Symbols: ELRS = Ex library with release stamp.    ‡ = with previous owner's embossing type ownership stamp. FGL = from a grandmaster's library. h = hardback.  p = paperback.  vg = very good condition.  exc = excellent condition. ifo = in front of.  r = ringbound.  

COMPOSITE VOLUME OF KAGAN TOURNAMENT & MATCH & GAMES COLLECTIONS ITEMS: Rubinstein-Schlechter 1918; Berlin 1918 Viermeister Turnier; Das Grossmeister-Turnier im Kerkau-Palast 1918 (with Lasker); Turnierpartien des Jahres 1919 (Reti-Tartakower & Viermeistertyrnier: Bogoljubow, Reti, Spielmann, Selesnieff; Schachmeister Erich Cohn; Am Baum der Schacherkenntnis, Tartakower; Das Schachleben in Sowjet-Russland, Alekhine; Samuel Rzeschewski; Die Aljechin-Verteidigungm Fahrni & Bonacker, h, exc. All these are very difficult to find in excellent condition. $265

DER WELTMEISTERSCHAFTSKAMPF LASKER - STEINITZ 1894, R, Hübner, Berlin, 2008, 235p. A superb book both from the standpoint of its physical properties (good paper, binding, typography) and content. Deep analysis. Also included is the Lasker- Schlechter match of 1910. I hope that Hübner will do the rest of Lasker's matches. $53

CLASSICAL CHESS MATCHES: 1907-1913, F. Wilson, editor. 157 games from 19 matches as reported in The Year-Book of Chess. With good notes. Included are the matches Lasker-Marshall 1907, Lasker-Tarrasch 1908, Marshall-Capablanca 1909, Schlechter-Mieses 1909 (blindfold), Schlechter-Lasker 1910, Spielmann-Teichmann 1913. p, exc, $18 

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THE US CHAMPIONSHIP 1845-1985, G. Mc Cormick & A. Soltis, Jefferson 1985, 296p. A beautifully produced book about the history of the US CH with a selection of annotated games, h, mint. $40

LONDON 1851, H. Staunton, London, 1852, 377p. L/N 5179. The 1st real international chess tournament. Anderssen ifo Wyvill, Williams, Staunton,..Extensive introduction & background. Batsford reprint, h, mint, new preface by R. Keene. 377p. h, mint, $25.

LONDON 1851 & STAUNTON-ST. AMANT 1843, Olms reprint of L/N 5181 (Berlin 1852) and L/N 5015 (Zürich 1844), 152p & 80p respectively, both German. $34

NEW YORK 1857, D. W. Fiske, L/N 5184, 1st Am. Chess Congress. Morphy ifo Paulsen, Lichtenhein, Raphael,... Much more than a tournament book since it has extensive sections on the history of chess in the US, biographical material, a history of the automaton, an American chess bibliography, etc. 563p. h, exc, an fine copy, small tears at top & bottom of spine, seldom found in this good condition, $375. b) Olms reprint, h, mint, $60

DÜSSELDORF 1862 & 1863, Olms reprint of L/N 5187 & L/N 5192, German, Max Lange, h, mint, $40

ANDERSSEN-STEINITZ 1866, Cal. Chess Reporter, 30p/ The games with notes by Tchigorin, and with biographical sketches of Anderssen, Steinitz and Tchigorin, p, exc. $30

LONDON 1866 & DUNDEE 1867, (in TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRITISH CHESS ASSOCIATION) Moravian Chess reprint of the original 1867 book. h, mint,  131p, The games are given for both tourneys with light notes. London: DeVere ifo MacDonnell,Minchin, Bird,..  Dundee had Neumann ifo Steinitz, DeVere, MacDonnell,...  $20. 

PARIS 1867, Moravian Chess reprint of the original Paris, 1868 edition. French. ix + 480p. + indices of chess problems. Has some notes and extensive background; Kolisch ifo Winover, Steinitz, Neumann....the original French book is one of scarcest of tournament books, $45.

VIENNA 1873, Lehner & Schwede, Leipzig, 1874. 256p. German, Leipzig, 1874. L/N 5200. Blackburne & Steinitz ifo Anderssen, Rosenthal, Paulsen/Bird, ...German.  BCM reprint, p, exc, ‡, $26 c)Olms reprint, h, mint. $50

ROME 1875, Olomouc, reprint, Italian. With notes. Seni ifo Maluta, Tonetti,... h, $38.

NEW YORK 1880, C. Gilberg, NY, 1881. 539p. Much American chess history. Grundy & Mackenzie ifo Mohle, Sellman,... The games with lt notes. Much of the book's value is in the biographical sketches of Morphy, Stanley, Thompson, Paulsen, Meek, ... Has surveys of the preceding four American chess congresses. b) Olms reprint, h, mint, $60. b) NY, 1881, h, vg (despite the stamp saying "sold as damage" apparently due to fraying at the top and bottom of the spine. This book is seldom seen in good condition.) 539p. $145

MILAN 1881, M. Cavalotti, Moravian Chess reprint, h, mint. The original is exceedingly scarce. 142p. Italian, with notes. $40

VIENNA 1882, C.M. Bijl. Olms ed, German. This is the most significant Olms chess book to date since it is not a reprint, but an original work for a great tournament. 434p. A mammoth tournament (18 players, double rr) won by Steinitz & Winawer ifo Mason, Mackenzie/ Zukertort, Blackburne, Englisch, Paulsen,...Notes by Steinitz, Gunsberg, Lehner, Minckwitz, et al, to many of the games. h, mint, $75. b)h, exc, ‡, $70

LONDON 1883, J. Minchin, BCM reprint, 308p., p, exc, $18 c) BCM reprint, p, vg, $15.

HAMBURG 1885, Bardeleben, Kürschner & Minckwitz. Leipzig, 1886. 256p. German. L/N 5220. 4th Kongress des Deutschen Schachbundes. Gunsberg ifo Mason/ Blackburne/ Englisch, Tarrasch /Weiss, Mackenzie, Riemann/Schallopp, Minckwitz,...h, exc, $130. c) h, vg, contents fine, binding good, but spine strip lacking, $100 d) Olms reprint, together with Frankfurt 1887—5th German Chess Congress) h, mint $48 e)p, vg, spine strip chipped & worn, contents exc, $95

HEREFORD 1885, Skipworth, The Book of the Counties' Chess Association, Moravian Chess reprint. The original was published in three parts. Blackburne ifo Bird, Schalopp, Mackenzie...Notes to many of the games. Several sections. p. mint, $24

STEINITZ-ZUKERTORT 1886, E. Schallopp. L/N 5026. Leipzig, 1886. 48p. German. full notes. Münster reprint of the original match book. Interestingly enough this match was played in New York, St. Louis, and New Orleans. p, mint, $10

FRANKFURT 1887, von Bardeleben/ von Gottschall & Mieses; Leipzig, 1889, German. L/N 5223. 288p. Mackenzie ifo Weiss, Blackburne, v. Bardeleben, Tarrasch,...5th German Congress. Olms ed, h, mint, $48

AMSTERDAM 1889, Moravian Chess reprint, h, mint, reprint of L/N 5228. Burn ifo Lasker, Mason,… Lasker's debut into international events. $38

STEINITZ - TCHIGORIN 1889, Steinitz, NY, 1889, the full match with notes in The Modern Chess Instructor, Part I, 193p, the match games are on pages 162 to 192. The rest of the book is mainly concerned with a detailed analysis of the Double King's Pawn openings and some general advice. a) h,vg, top of spine chipped, some spotting of covers, $125. b)Olms reprint, with part II included. The two parts I & II were originally published separately, but most copies of part II were destroyed in a warehouse fire and as a result Part II in the original is an exceedingly rare item.  h, exc,  with dj.  $45

STEINITZ - TCHIGORIN 1889, N. Hannon, Providence, 1978. notes to the games taken from Steinitz's in The Modern Chess Instructor. 56p. $20

VIENNA 1890, W. Goldman, Schwetzingen, 1983, p, mint, in English. 1st Kolisch tourney. 151p. 1st Kolisch tourney in English. Notes to some of the games but these notes are exceptionally good. Also has nice biographies of the contestants. Weiss ifo Bauer/ Fleissig, Englisch, Csank, Schwarz/ Marco,... $20

DRESDEN 1892, Schellenberg, Metger, Lipke & Mieses.L/N 5235. Tarrasch ifo Makovetz& Porges, Marco & Walbrodt, Winawer & v. Bardeleben, ...German. 7th German Congress, Olms reprint, bd with Breslau 1889—6th German Congress & Kiel 1893—8th German Congress), h, mint, $48 DRESDEN 1892 & KIEL 1893, orig. editions, bd in one vol., h, vg, spine taped, $165

KIEL 1893, J. Metger, 62p. German. L/N 5236. von Bardeleben & Walbrodt ifo Lipke, Metger,... 8th German Chess Congress. scarce, p, vg, fc taped, ‡, $85.

LONDON 1893, Brandreth, r, Blackburne ifo Mason/ Teichmann/ Tinsley, Van Vliet, Bird. brief notes to the games. small edition, $18

CONTINENTAL TOURNAMENT 1894-X, Shipley/ Hale/ Young, Phila, 1894. xerox ed., ringbound. The original is not listed in the White collection or in the Royal Dutch Library, 26p., 32 annotated games from this postal tourney. This was bulletin #1 but it iis unlikely that any others were published, $20

LEIPZIG 1894, K. Whyld, 64p, Tarrasch ifo Lipke, Teichmann, Blackburne,...lt. notes to some. p, exc, $20

HASTINGS 1895, H. Cheshire. NY & London, 1896, 370p, with excellent full-page photos of the contestants. Pillsbury ifo Chigorin, Lasker, Tarrasch, Steinitz,... Pillsbury's greatest success. Pillsbury ifo Chigorin, Lasker, Tarrasch, Steinitz,...  , rebd, h, exc, $140 b) poor, covers worn, spine split, numerous pencilled marginal notes, a few pages loose, OK as a working copy, ‡, $40.

HASTINGS 1895, N.W. Van Lennep, Amsterdam, 1978, p, exc, Dutch. 63p. Selected games from each round with notes. Based on Van Lennep's write-up in TKNSin 1895. $20

HASTINGS 1895, E. Schallopp, 340p. full notes, German, Olms reprint of L/N 5238. Ext. background. $38.

NÜRNBERG 1896, Tarrasch & Schröder, Leipzig, 1897. L/N 5244. German. 294p. 1st ed, h, vg, spine strip worn, 3/4 leather, with the fine frontispiece photo of Lasker,

Lasker ifo Maroczy, Pillsbury/ Tarrasch, Janowski, Steinitz,...Notes to the games. $130. b)h, exc, 2nd ed, Berlin/ Leipzig, 1921. $65. b) Olms reprint, h, mint, $30. c) BCM reprint(German), p, vg, $18. d) Caissa Ed. translated from the original German book by John Owen with additional notes culled from contemporary sources. Yorklyn, 1999. x + 403 pages. Notes to all the games plus two photos, bibliography, openings index, and tournament records of the contestants. Another powerful Lasker win in front of the young Maroczy, with Tarrasch and Pillsbury tied a point and a half behind, followed by Janowski, Steinitz, Walbrodt, Schlechter, Schiffers, Chigorin, Blackburne, Charousek, Marco, Albin, Winawer, Showalter, Porges, Schallopp, and Teichmann. h, mint, $45

STOCKHOLM 1897/ COPENHAGEN 1899/ GÖTEBORG 1901, Krause/ Rosendahl/ Englund; Stockholm, 1902. Swedish, 88 + 80 + 104p. L/N 5248. p, vg, ELRS. FGML, pages uncut, $165.

BUFFALO 1901 & 1894, John Hilbert, Yorklyn, 1996. Hardback, iv + 95p. Notes from contemporary sources. At Buffalo 1901 Pillsbury won ahead of Delmar, Napier, Howell, Marshall, and Karpinski in a double-round event. At Buffalo 1894 Showalter edged Pillsbury out by half a point, followed by Albin and Farnsworth also in a double-round format. Both tournaments are previously unpublished. Also given are all the serious games contested between Pillsbury and Marshall and an article on blindfold play by Pillsbury. Good material on U.S. chess history of that era. 18 photos and drawings. $28

LASKER-STEINITZ 1894, Cal. Chess Reporter, San Francisco, 1951, p,exc, 28p, lt. notes, $30 

LEIPZIG 1894, K. Whyld, 64p, Tarrasch ifo Lipke, Teichmann, Blackburne,...lt. notes to some. $20

ST. PETERSBURG 1895/96, John Owen,Yorklyn, 1989, 118p, Entertaining notes & background which tells, among other things, the story of Pillsbury's downfall via his contraction of syphilis there from a Russian prostitute. He had started out like a house of fire and was leading after 8 rounds including 2 fine wins over Lasker. Lasker ifo Steinitz, Pillsbury, Chigorin in a sextuple round-robin tourney. h, mint, now O/P, 3 copies left. $30

BUDAPEST 1896, G. Maroczy, German. Kecskemet, (1941)104p. L/N 5243. Also incl. the 4-game match Chigorin-Charousek. Chigorin/Charousek ifo Pillsbury, Janowski/Schlechter, Walbrodt/ Winawer, Tarrasch, Albin/ Maroczy, Marco, Noa,...Lt. notes. p, exc. $49 b) John Owen. Caissa Editions, Yorklyn, 1994. Notes by Maroczy, Charousek, & other contemporary masters with editing and additional commentary by John Owen. Chigorin & Charousek tied for first followed by Pillsbury, Schlechter/Janowsky, Winawer/ Walbrodt, Tarrasch, Albin/Maroczy, Marco, Noa, & Popiel. Includes the Chigorin-Charousek tie-breaking match. Photos & career records of the contestants. 205p. $30

BERLIN 1897, W. Goldman, Dusseldorf 1966, p, exc, ‡, 176p. 159g. with good notes; German. Charousek ifo Walbrodt, Blackburne, Janowski, A fine book. $47.  b) p, exc, $48

COLOGNE 1898, V. Fiala, Olomouc, 1997, h, exc, 264p. Burn ifo Charousek/ Chigorin/ Cohn, Steinitz, Schlechter,...In English. All the 54 games (out of 120) that could be found with extensive notes and some nice photosof the contestants + many other illustrative games by the contestants in other events. $49

VIENNA 1898, Marco, Fähndrich, Halprin. The original great German book for this super-big and strong tourney won at first jointly by Pillsbury & Tarrasch and then finally by Tarrasch in the tie-breaking match. 351p. 3rd place was taken by Janowski ifo Steinitz, Schlechter, Chigorin/ Burn,... Light notes to some. Round summaries. Original ed. rebd in exc. sturdy binding, with signature of Dale Brandreth on title page, last three pages sl. chipped and foxed. $195. b)h, exc, ‡, Olms reprint, $75

STOCKHOLM 1897/ COPENHAGEN 1899/ GÖTEBORG 1901, Krause/ Rosendahl/ Englund; Stockholm, 1902. Swedish, 88 + 80 + 104p. L/N 5248. p, vg. ‡, pages uncut, $110.b) p, vg, ELRS. FGML, pages uncut, $165.

LONDON 1900, NY & Bombay, 1900, 46p. Teichmann ifo Gunsberg, Mason, Ward, van Vliet, Blackburne, Lawrence, Lee, Loman, Tietjen, Jones, Physick,.. Caissa Ed. facsimile ed, Stanton, 1973, h, mint, 700 numbered copies, $35. c) h, exc, ‡, $30

KIEV 1903, Caissa Limited Editions reprint, Stanton, 1972, 300 numbered copies, h, mint. This is a facsimile edition of the original quite rare Russian book, one of the rarest of all tournament books. Chigorin ifo Bernstein, Yurevich, Salwe, Rubinstein,...With fold-out photo. $125  

MONTE CARLO 1903, E. Kemeny, 1st ed, Phila., 1903. 112p. collected issues of the American Chess Weekly. This ed. includes a dedication to Prof. Rice, a preface, and a picture of De Riviere which the 2nd ed(1910) lacks. Tarrasch ifo Maroczy, Pillsbury, Schlechter,... h, vg, full leather (rubbed), $325. b) 1st ed, h, good, covers frayed and soiled, $285. c) 2nd ed, Phila, 1910, h, vg, $250. d) h, fair, loose, $125. e) Olms reprint, of L/N 5263. New forward by Bijil in English and German. h, mint, $48

ST. LOUIS 1904, Marshall ifo Judd, Uedemann, Kemeny.... p, vg. includes much other material, some games with notes. Brandreth reprint of tournament from 2 ACB issues plus reproduction of the St. Louis World's Fair 1904 image on cover. Marshall's second great tournament victory on the heels of his Cambridge Springs success. p, exc. $13

BARMEN 1905, L/N 5268 (Olms reprint), Barmen, 1905. German. 628p. 500 annotated games & photos & ext. background, a section on the chess problem tournament. A magnificent book—one of the greatest tournament books. There were two master tourney sections plus 3 "Hauptturniere" & two "Nebenturniere". The games of the two master tourneys are given + over 200 of the games of the other tourneys. In the "Meisterturnier A" Duras & Rubinstein won ifo Loewy/ Vidmar, E. Cohn,... In "B" Fleischmann won ifo Swiderski, W. Cohn, Perlis, Reggio,... Olms reprint, h, mint, $80.

