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