Chess Match & Tournament Books
All 210 games from the greatest tournament since World War II. Smyslov, Bronstein, Keres, Reshevsky, Petrosian, 10 others; perceptive annotations by Bronstein.

Zurich International Chess Tournament 1953
This book entails information on the 1981 U.S. Open Championship in Palo Alto, CA with annotated games.

CLEARANCE - The Annotated Open - 1981 U.S. Open Palo Alto
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A colorful account of all the activities, with more than one hundred selected games to illustrate the tide of events leading to the championship. IM John L. Watson has contributed deep notes to fifteen critical games. Photographs help capture the scene of the reader. This year's Open returned to Minnesota, birth place of the U.S. Open in 1900. A complete list of participants, winners, openings and players index complete this record. Algebraic Notation. 83 pages.

CLEARANCE - The U.S. Open - St. Paul, 1982
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Fourteen of the highest rated players in the United States gathered in July 1983 to compose in a Round Robin tournament to determine the United States Chess Champion. This is a round-by-round account of the event, with the scores of all of the games an annotations to the decisive games by the 1983 Co-Champion.

CLEARANCE - The U.S. Championship, 1983
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A brilliant gathering of chess stars, including GM Viktor Korchnoi, who became available when the Soviet Union forfeited the match by Kasparov, scheduled to be played during the Open. A choice selection of 159 games provides the flavor of the intense competition, with the colorful story, round-by-round, complimented with photographs and the complete final results table.

CLEARANCE - 1983 U.S. Open
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Not since the great chess tournament of 1924 has New York City been privileged to host a chess event such as this. Players from more than twenty countries came together to participate in the strongest chess tournament held in Manhattan in sixty years. The result was 278 games of superb fighting chess.

CLEARANCE - New York International Chess Tournament - 1984
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Translated by Jimmy Adams & Sarah Hurst from the original Russian book by Rabinovich, Euwe, Botvinnik, and leading Soviet players. Full notes to the 190 games. Botvinnik and Flohr tied for first ahead of Lasker, Capablanca, Spielmann, Kan and fourteen other famous players. One of the very best tournament books ever published in English. Includes a long review of the strongest previous tournaments held in the Soviet Union along with a survey of the tournament, its development, and its opening theory.

Moscow 1935 International Chess Tournament
Black & white photographs of the 4 combatants at the front and b/w Chessboard/Moves throughout. " At the closing banquet of the Hastings (1895) tournament, Chigorin announced that the top prizewinners had been invited to St. Petersburg for a match-tournament to begin in December that year. The top finishers Pillsbury, Chigorin and Lasker, plus fifth-place finisher Steinitz agreed to play; fourth-place finisher Siegbert Tarrasch declined.

Match Tournament at St Petersburg 1895/6
In "How to Defeat a Superior Opponent", Grandmaster Edmar Mednis presents the reader with a systematic approach for competing against stronger opponents.

CLEARANCE - How to Defeat a Superior Opponent
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International Chess Tournament
Notes by Grekov and a host of great annotators including Lasker, Alekhine, Tartakower, Rabinovich, Burn, Grunfeld, Grigoriev, Levenfish, Romanovsky, Sozin, a.o., A tournament book worthy of this great event, which was one of Alekhine's finest performances. Easily one of the best tournament books ever published in English with a cornucopia of great games from the golden age of hypermodern chess.

SHOPWORN - Baden Baden 1925
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International Chess Tournament
Notes by Grekov and a host of great annotators including Lasker, Alekhine, Tartakower, Rabinovich, Burn, Grunfeld, Grigoriev, Levenfish, Romanovsky, Sozin, a.o., A tournament book worthy of this great event, which was one of Alekhine's finest performances. Easily one of the best tournament books ever published in English with a cornucopia of great games from the golden age of hypermodern chess.

Baden Baden 1925
Five is the number of World Championship matches that Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov contested from 1984 to 1990.Yasser Seirawan deeply analyzes each of the 24 games of the 1990 World Chess Championship . played in New York and Lyon. France. He answers all of the big questions, who was belligerent, who blew it and why.The final section gives all 158 tournament games played by Kasparov and Karpov, arguably the two best chess players who have ever lived. The games appear by opening, a far more useful arrangement for the chess student than the ordinary chronological presentation.

