-551, 559-564, 567-570

1969: Vols: 571-572, 579-582, 589-590

1970: Vols: 601-606

1971: Vols: 633-638, 641-642

1972: Vols: 643-644, 647-650, 653-656, 659-662

1973: Vols: 677-680, 683-684, 687-688

1974: Vols: 689-712

1975: Vols: 713-714, 729-732, 735-736

1976: Vols: 737-744, 749-750, 755-760

1977: Vols: 769-774, 777-778, 779-780 (2), 783-784

1978: Vols: 801-802

1980: Vols: 843-844

1981: Vols: 861-862

1982: Vols: 873-874

1983: Vols: 895-900

1984: Vols: 921-924, 933-934

1985: Vols: 941-942, 947-948, 949-950 (2), 951-952, 955-962, 965-966

1986: Vols: 969-974

1987: Vols: 1004, 1005, 1010-1015

‘Pergamon Chess’

1988: Vol. 53 Nos. 1, 2 (2), 3, 5

‘Chess Monthly’

1989: Vol. 54 Nos. 1, 2

1994: Vol. 58 Nos.10-12, Vol. 59 Nos.1-9

1995: Vol. 59 Nos.10-12 Vol. 60 Nos. 1, 3, 4, 6-9

1996: Vol. 60 Nos.10-12 Vol. 61 Nos. 1, 2, 5, 7, 8

1997: Vol. 61 Nos. 11, 12 and Vol. 62 Nos. 2-7

1998: Vol. 62 No. 11 and Vol. 63 Nos. 1-3, 5-9

1999: Vol. 63 Nos. 10 -12

‘Chess’

1999: Vol. 64 Nos. 1-3, 5, 6, 8, 9

2000: Vol. 64 Nos. 11, 12 and Vol. 65 Nos. 8, 9

2001: Vol. 65 Nos. 10, 12 and Vol. 66 Nos. 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9

2002: Vol. 67 No. 8

2003: Vol. 67 Nos.10, 11

British Chess Magazine

1997: Vol. 117 Nos: 1-5, 6-9 (2), 10, 11, 12 (2)

1998: Vol. 118 Nos: 1, 2-12 (2)

1999: Vol. 119 Nos: 1 (2), 2-12

2000: Vol. 120 Nos: 1-12

2001: Vol. 121 Nos: 1-12

2002: Vol. 122 Nos: 1-12

2003: Vol. 123 Nos: 1-5, 7, 8-12 (2)

2004: Vol. 124 Nos: 1-5 (2), 6, 7, 10

 

British Chess Federation Yearbooks and Grading Lists

Year Book of Chess 1985-86 – BCF

Year Book of Chess 1987-88 - BCF

Year Book of Chess 1990-91 - BCF

Official Chess Yearbook 2004 - BCF

BCF Grading List 2000

BCF Grading List 2001-2002

BCF Grading List 2004

 

SCCU Grading lists

1987

1995/96

 

Kingpin

1998: No 28

 

Popular Chess

No. 7 (1984)

 

Tapes

Sicilian Najdorf – J Gallagher

 

Videos

Combat Chess (1) Ten Lethal Weapons – Julian Hodgson (1995)

Combat Chess (2) All Out Attack – Julian Hodgson (1995)

Attack with Confidence – Daniel King (1996)

20:20 Calculation – Daniel King (1996)

Brighton & Hove Chess Club v Dieppe Chess Club, the official video of the match in 2009 in France.

 

Novels

The Chess Players – Frances Parkinson Keyes (1961)

The Chess Garden – Brooks Hansen (1995)

 

Computers

Computer Chess – L Pachman and Vas I. Kuhnmund (1986)

Chess on the Web – Sarah Hurst (1999)

 

Chess Problems/studies

Mate in Two Moves – Brian Harley (1942)

Mate in Three Moves – Brian Harley (1943)

Chess Problems – E G R Cordingley (c.1945)

Pick of the Best Chess Problems – B P Barnes (1986)

White to Play and Mate in Two – B P Barnes (1991)

200 Challenging Chess Puzzles – Martin Greif (1995)

Endgame Magic – J Beasley and T Whitworth (1996) 2 copies

Solving in Style – J Nunn (2002)

 

Chess History/Anecdotes

The Treasury of Chess Lore – Reinfeld (1951)

Chess for the Love of It – A R B Thomas (1973)

Grandmasters of Chess – H C Schonberg (1975)

The History of Chess – J Gizycki (edited by B H Wood) (1977)

The Even More Complete Chess Addict – M Fox and R James (1993)

 

Modernisation of Library

 

Our extensive library is the envy of many other clubs. We've recently improved it by adding a computer connected to the internet. We have Fritz installed on the computer for analysis of matches. All members of the club are entitled to borrow books - just ask the librarian or one of the club's officers.