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BRITISH CHESS MAGAZINE.
(a) Bound Volumes all with index.
1926 764pp Newly bound in maroon cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. VG+ £60.00
1929 500pp Newly bound in maroon cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. VG+ £60.00
1931 556pp Newly bound in red cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. VG+ £50.00
1943 288pp Published to wartime standards, with paper now yellowing. Stamps of “West London Chess Club”. Scarce wartime no. G £50.00
1946 404pp Published to wartime standards, with paper now yellowing. Stamps of “West London Chess Club”. Scarce number. G £45.00
1969 380pp Maroon cloth boards VG £35.00
1976 576pp Newly bound in maroon cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. VG+ £35.00
1977 592pp Newly bound in maroon cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. VG+ £35.00
(b) Complete volumes in maroon cordex-type binders. Spines lettered “British Chess Magazine” with date & vol. no. added on. All with magazine covers and indices. All VG+
1993     £12.00
1994     £12.00
1995     £12.00
1996     £12.00
1997     £12.00
1998     £12.00
2000     £12.00
2001     £12.00
2002     £12.00
2003     £12.00
2004     £12.00
2005     £12.00
2006     £12.00
2007     £12.00
2008     £12.00
2009     £12.00
       
(c) Unbound copies in complete sets. 12 monthly issues in paper covers. With index unless stated o/w. VG
1962 372pp   £12.00
1963 380pp   £12.00
1964 376pp   £12.00
1965 368pp   £12.00
1967 368pp   £12.00
1968 388pp   £10.00
1973 540pp   £10.00
1974 476pp   £10.00
1975 560pp   £10.00
1976 576pp   £10.00
1978 540pp   £7.00
(d) Unbound part sets – missing months as indicated. Staples rusting up to 1941 o/w OK thereafter . G.
1923   Missing Jan; Aug & Dec. £15.00
1926   Missing Aug. £15.00
1937   Missing April; July; Aug; Sept. £9.00
1938   Missing Mar; Oct & Dec. £15.00
1941   Missing July & Aug. £15.00
1942   Missing Sept. £15.00
1945   Missing Sept. £15.00
1949   Missing Feb; Aug – Dec. inclusive. i.e. 6 volumes £5.00
1952   Missing Feb; May; Sept. £7.50
1954   Missing Feb. £9.00
1955   Missing June. £9.00
1959   Missing May. £9.00
1961   Missing Jan. – May inclusive. £5.00
1966   Missing May & Dec. £5.00
1969   Missing April; May & June. £5.00
1972   Missing Oct. £12.00
CHESS LIFE: Magazine of the U.S. Chess Federation and “the most widely circulated chess magazine in the world” (they claim). Published monthly with c. 74 pp per issue in large format
Unbound complete sets: All VG.
 
2003   12 volumes £10.00
2007   12 volumes £10.00
2008   12 volumes £10.00
2009   12 volumes £10.00
2011   12 volumes £10.00
Unbound part sets: All VG  
2002   June – November inc. 6 volumes £4.00
2004   Winter edition instead of Nov & Dec. 11 volumes £10.00
2005   Jan. missing; 11 volumes £9.00
2006   July – Dec. inc. 5 volumes. £4.00
2010   July missing: 11 volumes £9.00
2012   Jan. missing; 11 volumes £9.00
British / English Chess Federation Yearbooks  
  Invaluable resources for chess historians & archivists. All large format.  
2008 124pp PB F £5.00
2010 122pp PB F £5.00
2011 128pp PB F £5.00
2013 179pp PB F £5.00
2014 170pp PB F £5.00
CHESS WORLD (Australia) 2 copies sent by Purdy to Bruce Hayden
1959 Jan. Sent to Hayden as they’d used an article of his on Morphy. £2.50
1960 July Sent as it contained a review of his book “Cabbage Heads…” £2.50
DEUTSCHE SCHACHZEITUNG: bound volumes. A matching set of 3, all in maroon cloth boards with gilt titles plus index VG+  
1966 416pp   £35.00
1967 416pp   £35.00
1968 416pp   £35.00
    unbound part sets. PB. Some foxing to page edges o/w G+  
1963   Sept. – Dez. inc. 4 volumes £5.00
1964   11 volumes - missing Feb £7.50
1965   10 volumes Missing Sept & Okt. £7.00
       
KINGPIN: Private Eye’s satiric approach applied to chess reporting.  
