Chess Match & Tournament Books
Great Encounters in Contemporary Chess
The moment of death has the power to stress in a single move the achievement or the futility of a life.
The death of Alekhine contains a paradox. If he had sought happiness, he found something different; if he had wanted fame, his name will live as long as chess is played.

CLEARANCE - The World Chess Championship
Regular Price: $19.95
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This book includes all 120 games, numerous diagrams, photos, crosstables, indices, etc., plus a fascinating behind the scenes essay by Tournament Coordinator George Koltanowski, and a warm personal look at the players just being themselves by Sherry Rittenhouse.

CLEARANCE - San Antonio 1972 - 1st International Chess Tournament
Regular Price: $18.95
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With this in mind we commissioned Lubosh Kavalek to write a tournament book for us on one of the very strongest events in 1975, the Grandmaster tournament held in the little Dutch town of Wijk aan Zee. What Kavalek has written will undoubtedly be one of the greatest tournament books of all time. He has not only contributed penetrating analysis to many of the most interesting games played in Wijk aan Zee, he has also written something about every game, giving the reader an insight to the international tournament arena and helping him to understand what makes a chess master tick.

CLEARANCE - Wijk aan Zee Grandmaster Chess tournament 1975
Regular Price: $21.95
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Each volume of Tournament Chess contains the game scores of all top tournaments held throughout the world, as well as selected team events, matches and national championships. An opening survey, full cross-tables and indexes are provided with each issue.

CLEARANCE - Tournament Chess - Volume 26
Regular Price: $7.95
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Each volume of Tournament Chess contains the game scores of all top tournaments held throughout the world, as well as selected team events, matches and national championships. An opening survey, full cross-tables and indexes are provided with each issue.

CLEARANCE - Tournament Chess - Volume 28
Regular Price: $7.95
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One of the greatest books ever written about a world championship match. Take a trip with the Magician from Riga as he invites you to share his thoughts and feelings as he does battle for the world title.

Tal Botvinnik 1960
This book includes Schallopp’s commentary. Of course, many of E.Schallopp’s evaluations, especially as pertains to the opening, have been disproved by modern theory. Nevertheless, the Russian Chess House left most of his commentary untouched, viewing it as a tribute to the epoch and believing it has great value in terms of chess history.

Hastings 1895 Chess Tournament
The first week of November 2016, hundreds descended on the city’s South Street Seaport to watch the World Chess Championship between Norway's Magnus Carlsen and Russia's Sergey Karjakin—what by the time it was over would be front-page news and thought by many the greatest finish in chess history. Author Brin-Jonathan Butler was granted unique access to the two-and-half-week tournament and watched every move. In this book, he captures one of the world’s greatest sportsmen at the height of their powers, and attempts to decipher the secret to that greatness.

The Grandmaster - Magnus Carlsen and the Match That Made Chess Great Again - HARDCOVER
Author Brin-Jonathan Butler was granted unique access to the two-and-half-week tournament and watched every move. In The Grandmaster, he aims to do for Magnus Carlsen what Norman Mailer did for Muhammed Ali in The Fight, John McPhee did for Arthur Ashe in Levels of the Game, and David Foster Wallace did for Roger Federer in his famous New York Times Magazine profile. Butler captures one of the world’s greatest sportsmen at the height of their powers, and attempts to decipher the secret to that greatness.

The Grandmaster - Magnus Carlsen and the Match That Made Chess Great Again - PAPERBACK