Publications

The publications are divided into four subsections:

The following is a list of all publications listed:

Leonard R. Reitstein

Test your chess – 2

240 more positions from South African games to test your skill

Leonard R. Reitstein

Test Your Chess!

240 positions from South African games to test your skill

Paul Dunn

The 1997 Doeberl Cup

  • PublisherAustralian Chess Enterprises, 1997
  • ISBN9781875716081
  • Languagesenglish
  • Pages72
  • Formatspaperback
  • See alsoDunn, Paul

Chess books from Australia open the door to another world for us – this small tournament book was the first work of our friend Paul Dunn from "Down under"– he will certainly like to tell us if there are meanwhile further publications by him.

(M.N.)

Wilhelm Steinitz

The Chess Column of Ashore or Afloat

Wilhelm Steinitz

The Chess Columns of The Field

Volume 1: 1873-1876

John van Manen, Bob Meadley, Paul Dunn

The Chess Literature of Australia and New Zealand

Peter J. Monté

The Classical Era of Modern Chess

The graduated historian Dr Peter J. Monté decided to join our association not before the publication of his magnificent work in 2014 - it was widely praised and made him famous among chess historians all over the world. And rightly so, as by this monumental book, which took him nearly 25 years of research he stands in the tradition of H.J.R. Murray and his A History of Chess. It mainly deals with the period when the game transformed from the slow medieval game into modern dynamic chess with its new rules and long-ranging pieces, it describes painstakingly all the manuscripts from Lucena to Greco, and considers all relevant literature on chess history written before, including that of our members Yuri Averbakh, Alessandro Sanvito and José Garzón. Definitely, this seminal work will still be an indispensable reference book for generations of future chess historians and experts dealing with that bygone era of chess.

(R.B., IX 2016)

You will find an introduction / summary and sample pages (PDF) at www.newinchess.com/The_Classical_Era_of_Modern_Chess-p-7421.html, as well as a first review by John Elburg at http://chessbooks.nl/elburg196.html.

In a group photo from our Amsterdam meeting 2005, i.e. from a visit to the KB Den Haag, Peter J. Monté can be spotted – standing between Rudolf Reinhardt and Bert Corneth.

Peter J. Monté's tome is the result of a meticulous and most diligent research of nearly 25 years (!) – a possibly record-breaking effort. That alone commands respect and deserves our appreciation. And the book has been scholarly written, with extraordinary care, so it is a profound, reliable and up-to-date reference work for all those working on the chess history of the 15th to 17th century – that is the most interesting period when the evolution of chess made several quantum leaps, i.e. the game experienced far-reaching changes leading from medieval chess (still a shatranj version) to modern chess. But also for all chess friends with a deeper interest in the history of our game this book is certainly a must-have. I would not recommend the work to chess players lacking that interest, the book is no light fiction which would be all too easy to read through.

No doubt the author has done a great job, though I recently also heard a slight critique from a chess friend: in large parts the work would be a very thorough juxtaposition of all the manuscripts from that a.m. period, but a connecting "thread" is somewhat missing, and the reader may not see anymore the wood for all the trees. I think that this objection is not so unjustified. On the other hand, especially the early history of chess is only fragmentarily known (and hence often subject to speculations), so a book on it will be an image of that piecemeal to a certain degree. I will leave it at that remark – maybe others will still discuss this issue in more detail.

Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam

The Day Kasparov Quit

and other chess interviews

Among experts Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam, one of the two editors-in-chief of the magazine New In Chess, is regarded as the best interviewer in the chess world. His special skills become manifest in the fact that even reserved or media-shy chess greats become stupendously communicative in front of his microphone. This volume, published 2006, gathers 30 interviews of famous chess masters from the previous decade, with Kasparov included even five times.

