Exeter Chess Club: Dr.Dave's Books
KEY
- Not worth it [reason]
= OK
+ Recommended
General
+ AVERBAKH, A Chess Dictionary (2nd Edition) (Informator)
+ BARDEN et al (Eds), British Chess (Pergamon)
+ CHERNEV, Wonders and Curiosities of Chess (Dover)
+ CHERNEV, The Bright Side of Chess (Hollis & Carter)
+ CHERNEV, The Chess Companion (Faber)
+ EDWARDS & KEENE (Eds.), The Chess Player's Bedside Book (Batsford)
+ EVANS, The Chess Beat (Pergamon)
+ FOX & JAMES, The Complete Chess Addict (Faber)
+ GOLOMBEK, The Penguin Encyclopedia of Chess (Penguin)
+ HARTSTON, How to Cheat at Chess (Cadogan)
+ HARTSTON, Soft Pawn (Cadogan)
+ HOOPER & WHYLD, The Oxford Companion to Chess
+ KNIGHT (Ed.), Chess Pieces (CHESS, Sutton Coldfield)
+ KNIGHT & GUY (Eds.), King, Queen and Knight (Batsford)
= MACKETT-BEESON, Chessmen (Octopus)
+ MATANOVIC (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of Chess Middlegames: Combinations (Batsford/Informator)
+ MATTHEWS, British Chess (Clarke & Sherwell)
- NORWOOD, Chess and Education (Gresham College) [poorly researched]
+ PRITCHARD, The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants (Games & Puzzles)
+ REINFELD (Ed.), The Treasury of Chess Lore (Dover)
= SPANIER, Total Chess (Dutton)
= STAUNTON, The Chess-Players Handbook (Bracken)
= STEINER, The Sporting Scene (Faber)
= TAYLOR, The Lewis Chessmen (British Museum)
+ TILLER (Ed.), Chess Treasury of the Air (Penguin)
History & Literature
- CHESBRO, King's Gambit (NEL) [dire]
+ COCKBURN, Idle Passion: Chess and the dance of death (Weidenfeld & Nicholson)
= HARTSTON, Kings of Chess (Pavilion)
= KEYES, The Chess Players (The Book Club)
+ NABOKOV, The Defence (Panther)
+ SCHONBERG, Grandmasters of Chess (Fontana)
= TEVIS, Queen's Gambit ()
+ WATERMAN (Ed.), The Poetry of Chess (Anvil)
Games Collections
+ ALEKHINE (Ed. NUNN), Alexander Alekhine's Best Games (Batsford)
= ALEKHINE, Alekhine's Greatest Games (3. vols in one edition) (Batsford)
+ BOTVINNIK, 100 Selected Games (Dover)
+ BOTVINNIK, Selected Games 1967-70 (Pergamon)
+ BOTVINNIK, Botvinnik's Best Games 1967-1970 (Batsford)
+ BOTVINNIK, Championship Chess (Macmillan)
= BRADY Bobby Fischer (Batsford)
= BRONSTEIN & FURSTENBERG, The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Cadogan)
+ BRONSTEIN, The Chess Struggle in Practice (Batsford)
+ BRONSTEIN, 200 Open Games (Dover)
+ BYRNE & NEI, Both Sides of the Chessboard (Batsford)
= BYRNE, Anatoly Karpov: the new World Chess Champion (Bantam)
= CAFFERTY Spassk's 100 Best Games (Batsford)
= CHERNEV, 1000 Best Short Games of Chess (Hodder & Stoughton )
+ CLARKE, Mikhail Tal (Batsford)
+ CLARKE, Petrosian's Best Games 1946-63 (Bell)
+ COLES, Dynamic Chess (Dover)
= DEVIDE, Wilhelm Steinitz: Selected Chess Games (Dover)
= EALES, Cambridge Chess (CHESS, Sutton Coldfield)
= EUWE, From My Games (Bell)
= EUWE, Meet the Masters (Dover)
