TONY PETERSON, 11 WESTBURY ROAD, SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, ESSEX, SS2 4DW, UK.

CHESS BOOKS BY MAIL ORDER – SECONDHAND, RARE & OUT OF PRINT.

Email: tony@chessbooks.co.uk   Website home page: www.chessbooks.co.uk

 

THE CHESS PLAYER PUBLICATIONS 

 

(Three new titles just published April 2008, Nos.62,65,66 below)

 

These are mostly p/b, stapled, with plastic jacket, printed on gold paper.

 

Rare and Unpublished Tournaments and Matches

1) Chigorin v Schiffers 1897    50 numbered copies only                                                             sold out

2) Vilnius 1912        100 numbered copies only                                                                          sold out

3) Abbazia 1912  all available games (about 80 of 120) (£7.00)    No ISBN.                                               

4) Jubilee Tournament, Berlin 1907  all 65 games (£7.00)  0 906042 81 1                                              

5) Vienna 1907  All 91 games (£7.50)  0 906042 56 9                                                                           

6) Monte Carlo 1901      new edition, see number 12                                            sold out – see number 12

7) Vienna 1904/5  King's Gambit Declined tournament. 70 of 72 games (£7.00) 0 906042 27 5                     

8) Barcelona 1929  won by Capablanca  all 105 games (£7.50)   0 906042 47 X.

9) 2nd Russian Champ. Moscow 1901     all available games (£7.00)   0 906042 24 0                               

10) 7 Matches 1905   72 games (£7.50)   0 906042 27 5

11) Ramsgate 1929 & the Tinsley Notebooks (£7.50)   0 906042 49 6                                                     

12) Monte Carlo 1901, new edition (see number 6) over 100 games (£8.00) 0 906042 82 3

13) Hastings Victory Tournament 1919, c122 games (£7.50)  0 906042 83 5                                           

14) Hastings 1923/4 & Weston-s-Mare 1924   all the games (£7.75)  0 906042 84 7                                  

15) Giessen 1928 + Trencianske Teplice 1928 all available games (£7.00)  0 906042 91 7                          

16) Hastings 1924/5 + Scarborough 1925 + Bromley 1925 + London Triangular

      1925 (first 2 complete, others all available games) (£7.50)   0 906042 85 9                                                 

17) Hastings 1928/9 + Scarborough 1929     all the games (£7.50)  0 906042 90 9                                    

18) Hastings 1926/7 + Scarborough 1927 + Tunbridge Wells 1927 (Hastings

      complete, others all available games) (£8.50)    0 906042 94 1                                                            

19) Meran 1926   all available games (£7.50)   0 906042 93 3                                                                 

20) Brno 1928 + Berlin(Sept/Oct) 1928   all available games (£8.00)   0 906042 95 X                                

21) Utrecht 1920+Amsterdam 1920+Berlin(Dec) 1920 all the games(£7.50) 0 906042 96 8                         

22) Amsterdam 1926 + Berlin 1926 + Lake Hopatcong 1926 (£8.50)   0 906042 97 6                               

23) Monte Carlo 1902  previously unpublished; nearly all the games  (£10.00)  1 901034 04 6                     

24) England v USA Cable Matches 1896-1901  all the games/history(£8.50)  1 901034 00 3                      .

25) England v USA Cable Matches 1902-1911  all the games (£8.50)  0 906042 99 2                                

26) Debrecen 1913 almost complete, mainly in Hungarian language(£9.50)   1 901034 07 0                          

27) 11th USSR Champ., Leningrad 1939 by Botvinnik & Ragozin  (£9.50)  1 901034 03 8                        

28) English Tournaments 1920-22 all available games from Bromley 1920, Hastings

      1920-1, Broadstairs 1921, Hastings 1921-2, Weston-s-Mare 1922 (£8.50)  1 901034 05 4                       

29) Berlin Tageblatt Tournament 1928 detailed coverage (£8.00)  1 901034 08 9                                      

30) The Hague Olympiad 1928 all available games (£8.75)  1 901034 09 7                                              

31) Berlin Champ. 1932 + Swinemünde 1932 nearly all the games (£7.50)  1 901034 10 0                        