(R.B., III 2012)

Reviews:
Harry Schaack in KARL
Taylor Kingston at ChessCafe
John Watson at TWIC

Steve Giddins

The Greatest Ever Chess Endgames

In his recent work (published in February 2012) our member from Rochester has dealt with a matter commonly regarded as "uninspiring", but his carefully chosen and aptly annotated selection of 50 top-class endgames offer an instructive and at the same time very entertaining reading. You may read and hear more in the Blurb or in the Sneak Preview video respectively. Moreover a short Review at the BCM website.

(R.B., III 2012)

Contents of the book.

Leonard Zehr, J. Ken MacDonald

The History of Correspondence Chess in Canada

  • PublisherThinkers Press, 2006
  • ISBN1-888710-31-4
  • Languagesenglish
  • Pages253
  • Formatshardback
  • See alsoMacDonald, Ken

Our Canadian member Ken MacDonald is a marked specialist in the literature and the history of correspondence chess – and he’s in very good company as Eric Ruch and Tim Harding are experts in this field too. Ken published some surveys on North American CC tournaments and – in a small number of copies – a booklet on the Canadian GM Daniel Abraham Yanovsky (10 copies only!).

In 2006 he presented together with Leonard Zehr his most extensive work, a history of Canadian correspondence chess, the trail of which he had picked up 30 years before in Cleveland.

(M.N./R.B.)

See also Tim Harding's book review at chesscafe.com

Blurb (dust cover)
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Larry List

The Imagery of Chess Revisited

  • PublisherGeorge Braziller, 2005
  • ISBN978-0807615553
  • Languagesenglish
  • Pages208
  • Formatshardback
  • See alsoList, Larry

New York member Larry List’s interests have been in the intersections between chess-play, chess set design and the rich interrelations with visual arts and music. His book The Imagery of Chess Revisited, (2005, in English only) chronicles the 1944-45 exhibition of Surrealist chess themed art [&] music organized by French chess master Marcel Duchamp. 32 Pieces: The Art of Chess, Mark Sanders, ed. (2009, in English [&] Icelandic) includes List’s extensive essay, "New Forms for a New Era," which examines contemporary artists’ visions of chess in the context of 20th century chess [&] art history. A full essay translation in Czech is available as well.

(L.L.)

PS (24-06-2014):

The exhibition Cage [&] Kaino: Pieces and Performances in the World Chess Hall of Fame was organized by Larry List, you will find detailed information and a fine downloadable exhibition brochure at www.worldchesshof.org/exhibitions/exhibit/cage-kaino-pieces-and-performances/.
For another show Strategy by Design: Games by Michael Graves see www.worldchesshof.org/exhibitions/exhibit/strategy-by-design-games-by-michael-graves/.

John Donaldson, Nikolai Minew

The Life & Games of Akiva Rubinstein

Volume 1: Uncrowned King; Volume 2: The Later Years

  • PublisherRussell Enterprises, Vol. I: 2006; Vol. II: 2011
  • ISBNVol. I: 978-1-941270-88-2; Vol. II: 978-1-936490-39-4
  • Languagesenglish
  • PagesVol. I: 402; Vol. II: 440
  • Formatspaperback
  • See alsoDonaldson, John

Two International Masters – John Donaldson and Nikolay Minev – have met to produce the ultimate work on Akiba Rubinstein. The two-volume biography and game collection (revised and considerably expanded second edition 2006 [Volume 1] or 2011 [Volume 2] respectively) is the result of a research work of many years and deserves unreserved praise with regard to the completeness of material and the correctness of description. The reader will find 492 + 583 = 1075 games and game fragments in both volumes. Naturally hardback volumes (instead of paperbacks) would have been desirable, but you can't have it all...