CLEARANCE - Five Crowns
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AN-Algebraic Notation.. Good notes to the games. An Alekhine victory ahead of Fine, Eliskases, Vidmar, among others.

Hastings 1936
International Chess Tournament
Notes by Maroczy, Charousek, & other contemporary masters with editing and additional commentary by John Owen. Chigorin & Charousek tied for first followed by Pillsbury, Schlechter/Janowsky, Winawer/Walbrodt, Tarrasch, Albin/Maroczy, Marco, Noa, & Popiel. Includes the Chigorin-Charousek tie-breaking match. Photos & career records of the contestants.

Budapest 1896
This book entails the life, times, games, and annotations of the Austrian Chess Wizard, Carl Schlechter.

Carl Schlecter - Life and Times of the Austrian Chess Wizard
At Buffalo 1901 Pillsbury won ahead of Delmar, Napier, Howell, Marshall, and Karpinski in a double-round event. At Buffalo 1894 Showalter edged Pillsbury out by half a point, followed by Albin and Farnsworth also in a double-round format. Both tournaments are previously unpublished.

Buffalo 1901 and 1894
Australia at the Yerevan Chess Olympiad' is the story of this major chess event from the point of view of the successful Australian team. All games played by the Australians are included, most with annotations, as well as fine games by players from other Olympiad teams.

CLEARANCE - Australia at the Yerevan Chess Olympiad
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How to Beat the Databases
This book tells you about winning the World Correspondence Chess Federation's World Championship Tournament and shows the fourteen winning games. It also tells about the International Correspondence Chess scene. How to enter a tournament, the Organizations, addresses. It cautions you in your approach. It promotes original opening play and staying away from deep studies of opening manuals. It promotes an approach like that of Lasker and not of Botvinnik. The suggestions given here may improve your game by many rating points.

Winning Correspondence Chess
A major event in the history of the gambit took place in 1990 when the German master and publisher, Volker Drueke, organized an international thematic correspondence tournament.

The Williams Gambit
William Napier met and defeated the strongest players of his era. Yet his story has remain untold for almost a century. Author and historian John Hilbert has changed all that. In a splendid Caissa Hardcover Edition replete with photographs contemporary newspaper and journal reports and all known games (320) of this extremely interesting British-born American master Napier is justly remembered and given his due. An outstanding work.

Napier - Forgotten Chess Master
This book is a permanent record of the 1997 Doeberl Cup. It contains over 150 games, many with annotations from Australia's leading players.

CLEARANCE - The 1997 Doeberl Cup
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International Chess Tournament
Notes to all the games plus two photos, bibliography, openings index, and tournament records of the contestants.

Nuremberg 1896
A first-rate tournament book for a strong US Championship in which Reshevsky just edged out Fine by 1/2 point. Kashdan was third followed by Pinkus, Simonson, Denker, Kupchik, Bernstein, Polland, Reinfeld, Shainswit, Adams, Seidman, Green, Hanauer, Woliston, and Littman. Notes to most of the games are from contemporary sources, and Fritz 7 checked many of the critical positions.

New York 1940
International Chess Tournament
Finally this complex and great tournament appears just about one hundred years after it occurred. Schlechter won by a slight margin in a very complicated series of qualifying sections. Gillam worked hard with a dedicated band of helpers to track down all the known games, graced in most cases with notes, of that era.

Ostende 1906
An English translation of this original famous tournament book in German by George Marco and Carl Schlechter. This edition has the advantage of enhancements such as the addition of 15 photos of many of the players along with corrections and additional analysis using the new, very strong program, Rybka.

Karlsbad 1907
Mexico City 2007 World Chess Championship Matches
Elista Diaries is the classic first-hand account of one of the most intensely fought World Chess Championship matches seen for decades. The World Champion and his chief trainer deeply annotate all of the games from the 1996 World Championship Match.