MARSHALL-TARRASCH 1905, Tarrasch, 2nd ed, L/N 5040, w/o date, German, 62p, scotch taped at edges for protection, deep notes. $42.

OSTENDE 1905, J. Adams, Nottingham, 1984, CP ed. h, mint, 128p,  notes to most. Maroczy ifo Janowski, Tarrasch, Schlechter, Marco, Teichmann, Burn,... 14-man double rr. $40

PRAGUE 1905, V. Fiala, Olomouc, 2006. In English. 158p. The First Congress of the Central Association of Czech Chessplayers. Duras ifo Taussig, Treybal/Dusek. Prokes, Š.Light notes to selected games. $32

LODZ 1906, Brandreth, Hockessin, 1971, p, exc, tgw/o n. triple rr, won by Rubinstein ifo Chigorin, Flamberg, Salwe. $12

NÜRNBERG 1906, Tarrasch & Schenzel, 278p. German. Nürnberg, 1906. L/N 5278. Marshall ifo Duras, Forgacs/ Schlechter, Chigorin, Salwe/ Wolf,... Notes to all the games. Olms reprint, incl. Coburg 1904 too (L/N 5267), h, mint, $48.

OSTENDE 1906, Tony Gillam, Yorklyn, 2005, hardback, 445 pages. Finally this complex and great tournament appears just about one hundred years after it occurred. Schlechter won by a slight margin in a very complicated series of qualifying sections. Gillam worked hard with a dedicated band of helpers to track down all the known games, graced in most cases with notes, of that era. Many great players such as Lasker, Schlechter, Burn, contributed annotations. Also included are photos of most of the players plus photos of the great "Kursall" on the boardwalk at the resort city of Ostende plus a photo with the autographs of all the tournament contestants. Two slight books with only a tiny fraction of the games were published just after the tournament in the German language, but they hardly did justice to this strong event and are scarce collectors items today. $49

KARLSBAD 1907, Yorklyn, 2007. An English translation of this original famous tournament book in German by George Marco and Carl Schlechter. This edition has the advantage of enhancements such as the addition of 15 photos of many of the players along with many corrections and additional analysis using the new, very strong program, Rybka. The tournament was one of the strongest of the last century with only Lasker, Tarrasch and Burn, missing from the roster of the world's best players of that day. The young player Rubinstein won in fine style followed by Maroczy just one-half point behind and by Leonhardt, Nimzovich/Schlechter, Vidmar, Duras/Teichmann, Salwe, Wolf, Dus-Chotimirski/Marshall, Spielmann, Tartakower... h, mint, 475p. $55.

c) h, vg, orig. ed, with some colored underlining in a few places, $100. d) Caissa Editions reprint, German, p, vg, $35.

OSTENDE 1907, Teichmann, L/N 5286. German. 336p. 406 games with lt. notes. A very large & very strong tourney won jointly by Rubinstein & Bernstein ifo Mieses, Nimzowitsch, Fleischmann, Teichmann, Duras, Salwe, Marco,... h, vg, rebd. $60 b) Olms reprint, h, mint, $60 (has both Ostende 1907's, the other being the tourney won by Tarrasch). $65

LASKER - TARRASCH 1908, Tarrasch. Leipzig, 1908, L/N 5046. 148p. German. h, exc, FGL. Very deep notes with a long section on R&P endings. $75. b) Olms reprint, includes their 1916 match as well, $48

LODZ 1908, W. Kübel, German, Octuple rr with Rubinstein ifo Marshall, Salwe. Lt notes to some. No diagrams. $6

ST. PETERSBURG 1909, Em. Lasker, Russell Enterprises, Milford, 2008, algebraic ed, Lasker's notes. 190p, p, mint, $20

ST. PETERSBURG 1909, Lasker, Znosko-Borovsky & Malyutin; St. Petersburg, 1910. Russian. Quite scarce. This edition, unlike the English & German editions, includes the games of the amateur tourney won by Alekhine in his first tournament victory (excluding minor local events) ifo Rotlevi, Gregory,... 367p. L/N 5296. Includes some nice photos of Alekhine and others incl. Chigorin. Has some history of prior Russian chess events. h, good with original paper covers bd in. rebd, spine strip is worn, contents exc, h, vg, title page is stained. With 9 leaves in xerox tipped in to replace the missing original pages. Spine taped. $190. b) Russian reprint, h, exc, $95

KARLSBAD 1911, M. Vidmar, L/N 5302, Potsdam, (1912). The original book rebound.Originally issued in two volumes. h, vg, scarce. $295

KARLSBAD 1911, M. Vidmar, L/N 5302, Potsdam, (1912). Notes to the 325 games. German. One of the greatest tournaments. Won by Teichmann ifo Rubinstein/ Schlechter, Rotlewi, Marshall/ Nimzowitsch, Vidmar, ... Alekhine's first great tournament. He finished tied for 8th to 11th, with wins over Alapin, Chajes, E. Cohn, Duras, Dus-Chotimirski, Jaffe, Kostich, Rotlewi, Süchting, Tartakower & Vidmar. Olms reprint, h, mint, the two vols bd in one, $65.

SAN SEBASTIAN 1911, Mieses & Lewitt, 2nd ed, Leipzig, 1919. Lt. notes. 162p. Capa's 1st great tournament victory ifo Rubinstein/ Vidmar, Marshall,...German. h, fair, loose, pages browning, OK as a working copy, $12 b) Olms reprint of 2nd edition with the 1911 & 1912 tourneys, h, mint, $45

SAN SEBASTIAN 1912, Meises & Lewitt, Leipzig, 1920, 2nd ed. L/N5313, 148p., notes, German.  Rubinstein ifo Nimzowitch/ Speilman, Tarrasch, Perlis, Marshall....    a) Olms reprint, with San Sebastian 1911 as well,   $32.   b) 2nd ed, p, fair, rebd, ‡, a few pages chipped & soiled, $12 

BAD PISTYAN 1912, Lachaga ltd ed (350 copies), German. 54p. tgw/on. Rubinstein ifo Spielmann, Marshall, Duras/ Schlechter/ Teichmann,...p, exc, $25

BAD PISTYAN 1912, W. Kübel, German, p, vg, tgw/on. A powerful Rubinstein win ifo Spielmann, Marshall, Duras/ Schlechter,Teichmann, von Balla, Breyer,...p, vg, $15 

SCHEVENINGEN 1913, CP reprint, Dutch. The original is quite scarce. 107p +xi. An early tournament success for Alekhine ifo Janowski, Olland, Speyer, Ed Lasker,... notes to games, p, mint, $24

ST. PETERSBURG 1914, Phila (David McKay) 1914 ed with notes compiled from many sources. 75p. One of the greatest tournaments of all time.  A superb Lasker win ifo Capa, Alekhine, Tarrasch, Marshall, Bernstein/ Rubinstein, Nimzovich,  Blackburne, Janowski, Gunsberg.  h, vg, the variant with the photo. Jim Barrett's copy with his chess bookplate. $55. 

ST. PETERSBURG 1914, Tarrasch, Yorklyn, 1993. Hardback, 267 pages and 21 photos. Dr. Tarrasch and augmented by notes of many other famous players such as Alekhine, Lasker, Marco, Bernstein, Reinfeld. An extremely good tournament book for one of the greatest chess tournaments all time. Lasker just beat out Capablanca, followed by Alekhine, Tarrasch, Marshall and other greats of the day. $38. b) h, exc, inscribed to Jack O'Keefe by Brandreth, $39.

LASKER - TARRASCH 1916, E. Lasker, Leipzig, 1917, p, exc, German, 20p. With full notes. Clearly after this match, Tarrasch was no longer in Lasker's class. $45

BERLIN 1918, Kübel publication, German. Double rr, Lasker ifo Rubinstein, Schlechter, Tarrasch. With notes but no diagrams. Along with the Kübel publication of LODZ 1908, which see) $6

BERLIN 1920, Post, 20th Congress of the Deutschen Schachbundes. L/N 5334. Full notes. 156p. Sämisch ifo Schönmann, Blumich/ Emmrich..... Olms reprint, h, mint, includes BERLIN 1920, HAMBURG 1921, AND FRANKFURT AM MAIN 1923, $50

ALEKHINE - TEICHMANN 1921, orig. Kagan ed, L/N 5061. 8p. Light brown covers, p, exc, German. $25. b) variant edition, green covers, different printing on covers, p, exc, $25 c) pages browned, edges chipped, $7 d) Brandreth reprint, p, exc, with Introduction by Brandreth in English. $4

BUDAPEST 1921, Lachaga ed, 350 copies, German. Lt notes by Albert Becker. Alekhine ifo Grünfeld, Kostich/ Tartakower,…$20

CAPABLANCA - LASKER 1921, Lasker, Leningrad 1925, Russian. Introduction by Romanovsky. 63p. A poor copy (the paper ws poor). Brittle but useable. Flaking at edges. $16.  b) xerox copy  $8

CAPABLANCA - LASKER 1921, J. R. Schroeder, 31p, with notes from various sources edited by Schroeder, p, exc, $12. b) p, vg, $10

DUNEDIN 1921 & AUCKLAND 1922, F.K. Kelling, Wellington, 1922. Not in L/N. Quite scarce. 160+xvip. Book of the 30th & 31st Congresses. With club statistics, obituaries, and x-tables of New Zealand's 31 congresses. 30th & 31st NZ championships. Includes 10 selected games from the 30th and 18 selected games from the 31st (with notes in both cases) and much historical material on New Zealand chess and a list of NZ champions 1879-1922. p, vg, $285

HAMBURG 1921, J. Dimer, L/N 5340. 21st Kongress des Deutschen Schachbundes. 230p. Post ifo Sämisch, Schlage, John, Carls,... h, vg, contents fine, spine chipped, $42

BAD PIESTANY 1922, Kagan, German, L/N 5349. with 10 photos of the contestants. 190p. Bogoljubow ifo Alekhine/ Spielmann, Grünfeld, Reti,...tgw lt notes. p, exc, $95 b) p, exc, large paper variant, $100 c) Olms ed, h, mint, $46 d) orig. ed, h, vg, rebd, Warren Goldman's copy with his signature, $115. c) h, exc, a fine copy, ELRS, FGML, $125

LONDON 1922, Maroczy, L/N 5346. original ed, 137p, thorough notes. Capa ifo Alekhine, Vidmar, Rubinstein, Bogoljubow, Reti, ...photos of the players. h, vg, spine sl worn & sl. foxing at some edges. $85.  b) ) Dover reprint, rebd, ELRS, h, vg,  $6

OEYNHAUSEN 1922, Dimer/ Schlage/ Zander. German. L/N 5348. Post ifo Carls, Antze,... 196p. h, exc, close to mint, $95 b) h, exc, sl. browning paper, but an excellent copy, of the original edition, $80. c) OEYNHAUSEN 1922, p, exc, $85. b ) Olms reprint, h, mint, includes BERLIN 1920, HAMBURG 1921, AND FRANKFURT AM MAIN 1923, $46

TEPLITZ - SCHÖNAU 1922, J. Schorr, L/N 5350, 664p. German. All the games with extensive notes. One of the greatest tournament books. Also has a 214p on chess problems which in turn includes a part on retrograde analysis by Kluver. Brief biographies of the players. Reti & Spielmann ifo Grünfeld, Tartakower, Rubinstein, Kostich,.... b) p, vg, as issued, $175 c) h, vg, this is the white cover luxus ed., but the fc is sl bent in the top corner, $170. c) h, vg, rebd, $135 d) Olms reprint, 664p, h, mint, $68. e) h, exc, rebd, FGML, $200.

VIENNA 1922, Larry Evans, foreword by John Donaldson. p, mint, Milford, 2011. Rubinstein ifo Tartakower, Wolf, Tarrasch/ Maroczy/ Alekhine,... Greatly improved and augmented over the scarce but inferior book Evans did as a teenager, 144p, $20

FRANKFURT 1923, J. Dimer, L/N 5354, 108p, Grünfeld ifo Post/ Wagner, Becker/ Hilse, ...tgw lt notes. With numerous corrections. Scarce. p, vg, $65

KARLSBAD 1923, Spence Ltd. Ed. 115 numbered copies, r, exc, Alekhine/ Bogoljubow / Maroczy ifo Grünfeld/ Reti,... The games w/o notes but with round summaries. vi + 49pp. Includes the famous Alekhine furniture smashing story. $65

KARLSBAD 1923, Kagan, Berlin (1923), L/N 5355. 198p. Alekhine/ Bogoljubow / Maroczy ifo Grünfeld/ Reti,...h, exc, a fine copy, German, $95, b)p,vg, pages browning, $40

MÄHRISCH - OSTRAU 1923, Kagan, German, L/N 5358, tgw lt notes. Lasker ifo Reti, Grünfeld, Selesniev, Euwe/ Tartakower,.. BCM reprint, h, exc, $20 b) h, exc, FGML, $60

MÄHRISCH-OSTRAU 1923, A. Becker. Lachaga edition. German, full notes.  Lasker ifo Reti, Grünfeld, Selesnieff, Euwe,..w/o loss, p, vg. $24

SCHEVENINGEN 1923, Kagan,German, L/N 5362, 119p. Rohner/ Spielmann ifo Colle/ Maroczy/ Reti, Mieses, Yates.... p, good, spine strip loose, 1st part loose,  ‡, $42.

NEW YORK 1924, Alekhine, p, mint, Milford, 2008, 352p, with a new preface by Soltis, English algebraic notation, $30. b)Dover ed, NY, 1924, a reprint of the original English descriptive notation edition,  p, vg, $8

NEW YORK 1924, Alekhine, Moscow, 1925 Russian ed. with a preface by Nenarokov & Grekov. 257p. h, exc, rebd.  Scarce. $155 

NEW YORK 1924 & NEW YORK 1927, Alekhine, Moscow1989, h, exc, Russian editions. 464p, With Alekhine's famous notes for the games of each of these famous tourneys. $27

VIENNA 1924, 1925 & VIENNA STADTKAMPF 1925 (BERLIN-BUDAPEST-PRAGUE-VIENNA) Lachaga ed, the first volume of a projected 10+ series of new Lachaga editions of hithertoo unpublished events. Wien 1925; Becker ifo Post/ Omber, S. R. Wolf & Schora; Wien 1925; Becker/ S. R. Wolf ifo Grober/ Konig, Scara, Muller. The 4-city match had, a.o., Hromadka, Post, Prokes, Becker, Konig, E. Steiner, and Havasi. p, mint. $14

BADEN BADEN 1925, Tarrasch, L/N5373, 127p. The original edition. Uncharacteristically Tarrasch provides only the bare games for this very strong tournament won by Alekhine in a very fine style a point and a half (out of 20) ahead of Rubinstein, Sämisch, Bogoljubow, Marshall/ Tartakover, Rabinovich, Grünfeld, Torre.... With 4 good photos. Tarrasch does give a good summary of the tournament, p, vg, covers chipped,  $16.

BADEN BADEN 1925, N.I. Grekov, original Russian ed, L/N 5375, Moscow, 1927. h, exc, 208p. Notes by Alekhine, Bogoljubow, Tartakower, Grigoriev, Zubarev, Rabinovich, Selezniev. Rebd with original paper wrappers bd in. Quite scarce. h, exc, $275

BADEN BADEN 1925, Edited by Jimmy Adams. Yorklyn, 1991. Hardback, 382 pages. Notes by Grekov and a host of great annotators including Lasker, Alekhine, Tartakower, Rabinovich, Burn, Grünfeld, Grigoriev, Levenfish, Romanovsky, Sozin, a.o., A tournament book worthy of this great event, which was one of Alekhine's finest performances. Easily one of the best tournament books ever published in English with a cornucopia of great games from the golden age of hypermodern chess. Also included is a full translation of Alekhine's booklet (originally published in French) on the Theoretical Value of the Openings at Baden Baden 1925, along with surveys of the tournament by Tarrasch, Kmoch, Tartakower, Helms, Goetz, and Kagan. Won by Alekhine ahead of Rubinstein, Sämisch, Bogoljubow, Marshall, Tartakover,... $45

BADEN BADEN 1925, Moscow, 2009, h, exc, Russian. Evidently based on the Grekov book of 1927 with notes from a variety of Russian and foreign sources. 313p. $65

BRESLAU 1925, Lachaga ltd ed (330 copies), German, notes by Becker, Bogoljubow, Nimzowitschg, Tarrasch, Reti, Grünfeld , a.o.  Bogo ifo Nimzowitsch, Rubinstein, Wagner, Becker, Grünfeld,... 770p. p, mint, $20. b) with sl. wrinkled covers. $14.

