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The Batsford guide to chess openings
B.T. Batsford Limited
1976
A survey of modern opening theory aimed at the junior or club player.
The Brussels encounter
Chequers Chess
1987
A record of the games played at the OHRA chess tournament.
The chess mysteries of Sherlock Holmes
Hutchinson
1980
A collection of chess problems built round a Holmesian dialogue.
Chess openings illustrated. 1: centre counter
G. Bell and Sons, Ltd.
1919
An introduction to the centre counter.
Fighting chess: my games and career
B.T. Batsford Ltd
1983
Contains 64 of Kasparov's games, 32 annotated by him.
Fischer v. Spassky Reykjavik 1972
Penguin Books
1972
An account of the struggle for the World Chess championship, with biographies of both players.
Instructive positions from master chess
G. Bell & Sons, Ltd
1938
A collection of over 125 annotated positional examples.
Judgment and planning in chess
G. Bell and Sons Ltd
1973
A discussion of approaches to the middle game in chess.
Modern opening chess strategy
MacGibbon & Kee
1959
Aimed at enabling the reader to understand the strategic principles of the openings he plays.
One hundred chess gems
Whitehead & Miller Ltd.
1945
A collection of chess games selected by a former Scottish champion.
An opening repertoire for the attacking club player
B.T. Batsford Limited
1976
Written for the club player who would like to have a good command of openings.
Reshevsky on chess: the US champion tells how he wins
Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd.
1948
A autobiographical record of Reshevsky's development as a chess player.
