Chess - Tournaments from Glynn's Books

Seattle: I.C.E., 1991. Pb, vii + 121pp, b/w photos. Good+, marginal wear, clean contents. Games from the tournament held from 1981-83 to celebrate the 60th (Diamond) anniversary of the Canadian Correspondence Chess Association. Includes 105 games, many annotated by the players. The winner was Erik Bang from Denmark, ahead of Canadians Jonathan Berry and Bob Kiviaho.. Soft Cover.

Helsinki: Sveriges Schackforbund, 1951. In Swedish. Hb, patterned boards, no dj, 149pp, frontis. and b/w photos. Good, marks along spine, slight corner edgewear, clean contents. Coverage of the Botvinnik vs Bronstein 1951 World Chess Championship with the 24 games, annotated, as well as some earlier games by both players.. Hard Cover. Good.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993. Pb, 200pp, b/w photos. Signature of William Hartston on title page. Good, creased spine, light cover wear, tanning to page edges, clean contents other than author's signature. Includes history of the world chess championship and profiles of earlier champions (50+ pgs), extensive background to the Short v Kasparov match and split with FIDE, annotated… Saber más sobre este artículo

Prague: Prace, 1951. In Czech. Hb, pale blue boards, no dj, 304pp, b/w photos. Good, chipped corners, sunned cover edges, prize-winner's inscription on inside front cover (dated 1955). Coverage of the 1949 Richard Reti Memorial chess tournament held in Trencianske Teplice. Includes 190 games with annotations; the prize-winning studies from the endgame studies tourney; a profile on Reti with a… Saber más sobre este artículo

Havana: INDER, 1967. In Spanish. Pb, punch-holed pages in card binder, un-numbered pages, b/w photos. Fair+, covers scuffed and creased, tear on back cover which is darkened at edges, rusty clasps, clean contents. Bulletins 1-19 containing 190 games without notes, plus round-by-round results, player bios/photos, results tables of earlier Capablanca Memorial tournaments, and openings index. Larsen was the winner ahead… Saber más sobre este artículo

Orebro: Sveriges Schackforbund, 1954. In Swedish. Hb, green boards, no dj, 351pp, b/w photos. Good+, slight corner edgewear, clean contents. Coverage of the 1953 Candidates' chess tournament and the subsequent world championship match between Botvinnik and Smyslov. The bulk of the book (approx. 280 pages) contains 210 annotated games from the Candidates, won by Smyslov ahead of Bronstein, Keres and… Saber más sobre este artículo

Alkmaar: New In Chess, 2022. Hb, laminated pictorial covers, 223pp, b/w photos. VG, clean contents. A " tell-all" account by the then President of the Icelandic Chess Federation who helped organize the bid for the match. Contents: Prologue; the origins of chess; World chess champions from unofficial to official; Prelude to the match of 1972; The match of all… Saber más sobre este artículo

Havana: INDER, 1968. In Spanish. Pb, punch-holed pages in card binder, un-numbered pages, b/w photos. Good(-), covers scuffed with small tears and darkened back cover, contents clean. Bulletins 1-15 containing 105 games without notes, round-by-round results, player photos, results tables from previous Capablanca Memorial tournaments. Kholmov was the winner ahead of Suetin and Stein in a field of 15.. Soft… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Isaac Pitman, 1947. Hb, viii + 119pp, b/w photos including frontispiece. Good in a Good(-) dj which has a small tear and edgewear top of spine. Contents clean, slight tanning to page edges. Account of the radio chess match between Great Britain and Soviet Russia held in June, 1946, with two rounds and twelve boards. In addition to the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Warsaw: Spoldzielnia Wydawnicza " Sport i Turystyka", 1953. In Polish. Pb, 239pp, b/w photos. Author's signature, dated 1958, on title page. Good(-), heavily sunned spine with faded lettering, pages tanned, stamp on back endpaper. Round-by-round commentary and 120 annotated games of the David Przepiorka Memorial International Chess Tournament held in Sopot in 1951. Gereben was the winner ahead of Troianescu,… Saber más sobre este artículo