+ FISCHER My 60 Memorable Games (Faber)
+ GOLOMBEK, Capablanca's 100 Best Games of Chess (Bell)
+ GOLOMBEK, Reti's Best Games of Chess (Bell)
= HANNAK, Emanuel Lasker (Dover)
+ HOOPER & BRANDRETH, The Unknown Capablanca (Dover)
+ JAMES & BARDEN, The Master Game (BBC)
+ JAMES & HARTSTON, The Master Game, Book Two (BBC)
= KASPAROV, GELLER, LEIN & CHEPIZNY, Kasparov v. Karpov 1990 (K-K V) (Pergamon)
= KEENE & GOODMAN, Manoeuvres in Moscow (K-K II) (Batsford)
= KEENE & GOODMAN, The Centenary Match (K-K III) (Batsford)
= KEENE & GOODMAN, Seville (K-K IV) (Batsford)
+ KERES, The Road to the Top (Batsford)
+ KERES, The Quest for Perfection (Batsford)
= KORCHNOI Chess is my life (Batsford)
+ LARSEN, Larsen's Selected Games (Bell)
+ LARSEN, Karpov vs. Korchnoi (1978, Unwin)
= LEVY & O'CONNELL (Eds.), Korchnoi's Chess Games (Oxford University Press)
= LEVY, How Fischer Plays Chess (Fontana)
= MacDONALD, Defence in Chess (Master Class)
+ MacDONALD, Modern Chess Miniatures (Cadogan)
+ MARKLAND, The Best of Karpov (Oxford University Press)
- MILES & SPEELMAN, Tilburg 1978 (?) [mostly bare scores]
+ NUNN, John Nunn's Best Games (Batsford)
= O'KELLY Tigran Petrosian: World Champion (Pergamon)
+ POLUGAEVSKY, Grandmaster Achievement (Cadogan)
= POLUGAEVSKY, Grandmaster Performance (Pergamon)
= REINFELD, Tarrasch's Best Games (Chatto & Windus)
= REINFELD, British Chess Masters (Bell),
+ REINFELD, British Chess Masters (Bell)
+ SERGEANT, Morphy's Games of Chess (Dover)
= SMYSLOV, Smyslov's Selected Games (Cadogan)
= SMYSLOV, My Best Games of Chess 1935-57 (Dover)
= SPEELMAN & TISDALL, Moscow Marathon (K-K I) (Unwin)
+ SPEELMAN, Jon Speelman's Best Games (Batsford),
+ SPEELMAN, Best Chess Games 1970-1980 (Allen & Unwin)
+ TAIMANOV, Taimanov's Selected Games (Cadogan)
- TAL & HAJTUN, Selected Chess Games of Mikhail Tal (Dover) [shallow notes]
+ TAL, Tal-Botvinnik 1960
+ TAL, The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal,
+ TARTAKOWER & DuMONT, 500 Master Games of Chess (Batsford)
= TARTAKOWER & DuMONT, 100 Master Games of Modern Chess (Dover)
+ TARTAKOWER, My Best Games of Chess 1905-1954 (Two volumes, Dover)
+ TIMMAN, Timman's Selected Games (Cadogan)
+ TIMMAN, The Art of Chess Analysis (RHM)
- WENMAN, Gems of the Chess Board (Pitman) [odd]
Instructional/Psychology
= ABRAHAMS, The Chess Mind (Penguin)
= ABRAHAMS, Test Your Chess (Pan)
= ALEXANDER, The Penguin Book of Chess Positions (Penguin)
= AVNI, Creative Chess (Pergamon)
+ AVNI, Danger in Chess (Cadogan)
= BASMAN, Chess: All You Need To Know (Hodder)
+ BELLIN & PONZETTO, Test Your Positional Play (Batsford)
= BOTT & MORRISON, Chess for Children (Collins)
= BOTT & MORRISON, The Chess Apprentice (Collins)
- BRONSTEIN, The Modern Chess Self-Tutor (Cadogan) [self-indulgent]
= CAPABLANCA, A Primer of Chess (Cadogan)
+ CAPABLANCA, Chess Fundamentals (Cadogan)
