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• Chess: A Selection of Fifty Games, From Those Played by the Automaton Chess-Player, During Its Exhibition in London, in 1820 (London: W. Pople, printer, 1820), ed. by W. Hunneman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schachpartieen aus den Jahren 1864 und 1865 (in German; Berlin: J. Springer, 1866), by Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen, ed. by G. R. Neumann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Grand International Centennial Chess Congress, Held in Philadelphia, in August, 1876, During the Celebration of the American Centennial (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger, 1876), ed. by W. Henry Sayen
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• The Book of the First American Chess Congress: Containing the Proceedings of That Celebrated Assemblage, With the Papers Read in its Sessions, the Games Played in the Grand Tournament, and the Stratagems Entered in the Problem Tournay; Together With Sketches of the History of Chess in the Old and New Worlds (London: Sampson Low, Son, and Co.; New York: Rudd and Carleton, 1859), by Willard Fiske (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book of the First American Chess Congress: Containing the Proceedings of That Celebrated Assemblage, With the Papers Read in its Sessions, the Games Played in the Grand Tournament, and the Stratagems Entered in the Problem Tournay; Together With Sketches of the History of Chess in the Old and New Worlds (New York: Rudd and Carleton, 1859), by Willard Fiske (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Book of the Second American Chess Congress, Held at Cleveland, Ohio, December, 1871 (Dubuque: O. A. Brownson, Jr., ca. 1872), by American Chess Congress (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book of the Sixth American Chess Congress: Containing the Games of the International Chess Tournament Held at New York in 1889 (c1891), ed. by William Steinitz (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fifth American Chess Congress: Containing a Full Report of the Proceedings of the Convention of Chess Players, Held in New York, in the Year 1880 (New York: Brentano's Literary Emporium, 1881), by Charles Alexander Gilberg
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• The chess psychologist, world champion Tal (North American Latvian Chess Association, 1961), by Alexander Liepnieks (page images at HathiTrust)
• My best games of chess : 1908-1923 (G. Bell & Sons, 1927), by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Alekhin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Championship chess. (Sterling Pub. Co., 1960), by Philip W. Sergeant and Fred Reinfeld (page images at HathiTrust)
• The chess-player's companion: comprising a new treatise on odds, and a collection of games contested by the author with various distinguished players during the last ten years; including the great French match with Mons. St. Amant; to which are added a selection of new and instructive problems (Bell, 1889), by Howard Staunton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schachmeister Steinitz : ein Lebensbild des ersten Weltschachmeisters dargestellt in einer vollständigen Sammlung seiner Partien (C. Brügel & Sohn, 1910), by Ludwig Bachmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paul Morphy's Schachspielkunst : eine praktische Anleitung die Kunst des regelrechten Schachspiels leicht und gründlich zu erlernen, mit Musterspielen und vielen Abbildungen, für Anfänger und Geübte, nebst den besten Partien verschiedener Schachwettkämpfe der neuesten Zeit und einer Anzahl auserlesener Aufgaben. (S. Mode, 1890), by Jean Dufresne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Schach-Turnier zu London im Jahre 1851, nach Staunton's Chess tournament. (Veit und comp., 1852), by Howard Staunton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Riga match and correspondence games (s.n., 1916), by Hermann Helms and Hartwig Cassel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of Damiano, Ruy-Lopez, and Salvio on the game of chess (Printed for T. Boosey, 1813), by J. H. Sarratt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paul Morphy ; skizze aus der Schachwelt / [Max Lange] (Veit & Comp., 1859), by Max Lange (page images at HathiTrust)
• The chess-player's companion: comprising a new treatise on odds, and a collection of games contested by the author with various distinguished players during the last ten years; including the great French match with Mons. St. Amant; to which are added a selection of new and instructive problems (Bell, 1884), by Howard Staunton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakhmatnai͡a igra : privedennai͡a v sistematicheskīĭ pori͡adok, s prisovokuplenīem Igor Filidora i primi͡echanīĭ na onyi͡a (V tip. N. Grecha, 1824), by Aleksandr Petrov and F. D. Philidor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anweisung zur Erlernung des Schach-Spiels : mit besonderer Rücksicht auf diejenigen, denen das Spiel durchaus unbekannt ist (G.D. Bädeker, 1827), by F. W. von Mauvillon (page images at HathiTrust)
• De nordiska schackkongresserna i Stockholm, 1897, Köpenhamn, 1899, och Göteborg, 1901 (G. Lindström, 1902), by F. C. A. Englund, A. C. Rosendahl, H. Krause, Nordiska schackförbundet, and Nordiske skakkongres (page images at HathiTrust)
