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McFarland Chess Reference Books
July 12, 2017
Chess book collectors and writers and historians of the game are aware of the publisher McFarland. The House was founded in 1979 and is based in Jefferson, North Carolina. Usually there is a run of about 600 copies per book.
http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/search...d=Start+Search
Its most outstanding chess books are:
Alexander Alekhine’s Chess Games, 1902-1946
Reuben Fine (1929-1951)
Chess Results (series) 1747-1980
Samuel Reshevsky
Isaac Kashdan, American Chess Grandmaster
William Steinitz, Chess Champion
Frank Marshall, United States Chess Champion
Chess Lists, 2d ed.
Aron Nimzowitsch 1886-1924
Chess Personalia
And one that Hans Jung would say should be at the top of the list
Blindfold Chess
Most of the books have library binding and are big heavy tomes.
They also have a number of obscure titles such as:
Albert Beauregard Hodges, Samuel Lipschutz, Emil Kemeny, The Tragic Life and Short Chess Career of James A. Leonard, Walter Penn Shipley etc.
Something for everyone, I suppose.
Tim Harding, chess historian and correspondence chess player, has authored Eminent Victorian Chess Players, Correspondence Chess in Britain and Ireland (1824-1987) and Joseph Henry Blackburn.
This from Chess Mail
Tim Harding has delivered, on the last day of June, the manuscript of his next book, British Chess Literature to 1914: A Handbook for Historians, to the publishers, McFarland. Here is a briefing about what the book contains.
A huge amount was published about chess in the United Kingdom before the First World War. In this book, the first of its kind, the author combines new information about the early history of the game with valuable advice for researchers into chess history. The book greatly develops the bibliographical material which was available on this website for the last few years.
The chapters about books and specialist magazines trace how the growing popularity of chess in Victorian Britain was reflected in an increasingly competitive market of publications aimed at the whole spectrum of players from beginner to expert. In some cases the author traces the further development of chess literature well into the twentieth century.
The chapter on The Chess Player's Chronicle, for example, begins by examining in detail that magazine's little-known precursor, The British Miscellany. Special attention is also paid to lesser-known episodes in the history of that magazine, such as the Third Series and the little-known late years that ended with The Chess Chronicle in 1901 and 1902. The chapter about other chess magazines mentions several short-lived ones that the author has seen, and examines in some detail the question of who edited the early volumes of The Chess Player's Magazine, as previous writers have mostly got this wrong.
Other topics covered include the leading chess libraries and the use of digitized chess texts and research on the Web. Further appendices include corrections and supplements to standard works of reference on chess. For example, there are corrections to The Oxford Companion to Chess and several additions and amendments to the birth and death details of players in Gaige's standard work Chess Personalia.
Special attention is devoted to the chess columns that appeared in newspapers (both national and provincial) and in magazines of various kinds from 1813 onwards. These articles, which usually appeared weekly, provide a wealth of information on early chess, much of which is not to be found elsewhere.
A major feature is an annotated bibliographical appendix listing all known British and Irish chess columns published up to the First World War. This includes many additions and corrections to the late Ken Whyld's book Chess Columns: A List.
Tony Gillam (of The Chess Player) was of great assistance in this part of the work.
McFarland have already assigned the book an ISBN number, 978-1-4766-6839-0
http://www.chessmail.com/research/Ch...-handbook.html
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I wouldn’t expect the above to be published until spring of next year, at the very least.
I have often wished for a similar book devoted to Canadian chess history and literature.
_______
At the present site there are 67 books in stock or promised. This one is intriguing:
Chess International Titleholders, 1950-2016 by Gino Di Felice (available Fall 2017)
The International Chess Federation or FIDE (from the French Fédération Internationale des Échecs) was founded in Paris in 1924 but only from 1950 began to award international titles. This book lists more than 18,000 players who received titles from 1950 through 2016. Entries include (where available) the player’s full name, federation, date of birth, place of birth, date of death, place of death, title and year of award and peak rating (month and year), with references provided.
