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The books, very kindly
donated by Gary Thurston, Chris Lee, Steve Taylor and Davd Hobden are now catalogued and available for
loan.
Books will be kept in a
lockable cupboard alongside the chess set cupboard.
A spreadsheet with a list of books including titles and authors will be kept in the cupboard, allowing members to record when they have borrowed and returned a book. There is also a waiting list for members to indicate interest in books already out on loan.
The books can be borrowed
with no charge but the following caveats apply:
1) A member is allowed to borrow two books at a time
2) A book cannot be borrowed for a period longer than 3
months
3) If a book is not returned within 3 months then a £5 a
quarter charge is incurred
4) If a member loses a book there will be a £15 charge
| Title | Author |
| 100 der schonsten kombinationen der schachgeschichite | Martin Weteschnik |
| 1000 best short games | Chernov |
| 101 chess opening traps | Steve Giddins |
| 101 winning chess strategies | Angus Dunnington |
| 200 open games | David Bronstein |
| 365 ways to checkmate | Joe Gallagher |
| 40 Chess Lessons | Kostyev |
| 40 lessons for the club player | Kostyev |
| A black defensive system for the rest of your chess career | |
| a killer chess opening repertoire | Aaron Summerscale |
| A strategic opening repertoire | John Donaldson |
| Alapin French - tactics for white | Tim Sawyer |
| Anatoly Karpov's best games | Anatoly Karpov |
| anti-sicilians - a guide for black | Dorian Rogozenko |
| Attacjkwith GM Julian Hodgson | Julain Hodgson |
| Batsford chess endings | John Speelman |
| Batsford's modern chess openings | Nick De Firmian |
| Battles of Hastings | Cload |
| BCO 2 | Keene |
| BCO 2 | Keene |
| Beating the anti-king's indians | Joe Gallagher |
| Beating the anti-sicilians | Joe Gallagher |
| Beating the fianchetto defences | Grivas |
| Beating the indian defences | Graham Burgess & Steffen Pedersen |
| Beating the sicilian 3 | John Nunn and Joe Gallagher |
| Bird-larsen attack | Andrew Soltis |
| Bird's opening | Timothy Taylor |
| Blackmar-Diemer Gambit | Gary Lane |
| Bobby Fischer goes to war | David Edmonds & John Eidinow |
| Bobby Fisher | Brady |
| Building up your chess | Lev Alburt |
| can you be a positional chess genius | Angus Dunnington |
| Can you be a tactical chess genius? | James Plaskett |
| Caro-Kann defence | Suetin |
| Chess | Green |
| Chess brilliancy | Iakov Damsky |
| chess exam and training guide | Igor Khmelnitsky |
| Chess exchanges | S. Taulbut & S. Jones |
| Chess for Zebras | Jonathan Rowson |
| Chess is my life | Karpov |
| Chess Lessons | Artur Yusupov |
| Chess Openings | Fine |
| Chess players text book | Staunton |
| chess psychology | Angus Dunnington |
| Chess strategy in action | John Watson |
| Chess training in 5333+1 positions | Polgar |
| Chessmen | Mackett-Beeson |
| Chinese school of chess | Liu Wenzhe |
| classical dutch | Jan Pinski |
| Classical Kings Indian | Nunn |
| Decision making at the chessboard | Viacheslav Eingorn |
| Duals of the mind | Keene |
| Dutch Defense | Larry Christiansen & Jeremy Silman |
| Dynamics of chess strategy | Vlastimil Jansa |
| easy guide to the Bb5 sicilian | Steffen Pedersen |
| Easy guide to the classical sicilian | Jouan Yrjola |
| Easy guide to the Nge2 king's indian | Gyozo Forintos & Erwin Haag |
| easy guide to the nimzo-indian | John Emms |
| Easy guide to the sveshnikov sicilian | Jacob Aagaard |
| Excelling at chess calculation | Jacob Aagaard |
| excelling at combinational play | Jacob Aagaard |
| Excelling at positional chess | Jacob Aagaard |
| Exploiting small advantages | Eduard Gufeld |
| Fischer world champion | Max Euwe & Jan Timman |