• Morphy's Games of chess: being the best games played by the distinguished champion in Europe and America (Bell & Daldy, 1872), by Paul Charles Morphy and J. Löwenthal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chess match between Steinitz & Blackburne, played at the West End chess club, London, February 17 to March 2, 1876 ("The Field" office, 1876), by William Steinitz and J. H. Blackburne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chess studies, comprising one thousand games; a collection of classical and brillant specimens of chess skill. (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., ltd., 1893), by George Walker, E. Freeborough, and E. Freeborough (page images at HathiTrust)
• A selection of games at chess, actually played by Philidor and his contemporaries : now first published from the original manuscripts ; with notes and additions (Sherwood, Gilbert, & Piper, 1835), by George Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grosses Schach-Handbuch. Ein vollständiger und leicht fasslicher Unterricht im Schachspiel. Mit ... 322 erläuterten Muster-Partieen der hervorragendsten Schachmeister und Schach-clubs, etc ... (P. Gustedt, 1873), by Jean Dufresne and J. H. Zukertort (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sammlung neuer schachpartien, mit kritischen und historischen noten. (J. J. Weber, 1857), by Max Lange (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grundregeln des Schachspiels. (Spaarmann, 1888), by Jean Dufresne (page images at HathiTrust)
• William Steinitz (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1901), by Charles Devidé and William Steinitz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sto dvadt͡satʹ pi͡atʹ shakhmatnykh zadach (Tip. Ėd. Bergmana, 1908), by Orest Evet͡skīĭ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pillsbury und Charousek : ein Lebensbild zweier genialen Jungmeister des Schachspiels, dargestellt an ihren besten praktischen Leistungen (C. Brügel & Sohn, 1914), by Ludwig Bachman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The games of the match at chess played between the London and the Edinburgh chess clubs, in 1824, 1825, 1826, 1827, and 1828; with notes and back-games (Blackwood;, 1829), by Edinburgh chess club, William Lewis, and London Chess Club (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theorie der Schachspielkunst. (Aug. Wilh. Unzer, 1827), by A. B. and A. B. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le sottigliezze degli scacchi esposte in una raccolta di 160 partiti scelti dai migliori autori ... (P.E. Giusti, 1831), by Paolo Emilio Giusti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pravila shakhmatnoĭ igry v 3-kh chasti͡akh (Izdanīe knigoprodavt͡sa Petra Zaikina, 1843), by K. Krupski and V. D. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chess at odds of pawn and move, a complete analysis of the opening, exemplified in two hundred and fifty games, from actual play, contested between some of the best exponents of the last 50 years. (W.W. Morgan jun.;, 1891), by pseud Berkeley and Baxter Wray (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new treatise on the game of chess : on a plan of progressive improvement, hitherto unattempted : containing a very considerable number of general rules, explanations, notes and examples : the object of these rules, &c. is to enable unpractised players to avoid crowded games, to bring their pieces into action speedily and properly, to become well acquainted with the board, and gradually to comprehend and overcome the difficulties of this scientifick game : and examples of intricate combination, illustrated by games and positions, teaching both attack and defence : and adapted to the higher classes of players: concluding with a selection of unpublished games, chiefly gambits : analysed with great care : and including many remarkable situations, equally instructive and interesting (Printed for R.P. Moore, Store Street, Bedford Sq., 1821), by J. H. Sarratt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Neueste Art das Schachspiel gründlich zu erlernen (Societäts-Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1812), by Christian Gottfried Flittner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lehrbuch des Schachspiels für Anfänger und fortgeschrittene Spieler (Grethlein, 1914), by Jacques Mieses (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité du jeu des échecs : enseignement des deb́uts étude des fins de parties méthode claire et facile a l'usage de tous les amateurs (Societé Générale d'Impression, 1910), by Jean Taubenhaus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Games: G.H.D. Gossip versus Bezkrowny, Clerc, Donisthorpe, Gocher, Gunsberg, Hoffer, Owen, Sanders, Vines played during the last 10 years in England & France. (Morgan, 1882), by George Hatfield Dingley Gossip, William Stienitz, Isidor Gunsberg, Manchester British chess association. Congress, Breslau Deutscher Schachbund. 6th congress, New York American Chess Congress. 6th, and Bradford British chess association. 4th congress (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lasker v. Schlechter : all tournament and match games between these masters up to and including the championship match, 1910 (E.A. Michell :, 1911), by Leopold Hoffer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sbornik partīĭ Peterburgskago match-turnira : shakhmatnoe sosti︠a︡zanīe mezhdu Laskerom, Steĭnit︠s︡em, Pilʹsberi i Chigorinym. (Izdanīe "Shakhmatnago zhurnala", 1896) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Half-hours with Morphy (G. Routledge, 1899), by Paul Charles Morphy and E. E. Cunnington (page images at HathiTrust)
