Code for the items: hc = hardcover, pb = paperback, AN = algebraic notation, DN = descriptive notation, pp = pages.
The following books, donated by Robert Supnik of Carlisle, will be auctioned off:
LOT AUTHOR(S) TITLE
1 Alexander Alekhine's Best Games 1938-1945, hc, 117 pp, DN
2 Alekhine The Book of the Nottingham International Chess Tournament,
1936, pb, 291 pp, DN
3 Reinfeld The Development of a Chess Genius: 100 Instructive Games
of Alekhine, pb, 278 pp, DN
4 Alekhine My Best Games of Chess 1908-1923, pb, 267 pp, DN
5 Alekhine My Best Games of Chess 1924-1937, pb, 285 pp, DN
6 Alekhine The World's Chess Championship 1937, pb, 203 pp, DN
7 Botvinnik One Hundred Selected Games, pb, 272 pp, DN
8 Botvinnik Botvinnik's Best Games 1947-1970, hc, 237 pp, DN
9 Botvinnik Soviet Chess Championship 1941, pb, 186 pp, DN
10 Clarke The 1969 World Chess Championship Match, pb, 48 pp, DN
11 Golombek Capablanca's 100 Best Games of Chess, hc, 270 pp, DN
12 Capablanca My Chess Career, pb, 194 pp, DN
13 Clarke 100 Soviet Chess Miniatures, hc, 174 pp, DN
14 Chernev 1000 Best Short Games of Chess, hc, 555 pp, DN
15 Chernev The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played,
pb, 279 pp, DN
16 Chernev Winning Chess Traps, pb, 306 pp, DN
17 Chernev/Reinfeld Winning Chess, hc, 231 pp, DN
18 Chernev The Bright Side of Chess, pb, 175 pp, DN
19 Chernev Practical Chess Endings, hc, 319 pp, DN
20 Chernev The Russians Play Chess, pb, 215 pp, DN
21 Chernev Logical Chess Move by Move, hc, 250 pp, DN
22 Euwe From My Games 1920-1937, pb, 234 pp, DN
23 Fine Great Moments in Modern Chess, pb, 323 pp, DN
24 Fine Basic Chess Endings, pb, 573 pp, DN
25 Fine 50 Chess Lessons from Modern Master Play, pb, 218 pp, DN
26 Fischer Bobby Fischer's Games of Chess, hc, 97 pp, DN
27 Fischer My 60 Memorial Games, hc, 384 pp, DN
28 Gligoric Fischer vs. Spassky, pb, 128 pp, DN
29 Grekov Soviet Chess, pb, 267 pp, DN
30 Helms/Alekhine The Book of the New York International Chess
Tournament 1924, pb, 271 pp, DN
31 Horowitz/Reinfeld Chess Traps, Pitfalls, and Swindles, pb, 243 pp, DN
32 Reinfeld Keres' Best Games of Chess, pb, 250 pp, DN
33 Keres The Complete Games of Paul Keres, pb, 574 pp, DN
34 Keres Golombek The Art of the Middlegame, pb, 238 pp, DN
35 Korn Modern Chess Openings, 12th edition, hc, 457 pp, DN
36 Reinfeld Colle's Chess Masterpieces, pb, 92 pp, DN
37 Reinfeld/Fine Lasker's Greatest Chess Games 1889-1914, pb, 165 pp, DN
38 Reinfeld/Fine A. Alekhine vs. E.D. Bogoljubov: World's Chess
Championship 1934, pb, 56 pp, DN
39 Lasker The International Chess Congress, St. Petersburg 1909,
pb, 192 pp, DN
40 Marshall Marshall's Best Games of Chess, pb, 242 pp, DN
41 Sergeant Morphy's Games of Chess, pb, 352 pp, DN
42 Nimzovich Chess Praxis, pb, 369 pp, DN
43 Nimzovich My System, hc, 372 pp, DN
44 Nimzovich Carlsbad International Chess Tournament 1929, pb, 146 pp, AN
45 Reinfeld Hypermodern Chess, pb, 221 pp, DN
46 Clarke Petrosian's Best Games of Chess, hc, 205 pp, DN
47 Sergeant/Watts Pillsbury's Chess Career, pb, 230 pp, DN
48 Reinfeld Great Short Games of the Chess Masters, pb, 221 pp, DN
49 Reinfeld Great Briliancy Prize Games of the Chess Masters, pb, 222 pp, DN
50 Reinfeld A Treasury of British Chess Masterpieces, pb, 260 pp, DN
51 Reshevsky Reshevsky's Best Games of Chess, pb, 273 pp, DN