| Fischer-Spassky Reykjavik 1972 | Alexander |
| Fisher Spassky move by move | Evans & Smith |
| From the opening into the ending | Mednis |
| Genius in chess | levitt |
| Grand prix attack | John Hall |
| Grandmasters of chess | Harold C Schonberg |
| guide to the english opening | |
| How good is your chess | King |
| How to be a complete tournament player | Mednis |
| How to become a deadly chess tactician | David LeMoir |
| I play against pieces | Svetozar Gligoric |
| Improve your chess results | Zak |
| Improve your endgame play | Glenn Flear |
| Improve your game - 100 chess puzzles | Paul Lamford |
| Improvers - It's your move | Chris Ward |
| It's your move | Chris Ward |
| It's your move - tough puzzles | Chris Ward |
| Karpov – Korchnoi | Hartston |
| Karpov - Korchnoi 1978 | keene |
| Kasparov-Karpov | Kasparov et al |
| Kasparov-Karpov London-Leningrad 1986 | Keene |
| Kings Indian and Grunfeld | Janjgava |
| Kings Indian Battle Plans | Andrew Martin |
| Korchnoi Spassky | Keene |
| Kramnik my life and games | Vladimir Kramnik & Iakov Damsky |
| Learn Chess from the World Championships | David Levy |
| Learn from the grandmasters | Raymond Keene |
| Leonid Stein - master of attack | Raymond Keene |
| Leonid Stein - master of risk strategy | Eduard Gufeld & Efim Lazarev |
| Lessons in chess strategy | Valeri Beim |
| Logical chess: move by move | Irving chernev |
| Mammoth book of chess | Burgess |
| man v machine | Raymond Keene & Byron Jacobs |
| Master of attack | Keene |
| Mastering the endgame | Glenn Flear |
| Mastering the french | Neil McDonald & Andrew Harley |
| Mastering the nimzo-indian | Tony Kosten |
| Mastering the Spanish | King |
| masters of the chess board | Richard Reti |
| Mikhail Tal - tactical genius | Alexander Raetsky & Maxim Chetverik |
| Modenrn chess strategy | Pachmann |
| modern benoni | Andrew Kinsman |
| Modern chess openings | Lane |
| most instructive games of chess | chernov |
| My 60 memorable games | Fischer |
| My chess career | J.R.Capablanca |
| My Games | Kasparov |
| My great predecessors part 2 | Gary Kasparov |
| My sytem | Aron Nimzowitsch |
| New in chess yearbook 63 | |
| New in chess yearbook 64 | |
| New in chess yearbook 68 | |
| New in chess yearbook 70 | |
| New in chess yearbook 73 | |
| New in chess yearbook 73 | |
| New in chess yearbook 74 | |
| New in chess yearbook 75 | |
| New in chess yearbook 76 | |
| New in chess yearbook 76 | |
| New in chess yearbook 77 | |
| New in chess yearbook 78 | |
| New in chess yearbook 79 | |
| New in chess yearbook 79 | |
| New in chess yearbook 80 | |
| Nigel Short | Keene |
| On the road to the world championship | Alexander Alekhine |
| Opening for white according to Kramnik vol1 | Alexander Khalifman |
| Opening for white according to Kramnik vol2 | Alexander Khalifman |
| Opening for white according to Kramnik vol3 | Alexander Khalifman |
| Opening for white according to Kramnik vol4 | Alexander Khalifman |
| Opening for white according to Kramnik vol5 | Alexander Khalifman |
| Opening tactics for club players | Samarian |
| Pandolfini's endgame course | Bruce Pandolfini |
| Pawn power in chess | Kmoch |
| Planning | Neil McDonald |
| Play 1 d4! | Richard Palliser |
| play chess combinations and sacrifices | David Levy |
| Play the french | John Watson |
| Play the French (v1) | Watson |
| Play the nimzo-indian defence | Svetozar Gligoric |
| Play the sicilan dragon | dearing |
| Practical chess endings | Keres |
| Practical endgame play | Neil McDonald |
| Practical middlegame techniques | Danny Kopec |
| Queens gambit accepted | Egon Varnusz |
| queens gambit accepted | Ken Smith & John Hall |
| Queens Gambit accepted | Gufeld |
| Quens gambit: the orthodox defence | Polugayevsky |
| Quest for the Crown | Nigel Short |
