I don't speak russian, but it doesn't matter for chess.

Thanks to independent publishing we can enjoy chess books with real graphic creativity (notice how the author of this book used different chess pieces for the diagrams). Instead of authors dumping their engine analysis because they couldn't find a move by themselves without Stockfish.

I was suprise to see some very bitter and angry people taunt me in comments for posting too fast the part of my collection I must sale for health fees.

So I would like to apologies if I may seems offensive especially tu u/Rod_Rigov who was nice to let me share with you these precious books I must say goodbye to.

I will of course keep talking with all the nice folks who are currently buying my books and those who want to. But I will need time, I am neurodiv and it's not always easy.

Thank you again for the kindness I received by the majority. I am sorry for my english.

The tournament featured an elite gathering of the world's greatest minds: the legendary David Bronstein, the brilliant theoretician Isaac Boleslavsky, future world champion Vasily Smyslov, and the "eternal contender" Paul Keres. These bulletins offer a vivid, round-by-round account of the fierce competition. They include move-by-move notations of every game, profound analytical commentary from leading Soviet masters, and detailed standings as the battle progressed. (available complete set of all 20 Bulletins)📚

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• Chess: An Annotated Bibliography, 1969–1988 — Andy Lusis — 280€
• The Chessplayer, & Other Essays — Edward Thomas — 60€
• Twenty-five Annotated Games — Robert Hübner — 120€
• Benjamin Franklin and Chess in Early America — Ralph K. Hagedorn — 100€
• The Chess Struggle in Practice — David Bronstein — 50€
• Chess in the Eighties — D. Bronstein & G. Smolyan — 40€
• Chess Pieces: An Anthology in Prose and Verse — Norman Knight — 60€
• Paul Keres: Franskt Parti — Paul Keres — 60€
• Master Prim — James Whitfield Ellison — 60€
• Traps on the Chessboard — Znosko-Borovsky (ex-libris Albert Becker) — 135€
• The Oxford Companion to Chess — Hooper & Whyld — 45€
• Bishop Endings — Yuri Averbakh — 35€
• The Literature of Chess — John Graham — 60€
• Frank Marshall, United States Chess Champion — Andy Soltis — 90€
• Capablanca: A Compendium... — Edward Winter — 120€
• Samuel Reshevsky: A Compendium of 1768 Games — Stephen W. Gordon — 140€
• The Game of Chess — Siegbert Tarrasch — 140€
• The Chess Reader — compiled by Jerome Salzmann — 50€
• My Best Games of Chess 1935–1957 — V. V. Smyslov — 180€
• Chess: An Annotated Bibliography...1850–1968 — Douglas A. Betts — 150€
• Chessmen for Collectors — Victor Keats — 80€
• The Tactics of End-Games — Jenő Bán — 40€
• Schachtaktik (4 vol. lot) — Erwin Voellmy — 50€ (lot)
• The Middle Game (Book I & II) — Euwe & Kramer — 55€ (lot)
• Soviet Chess 1917–1991 — Andrew Soltis — 180€
• The Steinitz Papers — ed. Kurt Landsberger — 130€
• Chess Results, 1747–1900 — Gino Di Felice — 50€
• Julius Finn — Olimpiu G. Urcan — 50€
• Aron Nimzowitsch: On the Road to Chess Mastery — Skjoldager & Nielsen — 120€
• The Tragic Life and Short Chess Career of James A. Leonard — John S. Hilbert — 60€
• Tal, Petrosian, Spassky and Korchnoi — Andrew Soltis — 80€
• Alexander Alekhine's Chess Games, 1902–1946 — Skinner & Verhoeven — 260€
• Modern Chess Strategy, with an Appendix on Go — Edward Lasker — 80€
• Emanuel Lasker (Vol. I–III set) — Forster, Negele, Tischbierek — 180€ (lot)
• The Famous Game of Chesse-Play — Arthur Saul (facsimile) — 150€

Famed author Ben Mezrich, Hachette’s Grand Central Publishing imprint, and Vanity Fair magazine (which published excerpts in April) extended an ugly spittle-drenched thumb in the eye to the worldwide chess community by publishing “Checkmate”: Mezrich’s partly fictionalized account of “chess’s biggest scandal” that got hyped up by Elon Musk.

Friends in the business tell me Mezrich views himself as a screenwriter rather than a journalist. Still, even Magnus Carlsen fans took insult from the firehose of falsehoods that author spewed within just the first few pages of “Checkmate.” Those early pages feel like the text equivalent of seeing a chessboard with 3 kings and a dark square in its right-hand corner.

1. Carlsen “didn’t just see a dozen moves ahead, he saw to the end of the game, and often through the next game and the game after that.”

Fact: Neither Magnus nor any other top player sees a dozen moves ahead in most positions, or even in most entire games. While the author’s wording might be framed as a metaphor to spotlight a star’s extraordinary skill, what fraction of his readers do you think might interpret it in that abstract way, instead of literally? 1%? 5%? Everyone else will see it as affirming the popular delusion (among non-chessplayers) that Magnus or any top player regularly sees “a dozen moves ahead” … and the related delusion that chess skill consists entirely of how many moves ahead one can calculate all possibilities.

