Chess Library

In 2022 the Redlands Chess Club donated their chess library of 165 books to the Gold Coast Chess Club. Studying the chess of the masters is a valuable tool to assist all players learn and grow with their chess. Our library has been catalogued below into categories of interest such as tactics, repertoires, strategy, etc. If you are a GCCC member you may borrow from our library!!
Books are borrowed via email request to goldcoastchess@gmail.com

Have some chess books that you are not using? Donations are accepted to grow and share our library with other members looking to learn and improve.

Thanks to our kind donors:
2022 Redlands Chess Club
2023 Ken Henrick

Lending Rules

1- One must be a paid member to borrow books.
2- Members can borrow up to 3 books at once.
3- Books can be borrowed for 3 months.

Lending Rules

4- Books can be renewed once before returning. A member can have a book for 6 months in a row before returning.

Accurate list of books available below for borrowing.
5-If a book is loaned a member can reserve the book and will have access to it when it is returned.

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6- Books lost or not returned must be replaced by members at cost to them.
If a replacement is not available then a book of the same category/theme is to be found to replace the missing book.
Eg. If one loses a Black Repertoire book and can't find the replacement online then they must buy a similar Black Repertoire book.

Books are borrowed via email request to goldcoastchess@gmail.com

Category	Num.	Author	Year	Text	Con.	Borrowed By	Loan Date	Comment
Beginner	7	Purdy,CJS	1950	Guide to Good Chess	VG
Beginner	9	Reinfeld,Fred	1955	Improving Your Chess 1965 printing	G
Beginner	19	Evans,Larry	1959	Chess in Ten Easy Lessons 1975 ed.	VG
Beginner	5	Abrahams,Gerald	1953	The Teach Yourself Books: Chess	G
Beginner	27	Langfield,Paul	1968	Chess Move by Move 3rd ed 1971	G
Beginner	11	Horowitz,IA and Reinfeld,F	1953	First Book of Chess	P
Beginner	21	Purdy, CJS & Koshnitsky,G	1962	Chess Made Easy	P			39 page small booklet
Beginner	16	Green,R.F.	1941	Chess	G
Beginner	23	Abrahams,Gerald	1966	The Pan Book of Chess	G
Beginner	2	Wolff,Patrick	1997	The Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess	VG
Beginner	18	Alexander,CHO'D & Beach,TJ	1963	Learn Chess: A new way for all Vol.II Winning Methods	G
Beginner	13	Norwood,D	1992	Better Chess	G
Beginner	3	Keene,Raymond	2003	Complete Book of Beginning Chess	G
Beginner	154	Padulli,G.	1928	Gli Scacchi (The Chess) 1967 ed	G			Italian Text
Beginner	20	Saitek	1990	Kasparov Trainer: Easy Steps to Winning Chess	VG
Beginner	12	Gillam,A.J.	1993	Your First Chess Games	M
Beginner	14	Pritchard,Elaine	1976	The Young Chess Player	P
Beginner	10	Barden,Leonard	1967	The Guardian Chess Book	G
Beginner	1	King,Daniel	2000	Chess:From first moves to checkmate	M
Beginner	6	Purdy,CJS	1950	Guide to Good Chess	VG
Beginner	8	Reinfeld,Fred	1955	Improving Your Chess (with pocket chessboard) 1958 printing	G
Beginner	30	Jigsaw	1971	Chess:How it started, what it is, how you play it.	VG			For a toddler
Beginner	153	Orban,IL	1950	Schach fur Anfanger (Chess for Beginners)	G			German Text
Beginner	24	Roberts,Richard	1962	The Collier Quick and Easy Guide to Chess 1973 ed	G
Beginner	17	Chernev,I & Harkness, K	1957	An Invitation to Chess	G
Beginner	26	Langfield,Paul	1968	Chess Move by Move 3rd ed 1971	G
