Chess Books at Auction
July 18, 2020
From June of 2009
From Bobby’s Storage Locker
In an auction held at Bonhams Auction House at 580 Madison Avenue in New York City today, the personal collection of Bobby Fischer was sold for $61,000.
Lot No: 3372 FISCHER, ROBERT JAMES “BOBBY.” 1943-2008. BOBBY FISCHER’S CHESS LIBRARY, INCLUDING NOTEBOOKS PREPARED FOR THE 1972 WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP.
Comprising:
1. Approximately 320 volumes on chess including a few match results, various places and languages (including many Soviet imprints), 1889-1992, mostly 8vo, original bindings. Includes about a dozen presentation copies, inscribed by the authors for Fischer and two typed letters signed laid in. At least three volumes bear Fischer’s ownership signature and at least two with other notation by Fischer.
2. Approximately 400 issues of chess-related periodicals, including runs of The Chess Player, Sahovski Informator, Overboard, Revista SAH, “Shakhmaty”, and “Magyar Sakkelet” among others, mostly 1960s-1980s, various sizes, original wrappers.
3. Nine personal floppy disks (unexamined).
4. Three sets of proofs for Fischer’s My 60 Memorable Games (published 1969), with the title in various stages (“My Memorable Games: 52 Tournament Games”, “My Life in Chess”) comprising a typescript with copious technical annotations, mostly printers notes, but also various changes to wording and corrections to the chess notation possibly made by Fischer, with a sketch of the title-page on drafting paper apparently in Fischer’s hand; a set of page proofs (loose, possibly in duplicate); and a partially annotated galley proof stamped June 1966.
5. Four volumes of bound typescript detailing the match history of Boris Spassky from the 1950s to 1971 (two vols as white, two as black), apparently prepared by “RGW” and with some manuscript commentary.
6. Fifteen volumes of ring- or string-bound manuscript notebooks with notation of the games of Mark Taimanov and Tigran Petrosian from the 1950s-1970, various hands.
Condition varies, generally a bit musty and a few volumes water- damaged but otherwise good or better. Library of books and documents derived from the Pasadena storage unit where Fischer’s belongings were held after 1992. Fischer had defied the U. N. embargo against travel to Yugoslavia for his re-match against Boris Spassky and never again returned to the U. S.
The manuscript material centers on Fischer’s preparation for his historic match with Boris Spassky in 1972, certainly the most exciting moment in the history of American chess. Fischer’s win in “The Match of the Century” ended 24 years of Soviet domination of the World Championship and was viewed with elation in the doldrums of the Cold War. A telling memo appears in one of the bound typescripts: “Spassky seems to adopt defences for Black after prolonged experience with the white pieces against a particular defence. I had a conversation with Korchnoi after Hastings (January) – he had not been informed that I was preparing files for you – in which he made some remark that a possible weakness of yours was the Bc4 lines as White against the Sicilian….”
Among the printed volumes there is an annotated German edition of the match record for the 1971 World Championship, many games bear Fischer’s own notes as to how the games could have been won (“31…RF4! Wins easily / 21gF Rg6 wins / 20. QFl! ” etc.)
Other highlights from the library include a copy of ANATOLY KARPOV'S Selected Chess Matches 1966-1977, Moscow, 1978 inscribed and signed by the author for Bobby Fischer, in Russian. Also an issue of Macedonian Checkmate (in Macedonian) which Fischer has signed in initials below a note, "Movies, television, tv, cassettes" from February 1972--Fischer apparently preparing for the world fame he was to attain a few months later. It is evident that Fischer’s thirst after chess knowledge knew no national boundaries. He possessed works in multiple languages, many published from behind the Iron Curtain. Several of the Soviet and Eastern European periodicals bear Fischer’s name in manuscript on the upper cover, but were first mailed to East Berlin.
Present also is a copy of Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess with a note laid in seeming to indicate that Fischer planned on suing the publishers. The proofs of Fischer’s chess autobiography are heavily annotated and an interesting reminder of the amazing technical difficulty of publishing a work that can only be proofed by the author himself or a very few specialists. Every book in the library relates to the game of chess, with the exception of Fischer’s own ”I Was Tortured in the Pasadena Jailhouse!” of 1982.