32) Hastings 1925/6+Weston-s-Mare 1926+Scarborough 1926+Birmingham 1926

      nearly all the games  (£9.00)   1 901034 13 5                                                                                  

33) Meran 1924 first time published!; all available games (£8.00)  1 901034 14 3                                       

34) Rogaska Slatina 1929+Paris 1929  all available games (£8.75)  1 901034 15 1                                    

35) Hastings 1922/3+Margate 1923+Liverpool 1923 (£8.75)   1 901034 16 X

36) Hastings 1927/8+Cheltenham 1928+Scarborough 1928 (£8.00)  1 901034 17 8

37) Hastings 1931/2+Cambridge 1932+Langford Cup Matches (Flohr v Sultan

      Khan and Landau v Buerger) all available games (£8.50)   1 901034 18 6                    

38) Hastings 1929/30+Canterbury 1930+Hastings 1930/31 (£8.50)  1 901034 20 8 

39) Baden Baden 1870  nearly all the games (£7.50)   1 901034 25 2                                   

40) Munich Olympiad 1936   all available games (£12.00)  1 901034 27 6     

41) Folkestone 1933  all available games (£8.50)   1 901034 28 8

42) Paris 1900 by Jimmy Adams, paperback edition (£15.00)  1 901034 30 6

43) Buenos Aires Olympiad 1939 edited by A.J.Gillam; paperback edition; 240 large pages

     all 928 games, fully indexed  (£19.00)  1 901034 29 X

44) Opatija 1953  all the games  (£7.00)   1 901034 31 8

45) Lüneburg 1947 all the games  (£8.50)  1 901034 32 X

46) Berlin (January) 1897+Altona 1897+Thousand Islands 1897  (£7.50)  1 901034 33 1

47) London 1887  (£8.50)  1 901034 36 7

48) Augsburg 1946 + Regensburg 1946  (£8.00)   1 901034 35 5

49) Rostov-on-Don 1960 semi-final of 28th USSR Champ. (£7.50) 1 901034 39 2

50) Vilnius 1960 semi-final of 28th USSR Champ.  (£7.50) 1 901034 41 0

51) Lodz 1935/Sopot 1935/Milwaukee 1935 all available games (£8.50) 1 901034 40 9

52) Budapest 1928 by W.A.Foldeak  (£7.50)  1 901034 42 2

53) London Olympiad 1927 by Ken Whyld; all available games (£9.00) 1 901034 43 4

54) Oldenburg 1949  all games (£9.00) 1 901034 44 6

55) Munich 1942 2 groups; nearly all games; paperback; 124 pages (£12.00) 1 901034 46 1

56) 2nd US Champ. 1938 all available games; booklet; 60 pages (£8.50) 1 901034 47 X

57) London 1868/9 all available games; booklet   £8.50   1-901-34-50-X

58) English Tournaments 1857-66 by Ken Whyld; all available games  £8.50  1-901034-48-8

59) Four Polish Championships (1926-37) by T.Lissowski, all available games  £9.00   1-901034-49-6

 

Published 1st November 2007

60) New York 1900 by A.J.Gillam; ISBN 1 901034 52 5

31pp; all 30 games of the 6-player double-round tournament won by Lipschutz ahead of Showalter, Hodges, Hymes, D.G.Baird and Frank Marshall with summaries and comments from the New York newspapers of the period. 26 diagrams. Previously unpublished. £7.50

 

61) ‘Impromptu’ Tournament, New York 1893 by A.J.Gillam

ISBN 1 901034 54 9

51pp; all 91 games of the 14 player tournament won by Lasker ahead of Albin, Showalter, Lee, Delmar, Hanham, Pillsbury, Taubenhaus, Pollock, and 5 others. Lasker scored 13 out of 13. Pillsbury’s first tournament. Games, summaries and comments from the New York newspapers of the period. 50 diagrams. Previously unpublished. £8.50

 

63) First City Chess Club Tournament, New York 1893 and Second City Chess Club Tournament, New York 1894 by A.J.Gillam; ISBN 1 901034 55 0

60pp; all the games of both tournaments from the New York newspapers of the time, with summaries and comments. 62 diagrams. In 1893, Pillsbury won head of Hodges, Showalter, Albin and 6 New York players. In 1894, Steinitz won ahead of Albin, Hymes, Showalter, Pillsbury, Delmar and 5 New York players. Previously unpublished. £9.00

 

THESE THREE JUST PUBLISHED!  April 2008

 

62) Second Kolisch Memorial Tournament, Vienna 1899/1900 Edited by A.J.Gillam

All 66 games played between Maroczy, Schlechter, Brody, Alapin, Marco, Zinkl, H.Wolf, Kotrc, von Popiel, Albin, A.Schwarz and Prock; article, 30 diagrams, 47 pages, plenty of notes, cross-table. ISBN 1 901034 53 7  £8.50

 

64) London July 1886    is not yet published; this will be 104 pages and gluebound

 