+ CHANDLER, How to beat your Dad at Chess (Gambit)
= CHERNEV & HARKNESS, Invitation to Chess (Faber)
+ CHERNEV & REINFELD, Winning Chess (Faber)
+ CHERNEV, The Most Instructive Games of Chess ever played (Faber)
+ CHERNEV, Logical Chess (Faber)
- DAVIS & NORWOOD Grandmaster Meets Chess Amateur (Holt) [sketchy: content would make a decent pamphlet]
= DVORETSKY & YUSUPOV, Training for the Tournament Player (Batsford)
= DVORETSKY & YUSUPOV, Technique for the Tournament Player (Batsford)
- DVORETSKY & YUSUPOV, Positional Play (Batsford)
= DVORETSKY & YUSUPOV, Opening Preparation (Batsford)
= DVORETSKY & YUSUPOV, Attack & Defence (Batsford)
= DVORETSKY, Secrets of Chess Training (Batsford)
= DVORETSKY, Secrets of Chess Tactics (Batsford)
= ESTRIN & ROMANOV (Eds.), The World Champions Teach Chess (Black)
= EUWE & MEIDEN, Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur (Bell)
+ EUWE, Judgement & Planning in Chess (Bell)
+ GERZADOWICZ, Thinker's Chess (Thinker's Press)
= GILLAM, Simple Checkmates (Batsford)
= GILLAM, Simple Checkmates (Batsford)
= HARDING, Better Chess for Average Players (Dover)
+ HARTSTON & WASON, The Psychology of Chess (Batsford)
+ KOTOV, Think like a Grandmaster (Batsford)
= KOTOV, Play like a Grandmaster (Batsford)
- KOTOV, Train like a Grandmaster (Batsford) [potboiler]
+ KROGIUS, Psychology in Chess (RHM)
= LITTLEWOOD, Chess Coaching (Crowood)
+ LIVSHITZ, Test Your Chess IQ: Book 1 (Pergamon)
+ LIVSHITZ, Test Your Chess IQ: Book 2 (Pergamon)
+ LIVSHITZ, Test Your Chess IQ: Book 3, Grandmaster Challenge (Cadogan)
= MALPASS, Bluff Your Way in Chess (Ravette)
= MEDNIS, How to be a complete tournament player (Macmillan)
+ MEDNIS, Practical Middlegame Tips (Cadogan)
= MULLEN & MOSS, Blunders and Brilliancies (Pergamon)
- NORWOOD, Advanced Chess (Usborne) [layout and language inappropriate]
+ NUNN & GRIFFITHS, Secrets of Grandmaster Play (Batsford)
+ NUNN, Secrets of Practical Chess (Batsford)
= PFLEGER & TREPPNER, Chess: the Mechanics of the Mind (Crowood)
= PHILLIPS, The Chess Teacher (Oxford University Press)
= POVAH, Chess Training (Faber)
= POVAH, Chess Training (Faber)
+ PURDY, The Search for Chess Perfection: the life, games and writing of CJS Purdy (Thinker's Press)
+ RETI, Modern Ideas in Chess (Dover)
+ RETI, Masters of the Chess Board (Dover)
- SADLER, Tips for Young Players (Everyman Chess) [layout and language inappropriate]
+ SILMAN, The Amateur's Mind (Summit)
= SILMAN, Reassess Your Chess (Summit)
= SOLTIS, Chess Mistakes: how to detect and avoid them (Allen & Unwin)
+ SOLTIS, The Art of Defence in Chess (McKay)
+ TISDALL, Improve Your Chess Now (Cadogan)
+ WALKER, Chess Openings for Juniors (Oxford University Press)
+ WALKER, Attacking the King (Oxford University Press)
+ WALKER, Test Your Chess: Piece Power (Oxford University Press)
= WEBB, Chess for Tigers (Macmillan)