A fascinating look into Fischer’s absolute single-mindedness in becoming the world’s greatest chess player and more specifically in attaining victory over Boris Spassky. See illustration. Sold for $61,000 inclusive of Buyer's Premium
Missing from the auction was Bobby Fischer's collection of Mexican Comic Books, which was the most prized possession of Bobby Fischer. The winning bidder was undisclosed telephone bidder 7085.
Sam Sloan
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!to...sc/5zRPdvWmtxQ
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Mo. couple buys Bobby Fischer's chess library
The Associated Press Thursday, Jun. 11, 2009
ST. LOUIS -- A Missouri couple with a strong interest in chess says they've bought the chess library of legendary player Bobby Fischer.
Retired investment company executives, Rex and Jeanne Sinquefield (SINK' field), say the collection includes hundreds of chess books. It also has bound volumes outlining the match histories of several masters, including Fischer's rival Boris Spassky. Fischer beat Spassky in 1972, ending years of Soviet domination in the World Championship.
The Sinquefields acquired the collection Wednesday through a San Francisco-based auction house for $50,000. They are deciding on a secure location to display the collection. They were instrumental in starting the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis, where this year's U. S. championship was played.
Source: http://www.bnd.com/
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Chess Books at Auction
November 29, 2019
Today, on eBay, five books on Fairy Chess which are water damaged. The last sentence has a throwaway line but is deliciously quotable. All this with a starting bid of $5:
Five books largely about fairy chess (unorthodox chess problems) that got wet when a pipe broke in the floor above the bookcase. Well worth reading, particularly if you know German and Russian.
Dr. Karl Fabel - Am Rande des Schachbretts (at the edge of the chessboard) - published by the chess problem magazine Der Schwalbe in 1947 - in German. How long can a chess game last? Until White's 5899th move, Kg2:Rh1. Problems in Losing Chess (give away all your pieces). Helpmates, retroanalysis, the eight-queens problem, and much much more.
Dr. Karl Fabel and C.E. Kemp - Schach ohne Grenzen / Chess unlimited (Walter Rau Verlag, 1969) - bilingual German/English - an annotated collection of the great T.R. Dawson's fairy chess problems.
E. Ya. Gik - Shakhmatnye dosugi: Sbornik yumoristicheskikh i zanimatel'nykh rasskazov (Шахматные досуги) (Chess leisure(?): a collection of humorous and entertaining stories) (Moscow: "Fizkultura i sport", 1979) - in Russian - fairy and non-fairy chess games and problems. For example, in the six-square triangular board in photo #6 the king is to move to a1 without passing through b2. It takes 26 moves.
Karl Fabel - Rund um das Schachbrett: Amusantes und Interessantes vom Schach (around the chessboard: amusing and interesting chess stuff) (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1955) - in German - mate in 1 problems, problems with only the two kings on the board (e.g., 'White and Black each take back a move, then Black moves so that White can immediately checkmate'). And much much more.
Karl Fabel - Kurioses Schach: Amusante stellungen - Interessantes Geschehen - Seltsame Spielregeln auf den 64 Feldern (curious chess: amusing positions, interesting happenings, strange game rules on the 64 squares) (Walter Rau Verlag, 1960) - in German - photo 10, for example, shows chess problems with lots and lots of knights or bishops, but perfectly legal positions. Also symmetrical positions, underpromotions and Babsontasks, a mate in 21 by T. R. Dawson on a pistol-shaped board (also in photo #8, from the Gik book, uncredited), 'White played and didn't win', etc., etc.
The moose may be briefly described as a bifurcating grasshopper.
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Chess Books at Auction
October 18, 2019
Found in the “chess book” offers on eBay today:
Avon The Rook Chess Piece Wild Country Cologne After Shave Empty Bottle
Starting Bid: US $2.50
Shipping to Canada: $20.51
Avon The Rook chess piece cologne bottle. Was for Wild Country men's after shave.
Bottle is empty, comes with original box
Condition is used
Will ship USPS Priority mail
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Chess Books at Auction
August 14, 2019
A curious item up for auction on eBay today.