Beginner	4	Burgess,Graham	2000	The Mammoth Book of Chess	VG
Beginner	15	Pritchard,D.Brine	1950	The Right Way to Play Chess	P
Beginner	28	Langfield,Paul	1968	Chess Move by Move 6th ed 1973	G
Beginner	29	Wicker,Kevin	1977	How to Play Chess 1988 ed.	M
Beginner	25	Roberts,Richard	1962	The Collier Quick and Easy Guide to Chess 1971 ed	P
Beginner	22	Reshevsky,Samuel	1973	Reshevsky Teaches Chess	P
Black Rep	183	Konig,I	1947	The Queen's Indian Defence	G
Black Rep	173	Ward, C	2001	Winning With the Sicilian Dragon 2	M
Black Rep	112	Hartston,W.	1971	The Grunfeld Defence	VG
Black Rep	109	Botterill,GS & Keene,R	1973	The Pirc Defence	VG
Black Rep	115	Euwe,M	1966	La Defensa Caro-Kann (The Caro-Kann)	VG			Spanish Text
Black Rep	103	Nunn,J	1990	The Classical King's Indian	M	Dejun Sun	01/06/2023
Black Rep	108	Stean,M	1976	Sicilian: Najdorf	VG
Black Rep	110	Pachman,L.	1962	Indian Systems	G
Black Rep	180	Chess Digest	1980	The Center Counter Game: Rehabilitated	G			40 page booklet
Black Rep	114	Euwe,M	1965	La Defensa Francesa (The French)	VG			Spanish Text
Black Rep	174	Ward, C	2004	The Controversial Samisch King's Indian	M
Black Rep	178	Weinstein, N	1977	Alekhine Defense	VG			134 page booklet
Black Rep	177	Harding, T	1977	Spanish (Ruy Lopez): Marshall	M
Black Rep	182	Chess Digest	1972	Caro-Kann Defence	G			81 page booklet
Black Rep	175	Myers, H	1995	The Nimzovich Defense to 1.e4	G
Black Rep	179	Gipslis, A	1973	Alekhine's Defence: Modern Variation	P			10 page booklet
Black Rep	104	Gligoric,S. & Uhlmann, W	1975	The French Defence	VG
Black Rep	107	Bloodgood, C	1998	Blackburne-Hartlaub Gambit 1.d4 e5 2.dxe5 d6!?	M
Black Rep	105	Hartston,W	1969	The Benoni	VG
Black Rep	176	Richardson & Boyd	1976	Gruenfeld: A Study by Leading Correspondence Players with 270 Complete Games	G			Games collection without much annotation
Black Rep	106	Basman,M	1983	Play the St. George	VG
Black Rep	116	Euwe,M	1968	Defensa Siciliana (Sicilian Defence)	VG			Spanish Text
Black Rep	113	Levy,D	1981	The King's Indian:A Quantitative Analysis of the Opening	VG
Black Rep	111	Benko,Pal	1974	The Benko Gambit	VG
Black Rep	181	Hartston, W		The Exchange Variation of the Gruenfeld	G			24 page booklet
Collections	71	Depasquale,Chris	1995	My 60 Memorable Columns	VG			1990-1995 Columns in The Age Melbourne
Collections	65	Chandler,M Editor	1981	Tournament Chess Vol.1	G			1600 games from 19 international GM tournaments
Collections	59		1992	Chess Informant 54 II-V 1992
Collections	197	Capablanca, J	1966	My Chess Career	G
Collections	51	Foldeak,Arpad	1966	Chess Olympiads	G			1st 1927 London to 16th 1964 Tel-Aviv
Collections	192	Rogers, I	1981	Australian Chess: Into the Eighties	VG			Detailed coverage of the 1980 Australian Chess Championships
Collections	50	Reti,R & Golombek,H	1954	Reti's Best Games of Chess 1974 ed	G
Collections	203	Hammond & Jamieson	1982	C.J.S. Purdy: His Life, His Games and His Writings	G
Collections	214		1969	Tal-Botvinnik: II Match	G			90 page booklet
Collections	49	Sergeant,PW & Watts,WH	1922	Pillsbury's Chess Career 2nd Ed 1966 ed	G
Collections	207	Berliner & Messere	1971	The 5th Correspondence Chess World Championship	VG
Collections	204	Fischer, B	1972	My 60 Memorable Games	G
Collections	198	Kotov & Yudovich	1958	The Soviet School of Chess	VG
Collections	56	Steinitz & Devide	1901	William Steinitz Selected Chess Games	VG			Games 1862-1898
Collections	200	Kasparov, G	2013	Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov Part II:1985-1993	M
