Sale of chess books
All these items are on sale to the general public at £5.00 each. They can be ordered from James Toon.
Postage and packing depends on weight but is about £2 per item on average. Items are sent using Royal Mail 1st Class.
Number of items in collection: 90. Recent additions are in bold type.
| Author | Title | Date |
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| OPENINGS | ||
| Franco, Z | Chess Explained: The English Opening | 2006 |
| Cummings, D | Symmetrical English | 2001 |
| Hansen, C | The Gambit Guide to the English Opening: 1…e5 | 1999 |
| Beim, V | Understanding the Leningrad Dutch | 2002 |
| Aagaard, J | Dutch Stonewall | 2002 |
| Gallagher, J | Starting Out: The Pirc / Modern | 2003 |
| Nunn, J & Gallagher, J | Beating the Sicilian 3 | 1995 |
| Cox, J | Starting Out: Sicilian Sveshnikov | 2007 |
| Rogozenko, D | The Sveshnikov Reloaded | 2005 |
| Wells, P & Osnov, V | The Complete Richter-Rauzer | 1998 |
| Dearing, E | Play the Sicilian Dragon | 2004 |
| Gufeld, E & Stetsko, O | Ultimate Dragon volume 1: the Rauzer Attack | 2001 |
| Palliser, R | Starting Out: Sicilian Najdorf | 2006 |
| Jacobs, B | Starting Out: the French | 2002 |
| Emms, J | Starting Out: The Scotch Game | 2005 |
| Kinsman, A | The Spanish Exchange | 1998 |
| Cox, J | Starting Out: 1.d4 | 2006 |
| Müller, K & Knaak, R | 222 Opening Traps after 1.d4 | 2008 |
| Lane, G | Ideas behind Modern Chess Openings | 2002 |
| Buckley, G | Easy Guide to the Queen's Gambit Accepted | 1998 |
| Flear, G | The ...a6 Slav | 2003 |
| Davies, N | The Trompowsky (2nd Edition) | 2005 |
| Khodarkovsky, M | The Gruenfeld Defence Revealed | 2003 |
| Emms, J | Starting Out: The Queen's Indian | 2004 |
| Emms, J | Easy Guide to the Nimzo-Indian | 1998 |
| Gallagher, J | Play the King's Indian | 2004 |
| Cherniaev, A & Prokuronov, E | The Saemisch King's Indian Uncovered | 2007 |
| Watson, J & Schiller, E | The Big Book of Busts | 1995 |
| Dvoretsky, M & Yusupov, A | Opening Preparation | 1994 |
| Ward, C | Improve Your Opening Play | 2000 |
| Nunn, J and others | Nunn's Chess Openings | 1999 |
ENDINGS |
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| Flear, G | Starting Out: Pawn Endgames | 2004 |
| Ward, C | Starting Out: Rook Endgames | 2004 |
| Chernev, I | Capablanca's Best Chess Endings | 1978 |
TACTICS |
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| Brunthaler, H | My Daily Exercise: 365 Tactical Tests (vol.1) | 2007 |
| Wilson, F & Alberston, B | 303 Tactical Chess Puzzles | 2002 |
| Lamford, P | Improve Your Game: 100 Chess Puzzles | 1999 |
| Lane, G | Sharpen Your Chess Tactics | 2009 |
| Weteschnik, M | Understanding Chess Tactics | 2006 |
| Khmelnitsky, I | Chess Exam and Training Guide | 2004 |
| Khmelnitsky, I | Chess Exam and Training Guide: Tactics | 2006 |
| Gallagher, J | 365 Ways to Checkmate | 2004 |
| Reitstein, L | Test Your Chess – 2 | 2005 |
| Nunn, J | John Nunn's Chess Puzzle Book | 1999 |
| Levy, D | Play Chess Combinations and Sacrifices | 1980 |
| Wade, R & Bott, R & Morrison, S | Chess Tactics: Puzzles for Beginners (Descriptive Notation) | 1970 |
| Keene, R & Whiteley, A | Ray Keene's Good Move Guide | 1982 |
| Meyer, C & Muller, K | The Magic of Chess Tactics | 2002 |
| STRATEGY / GENERAL ADVICE | ||
| Nimzowitsch, A | My System (algebraic version) | 1991 |
| Dunnington, A | Can You be a Positional Chess Genius? | 2002 |
| Nunn, J | Secrets of Practical Chess | 1998 |
| Emms, J | The Survival Guide to Competitive Chess | 2007 |
| Burnett, A | Streetfighting Chess | 2008 |
| Davies, N | The Chess Player's Battle Manual | 1998 |
| Christiansen, L | Storming the Barricades | 2000 |
| Marovic, D | Understanding Pawn Play in Chess | 2000 |
| McDonald, N | Chess: the Art of Logical Thinking | 2004 |
| Silman, J | The Amateur's Mind | 1999 |
| Aagaard, J | Excelling at Combinational Play | 2004 |
| Aagaard, J | Excelling at Chess Calculation | 2004 |
| Buckley, G | Multiple Choice Chess (vol.1) | 2001 |
| Buckley, G | Multiple Choice Chess (vol.2) | 2002 |
BIOGRAPHICAL / GAME COLLECTIONS |
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| Capablanca, J | My Chess Career (Expanded Edition) | 1994 |
| Agur, E | Fischer: His Approach to Chess | 1992 |
| Keene, R | Karpov–Korchnoi 1978 (Descriptive Notation) | 1978 |
| Keene, R | Nigel Short World Chess Challenger | 1992 |
| Forbes, C | Nigel Short Quest for the Crown | 1993 |
| Lawson, D | The Inner Game | 1993 |
| Nunn, J | John Nunn's Best Games 1985–1993 | 1995 |
| Nunn, J | Understanding Chess Move by Move | 2001 |
| Nunn, J | Grandmaster Chess Move by Move | 2005 |
| Burgess, Nunn & Emms | The World's Greatest Chess Games | 1998 |
| Summerscale, A & Summerscale, C | Interview with a Grandmaster | 2001 |
BEGINNERS |
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| King, D | How to Win at Chess | 1995 |
| Del Rosario, F | A First Book of Morphy | 2004 |
| Jacobs, B | Starting Out in Chess | 1999 |
| Taulbut, S | An Introduction to Chess | 1984 |
| Pandolfini, B | The ABCs of Chess | 1986 |
| Sadler, M | Tips for Young Players | 1999 |
OTHER BOOKS |
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| Evans, L | This Crazy World of Chess | 2007 |
| Wells, A | Football and Chess | 2008 |
| Knudsen, J | Essential Chess Quotations | 2000 |
| Schmaltz, R | The Complete Chess Server Guide | 2004 |
| Burgess, G | The Mammoth Book of Chess | 1997 |
| Kasparov, G | How Life Imitates Chess | 2007 |
| Geuzendam, D | The Day Kasparov Quit and other chess interviews | 2006 |
| Alburt, L & Lawrence, A | Three Days with Bobby Fischer and other chess essays | 2003 |
| Kongsted, C | How to use Computers to improve your Chess | 2003 |
DVDs |
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| Martin, A | Accelerated Dragon Assault | 2003 |
| Bangiev, A | King's Gambit Training | 2002 |