Chess master BOBBY FISCHER probable Autograph on Card kept in 1965 Book by Brady
Bobby Fischer to Ray (printed)
Starting bid: US $350
Description
Hi - this is the first time on eBay for this item, so I'll only be considering offers at or above the opening bid price, thanks.
(Also, if you do make an offer, please make it good for at least 48 hours, as I sometimes miss ones that are only valid for 24 hours. Thx!)
This past weekend I bought about 2 dozen vintage books about chess at a local swap meet, and when I got them home and started going through them, I found this card inside the 1965 hardcover, "Profiles of a Prodigy: The Life and Games of Bobby Fischer" by Frank Brady.
The card measures approx. 3 in. by 5 in.
I have no idea if there's any connection, age-wise or otherwise, between the book and the autograph card, other than one having been the safekeeping place for the other, but I'm including the book in this lot, just in case I'm missing some connection between them.
It seems likely to me that the signature is genuine for a few reasons:
1 - It's singed to someone - it appears to say, "Ray"... possibly, "Kay" ... which implies that Ray (or Kay) was present when it was signed.
2 - If someone was going to bother faking such a signature, wouldn't it have made more sense to have done it in this, or some other, book?
3 - It compares favorably to one that's currently being offered for sale on eBay - item # 18370896708
Condition - light edge wear; some mild yellowing mostly on the RH side of the card; the book is in pretty good condition and its dust jacket in fair condition with some short tears, some corner wear, some wrinkles and some yellowing.
Thanks for bidding!
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I think this item is speculative at best. I would be surprised if anyone put out $350 for it.
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Chess Books at Auction
July 10, 2019
My 60 Memorable Games – William Lombardy’s Copy and the First Copy Signed 1st 1969
Price: US $49,500
Shipping: $50.00
The inscription reads:
Bobby Fischer
Thanks a lot for your help and patience
To Bill
{Sept. 1st 1972) First Autograph of Bobby Fischer as World Champion
Saemi Palsson (signed)
William Lombardy (signed)}
https://www.ebay.com/itm/My-60-Memor...60ec%7Ciid%3A1
My 60 Memorable Games (William Lombardy's Copy and the First Copy Bobby Fischer Signed as World Champion) SIGNED
Author: Bobby Fischer
Title: My 60 Memorable Games (William Lombardy's Copy and the First Copy Bobby Fischer Signed as World Champion)
Publication: New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969.
Description: Hardcover. ****AN EXTRAORDINARY PIECE OF CHESS HISTORY**** AND ONE OF THE TOWERING ASSOCIATION COPIES IN THE GAME'S VAST LITERATURE. WARMLY inscribed (in itself very unusual) by the newly-minted World Champion to William Lombardy, Bobby Fischer's "second" at Reykjavik and the man widely credited with convincing an overwrought Fischer to move forward and play the match. As with most of Fischer's relationships, his friendship with Lombardy was complicated and experienced many highs and lows. But the fact remains that Lombardy played a major role as coach and mentor in Fischer's development as a world-class player and provided much-needed stability during Bobby's early years.
Fully aware of Fischer's tight-fisted ways, Lombardy was understandably looking for compensation for the time and toil he had invested in the Fischer-Spassky match and he set his sights on this historic copy of "My 60 Memorable Games". By making sure that he could secure Bobby's very first signature as World Champion --and in an expressive, personalized inscription no less-- he understood that he would own a piece of chess immortality, a physical talisman for the ages.
To further mark the significance of the signing, Lombardy verified in his own hand that this indeed was Fischer's first signature as World Champion and he even had Saemi Palsson (Fischer's bodyguard and the Chief of the Reykjavik Police Department) sign this copy as well as a witness to history.
On top of the remarkable history attached to it, this copy is also a very solid example of the 1969 stated 1st printing. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact ($6.95), VG+ dustjacket, with just a bit of light chipping along the panel edges. Thick octavo, "with introductions to the games by International Grandmaster Larry Evans".
ONE OF THE GREAT FISCHER PIECES EVER TO REACH THE MARKET AND ONE OF THE TRUE RARITIES TO EMERGE --ALMOST 50 YEARS LATER-- FROM THE EPIC 1972 STRUGGLE IN REYKJAVIK. Near Fine / Very Good +.