52 Reti/Golombek Reti's Best Games of Chess, pb, 173 pp, DN
53 Reti Modern Ideas in Chess, pb, 182 pp, DN
54 Kmoch Rubinstein's Chess Masterpieces: 100 Selected Games,
pb, 192 pp, DN
55 Spielmann The Art of Sacrifice in Chess, hc, 198 pp, DN
56 Smyslov My Best Games of Chess 1935-1957, pb, 154 pp, DN
57 Cafferty Spassky's 100 Best Games, hc, 254 pp, DN
58 Steinitz Selected Chess Games, pb, 109 pp, DN
59 Russell/Tal Tal-Botvinnik 1960, pb, 188 pp, DN
60 Kalnajs Tal-Botvinnik II, pb, 94 pp, DN
61 Clarke Mikhail Tal's Best Games of Chess, hc, 195 pp, DN
62 Reinfeld Tarrasch's Best Games of Chess, pb, 385 pp, DN
63 Tartakower My Best Games of Chess 1905-1954, pb, 197 pp, DN
64 Tartakower/duMont 500 Master Games of Chess, pb, 665 pp, DN
65 Tartakower/duMont 100 Master Games of Chess, pb, 171 pp, DN
66 Watts The Book of the Hastings International Masters Chess Tournament.
1922, pb, 63 pp, DN
67 Watts The Book of the London International Chess Congress 1922,
pb, 126 pp, DN
The following books were donated from the MACA inventory and includes books donated by Walter Champion of Wellesley:
68 Encyclopedia of Chess Openings, Vol. A, 1st edition, hc, 476 pp, AN
69 Encyclopedia of Chess Openings, Vol. A, 1st edition (second copy)
70 Encyclopedia of Chess Openings, Vol.. B, 2nd edition, hc, 509 pp, AN
71 Encyclopedia of Chess Openings, Vol. B, 2nd edition (second copy)
72 Encyclopedia of Chess Openings, Vol. C, 2nd edition, hc, 487 pp, AN
73 Encyclopedia of Chess Openings, Vol. C, 2nd edition (second copy)
74 Encyclopedia of Chess Openings, Vol. D, 1st edition, hc, 403 pp, AN
75 Encyclopedia of Chess Openings, Vol. D, 2nd edition, hc, 493 pp, AN
76 Encyclopedia of Chess Openings, Vol. E, 1st edition, hc, 466 pp, AN
77 Encyclopedia of Chess Openings, Vol. E, 1st edition (second copy)
78 Encyclopedia of Chess Openings, Vol. E, 1st edition (third copy)
79 New In Chess, No. 28, published in 1993, hc, 236 pp, AN
80 Marovic/Susic King Pawn Openings, hc, 255 pp, DN
81 Wade/Harding The Marshall Attack, hc, 256 pp, DN
82 Levy/O'Connell How to Play the Sicilian Defence, hc, 152 pp, DN
83 Zeuthen Modern Benoni, hc, 556 pp, AN
84 Pachman Modern Chess Theory: Indian Systems, hc, 276 pp, DN
85 Schwarz Englisch-Bremer Partie, hc, 300 pp, German AN
86 Schwarz Die franzoesische Verteidigung, hc, 576 pp, German AN
87 Schwarz Das klassische Damengambit III, hc, 179 pp, German AN
88 Tartakower A Breviary of Chess, hc, 267 pp, DN
89 Reinfeld The Unknown Alekhine 1905-1914, hc, 278 pp, DN
90 Golombek Capablanca's 100 Best Games of Chess, hc, 332 pp, DN
91 Evans Modern Chess Brilliancies, hc, 226 pp, DN
92 Waitzkin Mortal Games - The Turbulent Genius of Garry Kasparov, hc, 302 pp
93 Kasparov Unlimited Challenge - An Autobiography, hc, 273 pp, DN
94 Pachman Checkmate in Prague, hc, 216 pp
95 Pachman Pachman's Decisive Games, hc, 259 pp, DN
96 Schonberg Grandmasters of Chess, hc, 317 pp, DN, autographed by author
97 Gligoric/Wade The World Chess Championship, hc, 191 pp, DN
98 Hochberg Title Chess - The 1972 United States Chess Championship,
hc, 229 pp, DN
99 Mitchell's Guide to the Game of Chess, hc, 117 pp, DN, a little gem of a book
published by McKay in 1920
100 The American Chess Player's Handbook, hc, 256 pp. Another gem of a book in
"old" descriptive notation.
