Various authors - Ten issues about the sport of Chess and its Tactics - 1972-1981

The lot contains :
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George Koltanowski - Colle System - Dallas(Texas)/Sutton Coldfield(UK, Chess Digest, 1972 - 8th edition - 65p. - Softcover: illustrated, stapled paper binding - 13.80x21.60cm - Good copy: an old (coffee) stain on the top and long edges, as well as on the top of both covers; text block clean and unmarked; bookseller’s label on the rear endpaper.
* George Koltanowski (1903–2000) was a Belgian-born American chess player, promoter, and writer. He was informally known as "Kolty". Koltanowski set the world's blindfold record on 20 September 1937, in Edinburgh, by playing 34 chess games simultaneously while blindfolded, making headline news around the world. He also set a record in 1960 for playing 56 consecutive blindfold games at ten seconds per move (Source: Wikipedia)
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Editorial Collective - The Budapest Defence [based on articles from the world's leading theoretical publications] - Dallas (Texas)/Sutton Coldfield (UK), Chess Digest, 1972 - 1st edition - 41p. - Softcover: illustrated, stapled paper binding - 15.30x22.90cm - Very good copy: slight UV-fading on the spine, text block clean and pristine, bookseller’s label on the title page.
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Samuel Reshevsky - Reshevsky teaches Chess - New York, Arco Publishing Colmpany Inc., 1974 - 1st edition - 155+1p.(publ.) - Softcover: illustrated paper binding with a straight spine - 10.60x17.80cm - Good copy: some signs of use and wear on the cover, endpapers discoloured, text block slightly age-toned.
* Samuel Herman Reshevsky (1911–1992) was a Polish chess prodigy and later a leading American chess grandmaster. He was a contender for the World Chess Championship from the mid-1930s to the late 1960s. He tied for third place in the 1948 World Chess Championship tournament, tied for second in the 1953 Candidates tournament, and was a Candidate as late as 1968. He was a seven-time winner of the US Chess Championship. (Source: Wikipedia)
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Leonard M. Pickett - Enterprising Strategy in the Opening - Nottingham, The Chess Player Ltd., 1975 - 1st edition - 62p. - Softcover: paper binding with a straight spine - 12.10x18.50cm - Very good copy: minimal signs of wear on the cover; text block clean and pristine.
* Leonard Michael Pickett (1944–2026) was a well-known English chess player and author of chess books. Within the chess world, he was primarily recognized for his theoretical booklets and analyses of various chess openings. (Source: English Chess Forum)
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Leonard M. Pickett - Four Knights and Belgrade Gambit - Nottingham, The Chess Player Ltd., 1976 - 1st edition - 80p. - Softcover: polychrome illustrated paper binding with straight spine - 12.60x18.70cm - Very good copy: minimal signs of use on the cover, text block clean and blank.
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Luděk Pachman - Modern Chess Tactics, Pieces and Pawns in Action - issue no. 57 in the "Tartan Books" series – original Czech title: "Taktika Moderniho Sachu" (1962) – translated into English by P. H. Clarke – New York, David McKay Company Inc., 1979 – 1st American edition in this format – VII+216p. – Softcover: polychrome-illustrated paper binding with a straight spine – 12.70x19.70cm – Very good copy: minimal signs of wear on the cover; text block clean and pristine.
* Luděk Pachman (1924–2003) was a Czech-German journalist and chess player (International Grandmaster) who also represented Czechoslovakia.
* Peter Hugh Clarke (1933–2014) was an English chess player who held the titles of FIDE Master, International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1980), FIDE International Arbiter (1976) and Chess Olympiad individual silver medal winner (1956). (Sources: Wikipedia)
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Claude F. Bloodgood - The Tactical Grob - published in the "Chess for Modern Times" series – Sutton Coldfield (UK), [1980] – 1st edition – 51p. – Softcover: laminated paper binding with a straight spine – 13.70x19.70cm – In near-new condition: minimal signs of use; text block clean and pristine.
* Claude Frizzell Bloodgood (1937–2001) was a controversial American chess player. As a young man, he got into trouble with the law and was arrested several times. He was sentenced to death in 1970 after having been convicted of murdering his mother, although this sentence was later commuted to life in prison.
While in prison, he remained a very active chess player, playing a large number of correspondence games and rated games with other inmates. Over time, he achieved a very high ranking in the United States Chess Federation (USCF) by playing in a closed pool, which allowed rating manipulation. He died in prison in 2001. (Source: Wikipedia)
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Sergio Samarian - Opening Tactics for Club Players - translated from the French by Elaine Pritchard - london, Robert Hale Limited, 1980 - 1st edition - 6+170p. - Hardcover: linen binding with gold-lettered spine - 14.20x22.20cm - Very good copy: cover intact, text block clean and pristine.
* Sergiu Samarian (1923-1991) was a Romanian–German chess master and coach. Samarian was a Romanian national coach both for men's and women's teams. He emigrated to West Germany in 1976, and became a German national coach for women's team.
* Elaine Zelia Pritchard (1926–2012), née Saunders, was an English chess player who held the title of Woman International Master (WIM, 1957). She was a four-time winner of the British Women's Chess Championship (1939, 1946, 1956, 1965). (Sources: Wikipedia)
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John Love - Tactical Ideas in Chess - London, Bell Chess Books/Bell & Hyman Limited, 1981 - 1st edition - 6+150p. - Softcover: laminated, polychrome-illustrated paper binding with a straight spine - 13.80 x 21.50 cm - In near-new condition: minimal signs of wear to the cover; text block clean and pristine.
* John Love was a British chess author and a primary school teacher.
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Lyev Polugaevsky, International Grandmaster - Grandmaster Preparation - published as part of the "Pergamon International Library" collection, under the "Pergamon-Russian Chess Series" imprint – Oxford/New York/etc., Pergamon Press Ltd., 1981 – translated from the Russian by Kenneth P. Neat – 1st edition – XI+240p. – Softcover: illustrated paper binding with a straight spine – 17x25cm – In near-new condition: minimal signs of wear on the cover; the text block is clean and pristine.
* Lev Abramovich Polugaevsky (1934–1995) was a Soviet chess player. He was awarded the title of International Grandmaster by FIDE in 1962 and was a frequent contender for the World Championship, although he never achieved that title. He was one of the strongest players in the world from the early 1960s until the late 1980s, as well as a distinguished author and opening theorist whose contributions in this field remain important to the present day. (Source: Wikipedia)
* Kenneth P. (Ken) Neat (°1944) is an English chess player and one of the best-known translators and editors of Russian chess literature into English.
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