Seller ID: 14843
Subject: Chess
Appledore Books
Waccabuc, NY
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Chess Books at Auction
March 6, 2019
Forum Auctions of London, Rome, Milan and New York has a sale coming up of interesting chess material.
https://www.forumauctions.co.uk/5347...iew=lot_detail
Some of the more interesting ones:
Lot 124
Chess.- Lopez de Sigura (Ruy) Il giuoco de gli scacchi, first Italian edition, Venice, Cornelio Arrivabene, 1584.
£2,000 - 3,000
Chess.- Lopez de Sigura (Ruy) Il giuoco de gli scacchi, translated from the Spanish by Giovanne Domenico Tarsia, collation: *4 A-Z4 Aa-Dd4, first edition in Italian, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut illustrations of a board and pieces, woodcut historiated and decorative initials, light water-staining at foot, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties, soiled, [LN372; Adams L1475; EDIT 16 CNCE 29870], small 4to, Venice, Cornelio Arrivabene, 1584.
⁂ The scarce first Italian edition of this classic of the chess canon, with a distinguished provenance. Lopez gave his name to the most popular of all chess openings. His book was the first chess book to follow Damiano's small treatise of 1512. The first part deals with the origin and utility of chess, the second part provides a miscellaneous collection of openings and the third and fourth parts are a severe critique of Damiano, with corrections of his moves, and new openings included.
Provenance: Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa, 1818-1899, chess master, historian and theoretician (armorial bookplate with initials and 'N:t 3006 / (344) and dated 1884and his ms. notes to inside front cover and p.133); Albrecht Buschke (acquired in Munich in 1935. It is identified on p.100 of his typescript 1938 catalogue); sold by Buschke to Karl A. Baer (an invoice dated 11/16/54 is loosely inserted in the volume).
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Lot 145
Alekhine v. Capablanca.- Alekhine (Alexander) Autograph Letter signed to Brian Harley, October 1928, giving copies of correspondence proving his willingness to give Capablanca a rematch for the World Title.
£750 - 1,000
Alekhine v. Capablanca.- Alekhine (Alexander, Russian and French chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion, 1892-1946) Autograph Letter signed to Brian Harley, 1½pp., 4to, Paris, 15th October 1928, giving copies of correspondence proving his willingness to give Capablanca a rematch for the World Title, "I suppose these three copies will be the best answer to what interests you and will show my sincere desire to defend my title against anybody who will seriously try to attack it "; and 5 typed copies of the correspondence, folds, browned (6).
⁂ José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera (1888-1942), Cuban chess player was World Chess Champion from 1921 to 1927. He was beaten by Alexander Alekhine in 1927 and this correspondence shows the attempts by both men to arrange a new match, which never came to pass and was the subject of much bitterness by Capablanca.
Brian Harley (1883-1955 ), British chess composer, and chess columnist for The Observer.
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Lot 125
Chess.- Greco (Gioachino) Primo modo del gioco de Partito che giocandosi spesso occorrono li veri giochi & anco questi giochi de Partito sono tratti necessarij, perche al fin del giocho spesso occorrono essendo in essi molti tratti bellissimi & occulti, manuscript, France, [?Paris], 1624 or 1625.
£20,000 - 30,000
Chess.- Greco (Gioachino) Primo modo del gioco de Partito che giocandosi spesso occorrono li veri giochi & anco questi giochi de Partito sono tratti necessarij, perche al fin del giocho spesso occorrono essendo in essi molti tratti bellissimi & occulti, col'istesso ordine delle Pedine. Composto per Gioachino Greco Calabrese, 62 ff., unfoliated, title within an oval floral and foliate border, a putto at the top (smudged in places); border framing the opening of text on fol. 2r., a few annotations in French to the final blank leaves, not relating to the text, with the names 'Robert' and 'Louis' inked on the verso of the first leaves and at the end, along with some pen trials, contemporary French, possibly Parisian binding, gilt-tooled brown morocco over pasteboards, covers within two elaborate frames; cornerpieces, large fleuron, flat spine, richly tooled, head of spine repaired in a lighter coloured brown modern calf, rubbed, 126 x 84mm., binding 129 x 91mm., France, [?Paris], 1624 or 1625.