+ WEERAMANTRY & EUSEBI, Best Lessons of a Chess Coach (McKay)
= ZAK, Improve Your Chess Results (Batsford)
= ZNOSKO-BOROVSKY, How not to play Chess (Dover)
Openings
General Openings/Repertoire books
= CHERNEV, Winning Chess Traps (Pitman)
+ FINE, The Ideas behind the Chess Openings (Bell)
= KARPOV, The Open Game in Action (Batsford)
= KARPOV, The Semi-Open Game in Action (Batsford)
= KARPOV, The Closed Game in Action (Batsford)
= KARPOV, The Semi-Closed Game in Action (Batsford)
= KASPAROV & KEENE, Batsford Chess Openings (Batsford)
+ KASPAROV & KEENE, Batsford Chess Openings 2 (Batsford)
+ MEDNIS, Practical Opening Tips (Cadogan)
+ MEDNIS, Practical Opening Tips (Cadogan)
+ NUNN et al., Nunn's Chess Openings (Gambit)
- PACHMAN, The Opening Game in Chess (Routledge) [patchy]
- PANDOLFINI, Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps (Fireside) [thin]
+ SUETIN, Modern Chess Opening Theory (Pergamon)
+ ZNOSKO-BOROVSKY, How to play the Opening in Chess (Dover)
= ZNOSKO-BOROVSKY, Traps on the Chess Board (Hollings)
= BAKER, A Startling Chess Opening Repertoire (Cadogan)
- GUFELD, An Opening Repertoire for the Attacking Player (Cadogan) [see review]
+ KEENE & LEVY, An Opening Repertoire for the Attacking Player (Batsford)
+ KEENE, An Opening Repertoire for the White (Batsford)
- KEENE, The Complete Book of Gambits (Batsford) [F for effort]
- LEVY & KEENE, An Opening Repertoire for the Attacking Club Player (Batsford) [impractical]
+ MAROVIC, An Active Repertoire for Black (Batsford)
- SCHILLER, A Gambit Repertoire for Black (Cardoza) [incomplete]
- SCHILLER, Black to play Classical Defences and win (Chess Digest) [incomplete]
= SUMMERSCALE, A Killer Chess Opening Repertoire (Cadogan)
Open Games
+ BARDEN, The Ruy Lopez (Pergamon)
- BASMAN, Elephant Gambit (Audio Chess) [shallow]
+ EMMS, Play the Open Games as Black (Gambit)
+ ESTRIN, Two Knights' Defence (CHESS, Sutton Coldfield)
= FILIPOWICZ & KONIKOWSKI, 4...d5 in the Cordel Defence, Spanish Game (Ruy Lopez) (Chess Enterprises)
+ FORINTOS & HAAG, The Petroff Defence (Batsford)
+ GALLAGHER, Winning with the King's Gambit (Batsford)
+ GUFELD & STETSKO, The Giuoco Piano (Batsford)
+ HOOPER, A Complete Defence to 1.P-K4: A Study of Petroff's Defence (Pergamon)
+ KING & PONZETTO, Mastering the Spanish (Batsford)
= KINLAY, Bring Back the King's Gambit! (Audio Chess)
+ KOSTEN, Winning with the Philidor (Batsford)
+ LANE, Winning with Bishop's Opening (Batsford)
+ LANE, Winning with the Scotch Opening (Batsford)
= LEACH, Bishop's Opening (Caissa Books)
- MARTIN, The King's Gambit (GM Video) [lines cover 1 page of A4]
+ PACHMAN Open Games (Chess, Sutton Coldfield)
= PICKETT & SWIFT, Scotch 1: Scotch Game (Chess Player)
= PICKETT & SWIFT, Scotch 2: Scotch Gambit (Chess Player)
= PICKETT, Centre Game and Danish Gambit (Chess Player)
= RUNKE, Meet CARL (Centre Attack in Ruy Lopez) (?)