1. “He had begun his career as the youngest Grandmaster ever at the age of thirteen.”

Fact: Magnus Carlsen never held the record as “the youngest Grandmaster ever.” And when Karjakin achieved that record in 2003, he was at an age (12 years 7 months) at which Magnus had not attained even his IM title – let alone GM!

1. “Coming into the Sinquefield Cup, he’d won a staggering fifty-three consecutive in-person games."

Fact: Carlsen’s winning streak coming into the Sinquefield Cup stood at ZERO games! His last event before the September 2022 Sinquefield Cup was the Chennai Olympiad that concluded in the preceding month… and his final game in that competition was a draw with an international master from Moldova, Ivan Schitco, who was rated just 2490.

If Mezrich and his editors at Vanity Fair and his book publisher don’t know what a draw is, then why are they even permitted to publish anything at all about chess? (Serious question.)

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• Chess: An Annotated Bibliography, 1969–1988 — Andy Lusis — 280€
• The Chessplayer, & Other Essays — Edward Thomas — 60€
• Twenty-five Annotated Games — Robert Hübner — 120€
• Benjamin Franklin and Chess in Early America — Ralph K. Hagedorn — 100€
• The Chess Struggle in Practice — David Bronstein — 50€
• Chess in the Eighties — D. Bronstein & G. Smolyan — 40€
• Chess Pieces: An Anthology in Prose and Verse — Norman Knight — 60€
• Paul Keres: Franskt Parti — Paul Keres — 60€
• Master Prim — James Whitfield Ellison — 60€
• Traps on the Chessboard — Znosko-Borovsky (ex-libris Albert Becker) — 135€
• The Oxford Companion to Chess — Hooper & Whyld — 45€
• Bishop Endings — Yuri Averbakh — 35€
• The Literature of Chess — John Graham — 60€
• Frank Marshall, United States Chess Champion — Andy Soltis — 90€
• Capablanca: A Compendium... — Edward Winter — 120€
• Samuel Reshevsky: A Compendium of 1768 Games — Stephen W. Gordon — 140€
• The Game of Chess — Siegbert Tarrasch — 140€
• The Chess Reader — compiled by Jerome Salzmann — 50€
• My Best Games of Chess 1935–1957 — V. V. Smyslov — 180€
• Chess: An Annotated Bibliography...1850–1968 — Douglas A. Betts — 150€
• Chessmen for Collectors — Victor Keats — 80€
• The Tactics of End-Games — Jenő Bán — 40€
• Schachtaktik (4 vol. lot) — Erwin Voellmy — 50€ (lot)
• The Middle Game (Book I & II) — Euwe & Kramer — 55€ (lot)
• Soviet Chess 1917–1991 — Andrew Soltis — 180€
• The Steinitz Papers — ed. Kurt Landsberger — 130€
• Chess Results, 1747–1900 — Gino Di Felice — 50€
• Julius Finn — Olimpiu G. Urcan — 50€
• Aron Nimzowitsch: On the Road to Chess Mastery — Skjoldager & Nielsen — 120€
• The Tragic Life and Short Chess Career of James A. Leonard — John S. Hilbert — 60€
• Tal, Petrosian, Spassky and Korchnoi — Andrew Soltis — 80€
• Alexander Alekhine's Chess Games, 1902–1946 — Skinner & Verhoeven — 260€
• Modern Chess Strategy, with an Appendix on Go — Edward Lasker — 80€
• Emanuel Lasker (Vol. I–III set) — Forster, Negele, Tischbierek — 180€ (lot)
• The Famous Game of Chesse-Play — Arthur Saul (facsimile) — 150€

I am sorry if some bitter people think this is too much posts, I passed 3 days taking pic, talking with you guys, selling my rarest and finest books to this subreddit first because you were so kind with me.

The prices are for the books in pics there. This is hardback not softcover and often first edition. Like I said I sell it for health fees but I always try to find a fair price, always. If you want to check, be my guest, really.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChessBooks/comments/1uygts1/dear_chess_books_lovers_this_is_officially_the/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChessBooks/comments/1uygvs0/and_the_last_mcfarland_i_will_let_go/