⁂ A collection of partiti, or 'chess problems' by one of the most important figures in the history of chess, Gioachino Greco (1590/1600 - ca. 1630) called 'The Calabrian', from his hometown Celico, near Cosenza.
Greco is considered the first professional chess player. He wrote in 1619/1620 his Trattato del nobilissimo gioco de scacchi, which circulated widely in manuscript, and was highly appreciated in the whole of Europe. He travelled extensively through France, England, and Spain. The highly commercial Greco often compiled small-format manuscripts for presentation to wealthy patrons, generally written, as here, in Italian by copyists and variously decorated by local artists. Each volume was produced according to a patron's individual preferences, a feature which increases significantly the interest and value of Greco's manuscripts in their individuality. Moreover, although the vogue to buy such pocket handbooks was widespread, only a small number of them have survived, owing to their extensive use.
The present manuscript was produced in France, and in all likelihood in Paris, the city to which Greco had returned in 1624, after his successful stay in London. The manuscript is undated, but its handsome gilt-tooled binding, recalling Le Gascon's style, and the floral border framing the title confidently indicate the years 1624-1625 as date of its production. It is one of Greco's earliest manuscripts recorded by Sanvito in his reference work I codici scacchistici di Giulio Cesare Polerio and Gioacchino Greco. Similar manuscripts are found in institutional libraries, including the British Library, the Bodleian and the Bibliothèque Nationale. The one preserved in the National Library in Lisbon (MS H.I.3) bears the same title as ours, Primo modo del gioco de Partito.
J. G. White, Greco and his Manuscripts. Giachino Greco 1600-1634. 300th Anniversary of the Writing of the First Manuscript 1619-1919, Philadelphia 1919; D. Hooper - K. Whyld, The Oxford Companion to Chess, Oxford 1996, pp. 133, 158-159; A. Sanvito I codici scacchistici di Giulio Cesare Polerio e Gioacchino Greco, Brescia 2005.
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Lot 129
Chess.- Hyde (Thomas) De ludis orientalibus libri duo, quorum prior est duabus partibus, viz. 1, Historia Shahiludii Latinè; deinde 2, Historia Shahiludii Heb. Lat. per tres Judæos. Liber posterior continet Historiam Reliquorum Ludorum Orientis, Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, 1694.
£1,000 - 1,500
Chess.- Hyde (Thomas)De ludis orientalibus libri duo, quorum prior est duabus partibus, viz. 1, Historia Shahiludii Latinè; deinde 2, Historia Shahiludii Heb. Lat. per tres Judæos. Liber posterior continet Historiam Reliquorum Ludorum Orientis, 3 parts in 1 (parts misbound, but work complete), 3 folding engraved plates (one of Chinese text, 2 of chessboards), engraved and woodcut illustrations (including chess pieces), with final blank, a few repairs to Chinese plate, with minor loss to are near lower left corner, some staining and spotting, lightly browned, contemporary vellum, [LN173; Wing H3877, H3875; Cordier, Sinica 3142], 8vo, Oxford, Sheldonian Theatre, 1694.
⁂ One of the first scholarly works devoted to Chess, and other Oriental games including backgammon, draughts and dice. Includes texts in Arabic, Chinese and Hebrew. Hyde was an Orientalist and later became Bodleian Librarian.
Provenance: F. Pedrosy (ink inscription to front pastedown); Samuel Barrett (engraved armorial bookplate);
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Lots of interesting stuff for the chess historian or collector. You can actually go to Lot 145 and see the first page of the letter signed by Alekhine, expand the image and read his words. How cool is that?!
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Chess Books at Auction
December 22, 2018
Another chess set, for sale – not for auction.
And the cost is astronomical 95000 Euro. This is 147,100 CAD presently.
Mikhail Tal's Large Amber Chess Set
Dear chess friends and collectors, we bring to your consideration a rarity of great historic and antique value. It's Mikhail Tal's Amber Chess Set.
The Chess Set was made of natural lump amber and was given to the new world champion Mikhail Tal on May 16, 1960
(after the famous match Botvinnik - Tal, which ended on May 7) at a reception by the first secretary of the Communist Party of Latvia Arvid Pel'she.
