Mr. Hoyle's Games of Whist, Quadrille, Piquet, Chess, and Back-Gammon … by Hoyle, Edmond - 1765

96 pages with six plates, diagrams and tables. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") issued in wrappers. Includes problem tournament. (Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5394) First edition.The chess club in Hannover, Germany celebrated its fifty year anniversary by organizing a small, international chess master tournament in 1926. Eight players were invited to participate, including two very strong masters: Aron Nimzowitsch from Denmark, and Akiba Rubinstein from Poland. They met with six German chess masters that included Jacques Mieses, Friedrich Sämisch, Oscar Antze, Hans Duhm, Hermann Von Gottschall, and Walther Von Holzhausen. Games were played from August 9th to the 18th. Nimzowitsch won with a near perfect score of 6½ of 7, edging out Rubinstein by half a point. The prizes were awarded to the players at the Hotel Luisenhof. In conjunction with the tournament was a problem tournament which a number of problems were presented from contestants in Europe.Condition:Spine heal bumped, light edge… Read More

1972 McKay trade hardcover. No indications of later printing on the copyright. Not remainder marked, dj is not price clipped($7.95). Dj has faint penmark below price, light shelfware and spinewear, no discoleration, looks very good in Brodart protective sleeve. Pages clean, unmarked & not aged. Red cloth covered boards clean & square. Black lettering on spine fine. Binding firm & straight.

iv+252 pages with diagrams, photographs and index. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Signed by Yasser Seirawan. First edition. The 1990 WCC match between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov was held from October 8 to December 30. The match locale was split, with the first 12 games played in New York, USA, and the final 12 in Lyons, France. The prize fund was three million dollars, with 5/8 going to the winner. In case of a tie, the prize fund would be shared equally with Kasparov retaining the title.Unlike the 1987 WCC cycle in which Karpov was seeded directly into the final candidate match, this time he was only reserved a spot in the quarter finals, and thus had to win three mini-matches in order to face Kasparov. This he accomplished by defeating Johann Hjartarson 3½ to 1½, Artur Yusupov 4½ to 3½ and Jan Timman 6½ to 2½.Perhaps as a psychological ploy, Karpov suggested a last minute change to the rules in the pre-match press conference. Karpov argued… Read More

Typed letter from Harry Golombek to a reader's query about a game score in the August issue of British Chess Magazine 1954. Signed by Golombek in pencil.

Harry Golombek OBE (March 1, 1911â€"January 7, 1995), was a British chess International Master and honorary grandmaster, chess arbiter, and chess author.

He was three times British chess champion, in 1947, 1949, and 1955. He was the chess correspondent of The Times newspaper from 1945 to 1989. He was an official of the Fédération Internationale des Échecs, and served as Arbiter for several important events, including the Candidates' Tournament of 1959 in Yugoslavia. He was also editor of some well-known collections of games such as Capablanca's and Réti's, and was a well respected author. He was editor of British Chess Magazine from 1938 to 1940, and its overseas editor throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Golombek also translated several chess books from Russian into English. On the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, Golombek was in… Read More

68+[4 ad] pages with photographs of each of the players, diagrams, tables and index. Octavo (9" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with blind stamped ruled edges. Annotations by A Alekhine. An account of the tournament by G A Thoumas. (Betts: 25-65; Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana:5344) First edition.In September of 1922, the organizers of the Hastings chess congress decided to hold a masters tournament which would pit two English masters against four of the best from the European continent. The participants of the double round robin were Alexander Alekhine, Efim Bogoljubov, Akiba Rubinstein, Siegbert Tarrasch, George Alan Thomas, and Frederick Yates. Alekhine managed to edge out superstar Rubinstein by half a point in the final, winning his most famous game ever against long time rival Bogoljubov, whereas Rubinstein struggled for over a hundred moves against Thomas only to come up short at the end. The 30 games are fully annotated by Alekhine, with some notes from The Field… Read More

239 pages with 2 plates, diagrams and index. Small octavo (7 1/2 x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. A C White's Christmas series number 26. (Betts: 33-22)First edition.
Contains a biographical sketch of Densmore, by Sim, a 62 page study of his problems by Hume (including 80 examples), 54 further examples of his work (chiefly 3 movers, 4 movers and self mates), an 85 problems by various composers entered in the memorial Tourney. Solutions appear on pages 223-235. Includes an index of composers.
Condition: Previous owner's name to front end paper. Corners bumped, old book-sellers label to front paste-down else a very good copy.