- SCHROEDER, Classic Chess Openings (Giuoco Piano/Evans' Gambit) [DIY standard]
+ SOLTIS et al., Understanding the Open Games (except Ruy Lopez) (RHM)
+ SOLTIS, Ruy Lopez Exchange Variation (Chess Digest)
= SOLTIS, Winning with the Ruy Lopez Exchange Variation (Chess Digest)
+ SUETIN, The Complete Spanish (Batsford)
- TAULBUT, How to play the Ruy Lopez (Batsford) [sketchy notes]
= THOMAS, Spanish 5.d4 (Chess Player)
+ TSEITLIN & GLASKOV, The Complete Vienna (Batsford)
= WALL, 500 Italian Miniatures (Chess Enterprises)
= YUDOVITCH, Spanish without ...a6 (Batsford)
Semi-Open Games
+ AAGARD, Easy Guide to the Panov-Botvinnik Attack (Cadogan)
= ADORJAN & HORVATH Sicilian: Sveshnikov Variation (Pergamon)
= BAGIROV, Developments in the Sicilian 2. f4 (Quadrant)
+ CHANDLER, The Complete c3 Sicilian (Batsford)
= CHESS DIGEST, Sicilian: Kann/Paulsen-Taimanov (Chess Digest)
- DEMPSEY, French Winawer: Alekhine Gambit (Chess Player) [layout]
= DONALDSON & SILMAN Accelerated Dragons (Cadogan)
+ EADE, Remember the French MacCutcheon! (Chess Enterprises)
+ EMMS, The French Tarrasch (Batsford)
+ GALLAGHER, Beating the Anti-Sicilians (Batsford)
= GREFE, The Offbeat Sicilian (Chess Enterprises)
+ HARDING, The Classical French (Batsford)
= HODGSON & DAY, Grand Prix Attack against the Sicilian (Batsford)
= HORT, Alekhine's Defence (with KEENE: Nimzo/Owen's) (ACB)
= HORT, The Modern Defence (RHM)
= HORTON, The French Defence I (Chess Player)
= JANSA & PRIBYL, How to play the Pirc: a new system for Black (Munster)
+ KASPAROV & NIKITIN Sicilian: ...e6 and ...d6 systems (Batsford)
- KEENE & TAULBUT, How to play the Caro-Kann Defence (Batsford) [sketchy]
+ KEENE et al., Understanding the Caro-Kann Defence (RHM)
= KEENE & TAULBUT, French Defence, Tarrasch Variation (Batsford)
+ KEENE & BOTTERILL, The Modern Defence (Batsford)
= KEENE & BLACKSTOCK Sicilian Defence 3: Unusual Second Moves for Black (Chess Player)
= KEENE, PLASKETT & TISDALL, The English Defence (Batsford)
+ KING, English Defence (Everyman Chess)
= LANE, Beating the French (Batsford)
= LANE, Winning with the Closed Sicilian (Batsford)
- LANE, Grand Prix Attack (Batsford) [too many moves, not enough words]
+ LEVY & O'CONNELL, How to play the Sicilian Defence (Bastford)
= LEVY Sicilian: Accelerated Dragons (Batsford)
+ MacDONALD & HARLEY, Mastering the French (Batsford)
= MAROVIC & SUSIC, King Fianchetto Defences (Batsford)
+ MORTAZAVI, Winning with the Kan (Holt/Batsford)
- NESIS, Tactics in the French (Batsford) [not really tied to French]
- NORWOOD, Winning with the Modern (Batsford) [incomplete, not really got to grips with key positions]
+ NUNN & McNAB, The Ultimate Pirc (Batsford)
+ NUNN & GALLAGHER, Beating the Sicilian 3 (Batsford)
+ NUNN, The Pirc for the Tournament Player (Batsford)
+ NUNN, The Complete Pirc (Batsford)
= NUNN, New Ideas in the Pirc (Batsford)
+ PACHMAN, Semi-Open Games (CHESS, Sutton Coldfield)
= PICKETT Sicilian Defence 7: Lines with P-KB4 (Chess Player)
= PICKETT Sicilian Defence 5: Four Knights' (Chess Player)
+ PLASKETT, Sicilian Taimanov (Chess Press)
+ PRITCHETT, The Sicilian Scheveningen (Batsford)
+ RAZUVAYEV, The Anti-Sicilian 3. Bb5(+) (Batsford)
= SILMAN Accelerated Dragons (Chess Digest)
= SILMAN, The Dynamic Caro-Kann: the Bronstein-Larsen Variation and the original Caro system (Summit)