The uniqueness of this game of the Chess Set is not only that they were made of natural lump amber (most of amber chess sets are made of fused amber), but also because it's a gift of the Latvian government to the brilliant chess player in his days of triumph.
This Amber Chess Set was cataloged in famous Isaak Linder's book The Art of Chess Pieces.
The Chess Set is from M. Tal's family and right now is located in Europe. Clicking the following link you can find photographs of Tal's Chess Set:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folde..._xy9GmHzxr5mso
The price of this Chess Set is 95000 EUR.
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Chess Books at Auction
December 8, 2018
I can remember reading stories of labor camps during WWII, where the prisoners fashioned chess pieces out of bread and played with them.
There are photos online of sets that were used in concentration camps.
Never have I thought of a commercial set these days with pieces made out of bread, but I saw one such up for auction today:
Russian Bread Chess Pieces. Set №4: «Jailhouse. Guards vs Prisoners»
Material: Bread
King height: approx. 120 mm
Pawn height: approx. 62 mm
Chess piece base diameter: approx. 32 mm
Total number of chess pieces: 32 pieces
Chess board: not included
Country of Manufacture: Russian Federation
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There are recognizable figures that appear to be of moulded dough, coloured and glazed. If you didn’t know they were made of bread, you would swear that they are made of painted and glazed china!
Starting bid 200 USD
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Russian-Brea....c100752.m1982
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Maybe someone is interested in
The first Canadian Open Chess Championship 1956 by Yanofski
http://www.chesslund.com/detail.asp?...-Montreal-1956
The first Canadian Open Chess Championship, 1956. One plate with a portrait. 92 selected games from the tournament without annotations. No diagrams. Descriptive notation. Round-by-round reports. Final standings. Players index. Round-by-round individual results. Evans won in front of Lombardy. 2 leaves with ads, 105 pages. 28 cm. Typescript printed recto an verso. Pamphlet, stapled. Montreal, Canadian Open Chess Championship Committee, 1957. Betts 25 - 250.Leave a comment:
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Chess Books at Auction
August 15, 2018
On eBay today. I have not altered a word or spelling!
chess-board-set-is-not-working-it-can-be-fix-I-drop-it-and-it-stop-working
US $7.40
I drop it and it stop working the name is CHESS CHAMPION 2150 and it has sisty four level it has 72K MEMORY AUTO PLAY it from RADIO SHACK it can be fix
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Chess Books at Auction
June 22, 2018
There seem to be any number of books out there signed by a multiplicity of grandmasters.
This is presently on eBay:
Chess. 1981. Autographs. 12 grandmasters signed the book
Price: US $2,000
Buy It Now or Make Offer
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Chess-1981-...be2c%7Ciid%3A1
Description
12 grandmasters signed the book "Interzonal tournaments "Riga 79". "Rio de Janeiro 79" (publisher Moscow. Physical education and sport. 1980. The author Chepizhny V., Circulation of 100 000, 415 page, with illustrations. Russian language. Format 220x140 mm, Weight 540 g)
These 12 original autographs I received personally from February 23 to February 28, 1981 in Moscow, in the weightlifting Palace of the Army Central Sports Club (Moscow, Leningradsky prospect, 39). On this day, the first round of the 2nd match tournament of the USSR national teams was held.
Signature on the front flyleaf of the book:
1. Karpov A. (23.05.1951), ex-world champion
2. Kasparov G. (13.04.1963), ex-world champion
3. M. Chiburdanidze (17.01.1961), ex-world champion
4. Petrosyan T. (17.06.1929 – 13.08.2004), ex-world champion
5. Smyslov V. (24.03.1921 – 27.03.2010), ex-world champion
6. Taimanov M. (07.02.1926 – 28.11.2016)
7. Geller E. (08.03.1925 – 17.11.1998)
8. Bronstein D. (19.02.1924 – 05.12.2006)
9. Belyavsky A. (17.12.1953)
10. Polugaevsky L. (20.11.1934 – 30.08.2005)
11. B. Spassky (30.01.1937), ex-world champion
12. Tal M. (09.11.1936 – 28.06.1992), ex-world champion.
Signatures A. Karpov, G. Kasparov and M. Chiburdanidze I have outlined their names next to the signatures.
