Chess - Games from Glynn's Books

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: 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

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: 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.

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.

London: Everyman/Gloucester, 2009. Pb, 269pp. VG, clean contents. Compares the approaches and styles of three attacking players during specific phases of their careers, and highlights attacking themes in their games : Kasparov 1975-1978, Leonid Stein 1972-73, Mikhail Tal 1978-79 and Kasparov 1978-82.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Batsford, 1979. Hb, 207pp. VG with clean contents in a Good, price-clipped dj which has a small tear. Career notes and 90 annotated games of the Hungarian GM, plus tournament and match record. Descriptive notation.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Self-published, 1999. Hb, 206pp. Ex-library copy with usual stamps, missing fep and catalogue number on spine. 100 of Keene's best games, annotated, from 1960 to 1985. . Hard Cover. Fair/Fair.

Kecskemet: Caissa KFT, 1999. Pb, 160pp. VG, clean contents. Several hundred miniature games with ten moves or less, with brief notes or introduction, and organized by theme.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Olomouc: Moravian Chess, 2017. Hb, laminated pictorial covers, 452pp. Good+, scratches on back cover, slight corner edgewear to corners and spine, contents clean. A collection of Alekhine's early game annotations, for both his own games and other players, with many previously not available in English. Sources are indicated and there are notes by the translator/editor Ken Neat given at the… Read more about this item

London: Gambit, 1998. Pb, 240pp. Good+, marginal wear, clean contents. Includes 40 of Anand's annotated games from 1986 to 1997 plus 30 test positions.. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Jefferson: McFarland, 1995. Hb, blue library binding, xvii + 487pp, b/w photos. Good+. Interior smells slightly smoky but otherwise in very good condition. Comprehensive biography of the great 19th century chessplayer with an emphasis on Steinitz the man, whose " life combined tragedy and drama, and. . .. who, by chance almost, became a chess thinker of unequalled significance". This… Read more about this item

London/N.Y.: Batsford/RHM, 1974. Translated and edited by Michael Basman. Hb, 247pp, b/w photos. Good with clean contents in a Good dj which is slightly sunned/yellowed. Lettering on spine has become turquoise blue rather than the original green. Includes biographical sections based on extensive interviews with Petrosian, and 50 annotated games, mainly annotated by Suetin (his longstanding openings advisor) and based… Read more about this item

London: Cadogan, 1992. Pb, 282pp. Good, spine creased and scuffed, contents clean. Instructional examination of Fischer's playing style which also acts as a treatise on the middlegame, with the material organized thematically e.g. Pawn placement, Strategy, Playing to win etc. . Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Bell, 1974. Hb, 334pp. Fair+ in a Good+ dj which has marginal wear. Pages heavily tanned, sticker of the ECF Dunleavy Collection on fep, inked notation on back endpaper. Examines Nimzowitch's career in detail, drawing on the chess thinker's own notes, looking at his influence on modern opening play, and providing a wide selection of his games from… Read more about this item

Oxford: Pergamon, 1983. Hb, laminated pictorial covers, no dj, x + 250pp, b/w photos including frontispiece of Smyslov. Good, slightly sunned spine, light foxing along edge of page block, bumped top corner, clean contents. 125 of Smyslov's games spanning 1935-1981 (with an additional two games from 1982 provided by Smyslov in the Foreward to this English edition) with his… Read more about this item

London: Batsford, 2003. Pb, 288pp, b/w photos. Good+, clean contents, faint yellowing to page edges. Includes over 100 of Tony Miles' games with his annotations and entertaining and incisive commentaries about events (with a long chapter on Tilburg 1985), a selection of problems, some of Miles' articles, a brief guide to his opening repertoire, and personal tributes from Mike Fox… Read more about this item

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980. Hb, laminated pictorial covers, no dj, 256pp, portrait frontis. Good, sunned spine/cover edges, contents clean, slight tanning/yellowing to page edges. Translated and edited by Edward Winter. Divided into Open, Semi-open and Closed Games, this collection of games annotated by Alekhine between 1939-1945 include some of his own games as well as those of… Read more about this item

Zurich: Olms, 2005. Pb, 261pp. Good+, marginal wear, clean contents. Includes autobiographical introduction, 51 deeply annotated games (including a section of games devoted to Gelfand's use of the 8 Rb1 variation in the Grunfeld defence), a chapter on combinations with game extracts, and one on endings also with examples from his games.. Soft Cover. Good.

Alkmaar: New In Chess, 2016. Pb, 576pp. VG, clean contents. Combined edition of Nimzowitch's classic works with a new translation by Robert Sherwood. Also includes the monograph" The Blockade" and the article " On the History of the Chess Revolution". The latter appeared in the original German edition as an Appendix in " Mein System" and has been… Read more about this item