= SMITH & HALL, How to play the Sicilian Defence (Chess Digest)
= SOLTIS, Beating the Alekhine's Defence with the Exchange Variation (Chess Digest)
= SOLTIS, Black to play and win with 1...g6 (Chess Digest)
= SOLTIS, The English Defence (Chess Digest)
= SOLTIS, The Defence ...P-QN3 (Chess Digest)
= SOLTIS, Beating the Sicilian: Chamaeleon (Chess Digest)
+ SPEELMAN & MacDONALD, Modern Defence (Everyman)
+ SUETIN, The Complete French (Batsford)
= SUETIN, French Defence (Batsford)
+ TAIMANOV, Winning with the Sicilian (Batsford)
= TAIMANOV, Sicilian: Taimanov Variation (Batsford)
= TAIMANOV, Sicilian: Paulsen (Batsford)
- TAULBUT, How to play the French Defence (Batsford) [sketchy]
= WALL, Owen's Defence (Chess Enterprises)
= WARD Developments in the Sicilian Dragon (Quadrant)
+ WATSON, Play the French (Third Edition) (Cadogan)
= WOJTKIEWICZ & SANDLER The Vitolins Variation: Scheveningen 6. Bb5+!? (London Chess Centre)
Closed Games
+ BURGESS & PEDERSEN, The Queen's Gambit for the Attacking Player (Batsford)
= CHESS DIGEST, Queen's Gambit Declined (Chess Digest)
= FLEAR, The Slav for the Tournament Player (Batsford)
= HARDING Colle, London & Blackmar-Diemer systems (Batsford)
= HARDING, Queen's Gambit Declined: Semi-Slav (Batsford)
- HODGSON, Trends in the Torre and Trompovsky (Trends) [sketchy]
- LANE, The Blackmar-Diemer Gambit (Batsford) [see review]
+ MARKOV/SCHIPKOV, Winning with the Slav (Batsford)
= MAROVIC, Play the Queen's Gambit (Macmillan)
= NEISHTADT, Queen's Gambit Accepted (Chess Digest)
+ PACHMAN, Queen's Gambit (CHESS, Sutton Coldfield)
+ POLUGAEVSKY, Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defence (Batsford)
- RUSSELL, The Veresov System (Russell) [DIY standard]
= SCHILLER, Tchigorin Defence: Queen's Gambit Declined (Chess Digest)
= SOLTIS, The Noteboom Variation (Chess Digest)
= SOLTIS, The London System (Chess Digest)
+ VAN DER WERF & VAN DER VORM, Play the Noteboom (Cadogan)
= WADE & GKOUNTINIAS, Trends in the London System, Stonewall Attack and Colle (Trends)
Indian Defences
= ADAMS, Trompovsky Opening (Chess Player)
= ADORJAN & DORY, Winning with the Grunfeld (Batsford)
= ARKELL, Trends in the Blumenfeld (Trends)
+ BELLIN & PONZETTO, Mastering the King's Indian Defence (Batsford)
+ BELLIN & PONZETTO, Mastering the Modern Benoni and Benko Gambit (Batsford)
= BELLIN, Trompovsky Opening & Torre Attack (Batsford)
+ BELLIN, The Classical Dutch (Batsford)
= BURGESS, The King's Indian for the Attacking Player (Batsford)
- EHLVEST, The Leningrad Dutch (Batsford) [comprehensive but explanations lacking]
+ GALLAGHER, Beating the Anti-King's Indians (Batsford)
+ GLIGORIC, The Nimzo-Indian Defence (Cadogan)
+ GREFE et al., Understanding the Queen's Indian Defence (RHM)
= HARTSTON, The Benoni (Batsford)
= JACOBS, Kasparov Nimzo-Indian 4. Nf3 (TUI)
= KEENE & TAULBUT, How to play the Nimzo-Indian (Batsford)
= MARTIN, Secret Weapons (Tournament Chess)
= MARTIN, The Contemporary Anti-Dutch (Tournament Chess)
= MINEV, King's Indian Defence: Tactics, Ideas, Exercises (ICE)
= NUNN, The Benoni for the Tournament Player (Batsford)
+ PACHMAN, Indian Defences (CHESS, Sutton Coldfield)
+ PSAKHIS, The Complete Benoni (Batsford)
= RAVIKUMAR, Play the Benko Gambit (Macmillan)