• Chess: An Annotated Bibliography, 1969–1988 — Andy Lusis — 280€
• The Chessplayer, & Other Essays — Edward Thomas — 60€
• Twenty-five Annotated Games — Robert Hübner — 120€
• Benjamin Franklin and Chess in Early America — Ralph K. Hagedorn — 100€
• The Chess Struggle in Practice — David Bronstein — 50€
• Chess in the Eighties — D. Bronstein & G. Smolyan — 40€
• Chess Pieces: An Anthology in Prose and Verse — Norman Knight — 60€
• Paul Keres: Franskt Parti — Paul Keres — 60€
• Master Prim — James Whitfield Ellison — 60€
• Traps on the Chessboard — Znosko-Borovsky (ex-libris Albert Becker) — 135€
• The Oxford Companion to Chess — Hooper & Whyld — 45€
• Bishop Endings — Yuri Averbakh — 35€
• The Literature of Chess — John Graham — 60€
• Frank Marshall, United States Chess Champion — Andy Soltis — 90€
• Capablanca: A Compendium... — Edward Winter — 120€
• Samuel Reshevsky: A Compendium of 1768 Games — Stephen W. Gordon — 140€
• The Game of Chess — Siegbert Tarrasch — 140€
• The Chess Reader — compiled by Jerome Salzmann — 50€
• My Best Games of Chess 1935–1957 — V. V. Smyslov — 180€
• Chess: An Annotated Bibliography...1850–1968 — Douglas A. Betts — 150€
• Chessmen for Collectors — Victor Keats — 80€
• The Tactics of End-Games — Jenő Bán — 40€
• Schachtaktik (4 vol. lot) — Erwin Voellmy — 50€ (lot)
• The Middle Game (Book I & II) — Euwe & Kramer — 55€ (lot)
• Soviet Chess 1917–1991 — Andrew Soltis — 180€
• The Steinitz Papers — ed. Kurt Landsberger — 130€
• Chess Results, 1747–1900 — Gino Di Felice — 50€
• Julius Finn — Olimpiu G. Urcan — 50€
• Aron Nimzowitsch: On the Road to Chess Mastery — Skjoldager & Nielsen — 120€
• The Tragic Life and Short Chess Career of James A. Leonard — John S. Hilbert — 60€
• Tal, Petrosian, Spassky and Korchnoi — Andrew Soltis — 80€
• Alexander Alekhine's Chess Games, 1902–1946 — Skinner & Verhoeven — 260€
• Modern Chess Strategy, with an Appendix on Go — Edward Lasker — 80€
• Emanuel Lasker (Vol. I–III set) — Forster, Negele, Tischbierek — 180€ (lot)
• The Famous Game of Chesse-Play — Arthur Saul (facsimile) — 150€

I've put together a catalogue of my chess library (253 volumes) organized by ELO tier, from absolute beginner (500) up through elite/GM level (2400+). It covers openings, middlegame strategy, endgames, tournament books, player biographies, problems/studies, and even some fiction and historical curiosities.

Catalogue: https://go.fliplink.me/view/0399385C-3F42-4988-9C08-E29D974AD5EB

58 pages, in French, but Claude or GPT will handle the translation fine if you're curious.

To be clear, this isn't a full liquidation — it's a reference catalogue of the whole collection. What I'm actually selling is a subset of the rarer/pricier volumes, because I need the money. I already sold some of them.

Happy to answer questions on specific volumes, condition, or pricing in DM or to give information about content in comment.

I’m wanting to study the games of Akiba Rubinstein and am looking for recommendations!

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If you are curious to buy (not just curious I am sorry I can't deal with everybody) send me a message.

I have a rare stash of soviet era chess fascicule and books.

But I must be honnest I am looking to sell rarest and most expensive books of my collection to pay health related fees and I am not into selling away cheap pieces.

Sorry for being so unclear. <3

• Chess Generalship, Vol. I — Grand Reconnaissance (1910)
• Chess Generalship, Vol. II — Grand Manoeuvres (1910)
• The Grand Tactics of Chess (1898)
• The Field Book of Chess Generalship (1923)

A Primer of Chess — J.R. Capablanca — Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1935 — Édition originale
Chess Novelties and Their Latest Developments — H.E. Bird — Frederick Warne and Co., Londres/New York, 1895 — Édition originale
Chess Skirmishes — I.O. Howard Taylor — Agas H. Goose, Norwich, 1889 — Édition originale
The Chess Problem: Text-Book with Illustrations — Cassell & Company, Londres, 1887 — Édition originale

Greetings everyone... I share the guilty pleasure to stack up books I'm gonna read only in the future (instead of playing more)!
I am trying to build a shelf with the "essential beginner/essential intermediate/essential advanced" texts, divided by genre (general, endgames, tactics, strategy, etc)... what am I missing in your opinion/what is the ONE book for you?
Mind: I'm waiting for the arrival of the new edition of Logical Chess...
And I'm gathering info/looking at the Soviet Chess Primer, Grooten's Chess Strategy
Possibly also Dvoretsy's Endgame, Shereshevsky's Endgame strategy, Hellsten's Strategy and Chess Structures from Rios... but I'm not sure which of them (or all of them) since atm I'm not at that level to appreciate them fully in order to pick... so I'd gladly gather suggestion and opinion on them!
And other as well, obviously!
Thanks!

I've been getting really into chess recently and I'm currently rated around 1100 on chess.com. At the moment I'm working through the steps method books. Since I also love reading, I was wondering if there are any chess books you'd recommend for someone around my rating. I'm mainly looking for books that are actually useful for improving, rather than just entertaining.

What books helped you the most when you were around the 1000–1200 rating range?

I’m stuck on here for 2 weeks can’t get past 1000 any good book suggestions?

I'm rated around 1700 on Chess.com and want to improve my positional understanding, calculation, endgames, and overall game quality. I'm looking for books that are practical and suitable for my level—not beginner books or books that are too advanced. What bo