1. DEVELOPMENT
ID No. / Shelf No. / Title / Author / Brief Description1 / 1.1 / Chess Made Easy / C.J.S. Purdy & G. Koshnitsky / Aimed for beginners,1942, 64 pages.
2 / 1.2 / The Game of Chess / H.Golombek / Advance from beginner,1945, 255pages
3 / 1.3 / A Guide to Chess / Ed.Gerard & C. Verviers / Advance from beginner 1969, 156 pages.
4 / 1.4 / My System / Aron Nimzovich / Theory of chess to improve yourself 1973, 372 pages
5 / 1.5 / Pawn Power in Chess / Hans Kmoch / Chess strategy using pawns.1969, 300 pages
6 / 1.6 / The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played / Irving Chernev / 62 annotated masterpieces of modern chess strategy. 1972, 277 pages
7 / 1.7 / The Development of Chess Style / Dr. M. Euwe / Annotated games explaining positional play, combination & analysis. 1968, 152pgs
8 / 1.8 / Three Steps to Chess Mastery / A.S. Suetin / Examples of modern Grandmaster play to improve your playing strength. 1982, 188pgs
9 / 1.9 / Grandmasters of Chess / Harold C. Schonberg / A history of modern chess through the lives of these great players. 1973, 302 pages
10 / 1.10 / Grandmaster Preparation / L. Polugayevsky / How to prepare technically and psychologically for decisive encounters where everything is at stake. 1981, 232 pages
11 / 1.11 / Grandmaster Performance / L. Polugayevsky / 64 games selected to give a clear impression of how victory is gained. 1984, 174 pages
12 / 1.12 / Learn from the Grandmasters / Raymond D. Keene / A wide spectrum of games by a no. of players annotated from different angles. 1975, 120 pgs
13 / 1.13 / The Modern Chess Sacrifice / Leonid Shamkovich / 'A thousand paths lead to delusion, but only one to the truth.' 1980, 214 pages
14 / 1.14 / Blunders & Brilliancies / Ian Mullen and Moe Moss / Over 250 excellent exercises to asses your aptitude for brilliancy and blunder. 1990, 160pg
74 / 1.15 / The Art of Sacrifice in Chess / Rudolf Spielmann / Spielmann's classic idea is that you can win by giving up material. 1951, 195 pages
ID No. / Shelf No. / Title / Author / Brief Description
75 / 1.16 / Combinations The Heart of Chess / Irving Cherney / Many outstanding combinations from over 14 Grandmasters games. 1967, 240 pages.
86 / 1.17 / Play Winning Chess / Seirawan and Silman / An easy to use beginners book of chess.1995, 213 pages
87 / 1.18 / Winning Chess Tactics / Seirawan and Silman / For intermediate players, about basic tactics andstrategies. 1995, 248 pages
89 / 1.19 / Win at Chess / Ron Curry / Includes openings to endgames, for intermediateplayers. 1995, 258 pages
92 / 1.20 / Secrets of Chess Training / Mark Dvoretsky / Includes analysis of adjourned positions, the endgame and studies. 1991, 216 pages
93 / 1.21 / Winning Chess Brilliancies / Yasser Seirawan / Includes move by move account of the best chess games for the last 25 years. 1995, 257 pages
94 / 1.22 / Secrets of Practical Chess / John Nunn / Includes defending difficult positions, openings, avoiding mistakes, calculating, pressure and time trouble. 1998, 173 pages.
100 / 1.23 / Chess / Gerald Abrahams / Scientific analysis, middle game tactics and strategies, opening refinements. 1971, 256 pgs
101 / 1.24 / The Chess Mind / Gerald Abrahams / Focus on intuition, reasoning, calculation, imagination, memory & will power. 1960, 335p
104 / 1.25 / Improve Your Chess Now / Jonathon Tisdall / J.Tisdall explains a new approach to chess thinking. 1997, 223 pages.
106 / 1.26 / The Basis of Combination / J. Du Mont / Making combinations easier to understand. 1944, 213 pages
108 / 1.27 / The Middle Game in Chess / E. A. Znosko-Borovsky / Analysis, position evaluation, attack and defence of middle game strategy 1949, 220pgs
114 / 1.28 / Positional Sacrifices / Niel McDonald / Sacrifices; on open lines, exchanges and psychology of sacrifices. 1994, 129 pages
119 / 1.29 / The daily Telegraph, Chess Puzzles / David Norwood / Chess puzzles, easy to expert level.
121 / 1.30 / Logical Chess Move by Move / Irving Chernev / Step by step analysis of 33 games, emphasis on middle game. 1957, 250 pages.
123 / 1.31 / Technique in Chess / Gerald Abrahams / Developing techniques and value of pieces 1961, 215 pages.
125 / 1.32 / The Art of Mastering Chess / Eduard Gufeld / A complete course for beginners, 1994, 262 p.
130 / 1.33 / Complete Chess Strategy 2 / Ludek Pachman / Pawn-play & the centre, 1976, 181 pages.
