Among the first books ever published was the 1474 translation of the Game and Playe of the Chesse. Over the next 400 years, significant chess books would appear, but the overwhelming number of titles on the subject appeared in the 20th century and continue unabated. By 2003, over 35,000 volumes on chess in a variety of languages had been published, with approximately 14,000 English language works published from 1960 onward. For the librarian, collector, or chess enthusiast, the immediate task comes in finding which of these many volumes are worthwhile. This work provides an objective and informative look at some of the best chess books published in the period 1901 through 2000—and gives numerous examples of the games, with diagrams that appear in them. Inclusion criteria were popularity, longevity, critical acclaim, influence, definitiveness, historical importance, authorship and reputation. All were published in English (or use figurine notation). Each entry includes bibliographic details followed by a description of the book, with information on the author or authors, why the book is important, and background information on the publication.

Great Chess Books of the Twentieth Century in English

Humor & Entertainment

Dunne, Alex

Puzzles & Games

McFarland

This collection of the games, most of them annotated, features the United States Chess Federation's premiere invitational tournament--the Absolute Championship. Features include statistical results of participants from 1976 through 2010, results of many opening variations as played in the Absolutes, yearly crosstables, biographical details of all winners and information on all participants, and indexes of players, opening variations and ECO codes.

The Absolute Correspondence Championship of the United States Chess Federation

Reference

McFarland Publishing

How to Become a Candidate Master

Thinkers Pr Inc / Chessco

How to Be a Class A Player

Complete Guide to Correspondence Chess

2010 Chess Oddities

Update Complete Guide to Correspondence

Thinkers' Press

America plays other strong opponents from around the world. Author Alex Dunne, offers insight to the question...What makes a great postal chess player.  For the first time in a book on postal chess photos of these masters as well as some background details bring them to literary life (Dunne).

Modern Postal Masterpieces

Thinker's Press

Preincarnation

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