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
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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.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 |