    Vols.10–19 inc. Bound in navy blue cloth boards with gilt titles. F £25.00
NEW IN CHESS: (a) bound volumes, bound in shiny black cloth boards with smart gilt titles.
1985 800pp 12 monthly editions of 66 pages. F £25.00
1996 720pp 8 editions of 90 pages F £25.00
(b) unbound complete sets
NEW IN CHESS YEARBOOKS: All published in the Netherlands with articles by a range of GMs on a variety of currently popular openings featuring numerous games in AN. Text in English. Mostly edited by Sosonko. All in fine condition. The contents include much more than is indicated here, which is just a taster.
No. 1 1984 A 510pp HB DW VG+ £20.00
No. 2 1984 B 512pp HB DW F £20.00
No. 3 1985 510pp HB DW F £15.00
No. 4 1986 512pp HB DW F £15.00
No. 5 1986 512pp HB DW F £15.00
No. 6 1987 496pp HB DW some foxing on page edges o/w VG+ £12.00
No. 7 1988 240pp Articles on (a) Meran Variation; (b) Ruy Lopez - Anti-Marshall & (c) Classical Sicilian 6.Be3 HB DW F £10.00
No. 8 1988 240pp Articles on French Winawer 7.Qg4 0-0; Caro-Kann 4…Nd7 & Queen’s Indian 7.Qc2 HB DW F £10.00
No. 9 1988 240pp Articles on Reti Gambit 4…dc4; Grunfeld Prins 7…Na6 & Nimzo-Indian 4.Nf3 b6 5.Bg5. HB DW F £10.00
No. 10 1988 240pp Articles on (a) Slav Gambit 5.e4; (b) Grunfeld Exchange 14.Rc1 & (c) Sicilian Scheveningen. HB DW F £10.00
No. 11 1989 240pp Articles on (a) Petroff Defence 6.Bd3 Bd6. (b) Queen’s Gambit 5.Qc2 & (c) French Tarrasch 4…Qd5. HB F £10.00
No. 12 1989 240pp Articles on (a) Bogo-Indian 4.Bd2 c5. HB F £10.00
No. 13 1989 240pp Articles on (a) KID 9.Nd2 a5; (b) Nimzo-Indian Def. 4.Qc2 HB F £10.00
No. 14 1989 240pp Articles on (a) KID 9.Nd2 c5; (b) Sicilian Alapin 2.c3 e5 & (c) Dutch Stonewall with Bd6. HB F £10.00
No. 15 1990 240pp Articles on Nimzo-Indian Def 4.Qc2 d5; (b) English Opening 5.Bd3 & (c) KID 9.Ne1 Nd7 10.Be3. HB F £10.00
No. 16. 1990 240pp Articles on (a) French Defence 6.h4: (b) Ruy Lopez 11…Nf2; (c) Slav Defence 5.a4; & (d) Bogoljubow Opening 1…Nc6, HB F £10.00
No. 17. 1990 240pp Articles on (a) Slave Defence 13.Nd4: (b) French Defence 4…Ne4: (c) Slav Defence 5…Bg4 & (d) Benoni Defence 7.Bf4 HB VG £10.00
No. 18. 1990 240pp Articles on (a) Sicilian Defence 2…h6?!; (b) Ruy Lopez 9…Nd7; (c) QGD 10.0-0-0; (d) Benoni Defence 7.Bf4 & (e) Leningrad Dutch 8b3 HB F £10.00
No. 19. 1991 240pp Articles on (a) Sicilian Dragon 9.0-0-0; (b) French Defence 6…gf6; (c) Petroff Defence 4.Nf7; (d) Ruy Lopez 3…Bb4; & (e) Vienna Variation 7.e5. HB F £10.00
No. 20 1991 240pp Articles on (a) Pirc – Czech System; (b) French Advance 6a3; (c) QGD Tartakower Variation 8.Bd3 & Vienna Variation 7.Bc4 HB F £10.00
No. 21 1991 240pp Articles on Sicilian Najdorf 6.Bc4; (b) Slav Exchange Var. 8.Qb6; (c) Grunfeld Exchange 8.Rb1 & (d) King’s Indian Four Pawns 6…Na6. HB F £10.00
No. 22 1991 240pp Articles on (a) Sicilian: Keres Attack; (b) French Tarrasch: 3…a6; (c) Caro-Kann 5.Ng5 & Ruy Lopez: Marshall Attack. HB F £10.00
No. 23 1992 240pp Articles on (a) QGD: Anti-Tartakower; (b) Catalan Accepted 10.Bg5 & (c) Grunfeld Fianchetto 9.d5 plus 33 database surveys. HB F £10.00
