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The following list of books is on the shelves of the Galway Chess virtual library. Their status will tell you which are available for loan.
If you wish to get a loan of any of these books (or if you want to make some of your books available to others in the Galway chess community) you need to register on the site. Once you log in, you can then request books. Need more info? See the list of Frequently Asked Questions.
Type |
Title |
Author Surname |
Status |
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Endgames | 100 Endgames You Must Know | de la Villa | Requested | ||||||||
Puzzles | 1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations | Reinfeld | Available | ||||||||
Endgames | A Guide to Chess Endings | Euwe & Hooper | Available | ||||||||
Openings | A Killer Chess Opening Repertoire | Summerscale | Available | ||||||||
Endgames | A Practical Guide to Rook Endgames | Minev | Available | ||||||||
Game Collection | Alexander Alekhine's Best Games | Alekhine | Available | ||||||||
Game Collection | Anatoly Karpov's Best Games | Karpov | Available | ||||||||
Middlegame | Art of Attack in Chess | Vukovic | Requested | ||||||||
Openings | Batsford's Modern Chess Openings | de Firmian | Available | ||||||||
Game Collection | Botvinnik: One Hundred Selected Games | Botvinnik | Available | ||||||||
General | C.J.Purdy's Fine Art of Chess Annotation | Purdy | Available | ||||||||
Endgames | Capablanca's Best Chess Endings | Chernev | Available | ||||||||
Game Collection | chess - the search for Mona lisa | Gufeld | Available | ||||||||
Puzzles | Chess Choice Challenge 2 | Ward | Available | ||||||||
Endgames | Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge | Averbakh | Available | ||||||||
General | Chess for tigers | Webb | Available | ||||||||
Middlegame | Chess for Zebras | Rowson | Available | ||||||||
Middlegame | Chess Praxis | Nimzowitch | Available | ||||||||
Middlegame | Chess Recipes from the Grandmaster's Kitchen | Beim | Available | ||||||||
General | chess school 1 | Slobodan Mirkovic | Available | ||||||||
Puzzles | Chess tactics for students | Bain | Requested | ||||||||
Puzzles | Chess Training Pocket Book | Alburt | Requested | ||||||||
Puzzles | Chess Training Pocket Book II | Alburt & Lawrence | Available | ||||||||
Openings | Classical Nimzo-Indian | Lalic | Available | ||||||||
Openings | classical Nimzo-Indian | Lalic | Available | ||||||||
Middlegame | Concise Chess Middlegames | McDonald, Neil | Available | ||||||||
Middlegame | Creative Chess Strategy | Romero | Available | ||||||||
Endgames | Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual | Dvoretsky | Available | ||||||||
Middlegame | Dynamic Chess Strategy | Suba | Available | ||||||||
Game Collection | Easy Guide to the Najdorf | Kosten | Available | ||||||||
Endgames | Essential Chess Endings | Howell | Available | ||||||||
General | Find the Right Plan | Karpov & Matsukevich | Available | ||||||||
Openings | Gambits in the Slav | Silman | Available | ||||||||
Puzzles | Garry Kasparov's Chess Challenge | Kasparov | Available | ||||||||
Game Collection | Garry Kasparov: on My Great Predecessors, Part II | Kasparov | Available | ||||||||
Middlegame | GM-RAM | Ziyatdinov | Requested | ||||||||
General | Grandmaster Preparation | Polugaevasky | Available | ||||||||
Endgames | How To Play Chess Endgames | Muller & Pajeken | Available | ||||||||
Middlegame | How to Play Dynamic Chess | Beim | Available | ||||||||
Middlegame | How to Reassess Your Chess | Silman | Available | ||||||||
Openings | Ideas Behind Modern Chess Openings: Black | Lane | Available | ||||||||
Game Collection | Informant - 1000 best of the best | Matanovic | Available | ||||||||
Game Collection | Informat 107 - 2009 | Matanovic | Available | ||||||||
Game Collection | Instructive Modern Chess Masterpieces | Stohl | Available | ||||||||
Puzzles | It's Your Move | Ward | Available | ||||||||
Puzzles | It's Your Move | Teschner & Miles | Available | ||||||||
Puzzles | It's Your Move - Tough Puzzles | Ward | Available | ||||||||
Game Collection | Jon Speelman's Best Games | Speelman | Available | ||||||||
Game Collection | Kasparov v Deeper Blue | King | Available | ||||||||