(R.B., III 2012)

Review Volume 1 by Taylor Kingston at ChessCafe

Review Volume 2 by Dennis Monokroussos - The Chess Mind Blog

Excerpt from Volume 2

John Donaldson

The Life and Games of Frank Ross Anderson

Owen M. Hindle

The Mystery of Edward Pindar

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  • PublisherChess Nomad, 2005
  • Languagesenglish
  • Pages93
  • See alsoHindle, Owen M.
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Bernard Cafferty, Mark Taimanov

The Soviet Championships

  • PublisherCadogan, 1998
  • ISBN978-1857442014
  • Languagesenglish
  • Pages222
  • Formatshardback
  • See alsoCafferty, Bernard

As a long-time expert not only of Russian chess but also of Russian language, Bernard Cafferty has joined forces with the famous GM Mark Taimanov to produce this chess historically substantial work about the Soviet National Championships. While Taimanov was in charge of the games' annotation, B. Cafferty has contributed the reports on the tournaments. You may read the more detailed description by the publishing house in this pdf file.

(R.B., III 2012)

Moreover you will find a list of Bernard Cafferty's publications at his Wikipedia page

Kurt Landsberger

The Steinitz Papers

Letters and Documents of the First World Chess Champion

Luis Fernández Siles

The Stories, Games, and Intrigues of Capablanca & Alekhine

Luis Fernández Siles - The Stories, Games, and Intrigues of Capablanca & Alekhine - cover
Luis Fernández Siles - The Stories, Games, and Intrigues of Capablanca & Alekhine - cover
Luis Fernández Siles - The Stories, Games, and Intrigues of Capablanca & Alekhine - backcover
Luis Fernández Siles - The Stories, Games, and Intrigues of Capablanca & Alekhine - backcover

David Hooper, Dale Alden Brandreth

The Unknown Capablanca

2nd ed. Dover Publ., New York 1993 (1st ed. B.T. Batsford, London 1975)
  • PublisherDover Publications, 1993
  • ISBN978-0486276144
  • Languagesenglish
  • Pages201
  • Formatshardback
  • See alsoBrandreth, Dale Alden

Dale A. Brandreth, the industrious person behind Caissa Editions has also worked several times as an author or as a coauthor. Well-known is his contribution to John Hilbert’s book project Shady Side: The Life and Crimes of Norman Tweed Whitaker Chess Master. For this book Dale Brandreth made his rich fund of documents on Whitaker available to John Hilbert who was enthusiastic about this excellent source material.

Another co-production – of Dale Brandreth and David Hooper – once filled a gap in chess literature, the lesser known and mostly unpublished games of the third chess world champion were the focus of the authors’ attention: 203 out of about 600 games collected beforehand had been selected for the book The Unknown Capablanca.

(R.B.)

Martin Frère Hillyer

Thomas Frère And the Brotherhood of Chess

A History of 19th Century Chess in New York City

Our US member from Ohio presents a very attractive book which makes a valuable contribution to the American chess history of the 19th century. As the author's name may already suggest, he is a descendant (great-great-grandson) of Thomas Frère (1820-1900), so his work also a piece of genealogical research on his own family. For the first time Thomas Frère's contributions to the development of chess in the USA, particularly in New York City, have been completely documented and acknowledged here. Inter alia Frère was a second of Steinitz during his first world championship match against Zukertort, and he was a good friend of the American chess legend Paul Morphy – the first book on Morphy came from his pen.

(R.B., IV 2012)

Anthony J. Gillam

Tournaments of 1916

Amsterdam April 1916; Amsterdam July/August 1916; Budapest September/October 1916; Budapest November/December 1916; Arnhem 1916; Utrecht 1916; Vienna 1916/17

A. J. Gillam - Tournaments of 1916 - frontcover
A. J. Gillam - Tournaments of 1916 - frontcover
  • PublisherThe Chess Player, 2016
  • ISBN978-1-911444-04-6
  • Languagesenglish
  • Pages68
  • Formatsstaple
  • Miscellaneous7 cross tables; over 40 diagrams; nearly 100 games and position, with notes where available; background information; several of these tournaments are rare and their cross tables do not appear in the published reference books.
  • See alsoTournaments of 1916

Nearly 100 games and position, with notes where available; background information;
several of these tournaments are rare and their cross tables do not appear in the published reference books.