Library Catalogue

Our club benefits from an extensive library catalogue thanks to the generosity of Peter Wilson, Douglas Barnett, George Jelliss and Karl Lockett, who very kindly donated these books.

Club members may borrow up to two books at a time for a period of three weeks, which can be extended by arrangement.
All book movements (borrowing, returning, and transferring to another member) must be recorded by a committee member on the book’s numbered card index. When returned, they must be placed on their original shelf in numerical order as per their label.
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These simple steps help ensure our library remains a valuable resource for all members.

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ID	Title	Author	ISBN	Availability	Check out date
1	Comprehensive Chess Endings Volume 2 - Bishop against Knight, Rook against Minor Piece Endings	Averbakh, Yuri	0008026902	Available
2	Guide to Chess Endings, A	Euwe, Max & Hooper, David	0486233324	Available
3	Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov - Part III: 1993-2005	Kasparov, Garry	9781781941836	Available
4	Encyclopedia of Chess Miniatures	Tadic, Branko	9788672970715	Available
5	Usbourne Guide to Playing Chess, The	Caldwell, Susan	9780746001356	Available
6	Art of Attacking Chess, The	Zenon, Franco	9781904600978	Available
7	Endgame Strategy	Shereshevsky, Mikhail	0080297455	Available
8	Sicilian defence, The	Ftacnik, Lubomir	9781906552077	Available
9	Chess for Kids and Parents - From the start till the first tournament	Brunthaler, Heinz	9197600458	Available
10	Speed Chess Challenge - Kasparov v Short 1987	Keene, Raymond	9780713457841	Available
11	Two Knights Defence, The	Pinski, Jan	9781857442830	Available
12	Game of Chess, The	Golombek, Harry	N/A	Available
13	My Great Predecessors – Part I	Kasparov, Garry	9781857443301	Available
14	My Great Predecessors – Part II	Kasparov, Garry	9781857443424	Available
15	My Great Predecessors – Part III	Kasparov, Garry	9781857443714	Available
16	My Great Predecessors – Part IV	Kasparov, Garry	9781857443950	Checked out	28 Jul 25
17	My Great Predecessors – Part V	Kasparov, Garry	9781857444049	Available
18	Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov - Part II: 1985-1993	Kasparov, Garry	9781781940242	Available
19	Anthology of Chess Combinations	Various Authors	8672970535	Available
20	Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov - Part I: 1973-1985	Kasparov, Garry	9781857446722	Available
21	Garry Kasparov on Modern Chess - Part one: Revolution in the 70s	Kasparov, Garry	9781857444223	Available
22	Test of Time, The	Kasparov, Garry	0080341551	Available
23	Winning quickly at chess	Nunn, John	9781904600893	Available
24	Chess College 1: Strategy	Grivas, Efstratios	9781904600459	Available
25	Chess College 2: Pawn Play	Grivas, Efstratios	9781904600473	Available
26	Chess College 3: Technique	Grivas, Efstratios	9781904600572	Available
27	Counterattack!	Zenon, Franco	9781906454098	Available
28	On the Road to the World Championship 1923-1927	Alekhine, Alexander	0080297307	Available
29	Comprehensive Chess Endings - Volume 1: Bishop Endings, Knight Endings	Averbakh, Yuri & Chekhover, Vitaly	0080269001	Available
30	Begin Chess	Pritchard, David Brine	9780716021001	Available
31	Oxford Companion to Chess, The	Hoopers, David & Whyld, Kenneth	9780192800497	Available
32	Comprehensive Chess Endings - Volume 3: Queen and Pawn Endings, Queen Against Rook Endings, Queen Against Minor Piece Endings	Averbakh, Yuri & Chekhover, Vitaly & Henkin, Victor L.	9780080269030	Available
33	Comprehensive Chess Endings - Volume 4: Pawn Endings	Averbakh, Yuri & Maizalis, Ilya & Zinar, Mikhail		Checked out	24 Oct 23