Collections	213	Keene, R	1993	Kasparov-Short 1993	M
Collections	63	Alekhine,A	1927	My Best Games of Chess 1908-1923 1965 ed	VG
Collections	57	Hatjun,J	1961	Selected Games of Mikhail Tal	G			Games 1956-1960
Collections	48	Botvinnik,MM	1949	One Hundred Selected Games 1960 ed	G			Games from 1926-1946
Collections	53	Keene,Raymond	1978	Karpov-Korchnoi 1978:The Inside Story of the Match	VG
Collections	52	Horowitz,Al	1943	The Golden Treasury of Chess 1962 ed	G			1500s to 1960 - 575 Great Games
Collections	206		1973	Australian Chess Championship Year Book 1971-1972	P			Ring bound
Collections	72	Egan,Bill	2012	The Doeberl Cup:50 Years of Australian Chess History	M
Collections	216	Hartston, W	1968	Vinkovci 1968: International Chess Tournament	VG			30 page booklet
Collections	61	Cook,P	2016	Ballarat Begonia Chess Tournament 50 Years 1967-2016	VG			Historical with Some selected games
Collections	68	Reinfeld,F & Fine, R	1934	A.Alekhine vs. E.D.Bogoljubow World Chess Championship 1934 1967 ed	G
Collections	58	Coles, CN	1948	Battles Royal of the Chessboard 1995 ed	M			Games 1835-1946
Collections	201	Kasparov, G	2011	Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov Part I: 1973-1985	M
Collections	193	Cafferty, B	1972	Spassky's 100 Best Games	VG
Collections	194	Alekhine, A	1927	My Best Games of Chess 1908-1923 Ed. 1950	P
Collections	195	Reinfeld, F	1942	The Immortal Games of Capablanca	VG
Collections	215	Purdy, CJS	1972	How Fischer Won: World Chess Championship 1972	G
Collections	64	Alekhine,A	1939	My Best Games of Chess 1908-1937: Two Volumes Bound as One1985 ed	VG
Collections	205	Bronstein, D	1988	The World Chess Crown Challenge: Kasparov vs Karpov Seville 87	M
Collections	62	Harding,TD	1979	The Games of the World Correspondence Chess Championships I-X 1987 ed	VG
Collections	209	Yanofsky, D	1967	Canadian Centennial Grand Masters Chess Tournament Winnipeg 1967	G			47 page booklet
Collections	54	Assiac	1961	The Delights of Chess 2nd Revised Edition 1974 ed	VG			Includes 34 problems, extensive stories
Collections	199	Alexander, CHO'D	1970	Alekhine's Best Games of Chess 1938-45	G
Collections	212	Keene, R	1978	Karpov-Korchnoi 1978: The Inside Story of the Match	G
Collections	210	MacLean, W	1974	Australian Open Chess Championship 1973: 100 Best Games	G			56 page booklet
Collections	66	Pandolfini,B	1997	Kasparov and Deep Blue	VG			Detailed Annotation of all 6 games with backstory
Collections	196	Chernev, I	1968	The Chess Companion	G			Part 1: 14 Stories Part 2: Game collections by theme
Collections	67	Abrahams,G	1977	Brilliance in Chess	VG
Collections	202	Chernev, I	1966	The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy	G
Collections	60	Pein,M	1989	Nigel Short's Chess Skills:A Step by Step Guide to Winning Play	VG			Mixture Opening, Strategy and Game Collection
Collections	55	Reshevsky,Samuel	1948	Reshevsky's Best Games of Chess 1960 ed	VG			Games from 1920-1946
Collections	69	Horowitz,IA	1962	Solitaire Chess 1973 ed	G			62 selected games with a guess the move format
Collections	70	Kmoch,H	1941	Rubinstein's Chess Masterpieces:100 Selected Games 1960 ed	G
Collections	208	Golombek, H		BCM Quarterly No. 6 : 1930 Scarborough International Tournament	P			45 page booklet
Collections	211		1965	Hamburg 1965 European Team Tournament	G			60 page booklet
Endgame	172	Averbakh	1976	Bishop v. Knight Endings	VG
Endgame	168	Sutherland & Lommer	1968	1234 Modern End-Game Studies	M			1234 Endgame Tactics - Randomly Arranged
