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 | 210 | MacLean, W | 1974 | Australian Open Chess Championship 1973: 100 Best Games | G | 56 page booklet | ||
Collections | 66 | Pandolfini,B | 1997 | Kasparov and Deep Blue | VG | Detailed Annotation of all 6 games with backstory | ||
Collections | 196 | Chernev, I | 1968 | The Chess Companion | G | Part 1: 14 Stories Part 2: Game collections by theme | ||
Collections | 67 | Abrahams,G | 1977 | Brilliance in Chess | VG | |||
Collections | 202 | Chernev, I | 1966 | The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy | G | |||
Collections | 60 | Pein,M | 1989 | Nigel Short's Chess Skills:A Step by Step Guide to Winning Play | VG | Mixture Opening, Strategy and Game Collection | ||
Collections | 55 | Reshevsky,Samuel | 1948 | Reshevsky's Best Games of Chess 1960 ed | VG | Games from 1920-1946 | ||
Collections | 69 | Horowitz,IA | 1962 | Solitaire Chess 1973 ed | G | 62 selected games with a guess the move format | ||
Collections | 70 | Kmoch,H | 1941 | Rubinstein's Chess Masterpieces:100 Selected Games 1960 ed | G | |||
Collections | 208 | Golombek, H | BCM Quarterly No. 6 : 1930 Scarborough International Tournament | P | 45 page booklet | |||
Collections | 211 | 1965 | Hamburg 1965 European Team Tournament | G | 60 page booklet | |||
Endgame | 172 | Averbakh | 1976 | Bishop v. Knight Endings | VG |