3 printed sheets with the short biographies of 5 grandmasters at the tournament in Potsdam 2012. Sheet size 11' x 8". 5 handwritten signatures of the grandmasters under their short biographies: Helmut Pfleger, Klaus Bischoff, Raj Tischbierek, Jan H. Timman, Stefan Kindermann.
Helmut Pfleger (born August 6, 1943) is a German chess grandmaster and author. He was one of the most promising chess players in the 1960s and 1970s. From 1977 until 2005, Pfleger hosted a series of chess programs on German public TV, including Chess of the Grandmasters, often together with grandmaster Vlastimil Hort. By profession, he is a doctor of medicine.
Klaus Bischoff (born 9 June 1961 in Ulm) is a German chess player who was awarded the Grandmaster title by FIDE in 1990. In international tournaments, he has taken a share of first place on a number of occasions, including Kecskemét 1988, Arosa 1996, Recklinghausen 1999, Essen 2000, Bad Zwesten 2003 and Bad Zwesten again in 2005. In 2006, he tied for 2nd-9th with Luke… Read More

15 unpaginated daily bulletins, each 3 pages. Octavo (8" x 5 3/4") issued in wrappers. First edition.Mar del Plata has a rich history of chess tournaments, including their international chess tournament and open tournament. There is also an annual city tournament, which had its first edition in 1946, and reached its 62nd edition in 2007. The international tournament started off in 1928, but only in the period from 1941 to 1970 was it a truly international tournament with considerable reputation. After 1970, only seven international tournaments have been played. The 1951, 1954, 1969 and 2001 editions were zonal tournaments. The 1958 contest was held at the Hotel Provincial in Mar del Plata. and is part of an iconic beachfront complex, built in 1946 by the celebrated architect Alejandro Bustillo.
Eighteen contenders battled for the trophy and placed in descending order: Bent Larsen from Denmark capture first with 12 points ahead of William Lombardy from America with 11. In a three way tie for third was… Read More

One page type written letter Quarto (10 1/4" x 8") on Alain C White's Chess Problem Letter Head as Curator to Gilbert Dobbs signed at the bottom.In the letter Hume is inquiring to a problems which he enclosed (not included) on whether it had been previous published and questioning the solution.George Hume was a British composer and one of the main actors of the "Good Companion" Chess Club. He collected two-movers and used this collection to detect anticipations. He participated to the edition of many books of the White Christmas Series such as Changing Fashions, Valves and Bi-Valves, Flights of Fancy in the Chess World and The Good Companion Two-Mover published in 1922.Gilbert S Dobbs (1867-1941) was an American problemist who specialized in two-movers. Hundreds of his composition have been published by White and Cheney in G. Dobbs. A Chess Silhouette (1942).Condition:Folds for mailing, small chips at folds else a very good copy.

xiv-[15]-122 pages with diagrams including frontispiece. Duodecimo (6 1/4" x 4 1/4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to front cover. [Hagedorn 54, Betts 10-2] First published in Britain in 1846 and in United States in 1847.
An elementary text, containing a brief survey of chess literature (Chess and chess writers), a description of the elements, a chapter giving the first few moves of the openings, and other sections on "ends of games" (elementary mates), Games actually played (5 examples), prob3ems with examples (7) and general rules for playing the game, with a list of places where chess is played (in England) and a list of chess periodicals. The American edition is slightly re-arranged pagination, otherwise as the English edition except for the omission of the final list of places where played and periodicals.
Condition: Corners bumped, spine ends rubbed, 1" split at back hinge else about very good.