101 FIDE Album 1914-1944/II [Chess Problems], hc, 304 pp, AN
The following books were donated by Robert Barry of Plymouth:
102 Horowitz Chess Openings: Theory and Practice, pb, 789 pp, DN
103 Griffith/White Modern Chess Openings, 6th edition, 1939, hc, 324 pp, DN
104 Korn Modern Chess Openings, 9th edition (revised), 1960, hc, 360 pp, DN
105 Korn Modern Chess Openings, 12th edition, 1982, pb, 457 pp, DN
106 Suetin Modern Chess Opening Theory, pb, 322 pp, DN
107 Norwood Trends in the Modern (Defense) with ...c6, pb, 38 pp, AN
108 Tseitlin/Glazkov The Complete Vienna, pb, 127 ppm AN
109 Soltis Black to Play and Win with 1...g6, pb, 128 pp, AN, autographed
110 Soltis Winning with the English Opening (revised edition), pb, 146 pp, AN,
autographed by the author
111 Keene Flank Openings, pb, 222 pp, AN
112 Santasiere The Futuristic Chess Opening, pb, 43 pp, DN
113 Santasiere Larsen-Santasiere Variation 2. P-KB4, pb, 28 pp, DN,
autographed by the author
114 Znosko-Borovsky How to Play the Chess Openings, pb, 147 pp, DN
115 Fine The Ideas Behind the Chess Openings, hc, 240 pp, DN
116 Capablanca Chess Fundamentals, pb, 246 pp, DN
117 Winter Chess for Match Players, pb, 328 pp, DN
118 Alexander Alekhine's Best Games of Chess 1938-1945, hc, 117 pp, DN,
autographed by Santasiere
119 Alekhine My Best Games of Chess 1924-1937, hc, 285 pp, DN
120 Vainstein David Bronstein - Chess Improviser, hc, 194 pp, AN
121 Curdo Forty Years at the Top, pb, 130 pp, AN, autographed by author
122 Lyman/Dann 75 Years of Affection for Chess: A Tribute to Harlow B. Daly,
pb, 40 pp, DN
123 Pandolfini Bobby Fischer's Outrageous Chess Moves, pb, 130+ pp, AN
124 Fischer My 60 Memorable Games, pb, 384 pp, DN
125 Wade/O'Connell Bobby Fischer's Chess Games, hc, 448 pp, DN
126 O'Connell/Adams The Games of Anatoly Karpov, hc, 352 pp, DN
127 Markland The Best of Karpov, hc, 272 pp, AN
128 Botvinnik One Hundred Selected Games, pb, 272 pp, DN
129 Euwe From My Games 1920-1937, pb, 234 pp, DN
130 Gerzadowicz Journal of a Chess Original, pb, 165 pp, AN, autographed
131 Gerzadowicz Journal of a Chess Master, pb, 291 pp, AN, autographed
132 Reinfeld Keres' Best Games of Chess, hc, 224 pp, DN
133 Larsen Larsen's Selected Games of Chess 1948-69, hc, 181 pp, DN
134 Reinfeld/Fine Lasker's Greatest Chess Games 1889-1914, pb, 165 pp, DN
135 Marshall Frank J. Marshall's Best Games of Chess, pb, 242 pp, DN
136 Muir My 75 Year Chess Career, pb, 354 pp, DN
137 Sergeant/Watts Pillsbury's Chess Career, pb, 230 pp, DN
138 Reshevsky Reshevsky's Best Games of Chess, pb, 273 pp, DN
139 Smyslov 125 Selected Games, hc, 250 pp, AN
140 Smyslov My Best Games of Chess 1935-1957, pb, 154 pp, DN
141 Soltis Boris Spassky: 51 annotated games of the new World Champion,
pb, 92 pp, DN
142 Cafferty Tal's 100 Best Games, hc, 251 pp, DN
143 Wetzell Chess Master ...at any age, pb, 301 pp, AN
144 Wolff The American Grandmaster Series: Wolff!, pb, 62 pp, AN