No. 24 1992 240pp Articles on (a) French Tarrasch: 4…ed5; (b) Semi-Tarrasch: 5…cd4 & (c) Dutch Leningrad 7…Nc6 plus 35 database surveys. HB F £10.00
No. 25 1992 240pp Articles on (a) King’s Indian: Samisch 6…Nbd7; (b) Catalan 4…dc4 & (c) French Def. Tarrasch 13…Ne4. HB F £10.00
No. 26 1992 240pp Articles on (a) King’s Indian: Samisch 6…Nbd7; (b) Catalan 4…dc4 & (c) French Tarrasch 13… Ne4. HB F £10.00
No. 27 1993 240pp Articles on (a) Sicilian: 4…e5; (b) Slav: 3.Nf3 dc4 & (c) English: 4…e5 HB F £10.00
No. 28 1993 240pp Articles on (a) Ruy Lopez: Romanishin Var; & (b) Modern Benoni: 8.Bd3 0-0 9.h3 HB F £10.00
No. 29 1993 240pp Articles include (a) Sicilian Scheveningen; (b) Ruy Lopez Exchange; & (c) Grunfeld Exchange. HB F £10.00
No. 30 1993 240pp Articles include (a) Sicilian Poisoned Pawn: 8.Bf6; & (b) Slav Meran Var. 6.Qc2. HB F £10.00
No. 31 1994 240pp Articles include (a) Sicilian Najdorf: English Attack; (b) Sicilian: Early Sacrifices & (c) King’s Indian: Fianchetto Var. HB F £10.00
No. 32 1994 240pp Articles include (a) Two Knights: Lvov Variation & (b) Benoni: 8.Bd3 0-0 9.h3 SB F £7.50
No. 33 1994 240pp Articles include (a) Sicilian 2.Ne2 & (b) Grunfeld: 7.Bb5 SB F £7.50
No. 34 1994 240pp Articles include (a) Ruy Lopez: Riga Variation & (b) King’s Indian/Benoni: Four Pawns 9…Bg4. HB F £7.50
No. 35 1995 240pp Articles include (a) Ruy Lopez Marshall Attack & (b) French Tarrasch. SB F £7.50
No. 36 1995 240pp Articles include (a) Catalan 7.Ne5 & (b) English Reversed Dragon 8.Rb1 SB F £7.50
No. 37 1995 240pp Articles include (a) Ruy Lopez: Norwegian Variation; & (b) Sicilian Verimirovic Attack. SB F £7.50
No. 38 1995 240pp Articles include (a) King’s Indian 9.Ne1 with 13.a4 & (b) King’s Gambit 2…Nc6. 3. Nf3 f5. SB F £7.50
No. 39 1996 240pp Articles include (a) Benoni: Half Samisch & (b) Old Indian: 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 c5 3.d5 e6. SB F £7.50
No. 40 1996 240pp Articles include (a) Sicilian: Pin Variation & (b) Ruy Lopez: Anti-Marshall 8.a4 Rb8 SB F £5.00
No. 41 1996 240pp Article on QGA SB F £5.00
No. 42 1997 240pp Articles include (a) French: Steinitz Var. 7…cd4 8.Nd4 Wb6 & (b) Four Knights: Glak Variation 4.g3. SB F £5.00
No. 43 1997 240pp Articles include (a) Four Knights: Glek Variation 4.g3 d5 & (b) Grunfeld Indian: Fianchetto Variation 6…dc4 HB F £5.00
No. 44 1996 240pp Articles include (a) Benoni Hybrid with Ne7 & QGA: Furman Variation 6.Qe2. HB F £5.00
No. 45 1997 240pp Articles include (a) A Revolution on the Grunfeld: 5.Na4!?! & Why Castle in the Dragon! SB F £5.00
No. 46 1998 240pp Articles include (a) Timman’s novelty busted & (b) Meran & Anti-Meran triptych. SB F £5.00
No. 47 1998 240pp Articles include (a) King’s Indian 7…Na6 & (b) Sicilian 5…Bd7 F £5.00
No. 48 1998 240pp Articles include (a) Petroff 7…Bd6 & (b) Sosonko’s Corner g2-g4! £5.00
No. 49 1998 240pp Articles include (a) A new way to tackle the Najdorf – the breathtaking 6Rg1 & (b) Four gambits by Marshall in the Ruy Lopez, Slav & English. SB F £5.00