Signature of T. Petrosian, Smyslov V., M. Taimanov, Geller, E., Bronstein, D., Belyavsky A., Polugaevsky L., B. Spassky, M. Тal, I numbered their names are listed on the Verso of the title page of the book.
Information about holding from 22 to 28 February 1981, the 2nd Match-tournament of the USSR national teams in chess is available in the book " Chess. Encyclopedic dictionary", page 241 (editor-in-chief A. E. Karpov, Soviet encyclopedia edition. Moscow. One thousand nine hundred ninety):
"2nd match tournament, 22-28.2.1981. Dedicated to the 26th Congress of the CPSU. Participants-1st, 2nd youth teams of the USSR and the senior team. Participants: world Champions among men and women, 3 ex-world Champions, 28 international grandmasters, 2 international masters and 1 master of sports of the USSR. The game was played on 8 boards in 2 circles.
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OVERALL RESULTS.… : Individual results: Karpov-3.5 points out of 6......"
(see 3 photos of the book fragment).
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Chess Books at Auction
June 20, 2018
A possibly unique collection of chess tournament books is up for auction.
See:
http://www.chesslund.com/detail.asp?...congress-books
Collection of 350 tournament, match and congress books
Very extensive collection with rare and precious specimens.
The collection contains many original first editions, rare and expensive copies, copies signed by the writer, printed signatures of grandmasters, signatures of famous chess book collectors such as Nielsen but also more recent collectors.
The books differ, some are hardcover, some softcover and some entirely of paper. All copies are complete and thus all images, photos and portraits are present. (491 pictures)
More pictures can be found here:
https://gielkortman.nl/tournament-books/
All covers are photographed, some of the books also the first page and an extra photo. Please view the photos carefully to form your opinion.
Seventy titles taken at random:
No Venue Year
1 Wiener Internationale1873
2 St. Petersburg 1895
3 Lasker vs Marshal1907
4 Lasker vs Tarrasch 1908
5 Karlsbad1911
6 Stockholm 1912
7 Temesvar1912
8 Rice Memorial New York 1916
9 Kaschau 1918
10 Goteborg1919
11 Alechin-Teichmann1921
12 Bad Piestany1922
13 Teplitz Schonau 1922
14 Hastings1922
15 Scheveningen1923
16 Paris 1925
17 Baden Baden 1925
18 Semmering 1926
19 Hannover1926
20 Semmering 1926
21 Kecskemet 1927
22 Berlin 1928
23 Wien1928
24 Bad Kissingen 1928
25 Karlsbad1929
26 San Remo1930
27 Bern 1932
28 Warsaw Olympiad 1935
29 Amsterdam 1936
30 Nottingham 1936
31 Stockholm 1937
32 Prag1937
33 Euwe-Aljechin 1937
34 Bad Oeynhausen 1938
35 Noordwijk 1938
36 Munich 1941
37 Salzburg1942
38 Prag1942
39 Prag1943
40 Salzburg1943
41 World Chess Championship 1943
42 Hastings1946
43 Moscow v Prague 1946
44 Zaanstreek 1946
45 Mar del Plata 1947
46 Sextangular Tournament Buenos Aires 1947
47 New York1948
48 Den Haag-Moskou 1948
49 Dutch Championship 1950
50 Staunton Centenary 1951
51 Reggio Emilia 1951
52 Helsinki Olympiad1952
53 Goteborg 1955
54 Dr. Dyckhoff Fernschach-Gedenkturnier 1956
55 Wageningen Zonal Turnier 1957
56 Lessing J. Rosenwald New York1963
57 Sousse, Tunisia 1967
58 Maribor 1967
59 Kizlovodsk 1968
60 Soviet Union vs Rest of the World 1970
61 Netanya 1971
62 USSR Championship Moscow 1973
63 Sochi 1973
64 Nice Olympiad 1974
65 Tallinn 1977
66 Tilburg 1978
67 Niksic 1978
68 Buenos Aires Olympiad1978
69 Montreal1979
70 Riga Interzonal 1979
The total weight is 75 kg. and the entire lot will be sent by registered mail in 4 or 5 shipping boxes. Therefore check the shipping costs for your country.
