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