No. 60 2001 240pp Articles include (a) Caro-Kann Advance & (b) QGA 3…c5 SB F £5.00
No. 61 2001 240pp Articles include (a) Ruy Lopez: Berlin Variation & (b) Caro-Kann Classical. SB F £5.00
No. 62 2002 240pp Articles include (a) Vienna Game – the romantic 5.Qf3; (b) Scotch Opening – Scotch on the rocks? & (c) Caro-Kann Advance. SB F £5.00
No. 64 2002 240pp Articles include (a) English Anto-Taimanov System & (b) Sacrificial ideas in the QGD. SB F £5.00
No. 65 2002 240pp Articles include (a) Leko saves the Sicilian Sveshnikov & (b) The romantic Scandinavian revisited. SB F £5.00
No. 68 2003 240pp Articles include (a) McShane on the Grunfeld Exchange; (b) Shirov on the Botvinnik Semi-Slav & (c) Slav Def. 6.Nh4. SB F £5.00
No. 69 2003 240pp Articles include (a) Svidler on the French Advance; (b) Sicilian Rauzer Var. & (c) King’s Gambit Becker Variation. SB F £5.00
No. 71 2004 240pp Articles include (a) Kramnik on the Sveshnikov; (b) Morozevich on the Albin Counter-Gambit; & (c) Sicilian Taimanov. SB F £5.00
No. 72 2004 240pp Articles include (a) Gelfand on the Tarrasch; (b) Topolov on the Catalan; & (c) Ruy Lopez Exchange Var. SB F £5.00
No. 73 2004 240pp Articles include (a) Caro-Kann Advance; (b) Carlsen on the Slav 6.Nh4 variation; & (c) Evans Gambit. SB F £5.00
No. 74 2005 244pp Articles include (a) Trompowsky at the crossroads; (b) NImzo-Indian; & (c) French Winawer. SB F £5.00
No. 75 2005 251pp Articles include (a) Nimzo-Indian Classical; (b) Ruy Lopez Breyer Var. & (c) Pirc: Shirov Gambit. SB F £5.00
No. 76 2005 244pp Articles include (a) Ivanchuk on the Trompovsky; (b) French Advance – Sveshnikov’s system; & (c) QGA Classical. SB F £5.00
No. 77 2005 244pp Articles include (a) Elephant Gambit; (b) KID Bayonet Attack & (c) Petroff: Nimzowitsch Variation. SB F £5.00
No. 78 2006 244pp Articles include (a) French Tarrasch; (b) Kasparov on the Sicilian Najdorf; & (c) QGA Classical. SB F £5.00
No. 79 2006 244pp Articles include (a) Palliser on the Benoni Taimanov; (b) Slav Moscow Variation; & (c) Caro-Kann Exchange. SB F £5.00
No. 80 2006 244pp Articles include (a) Karjakin on the English Attack; (b) Nimzo-Indian Classical & (c) Petroff Jaenisch Variation. SB F £5.00
No. 81 2006 246pp Articles include (a) King’s Gambit Declined; (b) Catalan Accepted F £5.00
No. 83 2007 246pp Articles include (a) Karjakin on the Sicilian Sveshnikov; (b) French Burn Variation; & (c) French Winawer. SB F £5.00
No. 86 2008 247pp Articles include (a) Ruy Lopez - Marshall Attack; (b) Sicilian Kan; F £5.00
No. 87 2008 247pp Articles include (a) Sicilian Najdorf; (b) Ruy Lopez: Berlin Var. & (c) Fischer’s Opening Legacy. SB F £5.00
NEW IN CHESS magazines: probably the best-presented chess magazine. 8 copies per annum & c. 100pp per copy. All F
2003   Complete set of 8 VG £20.00
2007 816pp Complete set of 8 F £20.00
2008 850pp Complete set of 8 F £20.00
2009 776pp Complete set of 8 F £20.00
2010 864pp Complete set of 8 F £20.00
2011 848pp Complete set of 8 Changed to larger format F £20.00
NEW IN CHESS magazines: part sets.  