DEBRECEN 1925, Tartakower, Kecskemet, 1926, titled Das Entfesselte Schach. 192p. The German edition. Very detailed and exc. notes. Photos, caricatures, background. Openings survey. Kmoch ifo Johner/ Tartakower, Grunfeld/ Vukovics,... a very nice copy of an exc. book. p, exc, $85. b) h, exc, a very fine copy, $95 c)p, vg, fc chipped & worn, contents fine, ‡, $70 d) Olms reprint, h, mint, $48

MARIENBAD 1925, Gunsberg, L/N 5383, 141p, German, with notes. Rubinstein & Nimzowitsch ifo Marshall/ Torre, Reti/ Tartakower,...h, exc, $75. b) h, exc, but sl. spotting of covers, $70 c) p, exc, ‡, $65 . c) Olms ed, h, mint, $30.

MOSCOW 1925, Bogoljubow, German. Berlin/ Leipzig, 1927. 222p, 210 games with notes. L/N 5385. One of the greatest of tournaments and certainly Bogoljubow's greatest triumph. Bogoljubow ifo Lasker, Capablanca, Marshall, Torre, Tartakower,...p, exc, a very fine copy. $75. b) h, good, but lacking frontispiece photo of Bogo (supplied in xerox), spine taped, contents otw fine, $45. c) h, exc, rebd, with some pencilled marginalia, *, from a GM's library. $75. d) Berlin, 1927, German, p, exc, protected with plastic over covers, a few minor marginal notes. signed in Bogoljubow's bold hand, $385 e) Russian reprint, of the original Russian 1927 edition, foreword by Krylenko, Lt notes & a survey of Russian chess from 1920-1925 incl. x-tables, 2 vols bd in one. 152 +129p, The notes are essentially the same as in the German edition. The nice photos of the original Russian ed. are reproduced in this edition, but they are of much lower quality. $33. f) Olms reprint, h, exc, $30

PSYCHOLOGIE DES SCHACHSPIELS, Djakow, Petrowski & Rudik, Berlin/Leipzig 1927, xerox editio. r,  The results of psychological experiments carried out on the participants in the great Moscow 1925 Chess Tournament. $10

PARIS 1925, Goetz, L/N 5388, French, 56p. Openings survey by Tartakower. Photos of Goetz, Alekhine & Tartakower. Alekhine ifo Tartakower, Opocensky, Znosko-Borovsky, Colle. Double rr. p, loose, $30

DRESDEN 1926, Palitzsch & Wiarda, titled Der Jubiläums Schachkongress zu Dresden. Vol. II. Vol. I is not concerned with the congress. Notes by Nimzowitsch, Alekhine, Wiarda, Tartakower, Blümich & others. 99p. Nimzovich ifo Alekhine, Rubinstein, Tartakower,... vol. II only, h, exc, from a famous GM's collection. Signed by Wolfgang Pauly, $125

b) Olms reprint, h, mint, the two vols bd. in one, $48

LAKE HOPATCONG 1926, Cela & Eceizabarrena, Madrid, 1973, p, mint, Spanish, 150p,

the games with brief notes. 5-man double rr won by Capablanca ifo Kupchik, Maroczy, Marshall, & Ed Lasker. $22

MERAN 1926, Whyld, 150 numbered copies, Nottingham, 1954, p, exc, lt notes to some games. Colle ifo Canal, Pzepiorka, Spielmann, Kostic, Yates,..  $49

SEMMERING 1926, Lachaga ed (240 copies), German, 94p.Notes to most games.. A great tourney win by Spielmann (his greatest success) ifo Alekhine, Vidmar, Tartakower.... p, exc, $28. b) p, vg, $25

VIENNA 1926 , Lachaga, German, note that pagination in this series of Lachaga editions began with Wien 1924/ 1925 and runs through the 18th volume ) The game numbering also extends through the series; Gilg & Wagner ifo Dunmannn/ Hilse/ Konig, Lovenc, Leonhard/ Wolf.... Some games from the 3 Hauptturniere are also given. p, mint $14

BREMEN 1927& VIENNA 1930, Lachaga series of 1982, German. At bremen: Bogojubow ifo Brinckmann, Hilse / Wagner,.. at Wien: Becker ifo König, Hönlinger,... notes to most games. p, mint. $14

NEW YORK 1927, A. Alekhine, German. 176p. With Alekhine's superb notes & his very interesting introduction. A truly fine book for a "super stars" event. Capa ifo Alekhine, Nimzowitsch, Vidmar, Spielmann, Marshall. Quadruple rr. 1st ed, Berlin, 1928, L/N 5413. h, exc $135

NEW YORK 1927, Alekhine, with a new very good foreword by Soltis, the first full translation into English. The most intersting part of the book is Alekhine's survey of the tournament and especially his criticism of Capa's play there. With Alekhine's fine notes. $20

OSTSEEBAD NIENDORF 1927, Brinckmann, German. 59p. L/N 5416. Nimzowitsch/ Tartakower ifo Colle, Ahues/ Kostich. Notes by Brinckmann & some by Tartakower. p, exc, $52.

BAD KISSINGEN 1928, Nimzovich & Tartakover, Turtle Press, Moscow, 1993, 196p., large format, Russian. Reformatted and augmented compared to the very scarce Russian edition of 1929., full notes, photos, h, mint. $50

BERLIN 1928, Cordingley ltd. ed. (230 numbered copies) 30p. Capa ifo Nimzowitsch, Spielmann, Tartakower,...h, vg, covers discolored, $39.

BUDAPEST 1926, Lachaga, ltd ed of 350 copies. German. Notes by Becker, Forgacs, Tartakower, Blake, a.o.  Grünfeld/ Monticelli ifo Kmoch/ Rubinstein/ Takacs,...  98p. p, exc, $28

BRADLEY BEACH 1928, Spence, Xerox ed, Kupchik ifo Horowitz/Ed. Lasker, Factor/ Turover, .... tgw/on. A few games in the last round had to be reconstructed as far as possible from a barely legible hand-written carbon. p, exc. $18

VIENNA 1928, Lachaga ltd ed, German, 52p., many games with notes by Becker, Blümich, Kmoch, Müller,…;    Reti ifo Becker, Spielman, Kmoch, p, exc  $20  

BUDAPEST 1929, Maroczy & Tartakower, L/N 5429. 108p. Capablanca ifo Rubinstein, Tartakower, Thomas/Vajda,...German. Incl. Tartakower's witty survey of the openings in this tournament. p, good, covers soiled & worn. $52. b) Kecskemet, 1930, Hungarian ed. L/N 5428. 136p, h, exc, FGML, $95

KARLSBAD 1929, A. Nimzowitsch, Russian, L/N 5432, nicely rebd. Some marginal notes & Nimzovich photo replaced in xerox, 125p. h, vg, $65

KARLSBAD 1929, Spence ltd ed(175 copies). Nimzowitsch's greatest tournament victory ifo Capablanca, Spielmann, Rubinstein,...tgwltn to some. r, vg, covers sun-faded, , Lt. notes to some. With round summaries. $48

KARLSBAD 1929, Nimzowitsch, Spielmann, Becker, Tartakower, Brinckmann, & Kmoch. L/N 5431. 422p. German. Fine notes to the games of this very strong tourney won by Nimzowitsch ifo Capablanca/ Spielmann, Rubinstein, Becker/ Euwe,... One of the all-time great tournaments. h, exc, as issued in original binding, $150. b) h, mint, Olms reprint, $48

ROGASKA SLATINA 1929, Brinckmann, Kecskemet, 1930, ELRS, FGML, 164p. 44 selected games, German, L/N 5433. Rubinstein ifo Flohr, Maroczy, Pirc, Takacs.... h, vg, , $125.  b) h, exc, rebd with original paper front cover pasted over fresh hard binding. $170.

HAMBURG 1930, Chalupetzky & Toth, Olympiad, German. 156p. 150 selected games with lt. notes. L/N 5438. p, exc, with protective transparent film, $40 b) p, exc, $35 c) p, vg, $30 d) BCM reprint, p, exc, $18

SAN REMO 1930. Spence Ltd. Ed, 125 copies, r, exc, lt notes. Alekhine ifo Nimzowitsch, Rubinstein, Bogoljubov.... $45

SAN REMO 1930, A. Seitz, a collected series of his San Remo games from Enroque in 1943. All games given. Spanish. Notes to some. p, vg, $45

SCARBOROUGH 1930, BCM Quarterly ed, edited by Golombek, 66 games w/o notes. Colle won ahead of Maroczy, Rubinstein, Ahues, Khan,...p, exc $24

BLED 1931 (VELDES), H. Mueller, Vienna, (1932), L/N 5444, p, fair, German. covers detached (supplied), the games with lt. notes to some, pencilled marginalia, $16.. c)Rattmann reprint of Wien 1932 ed. by Hans Müller. . $6. c) orig. ed, p, vg, covers soiled, with GM Becker's bookplate, with a few marginal notes by Becker, $25 d) orig. ed, p, exc, $28

BLED 1931, H. Kmoch, English transl. from the original Russian ed by Jimmy Adams. 259 +xviip. Exc. full notes. Alekhine's great win over a powerful field (Bogoljubow, Nimzo-witsch, Vidmar, Kashdan,...). Incl. a reminiscence by Flohr. h, mint, $42.

VIENNA 1931, Lachaga, 1982, German. 14th Trebitsch Tourney. Becker ifo Hönlinger, Grünfeld, König, L. Steiner,... lt. notes to some. p, exc. $14

BAD SLIAC 1932, R. Spielmann, L/N 5463, 91 g with lt notes, German. 39p. Flohr/ Vidmar ifo Pirc, Canal, ... rebd, h, vg, ‡. $40

LENINGRAD 1932, Alatortsev, Botvinnik, Vainstein,...  Leningrad/ Moscow, 1932. L/N 5460. Quite scarce. 160p. Botvinnik ifo Alatortsev, Ilyin-Genevsky/ Savitsky/ Chekhover,...  Russian. Notes to some of the games. p, good, complete but spine strip partly gone & cover plus several early pages loose. $210  

LONDON 1932, Alekhine, London (1932), a fine Alekhine win ahead of Flohr, Kashdan, Khan, Maroczy, Tartakower,...L/N 5461. Notes by Alekhine. h, exc, $110.

MEXICO CITY 1932, Brandreth, Yorklyn, 1988, tgw/on. Interesting commentary on Alekhine's abilities at that time. Alekhine/ Kasdhdan ifo Araiza, Asiain, Vazquez,.. 9p, r, mint, $16

FLOHR- BOTVINNIK 1933, F. Reinfeld, NY 1935,19p.  p, vg, quite scarce. numbered copies. Vol. 1 of Reinfeld's Limited Edition. Notes to all the games. $250.

FOLKESTONE 1933, Kashdan & with notes by others such as Reinfeld, Horowitz, Steiner too. 138 sel. games from this Olympiad with notes. L/N 5645h h, exc, $75. b) h, good, with IM Albert Becker's chess bookplate, covers waterstained at edge, $50

HASTINGS 1933-34, Cordingley Limited Editions Series, vol. 4, very small numbered edition . Flohr ifo Alekhine/ Lilientha, Alexander/ Eliskases,...notes to some. $325

HASTINGS 1934/35, Cordingley ltd ed, (120 copies), quite scarce due to WWII and the small number to begin with. Notes to a few games. Thomas was the surprise co-winner in front of an ex-World Champion(Capablanca) and tied with Euwe (a Champion-to-be) and ahead of Botvinnik (another Champion to be). hp, vg, $300.

ALEKHINE-BOGOLJUBOW 1934, Horowitz & Cohen, Extensive notes, orig. ed, L/N 5093. 35p. p, exc, $50 b) p, vg, $42

ALEKHINE-BOGOLJUBOW 1934, Reinfeld & Fine, Dover reprint, p, vg Exc. notes, 56p. $7.

ALEKHINE-BOGOLJUBOW 1934, London, 1935, Em. Lasker, 72p, L/N 5094, with Lasker's notes. h, exc, $70

ALEKHINE-BOGOLJUBOW 1934, E. Münster, Nurnberg, 1983. German. p, exc, sl. sunfaded.  87p. Lt.  notes. Titled "Bogoljubows Agonie". $8

BAD LIEBWERDA 1934, Lachaga ed., German, Yorklyn, 1983; Flohr ifo Sämisch, Gilg, Blumich.... lt. notes to some, p, mint. $14

HASTINGS 1934/35, Cordingley ltd ed,(120 copies), quite scarce due to WWII and the small number published. Notes to a few, Thomas was the surprise co-winner in front of an ex-World Champion(Capablanca) and tied with Euwe (a Champion to be) and ahead of Botvinnik (another Champion to be). p, vg, $300. b) h, exc, a numbered subscriber's copy, as issued, $340

HASTINGS 1934/35, Vainstein, Russian, 77p, L/N 5489, Quite Scarce, notes to some of the games. Cover loose. One of Botvinnik's few relative failures. p, vg. $175

LENINGRAD 1934/35, 9th USSR CH, L/N 5491, G. Levenfish. 227p. Russian. Levenfish/ Rabinovich ifo Bohatyrchuk/ Riumin, Alatortsev/ Lisitsin, Ragosin,...Detailed notes. Scarce. h, exc, $165.

LENINGRAD 1934, P. Romanovsky, L/N 5476, Russian, 146p. Botvinnik ifo Romanovsky, Riumin, Rabinovich, Kan, Euwe, Kmoch,...ext. notes. h, exc, $165

MAR DEL PLATA 1934, Lachaga Ed, Spanish. (300 copies). Schvartzman ifo Grau,Guimard/ Balparda/ Fenoglio/ Bolbochan,...Notes to many. $20

STAHLBERG-NIMZOWITSCH 1934, Brandreth, Yorklyn, 1979. commentary by Stahlberg & Nimzowitsch, transl. from the Swedish & Danish by Ole Hellsten. These 8 games show that Stahlberg had "arrived" on the world chess scene. $12

ZÜRICH 1934, F. Gygli, notes by Alekhine, Zürich, 1935, German. A fine tournament book. Alekhine ifo Bogoljubow, Lasker, Bernstein, Nimzowitsch, ... Round sumaries. h, vg, ELRS, $130. b) h, vg, spine strip slit, contents fine, ‡, $125. c) h, vg, sl. warped, otw fine, $130. d) h, exc, with chess bookplate of Robert Blass, $155.

ZÜRICH 1934, J. R. Schroeder, a xerox edition by Schroeder, in binder. Alekhine ifo Bogoljubow, Lasker, etc. Only light notes. $10

ALEKHINE-EUWE 1935, Alekhine & Euwe, Leiden, 1936, Dutch, 109p. L/N 5103. Fine notes to a great match. p, vg, dj chipped, $85 b) p, vg, w/o photo, German. Notes by Alekhine & Euwe. $45.