Elista Diaries
The Louis D. Statham Chess Tournaments - 1971-1980
The Lone Pine tournaments were the strongest and most prestigious Swiss System tournaments in the world during the ten year period from 1971 to 1980. This RHM Series of high quality chess books was the brain child of Sidney Fried (born 22 June 1919 - died 1 June 1991). Sidney Fried was not a strong player but was an aficionado or big fan of chess.

The Best of Lone Pine
Publisher Dale Brandreth has a fine track record of bringing out high quality tournament books and best games collections. Here he rescues two lesser known US tournaments with the help of the energetic Robert Sherwood who provides detailed analyses to all the games. The Chicago International of 1926 saw Frank Marshall top the field ahead of Maroczy and Torre, with other famous names such as Edward Lasker and Isaac Kashdan in the chasing pack. Lake Hopatcong 1926 was a stronger double-round event with Capablanca winning ahead of Kupchik, Maroczy, Marshall and Ed.Lasker.

Chicago 1926/Lake Hopatcong 1926 Chess Tournaments
Full notes to all the games PLUS some excellent photos and extensive commentary on the prelude and aftermath to this great event, the strongest tournament ever held up to that time. The AVRO tournament was held in the Netherlands in 1938, sponsored by the Dutch broadcasting company AVRO. The event was a double round-robin tournament.

AVRO 1938 International Chess Tournament
Phillips and Drew Kings Chess Tournament
Phillips and Drew/GLC Kings 1980 was one of the great chess events. London was a desert for international tournament chess from 1948-1973. In 1975 there was the Evening Standard London Chess Fortnight. Although these were fine events and very valuable to English chess; they could not be compared with the events in Hastings and Teesside.

London 1980
Long in the making. Part of The Great Tournaments Series. An Alekhine victory, albeit a shaky one, ahead of Kashdan, Dake/ Reshevsky/ Steiner, Borochow, Bernstein/ Factor/ Fine/ Reinfeld, Araiza, Fink. All 54 of the known games out of the 66 played are given with notes. Good photos, especially of Alekhine.

Pasadena 1932 International Chess Tournament
1845-2011
This thoroughly updated and revised edition of the highly acclaimed 1986 reference work provides a definitive history of all championship events in the United States through 2011. Both the games and the occasions are covered in depth, including biographical details, descriptive settings, anecdotes, tournament drama, unusual games, and grandmaster analysis.

US Chess Championship - 3RD EDITION
Kramnik vs. Topalov 2006
Following the split with FIDE when World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov defended his title in a match with Nigel Short in 1993 outside of FIDE, there had been two world chess champions, the “Classical Champion” who had won his title by defeating the current champion in a long match, and the FIDE World Champion who had won one of the World Championship tournaments organized by FIDE.

Reunited
With the conclusion of the great Hastings Tournament in September of 1895, it became apparent that a new chess star of the first magnitude had appeared: Harry Nelson Pillsbury. His debut was dramatic and striking, for this virtual unknown had eclipsed the best players of that time with a combination of élan and grace. However, the revelation of a new world-class player brought with it the natural questions of both skeptics and admirers, some demanding verification and others eager to see their hero demonstrate his mastery with further verve. The five highest players at Hastings were invited for the St. Petersburg tournament: Pillsbury, Chigorin, Lasker, Tarrasch and Steinitz. Tarrasch declined, the others accepted. Each of these players had plenty of reason to fight hard for first place in Saint Petersburg 1895/96. It is one of the strongest chess tournaments ever held.

Saint Petersburg 1895/96
A Dynamic Chess Opening
The French Defense is all the rage these days, and there are plenty of books examining the opening from Black's point of view. This book is a reaction from the other side.

French Winawer Poisoned Pawn
Including all games from the World Chess Championship Match, plus previous games between Anand and Carlsen and a ground breaking history of the World Chess Champions, including representative games by each of the 19 prior holders of the world title. All annotated by Grandmaster Raymond Keene, OBE. Includes 36 annotated chess games, 234 chess diagrams, plus puzzles and quizzes based upon the games of the match.

Carlsen - Anand Match for the World Chess Championship