Biographical

British master Alan Phillips has enjoyed chess competition for most of his adult life and though always remaining an amateur pl ...

278 pages, Har ...

From the Introduction: A. Alekhine: Agony of a Chess Genius tries to encompass his last per ...

Joel Benjamin is one of the most prominent faces in the history of US chess. At thirteen y ...

This work analyzes all extant games and provides a biography of the famous 19th century master. A fighter player who never shie ...

Yuri Averbakh is a distinguished Russian grandmaster who has enjoyed a long and varied career as a top-class player, endgame th ...

Bent Larsen's profound knowledge of  ...

In all about 400 games are given, and they are divided into three classes-match, off-hand and blindfold games. To these is adde ...

Blindfold Chess: History, Psychology, Techniques, Champions, World Records and Important Games - Eliot Hearst and John Knott ...

Bob Wade OBE was the doyen of British chess. Arriving from New Zealand, Wade swiftly made his mark on British chess, shining ag ...

To many Bobby Fischer is the name of chess. Remembered for his epic match in 1972 with Soviet World Champion Boris Spassky at ...

Bobby Fischer Goes To War is, as the British Grandmaster Nigel Short has put it, an outstanding piece of investigative journa ...

The Ultimate Fisc ...

Mikhail Botvinnik was the ultimate boy scout of chess - always prepared! Indeed, his advance preparation for his key matches wa ...

In a major event in chess publishing, Susan Polgar provides a candid inside view of the lives of the Polgar sisters, each with  ...

This compendium provides an enormous amount of documentary data, usefully organized, much of it unseen since original (and ofte ...

The works of Vlastimil Fiala are known to be some of the most passionate chess historians, and this hardback on Jose Capablanca ...

244 games - most with notes. Good indices & bibliography. 54 photos & drawings. More than just a games collection due to the he ...

One of the twentieth centuries great artists, Marcel Duchamp was no mean chess player, achieving the title of French Master. Th ...

On the Road to Chess Mastery (1926-30). Marcell Duchamp was the world of leading men of 20th century art - such as Pablo Picass ...