• II. [zweites] internationales Schachturnier zu San Sebastian 1912 [neunzehnhundertzwölf] Vollständige Sammlung der im Meisterturnier gespielten Partien mit zahlreichen Diagrammen und Glossen (Verlag Hans Hedewig's Nachfolger, Curt Ronniger, 1920), by Jacques Mieses and M. Lewitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sammlung der von ihm gespielten Partien mit ausführlichen Erläuterungen / von Géza Maróczy. (Veit & Comp., 1909), by Paul Charles Morphy and Géza Maróczy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der praktische Schachmeister (B.S. Berendsohn, 1865), by Jean Dufresne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Undervisning i schackspelet (I. Haeggströms Boktryckeri, 1869), by Johan Gustaf Schultz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der kleine Schach-Matador. Oder:Kurze und leichtfassliche Anweisung zur Selbsterlernung des Schachspiels. (F.Jansen u.Comp., 1856), by Alfred Montigny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Choix des parties les plus remarquables jouées par Paul Morphy en Amérique, en Angleterre et en France, annotées par lui-même et d'autres célébrités / recueillies par Jean Preti. (Chez L'Éditeur, 1859), by Paul Charles Morphy and Jean Preti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Social chess; a collection of short and brilliant games with historical and practical illustrations. (H. Cox, 1900), by James Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• The chess-player's companion: comprising a new treatise on odds, and a collection of games contested by the author with various distinguished players during the last ten years; incuding the great French match with Mons St. Amant; to which are added a selection of new and instructive problems. (Bell, 1892), by Howard Staunton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chess masterpieces, comprising a collection of 150 choice games of the past quarter of a century, with notes, including the finest games in the exhibition tournament of 1851 and in the Vienna tournament of 1873; with excellent specimens of the styles of Anderssen, Blackburne, Der Laza, Hanstein, Kolisch, Lowenthal, Morphy, Staunton, Steinitz and the principal English players; supplemented by games of Labourdonnais, MacDonnell and Cochrane, contested prior to 1849. (Dean and son, 1875), by H. E. Bird (page images at HathiTrust)
• Examples of chess master-play, second series (being a sequel to the translation of Schachmeisterpartien, by Jean Dufresne) (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & co.;, 1894), by Charles T. Blanshard and C. T. Blanshard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Example of chess master-play, first series (W.W. Morgan jun., 1893), by Jean Dufresne and Charles T. Blanshard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Hastings chess tournament, 1895 : containing the authorised account of the 230 games played Aug.-Sept. 1895 with annotations by Pillsbury, Lasker, Tarrasch, Steinitz, Schiffers, Teichmann, Bardeleben, Blackburne, Gunsberg, Tinsley, Mason, and Albin and biographical sketches of the chess masters (Chatto & Windus, 1896), by Horace F. Cheshire (page images at HathiTrust)
• A memorial of an invitation chess tournament for masters and amateurs, arranged by and played at the City of London chess club, in April May, 1900, containing the full scores of the games played. (Longmans, Green and co., 1900), by City of London Chess Club (page images at HathiTrust)
• The games of Greco (G. Routledge, 1900), by Gioachino Greco, Professor Hoffmann, A. Leon, and J. A. Leon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Book of chess problems. (O.A. Brownson, Jr., 1874), by John K. Hanshew (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beginselen van het schaakspel (G.A. Van Hoften, 1876), by Antonius van der Linde (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tratado analítico del juego de ajedrez para aprender á jugarlo sin necesidad de maestro (F. Fé, 1896), by Manuel Márquez Sterling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der kleine Schachkönig : leichtfabliche Anleitung zu rascher Erlernung der Schachspielkunst (Gloeckner, 1888), by Johannes Minckwitz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der kleine Schachkönig : leichtfabliche Anleitung zu rascher Erlernung der Schachspielkunst (Gloeckner, 1889), by Johannes Minckwitz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sul rifiuto del gambitto di re : studio analitico delle principali varianti con cinquanta intere partite. (Dalla teoria e partica del giuoco degli scacchi) (C. Ferrari, 1885), by C. Salvioli (page images at HathiTrust)
• La partita Ruy Lopez : studio analitico delle principali varianti con cento intere partite (Dalla teoria e partica del giuoco degli scacchi) (C. Ferrari, 1885), by C. Salvioli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Teoria e pratica del giuoco degli scacchi. (C. Ferrari, 1885), by C. Salvioli (page images at HathiTrust)
• The chess-player's companion : comprising a new treatise on odds, and a collection of games contested by the author with various distinguished players during the last ten years; incuding the great French match with Mons St. Amant; to which are added a selection of new and instructive problems (Bell, 1882), by Howard Staunton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Torneo Nazionale Italiano di scacchi in Milano. (Tipografia A. Gerosa, 1883), by Mattia Cavallotti (page images at HathiTrust)
