Hardinge Simpole

Harry Golombek - Edited by David  ...

Bent Larsen is one of the outstanding figures of post-war chess, with top-level tournament victories spanning five decades. His ...

At the height of the British Empire, the chess loving Indian servant, Sultan Khan, arrived in the imperial capital as part of t ...

First restrain, then blockade, finally destroy!" was the war cry of the celebrated 1920s writer and World Chess Championship a ...

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

The second edition of a pocket-sized book first published in 1997, this is an indispensable volume for chess organisers everywh ...

This book covers the great London tournament of 1922 and the new cham ...

"He achieved fame by winning a celebrated match against the French champion St Amant, gave his name to a set of chessmen that h ...

From being little more than toys, in the late 1970’s, chess computers have risen to challenge the mightiest grandmasters on the ...

David Janowski was one of the grandest of grandmasters at the cusp of the 19th and 20th centuries. Victories in individual game ...

A companion volume to Larry Evans's selection from the 1960's, this book takes the story of the best games of the top players f ...

Why are football and chess 'beautif ...

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The Sicilian Defence is the most popular counter-attacking weapon in modern chess. It is the particular favourite of Garry Kasp ...

Ray Keene, grandmaster, author and organiser of the last world chess championship, is writing a book on the Kramnik-Leko match  ...

Leonid Stein's brilliant chess career was cut tragically short by his untimely death in 1973.Scoring overwhelming victories aga ...

Richard Réti produces a penetrating thumbnail sketch of each of the great masters who contributed decisively to the progress of ...

The seminal work of the Cuban genius who repeated the exploits of Morphy, suddenly bursting onto the European scene and annihil ...

It is astonishing that the organisers of Nottingham 1936 succeeded in attracting such an illustrious field. This included world ...

Peter Clarke's book on Tigran Petrosian is the indispensable counterpart to his classic volume on Mikhail Tal. Tal and Petrosia ...

The New World has a curious habit of despatching emissaries of great - yet strangely circumscribed - power to the Old. These em ...

Reshevsky shot to fame as a child prodigy able to take on and defeat hordes of adult players at one and the same time. This boo ...

A companion to Reshevsky's Best Games: Volume 1, this book contains numerous rich masterpieces from Reshevsky's middle years wi ...

During the 1930s, it appeared that the USA, not the USSR, would inevitably become the dominant force in the chess world. During ...

The world chess championship between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer at Reykjavik in 1972 was the most widely publicised and ea ...