SHIPMENT COSTS
All the items will be packed save and send with registered mail.
75 KG
Netherlands € 120,00 / € 200,00
Europe . € 200,00 / € 300,00
World . € 475,00 / € 600,00
PAYMENT DETAILS
Current Bid:€5 959,00
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Currently, the initial bid is about 9175 CAD.
The seller at the Lund Auction site is listed as Gielcasper. At least one dedication in the photos is to G.J. Cieraad, a chess book collector from Gouda. He may have started the collection.
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Please note that I am reporting on various chess auctions and not auctioning books off myself (Heaven forbid!!)Last edited by Wayne Komer; Thursday, 21st June, 2018, 03:01 PM.Leave a comment:
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Re: Chess Books at Auction
Chess Books at Auction
April 10, 2018
I am indebted to Michael Clapham's blog for information about the Bonham's sale of two Fischer books inscribed to William Lombardy:
http://chessbookchats.blogspot.ca
See Bonhams:
https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24254/lot/1076/
Lot 1076
FISCHER, BOBBY. 1943-2008
"An outstanding collection of items relating to Fischer's epic victory over Boris Spassky (b.1937) at the World Championships in 1972, including an original watercolor by Halldor Petursson of Fischer and Spassky, as follows:
1. My 60 Memorable Games. New York: Simon and Schuster, (1969). 8vo. Some wear to jacket.
FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED TO HIS COACH BILL [LOMBARDY] ON THE OCCASION OF HIS FIRST WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, "thanks a lot for your help and patience." Annotated and signed by Lombardy, "Sept 1st, 1972/ First autograph of Bobby Fischer as World Champion." Bill Lombardy was Fischer's coach from the age of 11 1/2 through the World Championships of 1972, ending on September 1st when Fischer famously defeated Boris Spassky, an event, Garry Kasparov noted, "treated on both sides of the Atlantic as a crushing moment in the... cold war."
2. Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess. New York: Basic Systems, (1966). Illustrated boards, without d.j. as issued. Cracking to joints, some soiling.
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY FISCHER, BILL LOMBARDY'S COPY, with his signature to paste-down.
3. Signed traveller's check ("Bobby Fischer"), accomplished in Fischer's hand to Bill Lombardy, and endorsed by Lombardy to the verso.
4. Five Icelandic postal covers, each signed by both Fischer and Lombardy, dated 2.VII.1972 to 1.IX.1972 and numbered, with various representations of Fischer-Spassky, and including one dated the day of Fischer's momentous victory.
5. Original watercolor by Halldor Petursson, depicting Fischer and Spassky, along with Lombardy, lettered in English, pen and ink with watercolor, 367 x 478 mm, inscribed by the artist to "Grandmaster William Lombardy", Reykjavik, July 1972, lower right, small tear to left hand margin, not affecting image.
BEAUTIFUL WATERCOLOR DEPICTING A VICTORIOUS FISCHER emerging from a doorway marked "Ping Pong" and being tended to by Lombardy, while a beaten and worn Spassky stumbles away, cradling his crown. Petursson created some of the most iconic images of the World Championships with a series of 18 cartoons published as post cards. He annotates "(Rev) William Lombardy" beneath his image, and inscribes the painting in the month of their first matches at the world Championships. As Spassky won the first match, and was awarded the second on a forfeit, one can only imagine that this was accomplished only after Fischer beat Spassky for the first time in his life in game 3, before going undefeated in the next six matches throughout late July."
There are good photos of the items on the Bonhams site.
The lot sold for Sold for US$ 1,875 (CA$ 2,396) inc. premium, which I consider a bargain.
Michael adds this note: "Lombardy's inscribed copy of My 60 Memorable Games was sold, along with some other items, at Bonhams, New York last December for $1,875. I understand that this copy of Fischer's book is now being advertised for sale for $50,000!"
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On the Bonham's site there is an old auction, from June 10, 2009
https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/17109/lot/3372/
Lot 3372
"Library of books and documents derived from the Pasadena storage unit where Fischer's belongings were held after 1992. Fischer had defied the U.N. embargo against travel to Yugoslavia for his re-match against Boris Spassky and never again returned to the U.S."Leave a comment:
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