Endgame	151	Portisch,L. & Sarkozy,B.	1981	Six Hundred Endings	M	Dejun Sun	01/06/2023
Endgame	146	Keres,P.	1973	Practical Chess Endings	VG
Endgame	149	Levenfish,G & Smyslov, V.	1971	Rook Endings	VG
Endgame	170	Schuster, T	1975	End Games in Chess: The Essential Techniques for Winning	M			Endings by theme
Endgame	144	Averbakh,Y.	1976	Bishop v. Knight Endings	VG
Endgame	147	Chernev,I.	1961	Practical Chess Endings 1969 ed	VG			Includes shield for hiding solutions
Endgame	152	Cheron,Andre	1952	Nouveau Traite Complet D'Echecs: La Fin De Partie (The New Complete Treaty of Chess: The Endgame)	P			French Text: Missing covers Complete Endgame Manua,l 786 pages
Endgame	148	Horowitz,IA	1957	How to Win in the Chess Endings	VG
Endgame	150	Euwe,M. & Hooper, D.	1959	A Guide to Chess Endings 1976 ed	M
Endgame	171	Averbakh & Maizelis	1974	Pawn Endings	VG			Arranged by numbers of pawns
Endgame	145	Staunton,Howard	1847	The Chess-Player's Handbook 1994 ed	G
Endgame	169	Keres, P	1973	Practical Chess Endings	VG			Endings by theme
On Chess	158	Lasker,Edward	1949	The Adventure of Chess 1959 ed	G
On Chess	190	Fahim	2015	A King in Hiding	M
On Chess	157	Alexander,CHO'D	1973	A Book of Chess	G
On Chess	191	Kasparov, G	2017	Deep Thinking	M
On Chess	160	FIDE	1978	Official Rules of Chess 2nd Ed	VG
On Chess	156	Edge,FM	1859	The Exploits & Triumphs in Europe of Paul Morphy the Chess Champion1973 ed	VG
On Chess	155	Chua,C.	1998	Australian Chess at the Top	VG
On Chess	159	Brace,ER	1977	An Illustrated Dictionary of Chess	P
On Chess	189	Chand, P	1967	The Chess Player and Other Stories	G			10 stories from the great master of Hindi fiction
On Chess	241	Rosenblum, E	1926	Seventy Years of Victorian Chess	G			31 page booklet
Openings	187	Suetin, A	1965	Modern Chess Opening Theory	G
Openings	81	Young, Edward	1960	The Complete Chess Player	G
Openings	82	Evans,L,Gligoric,S Hort,V, Keres,P, Larsen, B.,Petrosian, T. & Portisch,L.	1974	How to Open a Chess Game	G
Openings	85	Griffith,RC & Golombek,H	1949	A Pocket Guide to the Chess Openings 1958 ed	VG
Openings	77	Staunton,H et al.	1910	The American Chess Player's Hand Book 1928 ed	P
Openings	79	Winter,William	1936	Chess for Match Players 1951 ed	G
Openings	78	Pachman,L	1956	Moderne Schachtheorie	G			German Text
Openings	74	Staunton,Howard	1847	The Chess-Player's Handbook 1994 ed	VG
Openings	86	Sokolsky,AP	1966	The Modern Openings in Theory and Practice 1972 ed
Openings	80	Horowitz,IA	1951	How to Win in the Chess Openings 1973 ed	P
Openings	73	Horowitz,IA	1964	Chess Openings:Theory and Practice	P			2660 variations analysed and 439 illustrative games
Openings	188	Korn, W	1990	Modern Chess Openings 13 ed.	M
Openings	84	Griffiths,P.	1982	Better Chess for Club Players	VG
Openings	83	Horowitz,IA	1953	Modern Ideas in the Chess Openings 1967 ed	VG			205 Diagrams
Openings	76	Fine,Reubin	1948	The Ideas Behind the Chess Openings 1955 ed	VG
Openings	75	Suetin,AS	1965	Modern Chess Opening Theory	M
Periodical	247	Purdy, CJS	1954	Chess World	G			19 magazines, 1954-1967
Periodical	246		1966	CCLA Record	G			6 magazines, 1966, 1971-1974
Periodical	245		1955	British Chess Magazine Vol 75 No. 6	G			1 magazine
Periodical	249		1968	Chess	G			11 magazines 1968-1970, 1 magazine 1977
Periodical	163		Feb-89	Chess in Australia No. 1 Vol. 24
Periodical	161		2000	Australian Chess Forum No. 10 Vol 9
Periodical	162		Aug-11	Chessbase Magazine No. 143