145 Lawson Paul Morphy: The Pride and Sorrow of Chess, hc, 424 pp, DN,
autographed by the author, a "must bid" for all serious players
146 Napier Paul Morphy and the Golden Age of Chess, pb, 288 pp, DN
147 Collins My Seven Chess Prodigies, hc, 313 pp, DN, autographed by author
148 Dunne How to Become a Candidate Master, pb, 252 pp, AN, autographed
149 Dvoretsky Secrets of Chess Training, pb, 216 pp, AN
150 duMont 200 Miniature Games of Chess, hc, 287 pp, DN
151 Euwe/Meiden Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur, hc, 315 pp, DN
152 Euwe Judgment and Planning in Chess, hc, 190 pp, DN
153 Euwe The Development of Chess Style, hc, 152 pp, DN
154 Evans New Ideas in Chess, pb, 185 pp, DN
155 Fine The Psychology of the Chess Player, pb, 74 pp
156 Krogius Chess Psychology, pb, 134 pp, DN
157 Horowitz Solitaire Chess, pb, 128 pp, DN
158 Horowitz Point Count Chess, hc, 341 pp, DN
159 Kotov Think Like a Grandmaster, pb, 200 pp, DN
160 Schmidt How Chessmasters Think, pb, 127 pp, AN
161 Pfleger/Treppner Chess: The Mechanics of the Mind, pb, 156 pp, AN
162 Kmoch Pawn Power in Chess, pb, 304 pp, DN
163 Lasker Lasker's Manual of Chess, pb, 349 pp, DN
164 Lasker Common Sense in Chess, pb, 139 pp, DN. A rare edition of the classic
Lasker book, reprinted by Willey Book Co. in 1944
165 Lasker Chess for Fun and Chess for Blood, 3rd edition, hc, 224 pp, DN
166 Mason The Art of Chess, hc, 490 pp, DN. A rare 4th edition, printed in 1913.
167 Mieses Instructive Positions from Master Chess, hc, 75 pp, DN. Another
rare edition, printed in 1938.
168 Keene Aron Nimzowitsch: A Reappraisal, hc, 334 pp, DN
169 Reinfeld Hypermodern Chess (Games by Nimzovich), pb, 221 pp, DN
170 Nimzovich Chess Praxis, pb, 369 pp, DN
171 Nimzovich My System, pb, 372 pp, DN
172 Pachman Modern Chess Strategy, pb, 314 pp, DN
173 Pandolfini Russian Chess, pb, 220 pp, AN
174 Pandolfini Weapons of Chess, pb, 287 pp, AN
175 Tykodi C.J.S. Purdy's Fine Art of Chess Annotations and other Thoughts,
pb, 177 pp, AN
176 Reti Modern Ideas in Chess, pb, 182 pp, DN
177 Saidy The Battle of Chess Ideas, hc, 160 pp, DN, autographed by author
178 Shamkovich The Chess Terrorist's Handbook, pb, 148 pp, AN
179 Shamkovich Sacrifice in Chess, pb, 190 pp, DN
180 Spielmann The Art of Sacrifice in Chess, hc, 216 pp, DN
181 Webb Chess for Tigers, 2nd edition, pb, 120 pp, AN
182 Winter Kings of Chess:Chess Champions of the 20th Century, pb, 271 pp, DN
183 Wenman One Hundred Chess Gems, pb, 140+ pp, DN
184 Evans/Smith Chess World Championship 1972, pb, 261 pp, DN,
autographed by Santasiere
185 Kashdan Grandmaster Chess: The Book of the Louis D. Statham
Lone Pine Masters-Plus Tournament 1975, pb, 224 pp, DN
186 Messere The Potter Memorial, pb, 110 pp, AN
187 Watts The Book of the London International Chess Congress 1922,
pb, 126 pp, DN
188 Helms The Book of the New York International Chess Tournament 1924,