2002   5 volumes: Missing Nos. 1, 2 & 3 F £7.50
2005   Nos. 2 – 8: Missing No. 1 F £12.00
2006   5 volumes: Missing Nos. 2, 3, & 4. F £7.50
2012   Nos. 1 – 7: Missing No. 8 F £12.00
OPEN FILE – magazine of the Combined Services Chess Association.
No. 6 2001 46pp A4 pages stapled. Inc. 2001 CSCC Championship £2.00
No. 7 37pp A4 pages stapled: Inc. 12th NATO Championships San Remo £2.00
No. 8 26pp A4 pages stapled on 13th NATO Championships at Brest 2002 £2.00
No. 9 2004 21pp A4 pages stapled, mostly of games analyses by Andrew Martin F £2.00
No. 11 2005 21pp A4 pages stapled mostly of annotated games & Tony Miles obit. F £2.00
2007 50pp A4 pages stapled mostly on 2006 CSCC Championships F £2.00
2008 33pp A4.  
ROCHADE (castling) EUROPA: Large format, newspaper-style, German magazine. 12 issues of c. 80pp per year.
Unbound complete sets:
2008   All 12 volumes (nearly 1,000 pages!) £10.00
2009   All 12 volumes £10.00
2010   All 12 volumes £10.00
2011   All 12 volumes £10.00
2012   All 12 volumes £10.00
Unbound part sets:
2002   Volumes 7 – 12 inc. 6 volumes £5.00
2003   Volume 11 missing: 11 volumes £8.00
2004   Volume 12 missing: 11 volumes £8.00
2005   4 volumes missing: 8 volumes £5.00
2006   5 volumes missing: 7 volumes £5.00
2007   Volume 9 missing: 11 volumes £8.00
SCHACH MAGAZIN 64: In 2008 changed from fortnightly to monthly publication, and in 2010 added colour. Large format. All VG.
Unbound complete sets.
2007   All 12 volumes £10.00
2009   All 12 volumes £10.00
2010   All 12 volumes now in full colour £10.00
2011   All 12 volumes in colour £10.00
2012   All 12 volumes in colour £10.00
Unbound part sets:
2002   17 of 24 volumes £10.00
2003   20 of 24 volumes £10.00
2004   22 of 24 volumes £10.00
2005   19 of 24 volumes £10.00
2006   16 of 24 volumes £10.00
2008   11 of 12 volumes £10.00
SCHWEIZERISCHE SCHACHZEITUNG: (Swiss Chess Newspaper) Tri-lingual magazine in German, French & Italian. Small format with b&w photographs. 12 issues per year of c. 48 pp.
Unbound part sets:
2002   Volumes 6; 8; 9; 10; 11-12: 5 volumes £4.00
2003   Volumes 1-2; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10: 8 volumes £6.00
2004   Volumes 1-2; 4; 5; 7; 8; 9; 10: 7 volumes £6.00
       
SHAKHMATNY BULLETIN: Published from 1955 – 1990. 12 monthly issues per annum each of 32 pp c. A4 in size. “Best chess magazine in the World” – Fischer. “…remains a very useful source for chess research & theoretical work” - T. D. Harding. (see Chess Café article for his full appraisal).
Unbound volumes in Cyrillic. All VG+
1962   Jan & Dec. missing. 10 volumes £10.00
1963   Complete set 12 volumes £12.00
1964   Complete set 12 volumes £12.00
1965   No. 2 missing 11 volumes £10.00
1966   Complete set 12 volumes £12.00
1967   Complete set 12 volumes £12.00
1968   Complete set 12 volumes £12.00
1969   Complete set 12 volumes £12.00
1970   Jan only. 1 volume £1.00
SPORT IN THE USSR – This issue is devoted to chess in the Soviet Union. In English
1977 32pp Good photographs, articles, cartoons etc £2.50

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