ALEKHINE-EUWE 1935, C. J. S. Purdy, Sydney, 1936, titled "How Euwe Won", L/N5126, 59p., very detailed notes. Quite scarce, p, vg, covers somewhat soiled. $150

BAD NAUHEIM 1935, Spence ltd. ed. (100) Bogoljubow ifo Elizkases/ Engels, Qpocensky.... tgw/on, p, exc. $30. b) xerox ed, $10

BAD TATATOVAROS 1935, Spence ltd ed. (100) L. Szabo ifo Becker, Gereben, L. Steiner.... a selection of 40 games w/o notes from this 16-mman rr event, tgw/on, Xerox copy, p, exc. $10

BUENOS AIRES 1935, Lachaga Ed, (230 copies). With some check marks by Becker Initialled by Becker on the fc. With 12 x-tables for significant South American tournaments, With brief notes to a few. Piazzini ifo , Pleci,  Palau,...   Spanish.   $20 

HASTINGS 1935/36, G. Koltanowski, Barcelona, 1936. 55p, rebd, scarce. Fine ifo Flohr, Tartakover, Koltanowski,... With a few games from the Reserves Section. $75

WARSAW 1935, H. Muller, L/N5515, 38p. German, 30 annotated games selected from the Warsaw Olympiad, rebd, h, exc, ELRS, , $45. b) p, exc. $40 c) p, vg, covers worn and stained. $26

WARSAW 1935, P. Kaczorowski, Warsaw, 1995, 6th Olympiad, 132p., Polish, hundreds of games, some with notes, p, mint $36

AMSTERDAM 1936, R. Fine, Corapolis, 1980, new edition by Chess Enterprises with a few minor errors corrected. p, exc, $12

AMSTERDAM 1936, Lachaga Ed. (325 copies),German. Full notes. Euwe/ Fine ifo  Alekhine, v.d. Bosch, Grünfeld,... $20

BAD NAUHEIM 1936, Lachaga Ed, (330 copies), German, Alekhine/ Keres ifo Ahues, Rellstab, Heinicke,..Full notes. $22

BUDAPEST 1936, Lachaga, German, 220 copies. With a list of Najdorf's tournaments and matches 1928 to 1968, Najdorf/ L. Steiner ifo E. Steiner, Gereben, Barcza,..p, vg, $25

DRESDEN 1936, Lachaga, Spanish, Buenos Aires, 1946, p, vg, 51p, L/N 5523, Alekhine ifo Engels, Maroczy, Stahlberg, Bogoljubow....  notes to some.  , ELRS, $65. b) h, good, pages browning with IM Albert Becker's chess bookplate. Alekhine ifo Engels, Maroczy, Stahlberg,..Spanish. $38

MOSCOW 1936, G. Levenfish, L/N 5530, Moscow/ Leningrad, 1937. 313p. Russian. Capa's last great triumph ifo Botvinnik, Flohr, Lilienthal, Ragosin, Lasker, Kan/ Levenfish/ Riumin/ Eliskases,... With photos of Capa, Lasker, Botvinnik, Levenfish and some of the games in progress. Detailed notes. h, good, covers worn, pages somewhat browned but usable, without the Krylenko photo and his introduction—usually purged in most copies. $130. b) Caissa Editions, Yorklyn, 1988, English translation by Adams, 245p. h, mint, $42

MUNICH 1936, K. Richter, Olympiad, 2 vols, L/N 5534. Vol. I, 176p. Vol. II, 192p, scarce. German. A selection of games with good notes. h, exc, , $145 the set of 2 volumes. b) Olms ed, h, mint, $50

NEW YORK 1936, Hilbert & Lahde, Sands Point, 2000, p, mint, 200p. Notes to some games. US Closed CH. Reshevsky ifo Simonson, Fine/ Treysman, Kashdan, Dake, Kupchik,... a nice book. $22

NOTTINGHAM 1936, Russ. bull.(10), h, vg, extensive notes and photos, Capablanca/ Botvinnik ifo Ifo Euwe, etc. Quite scarce, $225

NOTTINGHAM 1936, A. Alekhine, orig. ed, London, 1937, 291p, a classic. Dover reprint, p, exc, $10

NOTTINGHAM 1936, H. Kmoch, Vienna, 1938. German. Notes to all the games. p, vg. Capablanca & Botvinnik shared first ifo Euwe/ Fine/ Reshevsky, Alekhine, Flohr,.Lasker, Vidmar,... $35. b) p, fair, bottom corner of first 26 pages chewed away not affecting text, $12

HASTINGS 1936/37, Reinfeld, Brandreth et al. Yorklyn,1992, paperback, 55 pages. English descriptive notation. Good notes to the games. An Alekhine victory ahead of Fine, Eliskases, Vidmar, among others. $9

HASTINGS 1936/37, F. Reinfeld ltd ed, numbered copies. h, exc, Alekhine ifo Fine, Eliskases, Feigin, Vidmar, Tylor, Winter, Koltanowski, Menchik, Thomas. Notes to the games by various players incl. Alekhine. 50p. $275.

VIENNA 1936, Lachaga ltd ed, German, Yorklyn, 1982, lt notes to some; Friedman ifo Opocensky, Becker/ Michel/ Spielmann, Lovenc.... p, mint. $14

ALEKHINE-EUWE 1937, Alekhine & Euwe, extensive notes by both. Leiden, 1938, Dutch, p, vg, 122p. $110

ALEKHINE-EUWE 1937,  Cordingley ltd. ed.,  London, 1937. Notes from "The Field", and many other sources, 27p., scarce, L/N5119, p, vg.covers taped and back cover detached but suppled. The list of the world's leading collectors of tournament books at that time is also interesting (Buschke, H. Wagner, C. H. O'D Alexander, Sir George Thomas, Golombek, Niemeijer, Eliskases, A. Seitz, H. Loeffler, P. Little, W. Goldwater... —these were the permanent subscribers. The total number was likely around 250 copies. This was #247. Amsterdam 1936 was 265 copies)  $125

ALEKHINE - EUWE 1937, Botvinnik, Moscow - Leningrad, 1939. Russian, L/N 5117, 215p, full notes, h, exc, $95

ALEKHINE - EUWE 1937, B.H. Wood, with notes by the contestants and other masters. Sutton Coldfield, 1938. h, vg. 175.

BAD ELSTER 1937, Lachaga ltd. ed. (330 copies), German, notes by Becker, Bogoljubow, Blumich, Richter, a.o.., 38p. Bogoljubow/ Rellstab ifo Michel, Richter, Pelikans, Samisch.... p, exc.  $20

PARNU 1937, Schroeder ed., tgw/on; Schmidt ifo Stahlberg/ Keres/ Flohr, Tartakover.... together with Leningrad 1937 - which see, Fine ifo Levenfish, Rabinovich, Budo/ Rauzer, Ilyin-Genevsky. $20

STOCKHOLM 1937, coverage of this Olympiad in an issue of Tidskrift för Schack. 25 selected games. Some exc., photos, statistics, results. No bulletins were ever published for this Olympiad, p, vg. faint waterstain at top of pages, $30

TIFLIS (TBILISI) 1937, G. Lisitsin, L/N 5566, X USSR CH, Moscow/ Leningrad, 1939, h, vg, ‡, 244p, Levenfish ifo Konstantinopolsky, Ragosin/ Makogonov.... Scarce, detailed notes. $175.  b) ELRS, h, vg, pages browning, $150

TIFLIS (TBILISI) 1937, Russian bulletins (12). paper bd. .Special issues of "64". Levenfish ifo Konstantinopolsky, Ragosin/ Makogonov.... L/N 5565, Xth USSR CH, notes to the games, p, vg. $145

AVRO 1938, Fric & Opocensky, Prague, 1939, Czech, 135p, full notes. h, vg, scarce, Keres/Fine, etc.  $125

AVRO 1938, Russ. Bull. (12), Extensive notes, photos, quite scarce. Keres/Fine, Ifo Botvinnik, etc. h, vg. $225.

AVRO 1938, Euwe, L/N 5574, 148p.  Amsterdam, 1938, Dutch. full notes. fine photos. Very likely the strongest tournament ever held. Keres/Fine ifo Botvinnik, Alekhine, Euwe, Reshevsky, Capablanca, & Flohr.  h, vg,   $85

AVRO 1938, Toradze, Tbilisi, 1995, Russian. 263p. One of the strongest tournaments of all times. Full notes to the 56 games. Biographies of the players. Articles on the background of the tourney. The notes are compiled fro a number of earlier sources. articles by Flohr, Levenfish, Botvinnik, a.o. h, exc, $38

BAD ELSTER 1938, Lachaga ltd ed., (330 copies), 58p. Bogoljubow ifo Eliskases, Engels, Gilg.... notes by Becker a.o., German, p, exc. $20

BAD OEYNHAUSEN 1938, M. Lachaga, German CH. (390 copies) German. Notes to some. Eliskases ifo Kieninger, MichellEngels, Becker,...  $22

KREFELD 1938, Lachaga, 1982, German. Eliskases/ Kieninger ifo Engels, Bruckhaus, Elsas, ... lt notes to some. $14

LODZ 1938,  Lachaga Ed. (325 copies), p, vg, Pirc ifo Tartakower, Eliskases/ Petrovs/   Stahlberg, Gerstenfeld, ...Najdorf(!!),..  German. A very strong tourney lacking some of its games due to the war. $22

MONTEVIDEO (CARRASCO) 1938, Varlotta & Nazzari, p, exc, ‡, Spanish. The games w/o notes. Alekhine ifo Guimard, Fenoglio, Rocha, Grau, Maderna, Cruz, Flores, Trompowsky,...Scarce. $42

BOURNEMOUTH 1939, in 2 #'s of Enroque!!.  A. Seitz, all the games, lt notes to some, Spanish. Issued also as this separate booklet  $38.

BUENOS AIRES 1939, M. Czerniak, h, exc, ELRS, L/N 5601, 87p. Span. full notes; Najdorf & Keres ifo Czerniak/Stahlberg, Frydman, Grau.... $85.

KEMERI - RIGA 1939, Brandreth ed., condensed notes to some. reprint of Chess Archives 1939 ed, Flohr ifo Szabo/ Stahlberg, Mikenas, Böök,...p, exc, $16

LENINGRAD 1939, Gillam ed., Nottingham, 1997. Botvinnik & Ragozin. Transl. by Baburin. 11th USSR CH. Botvinnik ifo Kotov, Belavenets, Makogonov/Chekhover,...Only 23 of the total 150 games are annotated with brief notes. p, mint. $19

LENINGRAD-MOSCOW 1939, J.M. Suarez. Spanish. Buenos Aires, 1949. 138p. Scarce. Notes to the games. L/N 5604. A very strong tournament largely neglected due to the start of WWII. Somehow both Keres and Smyslov failed in this event (tied at 11th/12th). Flohr ifo Reshevsky, Makogonov/ Lilienthal/ Levenfish/ Ragosin,..rebd, h, exc, with a reconstructed x-table added. $95

MARGATE 1939, Brandreth reprint of Chess Archives ed. of 1939, condensed notes. Keres ifo Flohr/ Capablanca,... p, mint, $10

MOSCOW 1940, Russ. bull(15), xerox ed, not in L/N. "64". 1940, 12th USSR CH, German, Bondarevsky/ Lilienthal ifo Smyslov, Keres, Boleslavsky,... $60

NEW YORK 1940, John Hilbert, Yorklyn, 2002. hardback, 209+iv pages. A first-rate tournament book for a strong US Championship in which Reshevsky just edged out Fine by 1/2 point. Kashdan was third followed by Pinkus, Simonson, Denker, Kupchik, Bernstein, Polland, Reinfeld, Shainswit, Adams, Seidman, Green, Hanauer, Woliston, and Littman. Notes to most of the games are from contemporary sources, and Fritz 7 checked many of the critical positions. Good photos along with some games from the qualifying sections, brief biographies of the players plus some of their games from other events. $37

RAKOVNIK1940. Opocensky, Prague, 1941,  272p. L/N 5618. Foltys ifo Opocensky, Olexa, Zita, Hromadka,…p, exc, $110. b) h, vg, w/o original covers, $130.

LENINGRAD/MOSCOW 1941, Belawenetz & Judowitsch, Spanish ed., notes to he games. Botvinnik ifo Keres, Smyslov,... h, exc, $75

LENINGRAD/MOSCOW 1941, M. Botvinnik, USSR match-tourney absolute USSR championship. Botvinnik ifo Keres, Smyslov,... Moscow, 1951, the 2nd Russian ed, L/N 5624, h, vg, 167p, $45

PRAGUE 1942, Lachaga ltd ed. (350 copies), German, notes to the games by Becker a.o, 60p. Alekhine/ Junge ifo Foltys, Opocensky, Zita, Kottnauer, Rejfir.... p, exc.  $36

SALZBURG 1942, Lachaga ltd ed(320), German, notes to most of the games. Alekhine ifo Keres, Junge, Schmidt, Bogoljubow, Stoltz. double rr. 54p. includes 3rd match Euwe-Bogoljubow 1941 (10 games). p, exc, $38

SALZBURG 1942, Whyld ltd. ed, (200 numbered copies), the games w/o notes. Alekhine ifo Keres, Junge, Schmidt, Bogoljubow, Stoltz. Double rr. p, exc, $40

VENTNOR CITY 1942, , R. Dessauer, xerox copy of this scarce booklet. Yanofski ifo Levin/ Bernstein, Moscowitz/ Pinkus/ Shainswit, Donovan,.. tgw/on. $12

MADRID 1943, Alekhine, Madrid 1943, Spanish, L/N 5638. Keres ifo Fuentes, Brinckmann, Medina, ... Keres won with 12 wins and 2 draws. Brief notes to some. Scarce. p, vg, spine & covers chipped, fc taped on. $67.

MAR DEL PLATA 1943, Skalicka & Lachaga, Spanish. 60p, The 91 games with notes. Najdorf ifo Stahlberg, Michel, Rossetto,... L/N 5639. p, vg, ‡, $48

ZLIN 1943, Foltys, Czech, L/N 5646, 124p. Kotnauer ifo Foltys, Pachman, Zita, Sajtar.... ext. notes, scarce, p, exc. $125

MAR DEL PLATA 1944, Skalicka & Lachaga ed. L/N 5651, Span. Najdorf & Pilnik ifo Guimard, Michel, Stahlberg.... The 120 g. with notes; good openings index. p, exc $70. b) h, exc, rebd, *, $80

MOSCOW 1944, L. Toth, Kecskemet, (1949), L/N 5654. 13th USSR CH, German, p, vg, $24

MOSCOW 1944, Becker, Spanish. 124p. with Becker's chess bookplate. Notes to all the games. L/N 5653. 13th USSR CH. Botvinnik ifo Smyslov, Boleslavski, Flohr,...h, vg, $85.

MOSCOW 1944, 13th USSR CH, ringbd xerox ed. of the original Russian bulletins. Botvinnik ifo Smyslov, Boleslavsky, Flohr,... $60

OLOMOUC 1944, J. Rasovsky, Czechquite scarce, having been published in Nazi-held Germany during WWII, fc water-stained, small piece  of back cover lacking (not affecting text). Florian ifo Zita, Tikovsky, Hromadka, Hlavacek,...Czech. Light notes in Czech.  A few photos. $195.

HOLLYWOOD 1945, Spence ltd ed (200 copies), p, vg,  Reshevsky ifo Fine, Pilnik, Horowitz, Kashdan.... notes to most. 43p. $95

MAR DEL PLATA 1945, Lachaga ltd ed(330). 1977, Span. lt notes. Najdorf ifo Pilnik, Stahlberg,... p, exc, $20. b) p, vg, covers discolored, $12

MOSCOW 1945, 14th USSR CH, xerox ed. of the original 10 Russian bulletins plus a 3-page summary of the play by Botvinnik in English. Botvinnik with a very powerful score of 15 out of 17 (4 draws) ifo Boleslavsky, Bronstein,... All the games with selected ones annotated. Ringbd. $60.

QUILMES 1945, Skalicka, Spanish, 46p., notes to the games;   Stahlberg ifo Czerniak, Letelier.... p, vg, cover browning,  $45

USA - USSR 1945, H. Kmoch, L/N 5142, Dutch, 43p, good notes. p, vg. As issued. A humiliating defeat for the US 2 wins and 5 draws in 20 games. Reshevsky, Fine, Denker , Kashdan, & Horowitz were the top US players vs Botvinnik, Smyslov, Boleslavsky, Flohr, Kotov the top five for the USSR. $42

BARCELONA 1946, R. Llorens, Spanish. L/N 5672, 222p, good notes, indices. Najdorf ifo Yanofsky, Guimard, Medina,...p, vg, $52. b) p, good, covers torn & chipped, contents fine, $42

GRONINGEN 1946, Moscow, 2008. Russian, with material by Botvinnik, Flohr, Tartakower. h, exc. The first great tournament after WWII with Botvinnik just edging out Euwe by the narrowest of margins. Notes to the games by Russian masters. 443p. Good photos. An exciting race for first by Euwe & Botvinnik with Botvinnik just managing to draw vs Euwe to take first by the half point. Titled Mezdunarodn'y Shakhmatn'y Turnir. An excellent book with full notes to the games. $52.

GRONINGEN 1946, Euwe/Kmoch, Dutch, L/N 5677. 392p. Full notes. A fine book for a great tournament—the best after the end of WWII until the match tournament of 1948. Botvinnik just shaded Euwe by a hair with Smyslov, Najdorf/ Szabo, Boleslavsky/ Flohr, Lundin/ Stoltz, Denker/ Kotov/ Tartakower.., and other great players. h, exc, $70. b) h, exc, ‡, the German edition. $75. c) Olms ed, German, h, mint, $55

HASTINGS 1946/47, Kmoch & Prins, CHESS ed, 1947, 96p. A long section on past Hastings tournaments. The 45 games from the premier section with full notes to all the games. L/N 5702 Alexander ifo Tartakower, Gudmundsson,... p, exc, as issued, $35

LONDON 1946, CHESS ed, In Section A H. Steiner ifo Bernstein, Tartakower, Opocensky,.. In Section B Euwe ifo Christoffel, Denker,... h, vg, ELRS, $20. b)h, good, covers spotted & a game written on endpapers. $14.

LONDON 1946, E. G. R. Cordingley, ltd ed #16, numbered edition, h, exc. Notes by König, Euwe, H. Steiner, O. Bernstein, Tartakower,... There were two sections: A & B. In Section A, H. Steiner ifo O. Bernstein, Tartakower, Opocensky, Golombek, Pomar,... In B: Euwe ifo Christoffel, Denker, Abrahams, König, Thomas, Medina...44p, h, exc, $125. b) $110

MOSCOW-PRAGUE 1946, Prague, 1947, p, exc, Podgorny, Czech, 115p, full notes to the 35 games, Bronstein, Smyslov, Kotov...PachmanOpocensky, Sajtar... took part. $45

MAASTRICHT 1946, L. Prins, Dutch. p, exc., Euwe ifo Devos, Prins/ Vinken/ Alexander,...with notes. $30

NEW YORK 1946, P. Michell, US CH, in Spanish & English, L/N 5691, notes to many games. p, exc, Reshevsky ifo Kashdan, Santasiere, Levin, Denker, Horowitz, H. Steiner,...ltd ed(375), p, vg, covers chipped. Incl. the X-tables for the 5 US championships from 1936 to 1944. $50. b) p, exc, $75

NOTTINGHAM 1946, CHESS ed, notes by I. Konig, 66 games from the championship tournament and 80 selected games from the major tournaments, h,exc. $35 b) h, vg. $32

PRAGUE 1946, H. Golombek, 115p, Najdorf ifo Stoltz, Trifunovic, Foltys, Gligoric, Golombek, Pachman, Sajtar....   good notes. scarce, in English, h, exc, a few minor spots on fc.  $65.   b) h, vg, sl. wrinkled fc , $32

ZAGREB 1946, 2nd Yugoslav CH. Trifunovic ifo Gligoric, Pirc.... The games with notes to some. Sebo-Croat. p, good.  $30. 