• A selection of games from the international tournament played at New York,U.S.A.25th March to 27th May 1889. (W.W. Morgan, Jun,etc., 1889) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rukovodstvo shakhmatnoĭ igri︠e︡ : s 120 razlichnymi dīagrammami i 42 poi︠a︡snitelʹnymi partīi︠a︡mi sli︠e︡dui︠u︡shchikh shakhmatistov i shakhmatnykh klubov (Tip. V. Demakova, 1884), by J. H. Zukertort and Jean Dufresne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rukovodstvo k shakhmatnoĭ igri︠e︡ (Tipografīi︠a︡ P.P. Soĭkina, 1896), by J. H. Zukertort and Jean Dufresne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Neuester Leitfaden des Schachspiels : mit 120 verschiedenen Diagrammen und 86 erläuterten Muster-Partien ... (J. Rentel, 1883), by J. H. Zukertort and Jean Dufresne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Neuester Leitfaden des Schachspiels : mit 120 verschiedenen Diagrammen und 42 erläuterten Muster-Partien ... (J. Jolowicz, 1886), by J. H. Zukertort and Jean Dufresne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Neuester leitfaden des schachspiels, mit 138 verschiedenen diagrammen und 86 erläuterten muster-partien ... (H. Steinitz, 1897), by J. H. Zukertort, Oskar Cordel, Jean Dufresne, and Oskar Cordel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adolf Anderssen, der Altmeister deutscher Schachspielkunst : sein Leben und Schaffen (Veit, 1912), by Hermann von Gottschall (page images at HathiTrust)
• United States chess championship tournament, New York City, April 27th-May 19, 1940. (Tarrytown, N.Y., 1954) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Four famous chess matches : Janowsky v. Marshall, both match and return match, Lasker v. Tarrasch and Lasker v. Schlechter (F. Hollings :, 1911), by C. Schlechter, Leopold Hoffer, Siegbert Tarrasch, Emanuel Lasker, Frank James Marshall, and David Janowski (page images at HathiTrust)
• Classified chess games, with notes (G. Routledge, 1906), by Charles Thomas Blanshard (page images at HathiTrust)
• A selection of the best games of Vassily Smyslov, world chess champion. ([Lincoln, Neb.], 1958), by V. V. Smyslov, Jack L. Spence, and Alexander Liepnieks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Epic battles of the chessboard (McKay, 1952), by R. N. Coles, I. A. Horowitz, and Fred Reinfeld (page images at HathiTrust)
• 35 Nimzowitsch games, 1904-1927 (F. Reinfeld, 1935), by Aron Nimzowitsch and Fred Reinfeld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rukovodstvo k izuchenīi︠u︡ shakhmatnoĭ igry sostavlennoe po Chigorinu, Shiffersu, Steĭnit︠s︡u, Laskeru, Bilʹgeru i dr. ([Avtor], 1910), by A. E. Prik (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ter herdenking aan het zestigjarig bestaan van het schaakgenootschap Discendo discimus, 1852-1912. (['s-Gravenhage, 1912), by The Hague Discendo discimus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Schachfreund : für Anfänger und Vorgeschrittene im Schachspiel eine belehrende Unterhaltung (Heidelberger Verlagsanstalt und Drukerei Theodor Berkenbusch, 1913), by Simon Z. Alapin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A handbook of chess, part II (Whitehead and Miller, 1904), by W. Chinn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Internationale Schachturnier des Schachclubs Nürnberg im Juli-August 1896 (W. de Gruyter & co., 1921), by International chess tournament (1896 : Nuremberg) and Siegbert Tarrasch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Teoretisk och praktisk lärobok i schackspelet för nybörjare och mera försigkomna, jemte inledning ill problemkonsten (O.L. Lamm, 1885), by Johannes Minckwitz and Robert Sahlberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Carl Schlechter, sein leben und schaffen (B. Kagan, 1920), by Carl Schlechter and Bernhard Kagan (page images at HathiTrust)
• A selection of the best games of chess of Vassily Smyslow, world chess champion (Printed by "Vaidava"], 1958), by V. V. Smyslov, Jack L. Spence, and Aleksandrs Liepnieks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifty-one brilliant chess masterpieces (Capitol Pub. Co., 1950), by Edgard Colle and Fred Reinfeld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gra w szachy wyłożona na mistrzowskich partjach Anderssena, Morphy'ego ... [et al.] (Nakładem Księgarni Adolfa Kowalskiego, 1878), by August Helcin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifty games at chess, which have actually been played, most of which occurreed between the author and some of the best players in England, France, and Germany; to which is added some account of the village of Stroebeck, in Germany, with three games played according to the method practised there. (W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1832), by William Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mis mejores partidas 1908-1923 (Afrodisio Aguado, 1924), by Alexander Alekhine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das schachspiel und seine historische entwicklung dargestellt an der spielführung der hervorragendsten schachmeister, insbesondere der weltschachmeister (B.G. Teubner, 1924), by Ludwig Bachmann (page images at HathiTrust)

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