- SCHILLER, Fianchetto against the West Indians (Chess Enterprises) [I think he means East Indians, but in any event doesn't get to grips with recommended lines]
= SUETIN, The Complete Grunfeld (Batsford)
+ TSEITLIN & GLASKOV, Budapest for the Tournament Player (Batsford)
+ VARNUSZ, Play Anti-Indian Systems (Macmillan)
Hypermodern Games
+ BAGIROV, English: Symmetrical (Cadogan)
+ BAGIROV, English: Classical/Indian (Cadogan)
= BASMAN, The New St.George (Cadogan)
= BASMAN, The Killer Grob (Pergamon)
= BENJAMIN/SCHILLER, Unorthodox Openings (Batsford)
= BLOODGOOD, The Tactical Grob (CHESS, Sutton Coldfield)
+ CAFFERTY/SHATSKES, English Opening (Chess Player)
= DUNNINGTON, How to play the King's Indian Attack (Batsford)
+ EVANS, The Chess Opening for You (RHM)
- HENLEY & MADDOX, King's Indian Attack! (ChessBase University) [notes to overfamiliar games plus database dump]
= KEENE, Flank Openings (BCM)
+ KEENE, Nimzowitsch-Larsen Attack (Batsford)
+ KOSTEN, The Dynamic English (Gambit)
- KOTRONIAS, Beating the Flank Openings (Holt) [some good systems but incomplete: you would get move ordered using this book]
= LEVY, 1. b4 (Chess Player)
= POVAH, How to play the English Opening (Batsford)
= RIBLI & KALLAI, Winning with the English Opening (Batsford)
= SCHILLER, Catalan (Chess Enterprises)
= SCHILLER, How to play the King's Indian Attack (Chess Enterprises)
= SMITH & HALL, King's Indian Attack (Chess Digest)
= SOLTIS, Winning with the English Opening (Chess Digest)
= SOLTIS, White Opening System with 1. P-QB4 (Chess Digest)
= SOLTIS, Beating the Pirc Defence with the King Fianchetto Variation (Chess Digest)
= VAN GEET, Van Geet's Opening: 1. Nc3 (New In Chess)
= WALL, 500 English Miniatures (Chess Enterprises)
= WALL, Grob's Attack (Chess Enterprises)
+ WATSON, English: Franco, Slav and Flank Defences (Batsford)
+ WATSON, English 1...P-K4 (Batsford)
+ WATSON, Symmetrical English 1...c5 (Batsford)
+ WATSON, English 1...N-KB3 Systems (Batsford)
= WEINSTEIN, The Reti (Chess Digest)
Middle Game
= COZENS, Lessons in Chess Strategy (Drake)
+ CROUCH, Attacking Technique (Batsford)
+ EUWE & KRAMER, The Middle Game, I: Static Features (Bell)
+ EUWE & KRAMER, The Middle Game, II: Dynamic & Subjective Features (Bell)
= EUWE, Strategy and Tactics in Chess (Bell)
= KEENE, Aron Nimzowitsch (Batsford)
- KEENE, The Chess Combination from Philidor to Karpov (Pergamon) [potboiler]
= KERES & KOTOV, The Middle Game in Chess (Penguin)
+ KMOCH, Pawn Power in Chess (Dover)
+ KONIG, Chess from Morphy to Botwinnik (Dover)
= KORN, The Brilliant Touch (Pitman)
= LASKER, Common Sense in Chess (Dover)
- LASKER, Manual of Chess (Dover) [historical interest]
= LISITSYN & CAFFERTY, The Strategy of Chess (Batsford)
+ MacDONALD, Positional Sacrifices (Cadogan)
= MORTAZAVI, The Fine Art of Swindling (Cadogan)
+ NESIS (tr. GORODI), Tactical Chess Exchanges (Batsford)
= NIMZOVICH, Chess Praxis (Dover)
- NIMZOWITSCH, Blockade (Chess Enterprises) [historical interest]
+ NIMZOWITSCH, My System (Bell)
+ PACHMAN, Complete Chess Strategy 1 (Batsford)
- PACHMAN, Attack and Defence in Modern Chess Tactics (Routledge) [potboiler]
= SOKOLSKY, Pawns in Action (Chess Player)
+ SPIELMANN, The Art of Sacrifice in Ches (Dover)
= SUBA, Dynamic Chess Strategy (Pergamon)
- TAULBUT & JONES, Chess Exchanges (Pergamon) [looks like a first draft: I need more diagrams!]
