Chess Book Collection

[Lee Hendon]

My Book Collection is at 51 and counting just wondering how many people have personal book collection of a Century or more. Maybe we can have a World Record for Chess Books.:)

1. Garry Kasparov My Great Predecessors Part I
2. Garry Kasparov My Great Predecessors Part II
3. Garry Kasparov My Great Predecessors Part III
4. Garry Kasparov My Great Predecessors Part IV
5. Alexander Kotov Think Like a Grandmaster
6. Alexander Kotov Play Like a Grandmaster
7. Mark Dvorestky School of Chess Excellence Endgame Analysis
8. Mark Dvorestky School of Chess Excellence Tactical Play
9. Mark Dvorestky School of Chess Excellence Strategic Play
10. Mark Dvorestky School of Chess Excellence Opening Developments
11. Mark Dvorestky Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual
12. Mark Dvorestky Dvoretsky's Analytical Manual
13. Paata Gaprindashvili Imagination in Chess
14. John Watson Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy
15. John Waston Mastering the Chess Openings, Volume 3
16. Bobby Fischer My 60 Memorable Games
17. Andrew Soltis Pawn Structure Chess
18. Andrew Soltis The Art of Defense in Chess
19. Andrew Soltis How to Choose a Chess Move
20. Yuri Averbakh Chess Tactics for Advanced Players
21. Vladimir Vukovic Art of Attack in Chess
22. Hastings 1895: The Centennial Edition
23. David Bronstein Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953
24. Mikhail Tal The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal
25. Lawrance Day Nick's Best
26. Daniel Yanofsky Chess The Hard Way
27. Alexei Shirov Fire on Board, Part 2
28. László Polgár Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games
29. Neil McDonald Planning
30. Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk How I became a grandmaster at age 14
31. Graham Burgess The Mammoth Book of Chess
32. Daniel J. King Kasparov v. Deeper Blue
33. Daniel J. King Kasparov v. Anand
34. Lev Alburt Just the Facts!
35. Fred Reinfeld Great Short Ganes of the Chess Masters
36. Fred Reinfeld The Complete Chess Player
37. Informator The Small Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings 1st Edition
38. Informator Encyclopaedia of Chess Middlegames
39. Speelman, Tisdall and Wade Batsford Chess Endings
40. Irving Chernev The Chess Companion
41. David Norwood Chess Puzzles
42. John Emms Play the Najdorf Scheveningen Style
43. Jacob Aagaard and Esben Lund Meeting 1 d4
44. Tim Harding and Bernard Cafferty Plat the Evans Gambit
45. Eduard Gufeld and Eric Schiller Secrets of the King’s Indian
46. Ken Smith and John Hall Grand Prix Attack
47. Milton Hanauer Chess Made Simple
48. Roswin Finkenzellers Chess A Celebration of 2000 Years
49. Gareth Williams Master Pieces
50. Emanuel Lasker Lasker's Manual of Chess
51. Bruce Pandolfini The Chess Doctor

[Neil Sullivan]

Re: Chess Book Collection

I'd be surprised if most people here had less than 100 chess books. I've never visited a player's house without seeing at least that many.

[Lee Hendon]

Re: Chess Book Collection

Yeah your are most likely right but it would be interesting to see who has the largest collection, I would assume it would most likely be over 1000.:)

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: Chess Book Collection

1. Garry Kasparov My Great Predecessors Part I
2. Garry Kasparov My Great Predecessors Part II
3. Garry Kasparov My Great Predecessors Part III
4. Garry Kasparov My Great Predecessors Part IV

Tell us a good reason why you stopped with Kasparov's series? :D

[Felix Dumont]

Re : Chess Book Collection

I only have about 40 books, but since I began playing like 3 years ago it's not that bad...

[Lee Hendon]

Re: Chess Book Collection

Tell us a good reason why you stopped with Kasparov's series? :D

Just got IV today almost didn't get as it was delivered to the people who live behind me lol.
Few thought you were going to interagate me for not having train like a grandmaster

[Peter McKillop]

Re: Chess Book Collection

... just wondering how many people have personal book collection of a Century or more. ...

~325 for me :)

[Lee Hendon]

Re: Chess Book Collection

~325 for me :)

That's a list like to see not sure if the server can handle it thou :D
My collection has just been Killed by the Mc Kill Op. eration.

[David Lawless]

Re: Chess Book Collection

I lost count ... must be around 150.

"It has been said that man is distinguished from animal in that he buys more books than he can read. I should like to suggest that the inclusion of a few chess books would help to make the distinction unmistakable." - Edward Lasker
from: http://www.chessquotes.com/topic-humour

[Lee Hendon]

Re: Chess Book Collection

I lost count ... must be around 150.

"It has been said that man is distinguished from animal in that he buys more books than he can read. I should like to suggest that the inclusion of a few chess books would help to make the distinction unmistakable." - Edward Lasker
from: http://www.chessquotes.com/topic-humour

Play Chess Like an Animal by Anthea Carson and Life Master Brian Wall great idea. Oh but wait Humans are Animals.

[Hugh Brodie]

Re: Chess Book Collection

Just my collection of Chess Informants totals 107 (i.e. all of them).

Maybe I should read them some time.

[Lee Hendon]

Re: Chess Book Collection

How come you haven't got episode 108 yet:)

[Wayne Komer]

Re: Chess Book Collection

Quantity of chess books can be deceiving. I know several collectors, who have the complete run of The British Chess Magazine for 1881 – 2010, 130 bound volumes. In a catalogue this is usually counted as one listing.

It is said that Lothar Schmid of Germany has 50,000 chess books in his private collection and David DeLucia of New York/Connecticut has 8,000. It is difficult to ascertain if the count contains bound chess magazines as one item or a number of volumes.

As a good starting point for discussion, I would say that a big, varied collection would have 500 titles (counting specific bound magazines as one title) and include at least 100 of a specialty subject such as tournament books, problems, endgame studies, history, correspondence chess etc.

[Hugh Brodie]

Re: Chess Book Collection

How come you haven't got episode 108 yet

It's not in stock anywhere yet. There is a rumour that this may be the last (paper) Informant printed.

Also - #108 is supposed to cover the first four months of 2010, so it's already a few months behind schedule.

[Ernest Klubis]

Re: Chess Book Collection

According to GM Mr. Kevin Spragett, largest private collection of chess books in Canada belongs to Mr. Roman Pelts (Thornhill,Ontario), with estimated number of over 1,000 and keeps growing.