65) Plymouth 1938 and Bournemouth 1939  Edited by A.J.Gillam

At Plymouth, Alekhine and Sir GeorgeThomas won ahead of List, Milner-Barry, Menchik, Mallison, Wheatcroft and Bruce. 22 of the 28 games are given, many with notes, some from manuscript sources are published for the first time. There are 3 games from the second section. At Bournemouth, Euwe won ahead of Ernst Klein, Flohr, Landau, Koenig, Conde, P.Wallis, Aitken, A.R.B.Thomas, Mieses, Kitto and Abrahams. All 66 games are given with plenty of notes and 7 games from the lower sections. There is also an explanation of a mystery surrounding a game from the last round. 69 diagrams, 74 pages, 2 cross-tables. ISBN 1 901034 57 4   £9.50

 

66) London Feb/Mar 1886 and Nottingham 1886   Edited by A.J.Gillam

Blackburne won at London ahead of Gunsberg, Bird, Mason, Pollock, Guest, Macdonnell and Reeves. 14 of the 28 games are given. Burn and Schallopp won at Nottingham ahead of Gunsberg, Zukertort, Bird, Taubenhaus, Pollock, Hanham, Thorold, Rynd and Skipworth. 32 games and 3 fragments of the 47 games, plus 12 games of the 21 in the second group and 4 other games. Lots of notes, articles and round by round comments. 49 diagrams, 59 pages, 3 cross-tables. ISBN 1 901034 58 6  £9.00

 

A) Chess Tournaments and Matches 1904  edited by A.J.Gillam

678 games and positions from the major events of the year. All the games of Monte Carlo, Monte Carlo Rice Gambit, Cambridge Springs, Coburg, Schlechter-Teichmann match, Marco-Janowski match. All the available games from London, London Rice Gambit, Hastings (1st British Champ.), St. Louis and 12 other events. Full indexes and tables. £13.95   1 901034 21 6

B) Chess Tournaments and Matches 1925   806 games without notes of the 11 top events of 1925, fully indexed; paperback (£16.95) 0 906042 89 6 

C) Monte Carlo 1904

by Georg Marco  Small booklet with all the games, with notes, reproduced from

the Wiener Schachzeitung and so in German. (£5.00)  No ISBN.                                                               

D) Midland Chess Bulletin/London Chess Bulletin/The Chess Bulletin: well produced newspapers from the 1947-51 period. Several sets of the first 44 issues are available (the last 9 issues were produced in an inferior format) £50 per set. Individual issues also available for those who already have part collections at £2.00 each.

 

 

Chess Masters Series

 

These are mostly p/b, stapled, with plastic jacket, printed on white paper.

 

1) The Chess Career of Richard Teichmann by Jack Spence; (£7.00)  0 906042 88 4                                

2) Kornel Havasi + Geza Nagy by W.A.Foldeak (£5.00)   0 906042 92 5                                                 

3) The Complete Games of Oldrich Duras by J.Kalendovsky (£16.95)  1 901034 06 2                              

4) Endre Steiner + Arpad Vajda by W.A.Foldeak (£7.00)   0 906042 98 4                                              

5) Lajos Steiner by W.A.Foldeak (£7.50)   1 901034 01 1                                                                      

6) The Collected Games of Em.Lasker by Ken Whyld; c1300 games, hardback.  (£19.95) 1 901034 02 X     

7) J.H.Blackburne: The Final Years by Owen Hindle  (£8.00)   1 901034 11 9                                        

8) Lajos Asztalos  by W.A.Foldeak  (£7.50)   1 901034 12 7                                                                  

9) Ratmir Holmov  by Aidan Woodger (£9.50)  1 901034 23 2

10) Leo Forgacs  by W.A.Foldeak  (£7.50)   1 901034 22 4                                                                                     

11) Dawid Przepiorka  by Tomasz Lissowski  (£8.00)   1 901034 24 0                                                     

12) Vladimir Simagin   by Aidan Woodger  (£9.95)   1 901034 26 4

13) Samuel Lipschütz  by A J Gillam (£8.50)   1 901034 37 9

14) Szymon Winawer  by Tomasz Lissowski (£8.50)  1 901034 38 0  

15) Riumin & Belavenyets by Aidan Woodger (£9.95) 1 901034 45 3

16) Imre König by J.Donaldson  (£12.50)  1-901034-51-8  

17)Zemgalis, Grandmaster Without the title by John Donaldson; no ISBN; paperback, 160pp; biography, career record, photos (some in colour), 190 games, some with notes; Zemgalis was a Latvian who moved to the USA after World War 2. He was mainly active in Germany 1945-50.; a few copies only   £11.50