+ VUKOVIC, The Art of Attack in Chess (Cadogan)
+ VUKOVIC, The Chess Sacrifice (Bell)
+ WATSON, Secrets of Middlegame Strategy (Gambit)
= ZNOSKO-BOROVSKY, The Middlegame in Chess (Dover)
+ ZNOSKO-BOROVSKY, The Art of Chess Combination (Chatto & Windus)
Endgames
+ AVERBAKH, Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge (Cadogan)
+ CHERNEV, Capablanca's 60 Best Chess Endings (Oxford University Press)
= FINE, Basic Chess Endings (Tartan) & EVANS (Ed.) BCE Corrections (Louie)
= HOOPER, Practical Chess Endgames (Routledge)
+ KOSTEN, Winning Endgames (Crowood)
= LIVSHITS & SPEELMAN, Test Your Endgame Ability (Batsford)
+ MEDNIS & CROUCH, Rate Your Endgame (Cadogan)
= MEDNIS, From the Opening to the Endgame (Pergamon)
= MEDNIS, From the MiddleGame to the Endgame (Cadogan)
= MIESES, Manual of the End Game (Bell)
+ NUNN, Tactical Chess Endgames (Batsford)
! ONIONS & REGIS, Ten Ways to Succeed in the Endgame (Tim Onions)
= PANDOLFINI, Pandolfini's Endgame Course (Fireside)
= SCRIVEN, 100 Chess Problems (UPL) the worst chess book ever written...
+ SHERESHEVSKY & SLUTSKY, Mastering the Endgame 1: Open Games (Cadogan)
+ SHERESHEVSKY & SLUTSKY, Mastering the Endgame 2: Closed Games (Cadogan)
+ SHERESHEVSKY, Endgame Strategy (Pergamon)
+ SPEELMAN, TISDALL & WADE, Batsford Chess Endings (Batsford)
= SPEELMAN, Analysing the Endgame (Batsford)
= ZNOSKO-BOROVSKY, How to play Chess Endings (Dover)
Studies/Problems
= CHERNEV, Practical Chess Endings (Dover)
+ LEVITT & FRIEDGOOD, Secrets of Spectacular Chess (Holt)
+ MANSFIELD, Adventures in Chess Composition (CHESS, Sutton Coldfield)
+ NUNN, Solving in Style (GAU)
- SCRIVEN, 100 Chess Problems for the Amateur and Master (UPL) [a contender for the worst chess book ever written: see Barry Wood's review in Chess]
+ SMULLYAN, The Chess Mysteries of the Arabian Knights (Oxford UP)
+ SMULLYAN, The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes (Oxford University Press)
Miscellaneous
= BCF Year Book of Chess 1993 (BCF)
= BCF Year Book of Chess 1994 (BCF)
= BCF Year Book of Chess 1995 (BCF)
= BCF Year Book of Chess 1996 (Batsford)
= BCF Year Book of Chess 1997 (BCF)
= O'CONNELL, Batsford Chess Yearbook 1976 (Batsford)
= O'CONNELL, Batsford Chess Yearbook 1977 (Batsford)
+ PETKOVIC, Mathematics and Chess (Dover)
= WHYLD Chess: the records (Guinness)
KEY
- Not worth it
= OK
+ Recommended
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