131 / 1.34 / Complete Chess Strategy 3 / Ludek Pachman / Play on the wings, 1978, 170 pages
132 / 1.35 / 101 Winning Chess Sacrifices & Combinations / Fred Reinfeld / Pins, forks, discovered attacks & other combinations. 1973, 252 pages.
133 / 1.36 / The Joys of Chess / Fred Reinfeld / How to record moves (old version P-K4). Inc combinations & endgame studies. 1961, 288 p.
136 / 1.37 / The Penguin Book of Chess Positions / C.Alexander / Includes forks, skewers, pins, decoys & puzzles. 1973, 171 pages.
137 / 1.38 / How to Play Winning Chess / Fred Reinfeld / From beginning chess to sophisticated principals of advanced play. 1962, 138 pages.
ID No. / Shelf No. / Title / Author / Brief Description
140 / 1.39 / The Chess Legacy of Jose Raoul Capablanca / J.Capablanca / Endgame strategies, pawn positions & middlegame theory. 1966, 128 pages.
142 / 1.40 / Improve Your Game 100 Chess Puzzles / Paul Lamford / 100 Chess Puzzles, 1999, 127 pages.
151 / 1.41 / Improve Your Middlegame Play / Andrew Kinsman / Read and play method with puzzles, 2000, 144 pages.
158 / 1.42 / Attack and Counter attack in Chess / Fred Reinfeld / Tactics and strategy of planing a chess game, 1959, 154 pages.
159 / 1.43 / Chess Problems / B.P Barnes / The best chess problems, 156 pages.
160 / 1.44 / The Art of the Middle Game / P.Keres &A. Kotov / Middle game theory, 1964, 234 pages
163 / 1.45 / The Times Winning Chess / R.Keene / Planning, strategy, cominations and traps, endgame and opening theory, 1995, 144 pages.
166 / 1.46 / Hot to Think Ahead in Chess / Horowitz &Fred Reinfeld / Methods and techniques of planning your entire game, 1972, 268 pages.
167 / 1.47 / Leonard Barden's Chess Puzzle Book / Leonard Barden / Collection of 300 best chess puzzles from Leonard's daily column.
174 / 1.48 / The King-Hunt / John Nunn & William Cozens / Sharpens your attacking instincts, practical tips on how to conduct King-Hunts. 1996, 160pgs
179 / 1.49 / Improve your Opening Play / Chris Ward / Read & Play method with puzzles. 2000, 143pgs (part of series see 151 1.41 above)
202 / 1.50 / Winning with Reverse Chess Strategy / William Reuter / Opening,middlegame & endings are great forbackward moves. 1998, 150 pages.
204 / 1.51 / Little book of chess / Usborne / Similar to chess made easy
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1.71 / Find the Winning Move
Sharpen your Chess Tactics in 7 days
606 puzzles for Chess Nuts
Think like a Grandmaster
Learn Chess Tactics
Perfect your chess
How to calculate chess tactics
Lasker’s Manual of Chess
Black is OK!
How to force checkmate
The logical approach to chess
Thinkers’Chess
Win at Chess
Winning Chess Strategies
Take my Rooks
Chess Recipes from the Grandmaster’s kitchen
HOT Chess
How to defend in chess
How to become a Candidate Master
Modern Chess Strategy / Gary Lane
Gary Lane
Fred Wilson & Bruce Alberston
Alexander Kotov
John Nunn
Andrei Volokitin &
Vladimir Grabinsky
Valeri Beim
Dr Emanuel Lasker
Andras Adorjan
Fred Reinfeld
Max Euwe, M Blaine, J.F.S Rumble
Stephan Gerzadowicz
Fred Reinfeld
Yasser Seirawan
Yasser Seirawan and Nikolay Minev
Valeri Beim
Paul Motwani
Colin Crouch
Alex Dunne
Ludek Pachman. Translated and abridged by Alan S Russell. / Endgame & overall improvement, theory & puzzles 2004, 176 pages
A collection of games covering all basic tactical motifs such as pins, decoys, deflections and double attacks. 2009, 224 pages
606 tactical puzzles divided into 3 levels of difficulty- beginner, intermediate, tournament level. 2008, 368 pages
Explains how to approach chess thinking including the famous tree of analysis. 1995, 187 pages.
Goes through the various tactical themes (pins, forks, skewers etc). Includes plenty of puzzles. Great practice! 2004, 160 pages.
This book contains 369 chess puzzles of actual positions faced by these authors during their careers. 160 pages.
Explains how to calculate chess tactical variations and includes puzzles as well. 2006, 175 pages
This book by Lasker addresses various areas of chess including gaining advantages, exchange value of pieces , combinations, positional play, aesthetics of chess and dozens of different openings. Includes diagrams as well.1960, 349 pages.
Adorjan annotates a collection of games to convince chess players that playing with the black pieces doesn’t always mean a defensive approach and that they can win with them after all!! 1988, 165 pages.
300 practical immediate checkmates that your opponents cannot escape, selected from master play. 1947, 111 pages.
