Chess - All from Glynn's Books

Seattle: I.C.E., 1991. Pb, vii + 121pp, b/w photos. Good+, marginal wear, clean contents. Games from the tournament held from 1981-83 to celebrate the 60th (Diamond) anniversary of the Canadian Correspondence Chess Association. Includes 105 games, many annotated by the players. The winner was Erik Bang from Denmark, ahead of Canadians Jonathan Berry and Bob Kiviaho.. Soft Cover.

London: Batsford Two books of chess puzzles taken from the author's chess column. Published 1991 and 1996, each is Pb, 111pp and 96pp respectively. Good with light wear and clean contents. Together they contain a total of 480 tactical chess puzzles taken from actual games. . Soft Cover. Good.

London: Batsford, 1976. Pb, x + 373pp. Good(-). Covers and spine sunned/darkened, creased spine, slightly cracked hinge, contents clean. Includes 541 of Karpov's games up until Ljubjana-Portoroz 1975. Around 300 games have notes by various GMs, including around 80 annotated by Karpov. With brief chapter introductions. Figurine algebraic.. Soft Cover. Good.

London: G. Bell, 1954. Hb, brown cloth covers, no dj, x + 173pp. Fair+. Covers have slight corner wear, spine sunned, light foxing on edge of page block and endpapers and title page. Includes a short biography, career results, 70 annotated games spanning 1907 to 1928, and 15 endgame studies with solutions. Descriptive notation.. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo -… Read more about this item

London: Everyman/Gloucester, 2009. Pb, 239pp. VG, clean contents. Explores the methods and contributions of five players (the ones named in the title) who have successfully employed the style of "power play" . Includes 88 analysed games. Contents: The dynamic element; Catching the King in the centre; Opening old (and new) wounds; Life history of a Knight; The Goldilocks Queen; Energizing… Read more about this item

London: Batsford, 1998. Pb, 255pp. Good+, marginal wear, clean contents. Chess strategy taught in a modular series of 48 lessons in 12 chapters (the program was first used as a correspondence course), with thematic test positions to solve. Includes many master games.. Soft Cover. Good.

London: G. Bell, 1974. Hb, xvi + 285pp. Good in Good red dj which has very slightly sunned spine and marginal edgewear. Previous owner's inscription on fep. Second volume of Alekhine's games, annotated by the world champion. 120 games from tournaments and matches against Capablanca, Bogoljubow and Euwe. Plus an introductory memoir by J. Du Mont. Descriptive notation.. Hard… Read more about this item

Moscow: Fizkultura I Sport, 1956. In Russian. Hb, blue boards, no dj, 266pp (+3). Fair+. Covers heavily edgeworn with chipped corners and marks, pages tanned but clean other than small stamp on last page Coverage of the 22nd Soviet Chess Championship held in Moscow in 1955. Includes an introduction by Romanovsky, 197 annotated games (including the Geller-Smyslov play-off), openings survey… Read more about this item

Helsinki: Sveriges Schackforbund, 1951. In Swedish. Hb, patterned boards, no dj, 149pp, frontis. and b/w photos. Good, marks along spine, slight corner edgewear, clean contents. Coverage of the Botvinnik vs Bronstein 1951 World Chess Championship with the 24 games, annotated, as well as some earlier games by both players.. Hard Cover. Good.

London: London Chess Centre, 1990. Pb, 120pp. Fair+. Front cover sunned/darkened on lower half, contents clean, light speckles along edge of page block. 110 annotated games from the late 1980s, organized into French Winawer, Classical, Tarrasch and Advance variations.. Soft Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Alkmaar: New In Chess, 2019. Pb, 336pp. Good+, marginal wear, clean contents. Explores how to look beyond the material balance when evaluating positions and learn the skill of taking calculated risks on the board. With exercises. Contents : Attachment to material: Relative value of material; Time beats material; Space beats material; Psychology of non-materialsim; Is it good to be greedy… Read more about this item

Glasgow: Quality Chess, 2011. Pb, 456pp. Good, slight corner wear, clean contents. First of two volumes. Over 70 of Karpov's games, annotated to show how he outplayed his opponents through strategic means. Arranged chronologically, from 1961 as a precocious youngster of ten up until 1985 when he lost the world champion title to Kasparov.. Soft Cover. Good.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993. Pb, 200pp, b/w photos. Signature of William Hartston on title page. Good, creased spine, light cover wear, tanning to page edges, clean contents other than author's signature. Includes history of the world chess championship and profiles of earlier champions (50+ pgs), extensive background to the Short v Kasparov match and split with FIDE, annotated… Read more about this item

London: Batsford, 1977. Pb, 176pp. Fair. Covers creased, spine sunned, corner dent, several page corners turned up. How Keene became a GM, describing the challenges and rewards, his views on British chess, chess books, and including many of his games with annotations. Descriptive notation.. Soft Cover.

Olomouc: Moravian Chess Hb, red cloth covers, no dj (as pub.), lvi + 371pp. VG, clean contents. Facsimile reprint of the 1883 edition. 296 games in total. Of these 242 are from the main tournament, with notes by Zukertort, Steinitz, Bird and Mason as well as the author. The winner was Zukertort, ahead of Steinitz and Blackburne. The remaining… Read more about this item

London: Batsford, 1996. Pb, 352pp. Good, a few light speckles on inside covers and title page, contents clean. Updated edition of a 1970s classic. Comprehensive, wide-ranging text on chess problems with contents covering: What are chess problems; Themes and terms (alphabetically, diagrammed, from Albino to Zepler-doubling); Problems for solving, with solutions (approx. 150); Composing. Includes some of… Read more about this item

Gothenberg: Quality Chess, 2006. Pb, 235pp. VG with clean contents. Contains numerous examples. Contents: Becoming familiar with the pieces !; The pin: The discovered attack: The Reloader;The double attack; Mate; Gain of tempo/intermediate move; The x-ray attack: Opening and closing lines; Status examination.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Dallas: Chess Digest, 1998. Pb, 263pp. Good, light corner wear, speckles along edge of page block, clean contents. Examines the 3 Be3 Alapin Gambit, the Wing Gambit, the Milner-Barry Gambit and the Winckelmann-Reimer Gambit, plus some lesser-known gambits against the French in the opening chapter. Features illustrative and study games, including many from correspondence play.. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo… Read more about this item

London: Batsford, 1985. Pb, iv + 106pp. Fair+. Pages heavily tanned but clean. Karpov lost only 32 games out of 563 played in tournaments from 1975 to July 1984. In this volume, he analyses his defeats and indicates when each loss was subsequently avenged.. Soft Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Batsford/Caissa Books, 1987. Pb, 128pp. Good+, slightly sunned spine and covers, contents clean. 240 of Chigorin's games, based on Bogoljubov's Russian work of 1926 but revised to include more games, and analysis from other sources such as Romanov, Grekov, Botvinnik, Levenfish and Smyslov. With Informant-style notes.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.