(annotations by Alekhine), pb, 271 pp, DN
189 Hartston/Keene Karpov-Korchnoi 1974, pb, 94 pp, AN
190 Bronstein Zurich International Chess Tournament 1953, pb, 349 pp, AN
191 Reinfeld Complete Book of Chess Stratagems, hc, 187 pp, DN
192 Reinfeld 1001 Chess Sacrifices and Combinations, pb, 252 pp, DN
193 Fine The Middle Game in Chess, pb, 442 pp, DN
194 Horowitz Chess: Games to Remember, hc, 266 pp, DN
195 Evans/Silman/Roberts How to Get Better at Chess, pb, 254 pp, AN
196 Karpov Secrets from Russia: Chess Theory and Analysis 1993,
pb, 469 pp, AN
197 Berry Diamond Dust, pb, 122 pp, AN
198 Wellmuth The Golden Treasury of Chess, hc, 304 pp, DN. A rare edition of
a great book, published in 1943.
199 Brace An Illustrated Dictionary of Chess, hc, 320 pp, DN
200 Fine Basic Chess Endings, pb, 571 pp, DN
201 Tattersall A Thousand Chess Endings, Vol. 1, pb, 211 pp, DN
202 Tattersall A Thousand Chess Endings, Vol. 2, pb, 200 pp, DN
203 Averbakh Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge, pb, 135 pp, DN
204 Chernev Chessboard Magic! A Collection of 160 Brilliant Chess Endings,
pb, 162 pp, DN
205 Reinfeld Practical End-Game Play, hc, 177 pp, DN
206 Reinfeld Practical End-Game Play (second copy)
207 Pandolfini Pandolfini's Endgame Course, pb, 320 pp, AN
208 Sutherland/Lommer 1234 Modern End-Game Studies, pb, 358 pp, AN
209 Troitzky Collection of Chess Studies, hc, 264 pp, DN. A rare edition of the
classic, printed in 1937.
210 Pulitzer Chess Harmonies. Selections from the compositions of Walter
Pulitzer, hc, 112 pp, DN. A rare book, printed in 1894.
211 Suesman 64 Chess Problems for Chess Players, pb, 20+ pp, DN
212 Assorted chess computer books: Computer Chess: A Fortran Program to Play
and Display Chess Games (by Mickel); Digital Computer Programs
(by Mickel), pb, 26 pp; Computers, chess and long-range planning
(by Botvinnik), pb, 89 pp; How to Get the Most from Your Chess Computer
(by Kaplan), pb, 138 pp; Sargon: A Computer Chess Program (by Dan and
Kate Spracklen), pb, 114 pp.
213 Onyx Chess Set with onyx board (3/4" squares, black and white). King 1 5/8"
The following items were donated by John Curdo of Auburn and Harold Dondis of Belmont:
214 Susan Polgar DVD's, listed in the USCF catalog for $124.95 - brand-new, never
been opened.
Vol. 1: The Basic Principles of Chess
Vol. 2: Learn How to Create a Plan in the Opening, Middle and Endgame
Vol. 3: Essential Chess Tactics and Combinations
Vol. 4: Learn How to Avoid Opening Traps and Pitfalls
Vol. 5: Bobby Fischer's Most Brilliant Instructional Games and Combinations
Vol. 6: Secrets of How to Think Like a Grandmaster/Las Vegas
International Chess Festival
215 Pair of onyx bookends (6" knights)
And lastly, the following magazines were donated by Larry Kleine:
216 Chess Horizons 15 complete years of the MACA publication when it was
a bimonthly: 1978-1992 (90 issues) and 2 issues from
1977: Sept-Oct and Nov-Dec