A general overview of the opening, middle game and ending. 1958, 217 pages.
Annotated games organised into different chess topics- development, exchanging, pawn play and weak squares, endings and attacks good and bad.
Improve your play with 300 forceful hard-hitting combinations from master games! 1958, 120 pages.
Basic overview of chess strategy by Seirwan.1994, 257 pages.
Seirawan and Minev annotate a collection of games where the sacrifice of 2 Rooks is involved. 1991, 95 pages.
Lessons in chess strategy and thinking methods. 2002, 128 pages.
This book addresses chess thinking from different angles using master games as examples. 1996, 192 pages.
Lasker and Petrosian demonstrate from their own games the technique of defence in chess.
A wide variety of openings are discussed by the use of annotated games. The middle game, the stomping ground of the expert, and the endgame, the field of the master, are used to highlight all phases of winning.
Covers basic concepts of strategy including rules of minor and major pieces, the active King, exchanges, various kinds of pawns and the centre. 1971. 313 pages.
OPENINGS
ID No. / Shelf No. / Title / Author / Brief Description15 / 2.1 / Chess Openings: Theory and Practice / I.A. Horowitz / Definitive study of all the important openings, with 2,660 fully analysed variations and 439 complete illustrative games. 1964, 784 pages.
16 / 2.2 / Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur / Max Euwe and Walter Meiden / This work consists of twenty five games between master and amateur. 1971, 308 pages.
17 / 2.3 / 1.P-QN4 / Andrew Soltis / This book has one of Arved Wasser's favourite openings. 1972, 45 pages.
18 / 2.4 / Larson's Opening 1.P-QN3 / Andrew Soltis / Another trend which gives white an under standing of this unusual opening. 1972, 44pages
19 / 2.5 / Encyclopedia of Chess Openings (E) / A. Matanovic / Grandmaster games of: 1. d4-Nf6 2. c4-e6 and 1. d4-Nf6 2. c4-g6 L d7-d5. 1978, 464 pages.
20 / 2.6 / Encyclopedia of Chess Openings (D) / A. Matanovic / Grandmaster games of: 1. d4-d5 and 1. d4-Nf6 2. c4-g6 L d7-d5. 1977, 401 pages
21 / 2.7 / Encyclopedia of Chess Openings (C) / A. Matanovic / Grandmaster games of: 1. e4-e6 and 1.e4-e5. 1974, 348 pages
22 / 2.8 / Encyclopedia of Chess Openings (B) / A. Matanovic / Grandmaster games of: 1. e4. 1.c5, 1.e6, 1.e5 and 1.e4-c5. 1975, 398 pages
23 / 2.9 / Encyclopedia of Chess Openings (A) / A. Matanovic / Grandmaster games of: 1.d4-Nf6 2.c4 and 1.d4 Nf6 2. c4 2.e6, 2.g6. 1979, 474 pages
24 / 2.10 / The Sicilian Scheveningen / Craig Pritchett / This book covers all the important modern ideas connected with this variation. 1977, 198 pages
25 / 2.11 / The Application of Chess Theory / Y.P. Gerller / Has games that pays attention to opening plans and development in middle games. 1984, 255 pg
26 / 2.12 / Chess Openings / Mike Basman / Explains principals and correct play and strong positions for attack and defence. 1987, 256 pgs
27 / 2.13 / Unorthodox Openings / Joel Benjamin and Eric Schiller / 'The Good, The Bad and the Ugly'1987, 151 pages
28 / 2.14 / The Polish Defence 1.b5 / Thomas Kapitaniak / 25 annotated illustrative games to present a complete picture of the opening. 1988, 58 pages
29 / 2.15 / Batsford Chess Openings 2 / Gary Kasparov and Raymond Keene / It is the most comprehensive, convenient and up-to-date book currently available. 1989, 411pg
30 / 2.16 / How to Play the Torre Attack / Eric Schiller / The variation is flexible and allows both posit-ional manoeuvring d4, Nf3 & Bg5. 1991,153pg
76 / 2.17 / The Kings Indian Attack / Norman Weinstein / A brief description of the Kings Indian Attack.
1976, 47 pages.
ID No. / Shelf No. / Title / Author / Brief Description
83 / 2.18 / French: MacCutcheon and Advanced Lines / T.D. Harding / The MacCutcheon and Advanced Lines in new notation
84 / 2.19 / Nimzowitsch/Larsen Attack / Raymond Keene / 1.b3 is one of the most interesting and flexible opening systems studied. 1981, 130pgs
90 / 2.20 / Play the French / John L Watson / This book provides a complete repertoire for black in the French Defence. 1986, 208 pages
97 / 2.21 / Alekhine's Defence / R.G. Eales and A.H. Williams / This book contains many variations of Alekhine's defence. 1973, 140 pages
102 / 2.22 / The Sicilian Dragon / Eric Schiller & Jonatham Goldman / A report on the main line (9.Bc4) of the Yugoslav Attack in the Sicilian Dragon. 1987, 134 pages