Kings of Chess

William Winter

• Paperback | Engels | Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics
• The only British chess champion ever to be arrested and imprisoned for sedition, Winter was one of the more colourful characters of the British chess ... Lees meer

World Chess Championship 1951

W Winter, R G Wade

• Paperback | Engels | Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics
• This mighty clash between the top two Soviet Grandmasters was Botvinnik's first title defence after becoming World Champion in 1948. Amazingly, the ma... Lees meer

Sixty-Six Master Games Played in the London International Chess Tournament, 1932

Alexander Alekhine

• Paperback | Engels | Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics
• London 1932 is one of the lesser known books from the pen of the prolific Russian genius, Alekhine. In 1932 Alekhine was still revelling in the blindi... Lees meer

Manoeuvres in Moscow

Raymond Keene, David Goodman

• Paperback | Engels | Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics
• In early 1985 Florencio Campomanes - the now disgraced former president of FIDE, the World Chess Federation - halted the World Title challenge from Ga... Lees meer

First Piatigorsky Cup

• Paperback | Engels | Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics
• Having just defeated Botvinnik for the World Crown the new champion Tigran Petrosian travelled to Hollywood to compete in this glamorous top level com... Lees meer

Second Piatigorsky Cup

• Paperback | Engels | Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics
• If anything, the Second Piatigorsky Cup excelled the First in tension and excellence of play. Once again the competing grandmasters - including Fische... Lees meer

Bent Larsen's Best Games of Chess

Bent Larsen

• Paperback | Engels | Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics
• Bent Larsen is one of the outstanding figures of post-war chess, with top-level tournament victories spanning five decades. His outstanding fighting q... Lees meer

Two Opening Repertoires for White - Volume 2

Raymond Keene, Byron Jacobs

• Paperback | Engels | Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics
• A companion volume to Two Opening Repertoires for White: Volume 1, this book details some more aggressive strategies in the opening for White again ba... Lees meer

Chess from Morphy to Botwinnik

Imre Konig

• Paperback | Engels | Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics
• Taking critical openings as his standpoint - the Ruy Lopez - Queen's Gambit - English Opening and King's Gambit - König shows how chess technique adva... Lees meer

The Centenary Match

Raymond Keene, David Goodman

• Paperback | Engels | Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics
• This book recounts the third of the five chapters in the half-decade long rivalry which erupted between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. In the eyes... Lees meer

The Best Games of Mir Sultan Khan

R N Coles

• Paperback | Engels | Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics
• At the height of the British Empire, the chess loving Indian servant, Sultan Khan, arrived in the imperial capital as part of the feudal retinue of Si... Lees meer

Delights of Chess

Assiac

• Paperback | Engels | Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics
• Delights of Chess is Assiac's enduring monument. Wit, erudition, grandmaster gossip and profiles of the greats are the staple fare, rather then gruell... Lees meer

The Complete King's Indian

Raymond Keene, Byron Jacobs

• Paperback | Engels | Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics
• The King's Indian is noted as a dynamic counter-attacking defence par excellence. This book describes the key strategies for both sides in the main li... Lees meer

Masters of the Chess Board

Richard Reti

• Paperback | Engels | Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics
• Réti produces a penetrating thumbnail sketch of each of the great masters who contributed decisively to the progress of chess thinking from the days o... Lees meer

Tal's Hundred Best Games

Bernard Cafferty

• Paperback | Engels | Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics
• The essential sequel to Peter Clarke's companion book on Tal, Mikhail Tal's Best Games of Chess. Cafferty takes us further on Tal's career path, cover... Lees meer

Leonid Stein - Master of attack

Raymond Keene

• Paperback | Engels | Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics
• Leonid Stein's brilliant chess career, cut tragically short in 1973, included overwhelming victories against the world's leading grandmasters, Stein n... Lees meer

Reshevsky's Best Games - Volume 2

Samuel Reshevsky

• Paperback | Engels | Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics
• A companion to Reshevsky's Best Games: Volume 1, this book contains numerous rich masterpieces from Reshevsky's middle years with wins against Botvinn... Lees meer

Chess Praxis

Aron Nimzowitsch

• Paperback | Engels | Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics
• In Chess Praxis Nimzowitsch elaborates on the strategies first adumbrated in My System with a series of deeply annotated games, demonstrating how his ... Lees meer

Reshevsky's Best Games - Volume 1

Samuel Reshevsky

• Paperback | Engels | Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics
• Reshevsky shot to fame as a child prodigy able to take on and defeat hordes of adult players at one and the same time. This book covers his early care... Lees meer

The Modern Defence

Raymond Keene, George Botterill

• Paperback | Engels | Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics
• This Hardinge Simpole Openings Classic reprint represents a landmark in the evolution of openings theory. This ground-breaking treatise on the revolut... Lees meer

One Hundred Master Games of Modern Chess

S Tartakower, J Du Mont

• Paperback | Engels | Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics
• A companion volume to Larry Evans's selection from the 1960s, this book, presented according to opening variation, takes the story of the best games o... Lees meer

Chess

Richard Eales

• Paperback | Engels | Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics
• Not since Murray in 1913 has there been a seriously researched history of chess which is also readable. Eales concentrates on what can be identified t... Lees meer

Smyslov's Best Games of Chess

Vassily Smyslov

• Paperback | Engels | Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics
• Smyslov launched his first bid for the supreme title in the 1948 match tournament - coming second to Botvinnik. Eventually, after two victories in Can... Lees meer

Reuben Fine's Best Games

Reuben Fine

• Paperback | Engels | Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics
• During the 1930s, it appeared that the USA, not the USSR, would inevitably become the dominant force in the chess world. During that time the USA team... Lees meer