Reykjavik: The Chess Club of Reykjavik, 1968. Large-format Pb, staple-bound, 32pp, b/w photos. Good, light cover wear/creases, pencilled crosses throughout. Coverage of the 1968 international chess tournament held in Reykjavik in memory of Professor Daniel Willard Fiske (1831-1904), an American scholar and chess enthusiast who was " a genuine friend to Iceland". Includes an account of the tournament, a profile… Saber más sobre este artículo

Sarajevo: Zavod Za Izdavanje Udzbenika, 1971. Pb with dj flaps, 156pp, b/w photos. Inscription to chessplayer/author William Hartston, signed and dated by Bjelica who also provided his own version of Bobby Fischer's signature. Good(-), scuffs and edgewear to spine and covers, sunned spine and back cover edge. Contents clean other than author's inscription. Includes games, some annotated, from two… Saber más sobre este artículo

Alkmaar: New In Chess, 2009. Pb, 287pp. Good(-), corners creased and with mild edgewear, contents clean. Includes a total of 69 games across the three matches, with most annotations by Botvinnik plus some by Smyslov and other GMs. Edited by Botvinnik's nephew, Igor, the book also contains excerpts from Botvinnik's secret notebooks which discuss his opening preparation.. Soft Cover.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Havana: INDER, 1963. In Spanish. Pb, punch-holed pages in card binder, [193pp], b/w photos. Good, light wear to covers, corner creases, contents clean. Bulletins 1-21 containing a total of 231 games without notes and round-by-round results. The final results table appears to be written in ink. Smyslov was the winner ahead of Ivkov, Geller and Fischer in a field… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1978. Pb, 128pp. Fair+, scuffed spine, foxing along edge of page block, contents clean. Account of the 1977 Candidates' Final in Belgrade which was marred by Spassky's controversial antics, detailed here by Keene who was Korchnoi's second. Includes all the games with annotations, plus players' biographies, games from previous encounters and all the behind… Saber más sobre este artículo

Federacion Cubana de Ajedrez In Spanish. Two sets of bulletins for the 1973 and 1974 Capablanca memorial chess tournaments held in Cuba. Each is Pb with the bulletins bound in, one set in a binder and the other glued-in. Good, light cover edgewear, clean contents. 1974 has slight page tanning. 1) Cienfuegos 1973 - Bulletins 2-22. Although there is no… Saber más sobre este artículo

Novrup, 1974. In Danish. Pb, 134pp. Good(-), light corner wear, the first page is semi-detached, contents clean. Includes introduction, round-by-round commentary and annotated games of the 15-round international chess tournament held in Manila in 1973. Larsen was the winner, ahead of Ljubojevic and Kavalek in a field of 16 which also included several Filipino and Indonesian players.. Soft Cover. Good.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Nottingham: The Chess Player, 2000. Pb, 126pp. VG, clean contents. Includes 612 games and fragments without notes, lists of team members, round-by-round results. Hungary was the winner ahead of Poland and Germany.. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Nottingham: The Chess Player, 2007. Pb booklet, staple-bound, plastic jacket, 52pp. VG, clean contents. Includes contemporary accounts and 91 games, a few with notes. This New York tournament was organized at the last minute to accomodate various foreign chessplayers who had arrived expecting to participate in the Columbian Chess tournament which had then been cancelled due to lack of finance.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Moscow: Molodaya Gvardiya, 1975. In Russian. Pb, 128pp, b/w photos. Good, sunned spine and cover edges, chip to top of spine, corner dent, clean contents. 43 annotated games from Karpov's matches in the 1974 Candidates' Quarter Final against Polugaevsky, the Semi-Final against Spassky and the Candidates' Final against Korchnoi.. Soft Cover.