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A general overview of chess problems, including an extensive A–Z of themes and terms, and 460 problems. Widely regarded as the best single-volume work in English on the subject. Velimirovic, Milan and Valtonen, Kari (2012), The definitive book - Encyclopedia of Chess Problems: Themes and Terms, Chess Informant. ISBN 978-86-7297-064-7. An ...
The Puzzle King: Sam Loyd's Chess Problems and Selected Mathematical Puzzles (ISBN 1-886846-05-7): edited by Sid Pickard Sam Loyd's Cyclopedia of 5000 Puzzles, Tricks and Conundrums with Answers ISBN 0-923891-78-1 – Complete 1914 book (public domain) scanned
This is a list of chess books that are used as references in articles related to chess. The list is organized by alphabetical order of the author's surname, then the author's first name, then the year of publication, then the alphabetical order of title.
Loyd had a friend who was willing to wager that he could always find the piece which delivered the principal mate of a chess problem. Loyd composed this problem as a joke and bet his friend dinner that he could not pick a piece that didn't give mate in the main line (his friend immediately identified the pawn on b2 as being the least likely to deliver mate), and when the problem was published ...
In December 1905, White published his first compendium of challenging chess problems. Every year thereafter at Christmas-time, he would publish a similar volume and mail it to fellow enthusiasts around the world. He continued this custom until 1936, and his "Christmas Series" problem books were considered a must-have for chess problem solvers. [16]
In the center are the two openings included in the volume: 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6; and 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 without (symbol ┘) an early ...d7–d5. The Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings ( ECO ) is a reference work describing the state of opening theory in chess , originally published in five volumes from 1974 to 1979 by the Yugoslavian company Šahovski ...
Profile of Thompson found in his Chess Problems book. Theophilus Augustus Thompson (April 21, 1855 - Oct 12, 1881) is the earliest documented African-American chess expert recognized in the United States. [1] In addition to competing in tournaments, he wrote a book Chess Problems: Either to Play and Mate published in 1873.
Authors with five books or more have a sub-section title on their own, to increase the usability of the table of contents. When a book was written by several authors, it is listed once under the name of each author. See: List of chess books (A–F) List of chess books (G–L) List of chess books (M–S) List of chess books (T–Z)