Periodical	248		1972	Chess In Australia	G			8 magazines, 1972-1986
Problems	47	Howard,Kenneth	1967	Spectacular Chess Problems:200 Gems by American Composers	G			200 Problems
Problems	43	Barnes,BP	1983	Pick of the Best Chess Problems	G			200 Problems
Problems	46	Howard,Kenneth	1951	The Enjoyment of Chess Problems 1961 reprint	G			200 Problems
Problems	42	Howard,Kenneth	1961	How to Solve Chess Problems	G			112 Problems with explanations
Problems	44	White,Alain	1913	Sam Loyd and his Chess Problems 1962 reprint	G			744 Problems
Problems	45	Sutherland,MA & Lommer, HM	1938	1234 Modern End-Game Studies 1968 reprint	VG			1234 Endgame Studies
Strategy	141	Euwe,M. & Kramer,H	1964	The Middle Game Book 1 - Static Features 1973 ed.	VG
Strategy	117	Znosko-Borovsky, E.	1959	How Not To Play Chess 1961 ed	VG
Strategy	238	Suetin, A	1974	Middlegame Laboratory	G			94 page booklet
Strategy	128	Cozens,WH	1968	Lessons in Chess Strategy	VG
Strategy	143	Euwe,M. & Kramer,H	1964	The Middle Game Book 2 - Dynamic and Subjective Features 1972 ed.	VG
Strategy	120	Reinfeld,F		An Expert's Guide to Chess Strategy	P			Chapter 1 missing. Starts on pg 21
Strategy	132	Reinfeld,F	1959	Chess Secrets Revealed 1973 ed	G
Strategy	131	Reinfeld,F	1959	Chess Secrets Revealed 1970 ed	G
Strategy	119	Reinfeld,F	1961	Chess Mastery by Question and Answer	P
Strategy	118	Reinfeld,F	1954	Attack & Counterattack in Chess 1986 ed	P
Strategy	137	Lasker,E	1947	Lasker's Manual of Chess 1960 ed	G
Strategy	134	Nimzovich,A.	1936	Chess Praxis:21st Century Edition	VG
Strategy	123	Nimzovich,A.	1929	My System: A Chess Treatise 1968 ed	VG
Strategy	133	Barden,L.	1980	Play Better Chess	G
Strategy	226	Chernev, I	1957	Logical Chess Move by Move: Every move explained Ed 1998 Algebraic	M
Strategy	234	Euwe & Kramer	1956	The Middle Game Book One: Static Features	VG
Strategy	227	Krogius, N	1972	Chess Psychology	P
Strategy	222	Walker, J	1976	Attacking the King: Fighting Strategy and Tactics for Checkmate	VG
Strategy	121	Nimzovich,A.	1936	Chess Praxis:The Praxis of My System 1962 ed	VG
Strategy	221	Silman, J	1999	The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Mastery	M
Strategy	230	Fine, R	1956	The Psychology of the Chess Player	VG
Strategy	232	Dunne, A	1985	How to Become a Candidate Master	VG			Includes a separate answer guide book
Strategy	219	Suetin, A	1971	A Contemporary Approach to the Middle Game	VG
Strategy	224	Fine, R	1943	Ideas Behind the Chess Openings Ed 1974	VG
Strategy	135	Chernev,I	1957	Logical Chess: Move by Move	G
Strategy	223	Evans, L	1972	New Ideas in Chess	VG
Strategy	130	Reti,R.	1943	Modern Ideas in Chess 1960 ed	VG
Strategy	136	Abrahams,G.	1961	Technique in Chess 1973 ed	VG
Strategy	138	Evans,Larry	1970	Chess Catechism	G
Strategy	139	Abrahams,G.	1951	The Chess Mind	G
Strategy	220	Euwe, M	1966	The Development of Chess Style	G
Strategy	236	Kmoch, H	1959	Pawn Power in Chess	VG
Strategy	126	Capablanca,JR	1921	Chess Fundamentals 1973 ed	VG
Strategy	237	Kotov, A	1971	Think Like a Grandmaster	VG
Strategy	233	Adorjan,A	2004	Black is Still OK!	M
Strategy	229	Kotov, A	1981	Train Like a Grandmaster	VG
Strategy	218	Euwe & Meiden	1973	Chess Master v Chess Amateur	VG
Strategy	124	Capablanca,JR	1966	Last Lectures 1972 ed	VG
Strategy	122	Reinfeld,F	1955	Strategy of Offense and Defense 1961 ed	G			Republished two original texts. 1-How to Win When You're Ahead. 2-How to Fight Back

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