BUENOS AIRES- LA PLATA 1947, A. Ellerman, Spanish. L/N 5706. 61p. the 30 games with ext. notes. Stahlberg ifo Najdorf, Eliskases, Euwe, Pilnik, Rossetto. 6-man double rr. p, vg, $24 b) p, exc, $26. c) h, exc, ELRS, FGML, $45

HILVERSUM 1947, Euwe, Dutch, 208p. With full notes. L/N 5708. O'Kelly ifo Pachman, Trifunovic,...p, vg, covers worn & spotted, ‡, $60. 

LÜNEBURG 1947, W. Laaser; 64p, the games with notes, sel. of 40 games. Bogoljubow ifo Rödl, Rellstab, Heinicke,...p, exc, scarce. $45

MAR DEL PLATA 1947, A. Ellerman. Najdorf ifo Stahlberg, Eliskases, Pilnik,Bolbochan, ...notes to many games. Spanish, p, vg. $45. b) p, vg, , $40.

PARNU 1947, Russian bull. (12), scarce. Keres ifo Kotov, Lilienthal, Boleslavsky, Bronstein, Smyslov, Kasparyan, Flohr, Bondarevsky.... Ext. notes to many, p, vg. $75. b) h, exc, $95

MOSCOW 1947, Chalupetzky & Florian, 79p, L/N 5715. German. Lt. notes to some. Botvinnik ifo Ragosin, Boleslavsky/ Kotov,... h, exc, ‡, FGML. $44

MOSCOW 1947, M. Botvinnik, L/N 5716, Russian. 250p, Chigorin memorial tourney; exc. drawing of Chigorin when young; Moscow, 1950. Botvinnik ifo Ragosin, Boleslavsky, Smyslov, Kotov, Keres,... A fine copy of a fine tournament book. h, exc, $70

MOSCOW-LENINGRAD-SVERDLOVSK 1947, 16th USSR CH SEMI-FINALS, Russ. bull.(5), selected games, some with notes. At Moscow: Averbakh ifo Panov, Kholmov/Konstantinopolsky,.. At Leningrad: Aronin ifo Taimanov , Lisitsin,... At Sverdlovsk: Furman ifo Ilivitsky Novotelnov, Chistyakov,... Xerox ed, r, exc, $38

PARNU 1947, A. Buschke, the 91 games of the training tournament of leading Soviet masters. Notes to a few games. Keres ifo Kotov, Lilienthal, Boleslavsky/ Bronstein/ Smyslov,...p, exc, $23. b) p, vg, $15

WEIDENAU 1947, A. Brinckmannn, 2 small booklets of 33p. L/N 5724, German CH, German, selected games with full notes; Kienninger ifo Rodl, Machate, Rellstab.... p, vg. ‡, $35. b)p, vg, $38

VIENNA 1947, Müller, L/N 5722. 104p. Lt notes. Some exc. photos. Szabo ifo Kottnauer/Lokvenc, Opocensky, Gereben,... German. h, exc with dj (sl. chipped), $47

BAD GASTEIN 1948, G. Bruckner, German, 164p., large format, notes to some, quite scarce; Lundin ifo Benko, Rossolimo, Koffuauen, Gereben.... 20-man rr., a good tournament book, p, vg. $125

ESSEN 1948, Brinckmann, L/N 5727. 120 g with short summaries. German. West German CH. Unzicker ifo Kieninger, Machate, Niephaus/ Schmid,... p, exc, $24.

ESSEN 1948, Rautenberg, German. 24 games with notes. 4-man quadruple rr. Lange/ Rautenberg ifo Herrmann, Elm. scarce. p, vg, $22. b) p, vg, FGML, $25

HAGUE - MOSCOW 1948, Horowitz & Kmoch, NY, 1949, with dj, h, exc, 199p, full notes, $45  b) h, vg, with pencilled marginalia $26. c) h, vg, $40. d) h, exc, with J. Barrett's chess bookplate, $55

HAGUE-MOSCOW 1948, Euwe, Lochem, 1948. World Championship match-tourney. 252p. Full notes by Euwe. Dutch. L/N 5734. Openings index, round summaries. Incl. the 75 games played by these players against each other prior to this even. A fine book. Several good photos. h, exc, $75. b) p, exc, $60.

HAGUE-MOSCOW 1948, H. Golombek, London, 1949. 229p. Perhaps the best book in English on this event, though I favor the Goodman/ Soudakoff book. h, exc. with dj, ELRS, $38. 

KARLSBAD/ MARIENBAD 1948, (Sachovy Turnaj Zapadocesykych Lazni 1948), Czech, Prague, 1951, L/N 5747. 292p. Notes to all the games. Foltys ifo Barcza, Steiner, Pirc, Stoltz, Opocensky, Vidmar, Podgorny, Sajtar, Yanofsky,...a very nice tournament book with good indices, notes, etc. h, exc, ‡, $75

MOSCOW 1948, Russ. bull. (22), 16th USSR CH. p, exc, Bronstein/ Kotov ifo Furman, Flohr, Tolush, Bondarevsky/ Keres... some games with full notes. $70

MOSCOW 1948, Dutch, h, vg, covers spotted, Notes to selected games. Openings survey article. 16th USSR CH. Bronstein/ Kotov ifo Fuhrman,  Flohr, …$28.

SALTSJÖBADEN 1948, Ståhlberg, h, exc, Swedish. With full notes, 359p. Bronstein ifo Szabo, Boleslavsky, Kotov, Lilienthal, Bondarevsky/ Flohr/ Najdorf/ Ståhlberg, Trifunovic,... one of the most important tournaments just after WWII's end. $85.   b)h, vg, $75

SOUTH FALLSBURG 1948, Spence, US CH, ltd ed (200) 68p. tgw/on, round summaries by Reinfeld. Steiner ifo Kashdan, Kramer, Ulvestad....h, exc. $75

MAR DEL PLATA 1949. C. Skalicka, Spanish, a few games with notes. A scarce Mar del Plata tournament book, p, vg, covers chipped. 83p, With Albert Becker's chess bookplate. Rossetto ifo Eliskases/ Guimard, Czerniak, Luckis, Jac. Bolbochan, Flores.... Ed. Lasker (in 12th place). with some corrections by Becker, $85

MOSCOW 1949, Womens World CH, Rudenko ifo Rubtsova, Bykova,...Russ. bull(15), p, vg, notes to selected games. Has much other material as well especially on women's chess. $35

MOSCOW 1949, 27th City CH, Russian bull. (12). Averbakh ifo Lilienthal, Estrin, Simagin, Bonch-Osmolovski, Yudovich,.... All the games the most interesting ones with notes/ Other news and photos, etc. original unbd bull. $110. b) Xerox ed, unbd. $40

MOSCOW 1949, 17th USSR CH. Russ. Bull(20), p, exc, With full notes to selected games plus other articles and news. Bronstein/Smyslov ifo Geller, Taimanov, Furman, Keres... $52

OMAHA 1949, 50th US Open. Ltd ed of 250 numbered copies. Selected games. Sandrin ifo Santasiere, Evans, Hartleb, Bisguier,... 44p. ringbd, exc, $48. b)r, vg, $44. c) r, good, covers lose, $40

VENICE 1949, Turcato, L/N 5786, 3rd Venice international tourney, ltd ed. Italian. Notes in German by H. Müller. 215p. Szabo ifo Rossolimo, Prins, Gligoric,.... the games with notes. h, vg, ELRS, $45

AMSTERDAM 1950, Euwe/Prins, Dutch. 280p. A great tourney with Najdorf ifo Reshevsky, Stahlberg, Gligoric, Pirc, Euwe, Pilnik, Rossolimo, Trifunovic,...Extensive notes. h, exc, $ 70.

AMSTERDAM 1950, V. Pirc, Zagred, 1954, 335p, full notes. Serbo-Croat. Najdorf ifo Reshevsky, Stahlberg, Gligoric/ Pirc, Euwe/ Pilnik, Rossolimo,... p, exc. $49 b) h, exc, rebd., ELRS, $60

AMSTERDAM 1950, Dutch reprint from Schaakmat, all the games, some with notes, a very strong tourney won by Najdorf ifo Reshevsky, Stahlberg, Gligoriic, Pirc, Euwe.... h, exc. $24

BLED 1950, in an issue of Shakh, Serbo-Croat. Notes to some. Najdorf ifo Pilnik, O'Kelly, Fuderer, Pfeiffer,..p, vg, $16

BUDAPEST 1950, Barcza, L/N 5798, 191p, Hungarian, thorough notes; the first Candidates tourney. h, vg, $48.

BUDAPEST 1950, Stahlberg, Swedish, h, exc, with dust jacket (chipped & worn), 222p. The games with notes. Boleslavsky & Bronstein ifo Smyslov, Keres, Najdorf, Kotov, Stahlberg, Flohr/ Lilienthal/ Szabo. The first Candidates Tourney after the war. Also includes the tie-breaking match Bronstein-Boleslvsky won by Bronstein. $85.  b) h, exc, w/o dj, $80. c) h, spine & bc soiled, otw fine. $60

DUBROVNIK 1950, the official Yugoslav bulletins, all 480 games w/o notes. L/N 5801. IX Olympiad. Serbo-Croat. p, exc, $46. b) h, exc, FGML, $55

DUBROVNIK 1950,titled "Turnir Nacija".Yugoslav book, many games with notes L/N 5803. 239 p. IX Olympiad. Serbo-Croat. Many photos & cartoons. p, exc, a very nice publication. $75.

ESTORIL 1950, F. Lupi, Lisbon, 1950, p, exc. 46p. scarce. Perez ifo Pomar, Ribeiro, Pias, … Portuguese. A few lightly pencilled notes. $65

SOUTHSEA 1950, titled RISING STARS, brief notes to some games. Tartakower/ Bisguier ifo Penrose,Schmid, Golombek, ... p, exc, $25

SOMMERDA 1950, in a special issue of Schach (DDR), 80p, G. 193 games with notes to many. Elstner ifo Pietzsch, Platz,...h, exc, rebd (orig. covers bd in) ELRS, $28

VENICE 1950, Kotov, Russian, USSR, 1952, h, vg, 267p. Kotov ifo Smyslov, Pachman, Wade,.....Full notes. A page or two with marginal corrections. $42. b) h, exc. $47. c) h, vg, $45

AUGSBURG 1951, reprint of scarce bulletins, German. Bogoljubow won this double rr event ifo Kieninger, Niephaus, Pfeiffer, Teschner, Heinicke.... tgw/on, p, exc. $10

BOTVINNIK - BRONSTEIN 1951, Winter & Wade, CP ed, 133p. Good notes to a very interesting match. A reprint of the original hardback version published right after the match. p, mint, $16. b) h, exc, with dj(stained), $25

BOTVINNIK - BRONSTEIN 1951, H. Müller, German, 80p, full notes. p, exc, $20

BOTVINNIK-BRONSTEIN 1951, Moscow, 2001, h, mint, Russian, introduction by Kramnik. Full notes plus an openings survey. Botvinnik just hung on to draw the match and retain his title. $30

BUCUREST 1951, Sergiu & Troianescu, Roumanian, p, exc, ex-library with release stamp, with notes, 140p. Milev ifo Szabo, Florian, Troianescu/ Pietzsch,... $45

MARIANSKE-LAZNI PRAGUE 1951, Hungarian, 110p, notes to many; Pachman ifo Szabo,...p, exc, ELRS, from a GM's library, $35. b) p, vg, $26.

MOSCOW 1951, 19th USSR CH, T. Florian. Hungarian. 126p. notes to most. Keres ifo Geller/Petrosian, Smyslov,...p, exc, $23   b)p, good, covers chipped,  $14. c) h. exc, ELRS, rebd with original covers bd in. $26

NEW YORK 1951, Wertheim Memorial, Jack Spence, CP ed, 72p, Reshevsky ifo Euwe/ Najdorf, Fine, Evans,... lt. notes. $65

NIEPHAUS -O'KELLY 1951, the 5-game match in an issue of the German, Caissa. p, vg, $4

REGGIO EMILIA 1951, the games w/o notes, Italian. 20p. L/N 5832, Czerniak ifo H. Steiner, Romani, Paoli, Keller.... p, vg, $18

SARAJEVO 1951, Serbo-Croat bulletins, 7th Yugoslav CH. the 190 games with notes to some. Rabar ifo Trifunovic/ Fuderer, Andric/ Germek/ Udovcic, Gligoric,... h, exc. some ELRS, $30

SCHWERIN 1951, G. A special # of Schach (DDR), DDR CH, 79p., notes to some, men's won by Stein ifo Pietzsch.... p, vg.  Also has Junior CH. Strong with Budrich ifo Uhlmann.. $18

BELGRADE 1952, 8th Yugoslav Ch. tgw/on. Booklet. Serbo-Croat, Trifunovic ifo Fuderer, Milic/Udovcic/Gligoric... p,vg. $20

BELGRADE 1952, Int. tourney, Serbo-Croat, Pilnik ifo Milic, Fuderer, Nedeljkovic, Matanovic/ O'Kelly, Udovcic, Pirc, Karaklacic/ Alexander/ Janosevic, Stoltz,...Bogoljubov...tgw/on. $24. b) h, exc, ELRS, $28

BUDAPEST 1952, J. Szily, Maroczy Memorial tourney, 183p, extensive notes, Hungarian. A great victory for Keres ifo Geller, Botvinnik/ Smyslov/ Stahlberg, Szabo,... p, exc, $45

BUDAPEST 1952, Maroczy memorial, BCM ed, p, vg, 84p, a great Keres win ifo Geller, Botvinnik/ Smyslov/ Stahlberg, Szabo,....extensive notes to some. $30.  b)p, g, small stains at edges and some foxing. underlining of game headings. $22.

BUDAPEST 1952, Macskasy & Negyesy, 8th Hungarian CH, Hungarian, 100p,Szabo ifo Barcza, Tipary, Kluger,.. notes to all the games, p, vg, $22

BUDAPEST 1953, L. Szabo, 9th Hung. CH, 127p. Sandor ifo Kluger, Barcza, Tipary,... Notes to all the games. Hungarian. p, vg, $24

HELSINKI 1952, Xth Olympiad, H. Müller, the 50 best games with notes. German, spine chipped, 120p, p, vg,  $38

HELSINKI 1952, Xth Olympiad, the orig. 6 Finnish bulletins with all the games. scarce. h, exc, h, exc, $60

BERLIN 1953, In an issue of DSZ, German CH, a selection of 42g. with exc. notes; Unzicker ifo Heinicke/ Lehmann/ Hahn/ Pfeiffer/ Gilg....p, exc. $26

NEUHAUSEN-ZÜRICH 1953, D. Bronstein. Dover ed. in English, NY, 1979. Transl. by Jim Marfia from the 2nd Russian edition. A classic in the field of tournament books for its superb notes by Bronstein which amount to virtually a textbook on how to play chess at the highest level. 349p. p,vg, cover sl. bent, $11. b) p, exc, $15

NEUHAUSEN-ZÜRICH, M. Najdorf, Milford, 2012, p, mint, 391p, competes, of course, with the famous Bronstein book (above), but Najdorf's notes are more intuitive and further illuminate the many fine games that this monster candidates event produced. Heretofore was onlyavailable in a 2-volume set in Spanish.  $30 

NEUHAUSEN-ZÜRICH 1953, D. Bronstein. Moscow, 1956, 1st ed, Russian. 435p. Smyslov ifo Reshevsky/ Keres/..h, vg, $26. b) Moscow, 1960, 2nd ed, 496p, revised ed, h, exc. $28. c) 3rd ed, Moscow, 1983, h, exc, FGML. 432p, $35

NEUHAUSEN-ZÜRICH 1953, D. Bronstein. Dover ed. in English, NY, 1979. Transl. by Jim Marfia from the 2nd Russian edition. A classic in the field of tournament books for its superb notes by Bronstein which amount to virtually a textbook on how to play chess at the highest level. 349p. p,vg, cover sl. bent, $15. b) p, exc, $22

NEUHAUSEN-ZÜRICH 1953, Moscow, 1954, 78p. tgw/on, openings survey. Intro. by Ragosin. Brief sketches of the styles of the key players. p, exc, Smyslov ifo Reshevsky/ Keres,... $7 b) p, vg, $5

WINNIPEG 1953, Canadian CH, Yanovsky & Divinsky, tg with notes to some, 36p. Anderson/ Yanofsky ifo Vaitonis, Berner, Fielding.... p, vg. $34

AMSTERDAM 1954, XI Olympiad. Orig. Dutch bull. with all the 916 games w/on. Some good photos. p, exc, *, $52

BOTVINNIK-SMYSLOV 1954, unbd Russ. bull. (24). Full notes & other material by leading Soviet players. $37. 