| secrets of attacking chess | Mihail Marin |
| Secrets of chess transformations | Drazen Marovic |
| Secrets of modern chess strategy - Advances since Nimzowitsch | John Watson |
| Secrets of opening surprises | Jeroen Bosch |
| Secrets of opening surprises | Jeroen Bosch |
| Secrets of practical chess | John Nunn |
| Sicilian c3 | Chandler |
| Sicilian defence najdorf poisoned pawn | S1 Editrice |
| Sicilian e6 and d6 systems | Kasparov |
| Starting out 1d4! | John Cox |
| Starting out: minor piece endgames | John Emms |
| starting out: modern benoni | Endre Vegh |
| Starting out: slav and semi-slav | Glenn Flear |
| starting out: the caro-kann | Joe Gallagher |
| Starting out: the dutch defence | Neil McDonald |
| starting out: the queen's indian | John Emms |
| starting out: the sicilian | John Emms |
| Tactical Chess endings | Nunn |
| Tactical chess exchanges | Gennady Nesis |
| Tactics in the French | Nesis |
| Tactics in the grunfeld | Gennady Nesis |
| Test your endgame ability | Augustus Livshits & John Speelman |
| Test your positional play | Robert Bellin & Pietro Ponzetto |
| The Alekhine Defense playbook | Rev. Tim Sawyer |
| The Benoni | Hartston |
| The caro-kann - in black & white | Anatoly Karpov & Alexander Beliavsky |
| the catalan | Alex Raetsky & Maxim Chetverik |
| The chess mind | Gerald Abrahams |
| The chess mind | Abrahams |
| The complete benko gambit | John Fedorowicz |
| the complete benoni | Lev Psakhis |
| The complete c3 sicilian | Murray Chandler |
| The complete Dragon | Gufeld |
| The complete grunfeld | Suetin |
| The critical moment | Lossif Dorfman |
| The Dutch for the attacking player | Steffen Pedersen |
| The gambit | Yudovich |
| The Grunfeld Defence | Hartston |
| The Grunfeld for the attacking player | Bodgan Lalic |
| The hegehog | Mihai Suba |
| The inner game of chess | Andrew Soltis |
| The killer grob | Michael Basman |
| The Leningrad Dutch | Ehlvest |
| The Lion - the black weapon | Jerry van Rekom & Leo Janssen |
| The middle-game in chess | Pachann |
| The nimzo-Indian defence | Keene/Taulbut |
| The Power chess program: book 1 | Nigel Davies |
| The power chess program: book2 | Nigel Davies |
| The reassess your chess workbook | Jeremy Silman |
| The road to chess improvement | Alex Yermolinsky |
| the ruy lopez main line | Glenn Flear |
| The scotch games | Peter Wells |
| The seven deadly chess sins | Jonathan Rowson |
| The sicilain for the tournament player | Gufeld |
| The slav for the tournament player | Glenn Flear |
| The spanish exchange | Andrew Kinsman |
| The Sveshnikov sicilian | Neil McDonald |
| The symmetrical English | Carsten Hansen |
| The Tarrasch defence | Chandler |
| The test of time | Garry Kasparov |
| The Trompowsky | Joe Gallagher |
| The World Championship | Gligoric |
| Think like a grandmaster | Alenxander Kotov |
| Tony Miles - its only me | Geoff Lawton |
| Toxic precision | Gary Kasparov |
| Ultimate Closed Sicilian | Gary Lane |
| Understanding chess move by move | John Nunn |
| Understanding pawn play in chess | Drazen Marovic |
| Understanding the grunfeld | Jonathan Rowson |
| Unknown Capablanca | Hooper & Brandreth |
| Vishy Anand - My best games of chess | Vishy Anand |
| Warriors of the mind | Keene |
| Winning chess tactics | Seirawan |
| winning chess tactics fro juniors | Lou Hays |
| Winning with 1e4 | Soltis |
| winning with the benko | Byron Jacobs |
| Winning with the dragon | Chris Ward |
| Winning with the Kan | Ali Mortazavi |
| Winning with the king's gambit | Joe Gallagher |
| Winning with the Kings Indian | Gufeld |
| winning with the najdorf | Daniel King |
| Winning with the Trompowsky | Peter Wells |
| World Championship Interzonals: Leningrad-Petropolis 1973 | R G Wade, L S Blackstock, A Kotov |