34	Comprehensive Chess Endings - Volume 5: Rook Endings	Averbakh, Yuri & Kopayev, Nikolai	9780080320489	Available
35	Magnus Carlsen: 60 Memorable Games	Soltis, Andrew	9781849946506	Available
36	Chelyabinsk Meteorite, The - Selected Games of Igor Kurnosov	Kryakvin, Dmitry		Missing
37	Exchange Sacrifice According to Tigran Petrosian, The	Kotronias, Vassilios	9781949859485	Available
38	Sergey Karjakin – Best Games of the Minister of Defence	Kalinin, Alexander	9785604071083	Available
39	Fabiano Caruana – His Amazing Story and His Most Instructive Chess Games	Kalinin, Alexander	9789056918132	Available
40	Amateur to IM - Proven Ideas and Training Methods	Hawkins, Jonathan		Checked out	25 Jul 25
41	Life and Games of Mikhail Tal, The	Tal, Mikhail	9781857442021	Available
42	Batsford Chess Openings 2	Kasparov, Garry & Keene, Raymond	9780713460995	Available
43	Mikhail Tals Best Games 1 – 1949-1959: The Magic of Youth	Karolyi, Tibor	9781907982774	Available
44	Beating Minor Openings	Mikhalevski, Victor	9781907982460	Available
45	Art of Attack in Chess, The	Vukovic, Vladimir	9781857444001	Available
46	Guide to Chess Endings, A	Euwe, Max & Hooper, David	N/A	Available
47	The Sicilian Defence	Ftacnik, Lubomir		Missing
48	Ideas Behind The Chess Openings, The	Fine, Reuben	9780713457889	Available
49	Nail It Like Nepo! - Ian Nepomniachtchi’s 30 Best Wins	Zenon, Franco	9785604560730	Available
50	Chelyabinsk Meteorite, The - Selected Games of Igor Kurnosov	Kryakvin, Dmitry	9785950043390	Available
51	Vishy Anand: World Chess Champion Life and Games	Nunn, John & Vishy, Anand	9781906454326	Available
52	Modern Tiger, The	Persson, Tiger Hillarp	9781907982835	Available
53	Attacking the Karo Kahn	Dreev, Alexey	9786197188042	Available
54	Beginnng Chess	Pandolfini, Bruce	9780671795016	Available
55	Caro-Kahn, The	Houska, Jovanka	9781781942109	Available
56	Leningrad System: A Complete Weapon against 1 d4	Kindermann, Stefan	9783283004781	Available
57	The Exchange Sacrifice	Kotronias, Vassilios		Missing
58	Modern Chess Tactics	Ludek Packman	0710070985	Available
59	Alekhine Defense: a complete guide	Mikhajlovich, Nikolaj & Chetverik, Maxim	9785946936897	Available
60	Play 1. ….....b6	C Bauer		Checked out	5 Dec 23
61	Play 1...Nc6!	Wisnewski, Christoph	9781857445220	Available
62	Complete games collection with his own annotations - Volume I 1905-1920	Alekhine, Alexander	9785946936903	Available
63	Sicilian dragon classical and Levenfish variations	Sapi, Laszlo & Schneider, Attila	9780713459104	Available
64	Secrets of Rook Endings	Nunn, John	0713471646	Available
65	On the King's Indian	Bronstein, David	9781857442656	Available
66	Kings Indian Attack	Smith, Ken & Hall, John	0875681743	Available
67	107 great chess battles 1939-1945	Alekhine, Alexander	9780486271040	Available
68	Fire on Board - Part II: 1997-2004	Shirov, Alexei	9781857443820	Available
69	500 King's Gambit Miniatures	Wall, Bill	0931462576	Available
70	101 Brilliant Chess Miniatures	Nunn, John	9781901983166	Available
71	modern Philidor defence, The	Barskij, Vladimir	9789548782777	Available
72	Instructive Positions from Master Chess	Mieses, Jacques		Available
73	Modern King's Indian Attack	Hall, John & Cartier, Jan R.	9781880673119	Available
74	Italian Game & Evans Gambit	Pinski, Jan		Missing
75	Kings Indian Attack	Norwood, David	N/A	Available
76	Trends in the Classical Pirc - Volume 2	Hodgson, Julian	N/A	Available
77	Budapest Defense, The	Staker, Joseph & Glasscoe, Alan & Stayart, Gregory	N/A	Available
78	Winning Chess Puzzles for Kids Vol.2	Coakley, Jeff		Missing
79	Slav, The – Move by move	Lakdawala, Cyrus	9781857446784	Available
80	Fire On Board – Shirov's Best Games	Shirov, Alexei	9781857441505	Available
81	Together with Morozevitch	Alexey Kuzmin		Available
82	Ideas Behind the Chess Openings	Lane, Gary		Checked out	26 Sep 23
83	Practical Chess Endings	I Chernev		Available
84	Improve your Endgame	E Schiller		Available
85	London 1927	Keene, Raymond		Available
86	Chess endings	L Pachman		Available
87	Pillsbury's Chess Career			Available
88	Chess	Baden, Leonard		Available
89	Encyclopedia of Chess Openings			Available
90	My Life and Games	Kramnik		Available
91	Advanced Chess Tactics	Lev Psakhis		Available
92	Exchanging to Win in Endgames	Gnaday Nesis		Available
93	Positional Chess Sacrefices	Mihai Suba		Available
94	200 brilliant end games	Chernev		Available
95	Evans Gambit and 2Knights Defence	Tim Harding		Available