_______
As always, I recommend you buy books mentioned from Larry’s Strategy Games and Accessories
July 12, 2017
Chess book collectors and writers and historians of the game are aware of the publisher McFarland. The House was founded in 1979 and is based in Jefferson, North Carolina. Usually there is a run of about 600 copies per book.
http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/search...d=Start+Search
Its most outstanding chess books are:
Alexander Alekhine’s Chess Games, 1902-1946
Reuben Fine (1929-1951)
Chess Results (series) 1747-1980
Samuel Reshevsky
Isaac Kashdan, American Chess Grandmaster
William Steinitz, Chess Champion
Frank Marshall, United States Chess Champion
Chess Lists, 2d ed.
Aron Nimzowitsch 1886-1924
Chess Personalia
And one that Hans Jung would say should be at the top of the list
Blindfold Chess
Most of the books have library binding and are big heavy tomes.
They also have a number of obscure titles such as:
Albert Beauregard Hodges, Samuel Lipschutz, Emil Kemeny, The Tragic Life and Short Chess Career of James A. Leonard, Walter Penn Shipley etc.
Something for everyone, I suppose.
Tim Harding, chess historian and correspondence chess player, has authored Eminent Victorian Chess Players, Correspondence Chess in Britain and Ireland (1824-1987) and Joseph Henry Blackburn.
This from Chess Mail
Tim Harding has delivered, on the last day of June, the manuscript of his next book, British Chess Literature to 1914: A Handbook for Historians, to the publishers, McFarland. Here is a briefing about what the book contains.
A huge amount was published about chess in the United Kingdom before the First World War. In this book, the first of its kind, the author combines new information about the early history of the game with valuable advice for researchers into chess history. The book greatly develops the bibliographical material which was available on this website for the last few years.
The chapters about books and specialist magazines trace how the growing popularity of chess in Victorian Britain was reflected in an increasingly competitive market of publications aimed at the whole spectrum of players from beginner to expert. In some cases the author traces the further development of chess literature well into the twentieth century.
The chapter on The Chess Player's Chronicle, for example, begins by examining in detail that magazine's little-known precursor, The British Miscellany. Special attention is also paid to lesser-known episodes in the history of that magazine, such as the Third Series and the little-known late years that ended with The Chess Chronicle in 1901 and 1902. The chapter about other chess magazines mentions several short-lived ones that the author has seen, and examines in some detail the question of who edited the early volumes of The Chess Player's Magazine, as previous writers have mostly got this wrong.
Other topics covered include the leading chess libraries and the use of digitized chess texts and research on the Web. Further appendices include corrections and supplements to standard works of reference on chess. For example, there are corrections to The Oxford Companion to Chess and several additions and amendments to the birth and death details of players in Gaige's standard work Chess Personalia.
Special attention is devoted to the chess columns that appeared in newspapers (both national and provincial) and in magazines of various kinds from 1813 onwards. These articles, which usually appeared weekly, provide a wealth of information on early chess, much of which is not to be found elsewhere.
A major feature is an annotated bibliographical appendix listing all known British and Irish chess columns published up to the First World War. This includes many additions and corrections to the late Ken Whyld's book Chess Columns: A List.
Tony Gillam (of The Chess Player) was of great assistance in this part of the work.
McFarland have already assigned the book an ISBN number, 978-1-4766-6839-0
http://www.chessmail.com/research/Ch...-handbook.html
_______
I wouldn’t expect the above to be published until spring of next year, at the very least.
I have often wished for a similar book devoted to Canadian chess history and literature.
_______
At the present site there are 67 books in stock or promised. This one is intriguing:
Chess International Titleholders, 1950-2016 by Gino Di Felice (available Fall 2017)
The International Chess Federation or FIDE (from the French Fédération Internationale des Échecs) was founded in Paris in 1924 but only from 1950 began to award international titles. This book lists more than 18,000 players who received titles from 1950 through 2016. Entries include (where available) the player’s full name, federation, date of birth, place of birth, date of death, place of death, title and year of award and peak rating (month and year), with references provided.
_______
As always, I recommend you buy books mentioned from Larry’s Strategy Games and Accessories
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