Middlegame | Lasker's Manual of Chess | Lasker | Available | ||||||||
General | Learn From Your Chess Mistakes | Baker | Available | ||||||||
Middlegame | Lessons in Chess Strategy | Beim | Available | ||||||||
Openings | Mammoth book of chess | Burgess | Available | ||||||||
Openings | Mastering the Nimzo-Indian | Kosten | Requested | ||||||||
Middlegame | Modern Chess Strategy | Pachman | Available | ||||||||
Middlegame | More Simple Chess | Emms | Available | ||||||||
Game Collection | Morphy's Games of Chess | Sergeant | Available | ||||||||
Puzzles | Multiple Choice Chess II | Buckley | Available | ||||||||
Game Collection | My 60 Memorable Games | Fischer | Requested | ||||||||
Middlegame | My System - 21st Century Edition | Nimzowitch | Available | ||||||||
Game Collection | Nimzo-Indian Kasparov variation | Ward | Available | ||||||||
Game Collection | Offbeat Nimzo-Indian | Ward | Available | ||||||||
Openings | Opening for White According to Kramnik | Khalifman | Available | ||||||||
Game Collection | Paul Morphy - A Modern Perspective | Beim | Available | ||||||||
Openings | Pirc Alert: A Complete Defense Against 1. e4 | Alburt & Chernin | Available | ||||||||
Middlegame | Positional Play | Dvoretsky, Yusupov | Available | ||||||||
Game Collection | Queen's Gambit Declined | Sadler | Available | ||||||||
Middlegame | Questions of Modern Chess Theory | Lipnitsky | Available | ||||||||
Endgames | School of Chess Excellence 1: Endgame Analysis | Dvoretsky | Available | ||||||||
Middlegame | Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy | Watson | Available | ||||||||
Endgames | Secrets of Pawn Endings | Muller & Pajeken | Available | ||||||||
Middlegame | Simple Chess | Stean | Available | ||||||||
Endgames | Strategy in Endgames | Reinfeld | Available | ||||||||
Game Collection | Tal-Botvinnik 1960 | Tal | Available | ||||||||
Puzzles | Test Your Chess IQ: First Challenge | Livshitz | Requested | ||||||||
Puzzles | Test Your Chess IQ: Grandmaster Challenge | Livshitz | Available | ||||||||
Puzzles | Test Your Chess IQ: Master Challenge | Livshitz | Available | ||||||||
Middlegame | Test Your Positional IQ | Bellin, Ponzetto | Available | ||||||||
Middlegame | Test Your Positional IQ | Bellin, Ponzetto | Available | ||||||||
Openings | The Art of the King's Indian | Gufeld | Available | ||||||||
Middlegame | The Art of the Middlegame | Keres & Kotov | Available | ||||||||
Openings | The Hedgehog | Suba | Available | ||||||||
Game Collection | The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal | Tal | Available | ||||||||
Middlegame | The Method in Chess | Dorfman | Available | ||||||||
Middlegame | the middle game in chess | Pachman | Available | ||||||||
Game Collection | The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played | Chernev | Available | ||||||||
Openings | The Queen's Gambit Accepted | Ward | Available | ||||||||
Middlegame | The Reassess Your Chess Workbook | Silman | Available | ||||||||
General | The rules of winning chess | Davies | Available | ||||||||
General | The Sorcerer's Apprentice | Bronstein, Furstenberg | Available | ||||||||
Puzzles | The Ultimate Chess Puzzle Book | Emms | Available | ||||||||
Middlegame | Think Like a Grandmaster | Kotov | Available | ||||||||
Game Collection | Timman's Selected Games: Chess the Adventurous Way | Timman | Available | ||||||||
Middlegame | Training for the Tournament Player | Dvoretsky & Yusupov | Available | ||||||||
Middlegame | Understanding Chess Move by Move | Nunn | Available | ||||||||
Middlegame | Understanding Pawn Play in Chess | Marovic | Available | ||||||||
Openings | Winning Chess Traps for Juniors | Snyder | Available | ||||||||
Endgames | Winning Endgame Strategy | Beliavsky & Mikhalchishin | Available | ||||||||
Middlegame | Winning Pawn Structures | Baburin | Available | ||||||||
Openings | Winning With the Kan | Mortazavi | Available | ||||||||
Game Collection | Worlds greatest chess games | Burgess | Available | ||||||||
Game Collection | Zurich International Chess Tournament 1953 | Bronstein | Available | ||||||||
When you log in to Galway Chess Club's book library, you will be able to request a book from above list