96	2Knights Defence	Y Estrin		Available
97	A View From The Top			Checked out	?
98	Kasparov Kramnit London 2000	Davies Martin		Available
99	2006 World Championships	Topalov Kramnit		Available
100	B33 Chess Informator	Lasker Sveshnikov		Available
101	Encyclopedia of Chess Openings			Available
102	Karpov's Strategic Wins Vol 1	Karolyi, Tibor		Available
103	Karpov's Strategic Wins Vol 2	Karolyi, Tibor	9781906552428	Available	18 Jul 25
104	Instructive Chess Masterpieces	IgorStohl		Checked out	25 Jul 25
105	Fighting Chess Hikaru Nakamura	Mullen & Stolz		Available
106	The Sorcerer's Apprentice	Bronstein, David		Available
107	Geller's Greatest Games	E Geller		Available
108	Teach Yourself Chess	Gerald Abrahams		Missing
109	The Right Way to Play Chess	Pritchard, David Brine		Available
110	Ideas Behind Modern Chess Openings	Lane, Gary		Available
111	Alekhines and Owens Defence	Keene, Raymond		Available
112	Fischer Spassky By Move			Available
113	The Scandinavian Defence	John Emms		Checked out	30 Oct 23
114	The Modern Vienna Game	Ovetchkin Soloviov		Available
115	Modern Chess Openings	Verlas		Available
116	The Two Kights Defence	J Bussom		Missing
117	The Complete C3 Sicilian	Sveshnikov		Available
118	Nunn's Chess Endings Vol. 1	Nunn, John		Available
119	Nunn's Chess Endings Vol. 2	Nunn, John		Available
120	The Safest Gruenfield	Belechev & Agast		Available
121	Encyclopedia of Chess Endings			Available
122	Beating the French Opening	Lane, Gary		Available
123	The Classical French	Gufield and Stetsko		Available
124	Mikhail Tal's Best Games 1960 -1971	Karolyi, Tibor		Available
125	Mikhail Tal's Best Games 1972 -1992	Karolyi, Tibor		Available
126	Pawn Endings	Aver Hakh+Maizlis		Available
127	Botvinnik's Best Games Volume 1	Botvinnik, Mikhail		Available
128	Botvinnik's Best Games Volume 2	Botvinnik, Mikhail		Available
129	Botvinnik's Best Games Volume 3	Botvinnik, Mikhail		Available
130	Play Ant-indian System	Egon Varnusz		Available
131	1d4 Volume 1	Avrukh, Boris		Available
132	1d4 Volume 2	Avrukh, Boris		Available
133	Complete Defence To QP Openings	E. Schiller		Available
134	Capablanca's Best Chess Endings	E. Chernov		Available
135	The Grand Prix Attack	Lane, Gary		Available
136	My System (21st. Century Edition)	Nimzowitsch, Aron		Available
137	Modern Tiger, The	Persson, Tiger Hillarp		Available
138	Playing The Trompofsky	R. Pert		Available
139	The Chess Struggle In Practice	Bronstein, David		Available
140	My Best Games	Victor Korchnoi		Available
141	Smyslovs Best Games Volume 1	V Smyslov		Available
142	Smyslovs Best Games Volume 2	V Smyslov		Available
143	Chess Tips…	Amatzin Avni		Available
144	Isaac Boleslavsk Games	Jimmy Adams		Available
145	Curacao 1962	Jan Tinman		Available
146	View From The Top	Hall and Cartier		Available
147	A V R O 1938	A S Antler		Available
148	Botvinik V Petrosian 1963	Botvinnik, Mikhail		Available
149	Endgame Manual	M. Dvoretsky		Available
150	Botvinik v Smyslov	Botvinnik, Mikhail		Available
151	The tacticians handbook	J Polgar		Available
152	How Good is Your Chess	Baden, Leonard		Available
153	BLOCKADE	Nimzowitsch, Aron		Available
154	1234 Modern End Game Studies	Suther and Lommer		Available
155	1357 Modern End Game Studies	Lommer		Available
156	Domination In The End game	M Kasparyan		Available
157	The King's Gambit	J Shaw		Available
158	Topalov Selected Games	S Guilev		Available
159	The Stress Of Chess	W Browne		Available
160	Reti's best Games	Golombek, Harry		Available
161	Chess Openings for Dummies	J. Eards		Available
162	The Right Way to Play Chess	Pritchard, David Brine		Checked out	5 Dec 23
163	Batsford Chess Openings	Kasparov, Garry & Keene, Raymond		Available
164	Bobby Fischer Reaches Chess	Fischer		Available
165	Logical Chess	Irving Chernov		Checked out	25 Jul 25
166	The History of Chess	Bill Price		Available
167	Chess Puzzles for Kids	M Chandler		Checked out	5 Dec 23
168	1d4 Dynamic Systems	Avrukh, Boris		Checked out	29 Jan 24
169	Secrets of Spectacular Chess	Levill & Freidgood		Available
170	The Dragon Volume 2	Gawain Jones		Available
171	The Classical Slav	Avrukh, Boris		Available
172	The King's Indian Attack	Healey & Maddox		Available
173	The Usborne Guide to Advanced Chess	Norwood, David		Available
174	Unlocking Chess Patterns Part 1	Veloz, Wasker		Available
175	Chess for Tigers (2nd Edition)	Web, Simon		Available
176	Learn From Bobby Fischer's Greatest Games	Schiller, Eric		Available