BUDAPEST 1954, Ban & Pogats, Xth Hungarian CH, p, vg, 191p, Notes to all the games. Szabo ifo Benko, Barcza/ Bely,Bilek, Kluger,... $24

DR. DYCKHOFF FERNSCHACH GEDENKTURNIER 1954/56, German, 246p. an excellent book with a wealth of top-notch correspondence games with deep notes, p, vg. first edition. ELRS, $38. b) p, vg, $30. b) 2nd ed, p, mint, $24

HASTINGS 1954/55, Wade & Ritson Morry, 11p, Keres/Smyslov ifo Fuderer, Pachman,..tgwltn to some. p, exc, reprint, $7

MONTEVIDEO 1954, J.M. C-H. S. N. Montevideo, 1967, no other info. given on source. Spanish. Letelier ifo Ossip Bernstein/ Najdorf, Toran, Carvalho/ Trompowski,... Remarkable performance by Bernstein after not playing for some two decades and then being able to tie with Najdorf only 1/2 point behind the tourney winner in an 18-man event. tgw/on. $28

PRAGUE - MARIANSKE LAZNE 1954, Foltys Memorial Tourney. Czech. 322p. Many fine photos of the games in progress. Pachman ifo Szabo, Sliwa, Filip/ Stahlberg, Olafsson, Lundin, Balanel,...Full notes. A fine book. h, exc, ‡, $68. b) h, vg, 5 leaves slightly creased, ex-library with release stamp, $42

BODAS DE ORO 1955, Span. bulletins, Buenos Aires, Ivkov ifo Gligoric,, Szabo, Rossetto, Pachman, Bisguier,... the 153 gw/on , p, vg, 1st 2p, with hole in top (not affecting text), $15.  b) p, exc, $20.   c) p, fair, stained covers, $12.  d) h, rebd, ELRS, $22

GÖTEBORG 1955, Stahlberg, Swedish, Örebro, 1956, 328p. Interzonal tourney. Bronstein, Keres, Panno, Petrosian. h, exc, ELRS, $80.

GÖTEBORG 1955, Bondarevsky, h, exc, ex library copy with release stamp, 328p, Interzonal Tourney. Bronstein ifo Keres, Panno, Petrosian,... Notes to most. Russian. $42

LINCOLN 1955, Spence Ltd. Edition, 75 copies, US Junior CH, won by Kalme ifo Remlinger, Cross, Gross, Stakis, ....Fischer (2 wins, 2 losses, 6 draws), p, vg. SST, tgw/on. xerox copy, $15

MOSCOW 1955, Russ. bull.(10), 33rd Moscow CH. Vasiukov ifo Flohr, Ravinsky, Ragosin, Khasin,... Also has an article on the 33rd Leningrad CH with two annotated brilliant games by Korchnoi and Tolush. Some annotated games. h, exc, $42

MOSCOW 1955, BCM. H. Golombek. 22nd USSR CH. Won by Geller/Smyslov ifo Botvinnik/ Ilvitsky/ Petrosian/ Spassky,... 80p. Round summaries & lt. notes to some. p, vg, $24

NOVI SAD 1955, Xth Yugoslav CH, Serbo-Croat, 48p, 153 gw/o n. Karaklajic ifo Gligoric, Rabar, Ivkov,... p, exc, $18

SAN DIEGO 1955, Spence Ltd. Ed, (85 copies), Open Tourney, SST, Turner/ Lombardy/ Sherwin ifo Saidy/ Radoicic, Henin, tgw/on. xerox copy, $15.

AMSTERDAM 1956, M. Filip, Prague 1958, h, exc, with dj. Czech. 237p. Full notes. Smyslov ifo Keres, etc. $75.

AMSTERDAM 1956, Euwe/Muhring. Amsterdam, 1956, Dutch. 191p. Candidates tourney won by Smyslov ifo Keres, Geller/ Bronstein/ Spassky/ Szabo. Ext notes. p, exc, ‡, $40 b) b) h, vg, with dj, $45. c) h, vg, corners bumped, with dj, $40. d)1980 reprint, $27

AMSTERDAM 1956, Russ. bull.(12) Candidates tourney; Smyslov ifo Keres, Bronstein/ Geller.... Russian, detailed notes to many, h, exc. $42

DETROIT 1956, Spence Ltd Ed (100 copies), Supplement VII, Tartakower Memorial. SST. D. Byrne ifo Bisguier, Tautvaisis, Popel, Shipman,...tgw/on. 46 sel. games. v +11p. $38 b) xerox copy, $10

LENINGRAD 1956, 23rd USSR CH, Spence Ltd Ed. (140), mis-titled as "Moscow 1956" since the event was definitely held in Leningrad. Averbakh/ Spassky/ Taimanov ifo Korchnoi,...tgw/on. The playoff match was won by Taimanov (games included). r, vg, $38

LENINGRAD 1956, 23rd USSR CH, Russ. bull (10). Averbakh/ Spassky/ Taimanov ifo Korchnoi, Polugayevsky/ Tal/ Kholmov, Boleslavsky,....notes to selected games and other articles, h, exc, $65. b) p, vg, $45

MAR DEL PLATA 1956, Argentine bulletins, rebd in stiff boards, Int. tourney, tgw/on. Julio Bolbochan/ Najdorf, Eliskases, Sanguinetti, Jacobo Bolbochan, Behrensen, Idigoras, Redolfi,... h, exc, ELRS, $28.

MOSCOW 1956, XIIth Olympiad, S. Flohr, in English. Many good photos and selected, well-annotated games. 119p. $22

MOSCOW 1956, XIIth Olympiad, Russian bulletins (25), all 1220 games, some with notes; much other material & photos. unbd bulletins, $48.

MOSCOW 1956, Russ. bull (18), Alekhine Memorial Tourney won by Botvinnik & Smyslov ifo Taimanov ,Gligoric, Bronstein,... Keres,..Notes to selected games plus many Alekhine historical tidbits in separate articles throughout the text. h, exc, very nicely bd, $65. b) unbd bulletins, $40

PROVIDENCE 1956, W. B. Suesman, 30 sel. games with notes; SST won by Curdo ifo A. C. Martin/ Suesman....New England CH. p, exc. $24

UPPSALA 1956, Sajtar. Selection of games with notes. Student Team tourney. 56p, English. Among the players were Mednis, Saidy, Olafsson, Padevski, Tal, Antoshin, Vasiukov, Lutikov, Bilek, Matanovic, Ivkov p, exc, $23

USSR-YUGOSLAVIA 1956-1966, Yudovich & Kazich, titled Druz'ya i Spoerniki, Zagreb, 1967. 400p. All the games from these 11 matches with many fully annotated. p, exc, pages uncut, $45 b) h, exc, $50

NEW YORK 1956-1957, Spence Lts Ed (150), Manhattan & Marshall Club CH's. Includes the Manhattan-Marshall match from the Met League. Fischer played in the Semi-Finals but did not qualify for the Finals in the Manhattan. One of the earliest published Fischer tourneys. Manhattan Final won by Bisguier ifo Turner, Pavey, Feuerstein, Kramer,... Marshall won by Bernstein ifo Wachs, Levy, Halper, ... a) r, exc, fc sl. spotted, $42. b) r, mint, $45

DUBLIN 1957, Zonal Tourney, Ficheall Publication, p, vg, Pachman (one of his very best results & w/o a loss) ifo Benko/ Gligoric, Schmid, Alexander, Giustolisi, Llado,...tgw/on. $28

EAST ORANGE 1957, Spence Ltd Ed(135), xerox copy, p, exc, Fischer ifo Saidy, Feuerstein, Sobel, M. Green, Sherwin,.. tgw/on. $10

KIEV 1957/ LENINGRAD 1957/ SVERDLOVSK 1957, unbd. Russ. bull., 3 USSR CH Semi-Finals, 570 games w/o notes. Kiev: Petrosian ifo Geller, Bannik/ PoBoleslavsky/ Furman,... Leningrad: Spassky/ Tolush ifo Aronin/ Taimanov.... Sverdlovsk: Korchnoi ifo Gurgenidze/ Polugayevsky,...Averbakh/ Gipslis,... $48

MOSCOW 1957, 24th USSR CH, P.H. Clarke, BCM Quarterly No. 1, Tal ifo Bronstein/ Keres, Spassky/ Tolush, Kholmov, Korchnoi/ Petrosian, Boleslavsky,... 120p, notes to most games. A very good tournament. p, exc, $36

MOSCOW 1957, 24th USSR CH, Russ. bull. (14). bd in stiff card-stock, exc. Tal ifo Bronstein/ Keres, Spassky/ Tolush, Kholmov, Korchnoi/ Petrosian, Boleslavsky,... selected games with full notes. $60

NEW YORK 1957-1958, Spence Ltd Ed, (150 copies), r, exc, US CH, A great Fischer win w/o loss ifo Reshevsky, Sherwin, Lombardy, Berliner, Denker,... lt notes to some games. $40

OMAHA 1957, 7th Midwest Open, Mc Lellan ltd. ed., 36g w/o notes; Ragan ifo McLellan, Ackerman, Carr, Spencer.... SST, p, exc. xerox ed. $9

SARAJEVO 1957, Yugoslav bull., tgw/on. Puc ifo Ciocaltea, Maric, Svetkov, Karaklajic/ Smailbegovic/ Trifunovic.... scarce, p, vg. $15

SOMBOR 1957, 12th Yugoslav CH, the 253 gw/on. 57p. Gligoric ifo Trifunovic, Karaklajic, Ivkov,...p, exc, $18

SOFIA 1957, Bulgarian, Zonal tourney. 64p. 91g with notes to some; Filip ifo Matanovic/ Neikirkh/ Sliwa, Pfeiffer....  Bulgarian bulletins (8) one bulletin in xerox, $18.

VIENNA 1957, European team CH, German, 58p., 120g many with notes; many great players took part; Unzicker, Gligoric, Darga, Matanovic, Smyslov, Keres, Bronstein, Spassky, Petrosian, Filip, Pachman.... p, exc. $22. b) h, vg, rebd, ELRS, $25

BOTVINNIK-SMYSLOV 1958, Russian bulletins (14), unbd, vg, extensive notes plus —as with most Russian bulletins—much additional chess news, e.g. here a photo of Fischer on skis along with his 1957 US CH game vs Lombardy with notes by Fischer. Detailed notes to the match games. $35.

BOTVINNIK-SMYSLOV 1958, Botvinnik, Chess Digest, 1973. A translation of the 1958 Russian book. An extremely good account of the match by Botvinnik. 52p. p, exc, $21

BUENOS AIRES 1958, Z. Caputto, Argentine CH. Spanish. Pilnik ifo Panno, Sanguineti, Eliskases, Jac. Bolbochan, Garcia/ Espinosa, ...tgw/on. p, vg. $17

BULGARIA - USSR 1958, in an issue of SHAKMATNA MIS'L, Bulgarian. The games with notes to some. Includes much other material too. $12

EAST ORANGE 1958, Spence Ltd Ed (125), , NJ State Open CH, Weinberger ifo Kalme, W. Adams, Friedman, Dicamillo, Dubeck, Wachs,... SST, tgw/on. xerox, $18

HAIFA - TEL AVIV 1958, R. Persitz, bd in boards, exc, ELRS, tgw/on. Reshevsky ifo Szabo, Persitz, Wade/Aloni,... $15

MUNICH 1958, Brinckmann/ Richter, 13th Olympiad, German, p, exc, rebd in stiff covers, ex-library with release stamp, 124p, selected games and positions with analysis. $28

MUNICH 1958, Heidenfeld, Dreyer & Kirby, p, exc. titled Springboks at Munich. A selection of games played by the South African team at the 13th Chess Olympiad at Munich 1958 with full notes to the games. 32p, $18

MUNICH 1958, Olympiad, German, all 1368 games + complete statistics, p, exc, $70.

PORTOROZ 1958, Serbo-Croat bulletins with all the games; notes to some + pictures, biographies, background; Tal ifo Gligoric, Benko/ Petrosian, Fischer/ Olafsson, h, exc, rebd, FGML, ELRS. $45 b) p, vg, $40

RIGA 1958, 25th USSR CH. Tal ifo Petrosian, Bronstein, Averbakh, Polugayevsky/ Spasski, Geller/ Gurgenidze, Boleslavsky/ Korchnoi,... paperbd Russian bulletins (20).[Bull. #20 bd next to last, #19 last] All the games, many with notes, exc. One of the best and most exciting USSR CH's with Tal taking 8 of his last 9 games. $48. b) unbd bull. $45

RIGA 1958, Caputto, 25th USSR CH, 102p. Spanish. Notes to some games. Epilogue by Bronstein; Tal ifo Petrosian, Bronstein, Averbakh.... p, exc. $26

RIGA CITY CHAMPIONSHIP 1958, Zemitis, Vinerts & Brandreth, Yorklyn, 2005, ringbd, 53p, English & Latvian. Pasmans ifo Petersons, Gornevs, Koblencs/ Mazans, Ivanovs/ Darznieks,... A few games with notes (some in Latvian, some in English) Very small edition(40 copies), r, mint, $40

SARAJEVO 1958, Yugoslav CH, Serbo-Coat, p, vg, ELRS, small piece torn out of back cover (no text missing) tgw/on. Gligoric/Ivkov ifo Matanovic/ Durasevich, Trifunovic, Matulovic,...Yugoslav CH's after WWII have been extremely strong. $15

VARNA 1958, P. Bobekov, Sofia, 1958, 98p. Bulgarian Student team tourney, 43 selected annnotated games; Lombardy, Bobotsov, Tal, Spassky, Panmo, Portisch among others took part, p, exc. $26

BOGNOR REGIS 1959, Stevenson Memorial Tournament, J.N. Fishlock-Lomax. SST. The games w/o notes. Mardle/Gereben ifo Karaklajic, Pritchard/Crepinsek/ Wade,...56p. $18

BUDAPEST 1959, Sajtar, World Student Team CH, in English, Selected games with notes, 66p, p, exc, $24.

GOLDEN SANDS 1958, Sajtar, World Student Team CH, in English, Selected games with notes, 61p, p, exc, $24 

HASTINGS 1959/60, W. Ritson Morry, p, exc, Gligoric ifo Averbakh/ Uhlmann, Bobotsov,...notes to selected games. $22 

KRAGUJEVAC 1959, 14th Yugoslav CH, Serbo-Croat, Gligoric io Matanovic, Trifunovic, tgw/on, but with photos of the contestants. p, exc, $20. b) bd in stiff card stock, exc, ELRS, $22

NEW YORK 1959, Greater NY Open CH, R. Durkin, SST, Benk ifo Lombardy, Weinstein, Bisguier, Sherwin, Hearst, Brandts, Owens, ... tgw/on. r, exc, $48

RIGA 1959, Russ. bull. p, exc, Int. tourney, Spassky ifo Mikenas, Tolush, Tal, Sliwa/ Teschner/ Klavin,...Full notes to selected games. $45

RIGA 1959, R. bull(15), Int. tourney won by Spasski ifo Mikenas, Tolush, Tal....notes to many + MARIANSKE LAZNI 1959, Czech bull. Polugayevsky ifo Szabo, Kozma/ Ujtelky.. tgw/on. + BLED/ ZAGREB/ BELGRADE 1959, Russ. bull. (20), Candidates tourney, Tal ifo Keres, Petrosian, Smyslov,... full notes to many. The three items nicely bd. h, exc. $95

TIFLIS (TBILISI) 1959, bd R bull. (20) 26th USSR CH, notes to many games; Petrosian ifo Spasssky/ Tal, Taimanov.... unbd bull, exc. $42 (b) unbd vg, $28

TIFLIS 1959, 25th USSR CH.  Caputto. Spanish, B. A. 1959, 18th USSR CH, Notes to selected games, 102p, Notes to selected games, the rest w/on. p, exc, $26

WEST ORANGE 1959, US seeded tournament, Brady, tgw/on; Lombardy ifo Benko, Evans.... scarce, r, vg. $40

BALATONFURED 1960, Hungarian, Asztalos Memorial, 33p. Bilek/ Honfi ifo Damjanovic, Kluger.... p, exc. $18

LEIPZIG 1960, 14th Chess Olympiad, unbd German bull, all the games, no notes, 1381 games, vg, $60

LENINGRAD 1960, 7th Student Team CH, Russ. bull(5). Won by the USA (team: Lombardy, Kalme, Weinstein, Mednis, Saidy) ifo a USSR team with Spassky, Gurgenidze, Nikoleavsky and Klovan, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia,... All the games. $23

LJUBLJANA 1960, 15th Yugoslav CH, 153 gw/on. Serbo-Croat. Gligoric ifo Bertok, Trifunovic/ Matulovic,... $18

MOSCOW 1960, Lachaga Ed, p, exc, (325 copies) German. notes to many. Kholmov/Smyslov ifo, Korchnoi, Bagirov, Antoschin, ...$20 

ROUMANIA-BULGARIA 1960, in an issue of Shakhmatna Mis'l. Bulgarian. The games of the match with notes to about half the games. $12

BELGRADE1961, Chess Festival, Serbo-Croat, 25p. 58g w/on. Gligoric, Matanovic, Vasiukov, Milic, Minic, a.o. took part, p, vg. $8

BOTVINNIK - TAL 1961, Russian bull. (20), Botvinnik's powerful regain of the World Title. Full notes, discussion, background, photos, etc. stapled bulletins, p, vg. $30

HELSINKI 1961, Sajtar. 8th World Student Team CH. English. 70p. Selected games with notes. p, exc, $22. b)ELRS, bd in stiff boards with orig. covers bd in, $25

MAR DEL PLATA 1961, Fed. Arg. de Ajedrez, original was just p, this copy rebd in boards.ELRS, Najdorf ifo R. Byrne/Filip/Matanovic/Rosetto,Letelier,…tgw/on.  $24.  b)p, exc, $20  

SAN FRANCISCO 1961, Spence ltd ed (150) SSt US Open, 41p. Benko ifo Kovacs, Bisquier, R. Byrne.... r, mint. tgw/on, $35

BELGRADE 1962, Serbo-Croat, 36p. Gligoric ifo Ivkov, Janosevic/ Ciokaltea..... tgw/on, p, a poor copy, stained but useable. $7

HASTINGS 1962/63, CP ed, Gligoric/ Kotov ifo Smyslov, Marovic, Littlewood, Tan, Alexander,...tgw/on. Includes a few games from the challengers tourney won by Brinck-Klaussen & A.R. B. Thomas. $15

HAVANA 1962, CP ed, a very strong tourney: Najdorf ifo Spassky/ Polugayevsky, Smyslov/ Gligoric, Ivkov, Haag, Puc,... tgw/on. $16

MAR DEL PLATA 1962, Sopena ed, Polugayevsky ifo Smyslov, Szabo, Byrne, Najdorf, Sanguineti, Pachman,...119p. Spanish. notes to some. $25 b) h, exc, rebd with original covers bd in, ELRS, $30.

