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192 pages. Octavo (8" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. First edition in Russian. About the match for the world championship Karpov-Korchnoi in 1978 through the eyes of the winner. The 1978 World Chess Championship was played between challenger Viktor Korchnoi and champion Anatoly Karpov in Baguio City, Phillipines. The conditions of… Read more about this item

224 pages with diagrams, table and index. Octavo (8" x 4 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Rafael Moiseevich Kofman was a (Soviet) chess composer, International Master (1973) and International Judge of Chess Compositions (1956), and the editor of the problem column in the magazine Chess in the USSR. Condition: Light edge wear else very good.

31 pages with diagrams and table. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2) bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Number 32 in the series. First edition. From 1979 to 1988, Myers edited and published 38 issues of the Myers Openings Bulletin. Nine double-sized issues, called the New Myers Openings Bulletin, came out in 1992–96. Myers Openings Bulletin, Myers offered: "...a remarkable diet… Read more about this item

37 pages with diagrams. Octavo (8 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's pictorial stapled wrappers. First edition. Chess players who enjoy playing the Benoni Defense or Benko Gambit will enjoy playing the Blumenfeld Gambit. Use the Blumfeld Gambit to get exciting games when White plays 2.Nf3. When you wish to avoid soaking up the pressure you can go on the offensive with… Read more about this item

38 pages with diagrams. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial stapled wrappers. First edition. Condition: Light edge wear else very good.

vii+142+[10 ad] pages with diagrams and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4) bound n original punisher's brown floral cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. (Betts: 24-9) First edition. A collection of master games, played 1826-1890, with annotations drawn from various sources. Condition: Corners heavily bumped, spine ends rubbed, lacking back fly leaf, spine dulled else good to very… Read more about this item

273+[7 as] pages with diagrams, tables, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First edition. Emanuel Lasker was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher. He was the second World Chess Champion, holding the title for 27 years, from 1894 to 1921, the longest reign of any officially recognized World Chess Champion… Read more about this item

viii+287 pages with diagrams. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with black lettering to spine in original jacket. An annotated treasury of the greatest games ever played... Now you can savor the strategy, psychology and sheer brilliance behind a host of landmark struggles.... [Dr. Fine] has leavened his tale of master strokes and miscues with… Read more about this item

34 pages with diagrams. Octavo (8 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's pictorial stapled wrappers. First edition. The Caro–Kann Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: 1. e4 c6 The Caro–Kann is a common defence against the King's Pawn Opening. It is classified as a Semi-Open Game, like the Sicilian Defence and French Defence, although it is thought to be… Read more about this item

34 pages with diagrams. Octavo (8 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's pictorial stapled wrappers. First edition. 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 The Benko Gambit, named for GM Pal Benko, is a popular opening. However, it is a bit unusual as gambits go. Black, not White, gives up a pawn for long-term positional compensation. Someone who plays the Benko is… Read more about this item

41 pages with diagrams. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial stapled wrappers. First edition. The Nimzo-Indian Defence continues to be one of Black's most popular and respected defences to queen's pawn openings, and finding an antidote for White has proved to be a difficult task for even the strongest players in the world. One of… Read more about this item

58+[2 ad] pages with diagrams and index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's stapled wrappers. First edition. The English Opening is a chess opening that begins with the move: 1. c4 A flank opening, it is the fourth most popular and, according to various databases, one of the four most successful of White's twenty possible first moves. White begins… Read more about this item

364 pages with tables, diagrams, appendix and index. Octavo (8" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with white lettering to spine over pictorial boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. Chess Olympiads 1927-1966 offers a historical view of the development of individual and team play, as well as the growth of schools, e.g. the rise of the… Read more about this item

101+[3] pages with frontispiece, diagrams, photographs and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. Fist edition. A superb collection of fifty of the greatest masters games ever played. Its painstaking research, analytical clarity and graceful exposition are not only much admired by average players but by famous… Read more about this item

158 pages with diagrams, tables, illustration, bibliography and indexes. Octavo (8 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's pictorial boards. Translated by Jaroslav Peprnik. Proofread by J Ken MacDonald. Historical Chess Tournaments 22. Czech Series 3. First edition. In order to celebrate the foundation of the UJCS, the Prague clubs, the Czech Chess Club and the Dobrusky Chess Club … Read more about this item

124 pages with diagrams, tables and index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Translated by A J Swift. Rare and unpublished Tournaments and Matches number 55. First edition. European Individual Chess Championship 1942 was chess tournament purporting to be the first European Championship (Europameisterschaft). It was held in Munich, 14–26 September 1942, organised by… Read more about this item

195+[1 ad] pages with table, diagrams, photographs and index. Octavo (8" x 6") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. International Chess Tournament Series number 92. First edition. There have previously been two books on this tournament both now unobtainable on the secondhand market. They were Morgan's Shilling Library and The Bradford Tournament published by the British Chess Magazine. It was in Bradford… Read more about this item

173 pages with illustrations, diagrams, tables and indexes. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Limited to 100 copies of which this is number 93. First edition. Mackenzie, Mason, and Co. is a series of books on New York chess in the period 1866 to 1880. Part I (1866-1867) was published in 2012, part II (1868)… Read more about this item

181 pages with illustrations, diagrams, tables and indexes. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Limited to 100 copies of which this is number 60. First edition. Mackenzie, Mason, and Co. is a series of books on New York chess in the period 1866 to 1880. Part I (1866-1867) was published in 2012, part II (1868)… Read more about this item

42 pages with diagrams. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial stapled wrappers. First edition. The Nimzo-Indian Defence continues to be one of Black's most popular and respected defences to queen's pawn openings, and finding an antidote for White has proved to be a difficult task for even the strongest players in the world. One of… Read more about this item