MARIANSKE LAZNE 1962, J. Sajtar, English ed, IXth World Student Team CH, selected games with notes. h, exc, rebd, $24

SAN ANTONIO 1962, Spence ltd ed, (150 copies) US open; won by Medina ifo Benko, Lombardy, Bisguier.... 183g. w/o notes, SST, r, mint. $35 b) , r, vg. $24. c)r, exc, $32

SARAJEVO 1962, Serbo-Croat, tgw/on; Gligoric/ Portisch ifo Darga, Trifunovic, Bobotsov.... p, exc. $16

STOCKHOLM 1962, Russian bulletins (10); notes to many games. A powerful Fischer win ifo Geller/ Petrosian, Korchnoi/ Filip/ Benko/ Gligoric/ Stein..... ,h exc, nicely bd. $65

LENINGRAD 1963, BCM Quarterly ed, the 196 games (Stein-Spassky-Kholmov playoff incl.) w/o notes. Also incl. are the x-tables of the 1st 30 USSR championships beginning in 1920. Indices. r, exc, $26

LENINGRAD 1963, 31st USSR CH, unbd Russ. bull(6), exc, Spassky/ Kholmov/ Stein ifo Bronstein/ Geller, Suetin, ... selected games with full notes. $36. b) h, exc, $48

LOS ANGELES 1963, 1st Piatigorsky Cup, CP edition, Keres/Petrosian ifo Najdorf/Olafsson, full notes by Hindle. 64p. p, vg, $15

LOS ANGELES 1963, 1st Piatigorsky Cup, Kashdan & Reshevsky. 204p. Keres/Petrosian ifo Najdorf/Olafsson, Reshevsky, Gligoric, Benko/Panno. A fine book. h, exc, w/o dj, $40. b) h, vg, w/o dj, ‡, $32.

SOCHI 1963, R. bull. (4), Polugayevsky ifo Smyslov, Antoshin, Krogius.... notes to some, xerox ed, r, exc, $18

AMSTERDAM 1964, Russian bull.(10) Interzonal won by Larsen tied with Smyslov, Spassky, Tal, and ahead of Stein, Bronstein. A very strong event. All the games with notes to selected ones. unbd, bull. $42. b)h, exc, very nicely bd. $65

BUCUREST 1964, Roumanian bull. poor-quality mimeograph reproduction. Gheorghiu ifo Soos, Neantu,... tgw/on. $16.

LAS PALMAS 1964, 29th Spanish CH, bulletins, Spanish. tgw/on, Medina ifo Pomar, Saborido, Bordell, ... p, exc, with autographs of 4 players (I can only understand one— Sabordido). 20 bulletins. $24

MOSCOW 1964, A. Karklins, 118p, Spassky ifo of Stein, Bronstein, Kholmov, Korchnoi, Surtin, Geller. Deep notes. A really fine book due to the great games & very thoughtful notes. h, exc, $32. b) h, vg, but with inked underlining in two games, otw exc, with dj. $24

TEL AVIV 1964, XVI Chess Olympiad, Czerniak, in English, 184p. 165 annotated games and positions, scarce, h, exc. $80

ZENICA 1964, Serbo-Croat, 19th Yugoslav CH; Udovcic/ Ivkov ifo Trifunovic/ Bradvarevic/ Matuulovic.... p, exc. $18

BELGRADE 1965, M. Petronic, Serbo-Croat, p, exc, tgw/on. Gheorghiu/ Matulovic ifo Kavalek/ Tringov/ Minic/ Karaklajic/ Flesch,... $16

BUENOS AIRES 1965, Spanish, Club Argentino de Ajedrez, includes the history of the Club 1905-1965, tgw/on but round summaries, Najdorf ifo Garcia/ Panno, Sanguineti, Schweber,... p, exc, $24

CANDIDATES MATCHES 1965, R. Toran, Madrid, 1956, p, exc, Spanish. 287p. Full notes. Spassky, Tal, Keres, Smyslov, Larsen, Geller, Portisch, Ivkov. $45

HAMBURG 1965, Russ. Bull(10), very strong with the USSR having Spassky, Korchnoi, Tolush, Stein, ... Includes the Tal - Larsen math. Notes to selected games. very nicely bd, $65

TALLINN 1965, 33rd USSR CH, Russ. bull. (15) Stein ifo Polugayevsky, Taimanov.... The games with much other material. unbd bull. $48. b) h, exc, $52. c) in binder, $49

HAVANA 1966, XVII OLIMPIADA MUNDIAL DE AJEDREZ, the complete 1003-page book (stiff covers, detached but supplied) of this great Olimpiad.  With Bobby the Great on Board 1 for the USA! Fischer with an 88.24%. With 2 pages added in xerox.   $95

POLANICA-ZDROJ 1966, Polish, Rubinstein Memorial, 110g., photos; Smyslov ifo Lengel, Damjanovic/ Liebert.... p, exc. tgw/on. $24

RZESZOW 1966, Polish bullletinns, 23rd Polish CH, a poor mimeographing job, 120 games w/o notes. p, vg. $14

SANTA MONICA 1966, Los Angeles, 1968, edited by Kashdan. h, exc, excellent notes by the contestants, 228p, Spassky ifo Fischer, Larsen, Portisch.... A great double round tournament. $40. b) h, fair, fc stained, contents fine, $9 sold "as is". $9. c) Dover ed, Kashdan, notes written by contestants; p, exc. $10

SOCHI 1966, Russian bullletins(8), h, exc. Korchnoi ifo Polugayevsky, Matulovic.... . $42

USSR - YUGOSLAVIA 1966, Petronic, Serbo-Croat, tgw/on. Keres, Vasiukov, Korchnoi, Geller,... Parma, Matulovic, Ciric, Velimirovic, a.o. played. $12

ATLANTA 1967, US Open, Lamb & Truesdel, 40p., 120 selected games, a few with notes, p, exc. $22

COLDITZ 1967, XVI East German CH. tgw/on. Pietsch ifo Malich, Möhring, Schoeneberg, Csulits,.. Nowarra & Liebert won the women's section. p, vg, $20

HARRACHOV 1967, Sajtar, World Student Team CH, in English, Selected games with notes, p, exc, 91p, $24

MOSCOW 1967, Russ. bull.(10), 37th USSR CH. Petrosian/ Polugayevsky ifo Geller/ smyslov, Taimanov, Stein, ... much other material incl. other events, photos, games, x-tables, $35

SARAJEVO 1967, Serbo-Croat, tgw/on. Stein/ Ivkov ifo Benko/ Savon, R. Byrne, Ciric, Tringov, Nikolic,.. p, exc. $15

SZCZECIN 1967, Polish bulletins, Polish CH; Doda/ Sliwa ifo Schmidt, Filipowicz.... p, vg. tgw/on. Low-quality printing. $18

BAMBERG 1968, W. Lauterbach, German, 120g w notes; Keres ifo Petrosian/ Schmid, Teschner/ Unzicker..... p, exc., $27. b) p, vg, age stains on page edges, $21

CANDIDATES MATCHES 1968, Belgrade 1969, p, vg, 316p. Extensive notes by Tal, Geller, Korchnoi, Petrosian. Photos. Includes the games w/o notes for the 1965 cand. matches as well. Serbo-Croat, $37.

CANDIDATES MATCHES 1968, CP ed, B. Cafferty, 245p., good notes largely from Russian sources. p, exc, $19

NEW YORK 1968, USCF, US CH. Evans ifo R. Byrne, Reshevsky, Benko, Bisguier/ Lombardy, Rossolimo/ Saidy,...tgw/on. $8

WEIMAR 1968, XV11 DDR CH, mens and women's events; Uhlmann ifo Baumbach, Golz, Lieberti.... 190+ 91 games w/on, p, vg. with chess bookplate of IM Albert Becker, $28

YBBS 1968, World Student Team CH, Sajtar, English, 98p. selection of games with notes, p, vg, $22

DRESDEN 1969, World Student Team CH. Sajtar, English. 95p, selected games with notes. p, exc, $22

DRESDEN 1969, World Student Team CH, the German bulletins with all the games. Tgw/on. Results of team standings. USSR ifo Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, 635 games. $45

LINCOLN 1969, 70th US Open, CP ed, 66p. Selected games. SST. Benko/Vuksevich/ Bisguier ifo Byrne/ Martz/ Gaunt,..p, mint, $12

PALMA DE MALLORCA 1969, Bhend/ Kräuchi, German, photos, notes to some games, openings survey; Larsen, Petrosiann, Korchnoi, Hort, Spassky.... p, exc. $25

PALMA DE MALLORCA 1969, Spanish, pictures, caricatures, background material, notes to some games, openings survey; Larsen, Petrosiann, Korchnoi, Hort, Spassky.... p, exc.  $27. b)p, exc, FGML, ELRS, $28.

VENICE 1969, Tatai, Italian. Hort ifo Taimanov, Lengyel/ Benko/Saidy/Robatsch...   tgwn. p, exc, $22

KECSKEMET 1970, 3rd Toth Memorial Tourney, Hungarian, Honfi ifo Hennings, Tabor, Navorovsky, Liebert,... tgw/on, p, exc, $15. b) p, vg, a few creased pages, $11

MILWAUKEE 1970, North Central Open, SST, 86 selected games, DeFotis/Popovych ifo Popel. Karklins/ Kujoth. Verber, Brasket,... p, xerox, $15

OEGSTGEEST 1970, Dutch, tgw/on, 108p. Spasski ifo Donner, Botvinnik/ Larsen. Quadruple round-robin; tgw notes, p, exc. $20

PALMA 1970, no games, just photos mainly of the players, ltd ed of 600 copies. Incl. a page of reproductions of the signatures of the participants and other chess luminaries. A fine book with some exc. photos incl. some of Fischer. Nicely bd. h, mint, $55

SARAJEVO 1970, Serbo-Croat, tgw/on. Parma/ Ljubojevic ifo Antoshin/ Tringov, Benko,... p, exc, $16

SIEGEN 1970, Keene & Levy, CHESS, a selection of 125 annotated games with tables of results, and interview with Euwe & Spassky, 249p. h, exc. $33

SOMBOR 1970, Serbo-Croat, 36p. tgw/on; Hübner ifo Jansa, Kupreichik, Planinc, Vukic.... p, exc. $14.

USSR- REST OF WORLD 1970, an issue of MAT, Serbo-Croat, 28p., fine photos, the games with ext. notes to some; Fischer was a star here with 3 out of 4 vs Petrosian, p, exc. $14

CANDIDATES MATCHES 1971, B. Cafferty, p, exc, CP ed, 198p, notes to all the games, based on Russian analysis in Shakhmaty V SSSR, Tal's magazine, "64", etc. The best work on these matches in English. $25

LENINGRAD 1971, Kalnajs pirate ed. of CP ed. 39th USSR CH. Savon ifo Smyslov/ Tal, Karpov, Balasov/ Stein,... Informant-style notes to many games. p, exc, $7

LONE PINE 1971-80, titled The Best of Lone Pine, 235p. A selection of best games from this famous series of tourneys with good notes, nice photos, background, & ext. history & statistics. p, exc, ‡, $26

FISCHER-PETROSIAN 1971, R. Fine, With Fine's excellent full notes, 32p. With James Barrett chess bookplate. p, exc, $36

FISCHER-PETROSIAN 1971, the official program for this great match. Spanish. p, mint, 10p. $90

MAYAGUEZ 1971, Sajtar, World Student Team CH, 72p, p, exc, English, Selected games with notes, $24

PALMA DE MALLORCA 1971, Spanish, 82p., the games with notes to a few, biographies, pictures; Panno/ Ljubojevic ifo Portisch, Reshevsky, Andersson, Csom.... p, exc. $26. b) h, exc, rebd, fine binding, $30.

SARAJEVO 1971, Serbo-Croat, p, exc, Bobotsov/ Bronstein/ Matulovic ifo Radulov, Janosevic, Ciric,...tgw/on. $17

SKOPJE 1971, in an issue of Makedonski Shakh, 36p. 120g w/on; Serbo-Croat. Polugayevsky ifo Velimirovic / Planints, Gufeld.... p, exc. $15

TALLLINN 1971, Estonian bull. Keres/ Tal ifo Bronstein, Stein, Zaitsev, Smejkal, Barcza, Furman, Nei, Saidy,.... tg w/on, p, exc. $16. b) p, vg, with some notes by Grand Master Becker and a x-table in Becker's hand, $18

VENICE 1971, Gillam, p, mint, Browne ifo Mariotti, Hort, Tatai, Kavalek,...lt Informant style notes,... with selected games from several other tournaments, $9

AROSA 1972, German, Swiss Chess Agency ed., 69p., 60g w/on; Kaenel ifo Oegaard.... Also has Switzerland-Jugoslavia, p, exc, $13

GRAZ 1972, Lachaga, ltd ed of 400 copies. German. Student Team Tourney. all the games. No notes. 140p. Many famous players took part (Karpov, Hübner, Adorjan, Sax,...) p, exc, $34.

FISCHER-SPASSKY 1972, R. Fine, titled Bobby Fischer's Conquest of the World Chess Championship. 294p., Ext. background & full notes. h, exc, with dj, $22 b) h, vg, $15

FISCHER-SPASSKY 1972, Gligoric, NY, 1972, 128p. one of the most popular accounts of the match. Exc. notes. p, vg, $9. b) p, exc, $12

NEW YORK 1972, B. Hochberg. Entitled "Title Chess". One of the few good books for a US championship. Reshevsky/ R. Byrne/ Kavalek ifo Evans, DeFotis,... with extensive notes. 229p. h, exc,  $32

SAN ANTONIO 1972, Schweizer Schachdienst ed, 36p. Karpov/ Petrosian/ Portisch ifo Gligoric, Keres, Hort/ Suttles... English & German, p, vg, fc discolored, $10

SARAJEVO 1972, Serbo-Croat, 45p. tgw/on; Szabo ifo Petrosian, Hort/ Keres/ Jansa.... p, exc. $16

SKOPJE 1972, Olympiad. Informant edition, Matanovic, English ed. A selection of 280 games (light notes) + records, sections on combinations, endings, + 21 games from the ladies Olympiad. h, exc. $32

SKOPJE 1972, bd. Russ. Bull (10). over 1000 out of 2728 games from the mens Olympiad, the ladies Olympiad, and the students Olympiad. h, exc. $75

SPARTAKIAD 1972, Russian bull (5) 380g w/on. Soviet team tourney with most of the top Soviet players contending, xerox ed, exc. $32

AVRO 1973, Euwe, Dutch book, 159p. Gelller/ Szabo ifo Ljubojevic, Andersson..... notes to most games, p, exc. $32

BATH 1973, Keene/ Raines/ Cranbleholme; London 1974. 199p. European team CH won by USSR ifo Yugoslavia, Hungary.... full notes to many games, h, exc. $28

LENINGRAD 1973, Moscow, 1974, Interzonal, 279p, Russian. A very strong tourney won by Karpov/ Korchnoi ifo R. Byrne,Smekal, Larsen/ Hubner, Kuzmin, Gligoric/ Taimanov/ Tal/...with notes to most of the games, h, exc, $19

MOSCOW 1973, Kalnajs pirate edition of Gillam's publication of this tournament, not identified as such, but with Kalnajs covers, 41st USSR CH. Spassky ifo Karpov, Korchnoi/ Kuzmin/ Petrosian/ Polugayevsky, Geller...p, exc, Informant-style brief notes. $10

MOSCOW 1973, 41st USSR CH, USSR bull.(15), h, exc, Spassky ifo Karpov/ Korchnoi/ Kuzmin/ Petrosian/ Polugayevsky,Geller/ Grigorian. Keres/ Savon/ Tal/ Taimanov ...several other events covered as well with selected games. Titled "Na Chempionate Strany". $47

TALLINN 1973, Tallinn, 1974, h, exc, Russian. Extensive notes to some. Tal ifo Polugayevsky, Balashov/ Bronstein/ Keres/ Spassky, Andersson,... tgw/on. $23

LAS PALMAS 1974, Spanish bull., p, exc. a few games annotated, round summaries, photos. Lyubojevic ifo Belyavsky/ Olafsson, Polugayevsky/ Garcia/ Andersson/ Larsen, Quinteros,...$20. b)h, exc, rebd, FGML, $36

LENINGRAD 1974, Russ. bull. (10), h, exc, 42nd USSR CH, Belyavsky & Tal ifo Polugayevsky/ Vaganian,... $52

NICE 1974, Keene & Levy, RHM ed, Olympiad. 200p, 121 annotated games, h, exc, with dj, $30

NICE 1974, Olympiad. The official French bulletins, all 3090 games w/o notes. p, exc. $75

SOLINGEN 1974, E. Evertz, German, 220p. Kavalek/ Polugayevsky ifo Spassky/ Kurajica/ Gerusel/ Westerinen..... many photos; notes to most games, h, exc. $22 b) h, exc, FGML, ELRS, dedicated to Laslo Szabo by Evertz, $24. c) p, exc. $18

TEESIDE 1974, World Student Team CH; Sajtar, English, selected annotated games, 86p. p, mint $24

WINNIPEG 1974, Pan American Chess Championship, p, exc, scarce, tgw/on. Browne ifo Sanguineti, Biyiasas, Segal,...$28

HAVANA 1975, Cuban bulletins, tgw/on. Andersson ifo Vasiukov/ Balashov, Razuvaev,.. CAPABLANCA MEMORIAL. $28

LINCOLN 1975, US Open, program, list of US Open winners 1939- 1974, no games, 6p, mint, $1

ROVINJ 1975, In an issue of Sahovski Glasnnik, selection of 47 games with notes to some; Sax ifo Korvacevic/ Nikolac/ Ceskovski.... p, exc, (1977) $8

MAR DEL PLATA 1976, Lachaga Ed, (350 copies), Spanish, p, exc. A very notable edition since it has the x-tables for the MDP tourneys from 1928 to 1971 + 1976 and what fascinating reading these x-tables make!  For 1976 a much weaker field than normally. Brond/ Sanguinetti ifo Garcia/ Rubinetti, Cuasnicu,...    Also commemorates the games of Carlos Maderna with 28 of his best games. $30

ODESSA 1976, Xerox ed. of Russian bulletins, tgw/on, 16p.. Balinas ifo Alburt, Savon, .... $9

BAD LAUTERBERG 1977, German bulletins, a powerful Karpov win ifo Timman, Furman, Sosonko.... tgw/on, p, mint.  $8.  b) p, vg, $5 

GENEVA 1977, W. Browne, Larsen ifo Andersson, Dzindzichashvili/ Sosonko, Pachman,... A curiosity since Browne scribbled some half legible notes in the margins, has an enormous note on the cover stating "with some notes by Walter Browne 3 time U.S. Champion"and then says "Copyright 1978 Walter Browne". $4

LENINGRAD 1977, Russ. bull. (12), 45th USSR CH. Also has coverage of several other events such as USSR-Yugoslavia. Dorfman/ Gulko ifo Petrosian/ Polugayevsky,... $47

BUGOJNO 1978, Wade, Blackstock & Thomas. Karpov & Spassky ifo Timman, Ljubojevic/ Tal, Hort/ Larsen,... lt notes, $8

KIEV 1978, Marisenko & Peresypkin, Kiev, 1980. Ukrainian. 101p, p, exc, the games with notes. No x-table. Palatnik, Farago, Ree, Lehman, Lerner, Romanishin a.o. took part. $12

BUENOS AIRES 1979, A. Miles, CP ed, 2nd Clarin Tournament. 56p, notes to selected games. Larsen ifo Andersson/ Miles/ Najdorf/ Spassky, Gheorghiu, Ivkov,...p, exc. $9

MINSK 1979, 47th USSR CH, CP ed, A. J. Miles, editor, Geller ifo Yusupov, Balashov/ Kasparov, Georgadze,... Tal(15th place!),.. Informant-style notes to most games. p, exc, $11

MONTREAL 1979, V.I. Chepizhny, Moscow, 1979, Russian. 255p, full notes. Tal/Karpov ifo a star-studded field with Larsen last! p, exc, $20

MONTREAL 1979, the official bulletins for this super-strong "Man and his World Challenge Cup" Lt. notes to many of the games. 18 bulletins. $40 

NEW YORK 1979, J. Watson, 2nd Marshall CC International. 10-round SST, Rode ifo Shamkovich, Meyer, Kaufman, Formanek,... 182 games, some with notes. r, vg, $22

RIGA1979 & RIO DE JANEIRO 1979, Chepizhny, Moscow, 1980, Russian, 415p. The 153 games of the Riga Interzonal; won by Tal ifo Polugayevsky, Adoryan/ Ribi, Georghin/ Romanshin, Larsen.... and the 155 games of the Rio Interzonal won by Petrosian/ Portish/ Hübner. Notes to many of the Riga games but not for the Rio games. h, exc. $40 b) h, exc, FGML, $45. c) Program only, Russian and Latvian; pictures and biographies of the contestants ( Kuzmin, Tal, Karalek, Orinfeld, Georghiu, Adorjan....) p, exc. $5 d) Russian bulletins (20#'s) Interzonal; tgw notes to many; much extra material. Xerox ed, of orig, Russ bull. $30

RIGA 1979, Miles & Speelman, condensed notes, 80p. p, exc. Interzonal, Tal ifo Polugayevsky, Adorjan/ Ribli, Gheorghiu,... $9

TALLINN 1979, L. Christiansen, Keres Memorial tourney, tg w notes to many, 160p. Petrosian ifo Tal/ Vaganian, Bronstein.... p, mint $20

TALLINN 1979, Russ. bull.(8), Has the Keres Memorial in these MEZHDUNARODNYE VSTRECHI SPETSIAL'NYI VYPUSK. Several other events are covered as well: Montreal 1979, Varna, USSR-YUGOSLAVIA, Frunze,...$35

WADDINXVEEN 1979, Van Spijk, Dutch booklet, 48p. Karpov ifo Kavalek, Hort, Sossonko. Double RR, full notes, p, exc. $16

WARSAW 1979, in an issue of "International Chess" with notes, Zonal; Ribli ifo Sax/ Smejkal/ Gheorghia/ Adorjan.... Includes much other exc. material. A fine magazine which ran only 2 issues, p, exc. $22

ZALAEGERSZEG 1979, Hungarian bulletins; Vadasz ifo Barczay, Ghitescu, Forintos..... p, exc. $25

ATLANTA 1980, US Open, program only, no games, 20p., p, mint.  $4

EREVAN 1981, Russian bulletins (8), includes the games (some with notes), photos, & other material. Bronstein/Bannik ifo Antoshin, Zhukhovitsky,...p, unbd, $28

GREENVILLE 1981. US CH, Coraopolis, 1980, p, mint, 111p, Evans/ Christiansen/ Browne ifo Seirawan, Shamkovich, Lein,... With lt. notes to many. $15

MELBOURNE 1981/82, Bd. bulletins, h, exc, Hamilton ifo Flatow/Rogers, Jamieson/West,... SST. tgw/on. $22

SOUTH BEND 1981, Christiansen, US CH, some games with lt. notes ; Browne/ Seirawan ifo Christiasen/ Kavalek/ Reshevsky...p, exc.126p, $15

PALO ALTO 1981, J. Marfia, 90p., selected games wth light notes; US Open, SST. Won by Gheorghia/ Christiansen/ Silman/ De Firmium/ Meyer.... p, vg., fc sl. creased, otw exc. $15

MINSK 1982, Kupreichik, Russian, Minsk, 1984. p, vg, 160p. Int. tourney won by Teshkovsky ifo Dolmatov, Yudasin,Kupreichik, Psakhis,...with extensive notes. $20

SAINT PAUL 1982, Marfia & Watson, Soltis/ Martz ifo Bradford, Watson/ Bisguier,... SST 83p, notes to selected games,... $15

TALLINN 1983, Keres Memorial. Estonian, 135p. Vaganian/ Tal ifo Petrosian/ Suba/ Ehlvest.... Round summaries & detailed notes to some games, p, exc. ELRS, $24. b) p, exc, $26

KASPAROV-SMYSLOV 1984, Vilnius, 1984, h, mint, with dj. Russian. w/o notes, but with a survey of the match and photos. A curiosity due to its size of 3.5x4.5 inches. $18

KARPOV - KASPAROV 1984/85, World CH, Budde & Nikolaiczuk, German, consists of reports on the Interzonals with some selected games, the Candidate Matches, and the Title Match itself with thorough notes, h, exc, with dj, 297p, $28.

NEW YORK 1984, J. Naier, SST, Dzindzichasvili ifo Portisch, Kavalek, Sosonko, Adorjan, Kogan, Georghiu, Browne,...  284p, notes to selected games, p, exc, $28

TILBURG 1984, GM Editions; Miles ifo Belyavsky/ Hubner/ Ribli/ Tukmakov, Ljubojevic, Portisch/ Timman.... tg w lt notes to some. Includes match Chiburdanidze- Levitina, p, exc. $8

RIGA 1985, 52nd USSR CH, program only, 32p. photos & brief biographies + X-tables of Tashkent 1984 & Sverdlovsk 1984, 1st League tourneys. p. exc. $7

TILBURG 1985, Dutch booklet, 64p., diagrams, indices, photos, no notes. Brief biographies of the players; Hübner/ Korchnoi/ Miles ifo Ljubojevic, Polugayevsky.... p, mint. $18

KARPOV -KASPAROV 1986, Hecht & Treppner, German, p, exc, 143p, all the games of this title match with deep notes & many photos. $24

KASPAROV VS KARPOV 1986-1987, Kasparov, translated from the Russian by Ken Neat. Largely this is the two matches with intense notes and a few other games they played between the two matches. 432p. An extraordinary book due to the very deep notes. h, exc, $45

SOKOLOV-VAGANIAN1986 & YUSUPOV-TIMMAN 1986, unbd Russ. bull. (10) all the games with notes & with much additional material and games. $32

SOMERSET 1986, US Open, program booklet, 64p. p, exc, includes list of US Open winners, biographies & photos of the organizers, directors, etc. $8

HASTINGS 1988/89, Bulletins, B. Jacobs, SST, selected games. Judit Polgar ifo Sadler, Arkell, Lisa, McDonald,... p, exc. $20

NEW YORK 1988, Bulletins for NY Open, tgw/on, Ivanchuk ifo Garcia, Larsen, Ivanovic, Tukmakov,.... SST $20

ST. JOHN 1988, titled "World Opens 1987-1988, over 750 games, unattibuted but from the format & typography but likely published by Tournament Chess. Has the two GM St. John Tourneys: #1 won by Benjamin ifo Rohde/ Suba, Barlov, Chernin,... #2 won by Seirawan, Lputian/ Damjanovic, Tal/ Vaganian,... tgw/o. With other events too: Lugano, Graz, Oakham, Sibernik, Cannes, ... p, exc, $20

EREVAN 1989, Russ. bull(14), unbd, Ivanchuk ifo Lputyan, Azmarpashvili/  Akopyan/  

 Romanishin, Gligoric,...$40

KASPAROV - KARPOV 1990, Seirawan & Tisdall, Seattle, 1991. p, exc, A really good book due to the extensive and meaningful notes which show the depth of these great players thoughts. 251p. $25

MANILA 1990, Ftacnik & Stohl, Czechoslovakia, 1990, p, mint, Foreward in English. Notes to many games in Informant-style condensed notation. 159p. Gelfand/ Ivanchuk ifo Short/ Anand,Sax/ Korchnoi/Hübner,... SST, $25

GRONINGEN 1995, H. Koop. p, exc, 239p. Dutch. A very nice book with many photos and analysis of some of the most interesting games. Karpov ifo Sokolov/Kamsky, Svidler, Adams, Leko,... In the Open GM Section: Onischuk ifo Rozentalis, Baburin,.. $35

KASPAROV - ANAND, NEW YORK 1995,World title match. Program, p, mint, 24p, Gives their 17 previous encounters w/o notes. Also gives various background material and photos. $10

DORTMUND 1996, 24th INTERNATIONALE SCHACHTAGE, a very high-quality modern tourney book for a very strong event. Kramnik /Anand ifo Gelfand Adams/ Polgar, Schirov...140p. Full notes. $24. 

PARSIPPANY 1996, US CH, Burris, a nice booklet with notes to some of the games, 46p.., with games from the US Junior (very strong) and the US Womens as well; Yermolinsky ifo Gulko/ Kaidanov.... p, exc, $22

12 SAKKOLIMPIA (London 1927-Moscow 1956), A. Földeak, Hungary 1958, Hungarian,p, exc, ELRS, FGML, 207p. with selected games from each of these Olimpiads with notes. $28

ELISTA 1998, 33rd Chess Olimpiad, complete set of 13 bulletins with all the games. Nicely produced bulletins with some good color photos, but there should have been more background and human interest material. p, exc. $50

BRNO 2006, Czech CH, by Klima & Cvek, titled Rosady pod Spilberkem, p, mint, 238p, $24

DRESDEN 2008, Olympiad United!, Fietz, Asik & Burtasva. An absolutely gorgeous large format book on this Olympiad with scores of fine photos and selected games with notes. In English. 304 pages. Also has many interesting articles. h, mint.  $65

REGGIO EMILIA 2007/2008, M. Marin & Y. Garrett, London, 2009. p, mint. 288p. Notable is the  list of these tournaments with x-tables from 1957/58 to 2007/2008. With very fine notes. $30

LATVIJA PASAULES SAHA OLIMPIADES, A. Fride & A. Auzins, Riga, 1993, 144p. Latvia at the Chess Olympiads with games, photos, cartoons. p, exc, $35

SOVETSKIE SHAKHMATISTY V BOR'BE ZA PERVENSTVO MIRA, Yudovich et al, Moscow, 1954, 424p, this covers a number of important events in 1950 with games annotated in depth: Budapest 1950, Bronstein-Boleslavsky tie-breaking match Botvinnik-Bronstein match 1951, Stockholm 1952 Interzonal, & more. h, exc, with dj, $49

CHESS TOURNAMENTS - A CHECKLIST Vol. I, 1849-1950, Jeremy Gaige, 137p, p, mint, a listing with place, dates, anwinners of some 10626 chess tournaments in this time frame. Not to be confused with Gaige's series of x-tables series. $40

CHESS OLYMPIADS 1927-1968, A. Foldeak, Dover reprint, NY, 1979, p, vg, with the uncouth habit a dealer had of sticking his advertising label on the title page. An outstanding collection of fine games from these Olympiads with lt notes. 417p. $14

BATTLES OF HASTINGS, R. Cload, Oxford, 1991, 141p, p, exc, a history of the tournaments plus selected annotated games. $26

THE 8TH U. S. CORRESPONDENCE CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP, Gerzadowicz & Wright, Tarpon Springs, 1995, p, mint, 127p, The 91 games with full notes, $30

SCHACH- BERICHTE, FEUILLETONS, ETC, H. Keidanski, 1896 -1898, a booklet of his chesscolumns on various German tournaments in this period, German, large format, No games, extensive accounts of tournaments, 29 p, CAISSA EDITIONS, 2011. $30

THE GREAT CHESS TOURNAMENTS & THEIR STORIES, A. Soltis, h, exc, with dj, Radnor, 1975. 257p. A fascinating story (partly fictional in the case of Sossnotzky's "Memoirs" at St. Petersburg 1914). Covers Hastings 1895, Bled 1961, Hague-Moscow 1948, etc. $42

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