Rochdale Chess Club Library as at 6th September 2026. All books and DVD's and VHS Video's held have been donated by members both current and past years.

Book 2: Further steps in chess by Owen Hindle
Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968
Author: Owen Hindle
ISBN 7100 5222 7

Book 3: Lessons in chess strategy by W.H. Cozens
Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968
Author: W.H. Cozens
ISBN 0 7100 5223 5

Book 6: Practical chess endgames by David Hooper
Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968
Author: David Hooper
ISBN 7100 5226 X

The Penguin Book of Chess Positions
Pubisher: Penguin Books, 1973
Author: C.H.O'D. Alexander
ISBN 0 1406.199 X

The Chess Teacher
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1978
Author: Alan Phillips
ISBN 0 19 217561 0

How to get the most from your chess computer
Publisher: R.H.M. Press, 1980
Author: Julian Kaplan
ISBN 0 89058 046 4 RHM

Howard Staunton Uncrowned Chess Champion of the World
Publisher: Chess Nut Books, 1974
Author: Bryan M. Knight
ISBN 0 919848 00 1

Sicilian Defence 5 Four Knights Variation
Publisher: The Chess Player, 1976
Author: L.M. Pickett

Chess
Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962
Author: L. Hoffer

Synopsis of the chess openings by W. Cook
Publisher: W.W. Morgan, 1874
Author: William Cook

Modern Chess Openings - Twelfth Edition
Publisher: A & C Black, 1985
Author: Walter Korn
ISBN 0 7136 2199 0

Six Hundred Endings
Publisher: Pergamon Press, 1981
Author: Lojos Portisch & Balazs Sarkozy
ISBN 0 08 024137 9

Mastering the Sicilian
Publisher: Batsford, 2001
Author: Danny Kopec
ISBN 0 7134 8482 9

Play Chess
Publisher: BBC
Author: William Hartston & Jeremy James
ISBN 0563178817

Play Better Chess
Publisher: Treasure Press
Author: Leonard Barden
ISBN 185051 2310

Begin Chess
Publisher: Paper Fronts
Author: D.B. Pritchard
ISBN 7160 0549 2

Chess For Tigers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Author: Simon Webb
ISBN 0 19 217576 9

How To Play The King's Indian Defence
Publisher: Batsford
Author: David Levy and Kevin O'Connell
ISBN 0 7134 0759 X

Blunders & Brilliancies
Publisher: Pergamon Chess
Author: Ian Mullen and Moe Moss
ISBN 0-08-037136-1

How Good Is Your Chess?
Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc.
Author: Leonard Barden
ISBN 0-486-23294-8

French Defence: Tarrasch Variation
Publisher: Batsford
Author: Raymond Keene and Shaun Taulbut
ISBN 0 7134 4577 7

Know The Game Chess
Publisher: EP Publishing Ltd
Author: The British Chess Federation
ISBN 0 7158 0109 0

An Illustrated Dictionary of Chess
Publisher: Hamlyn
Author: Edward R. Bruce
ISBN 0 600 32920 8


King's Indian Repertoire
90 minute Audio Cassette
Author: IM Ravikumar

How To Play Like Kasparov & Short
VHS Video 65mins approx
Publisher: GM Video
Author: Raymond Keene

Everyman Books
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1. Starting Out - The French, Byron Jacobs £12.99
2. Starting Out - The Kings Indian, Joe Gallagher £12.99
3. Starting Out - The Queens Gambit, John Shaw £12.99
4. Starting Out - The Sicilian, John Emms £12.99
5. Starting Out - The Caro Kann, Joe Gallagher £12.99
6. Starting Out - The Pirc/Modern, Joe Gallagher £12.99
7. Starting Out - The Ruy Lopez, John Shaw £12.99
8. Starting Out - The Queens Indian, John Emms £12.99
9. Starting Out - Alekhines Defence, John Cox £12.99
10.Starting Out - The Dutch Defence, Neil McDonald £12.99
11.Starting Out - The English, Neil McDonald £12.99
12.Starting Out - The Nimzo Indian, Chris Ward £12.99
13.Starting Out - The Scotch Game, John Emms £13.99
14.Starting Out - Slav and Semi Slav, Glen Flear £13.99
15.Starting Out - Benoni Systems, A. Raetshy & M. Chetvesih £13.99
16.Starting Out - Kings Indian Attack, John Emms £13.99
17.Starting Out - Sicilian Grand Prix Attack, Gawain Jones £14.99
18.Starting Out - The Colle, Richard Pallister £14.99
19.The Survival Guide to Competitive Chess, John Emms £14.99
20.Nimzo Larsen Attack, Byron Jacobs & Jonathan Tait £14.99
21.Chess Software Users Guide, Byron Jacobs/Jacob Aagard/John Emms £14.99
22.Queens Indian Defence, Jacob Aagaard £14.99
23.Endgame Strategy, Mikhail Shereshevsky £14.99
24.Plan the Nimzo Indian, Edward Dearing £14.99
25.Queens Gambit Declined, Matthew Sadler £14.99
26.How to Play against 1.e4, Neil McDonald £14.99
27.Dangerous Weapons 1.e4 e5, John Emms/Glenn Flear/Andrew Greet £15.99
28.The Greatest Ever Chess Opening Ideas, Christopher Scheerer £15.99
29.Excellence at Chess, Jacob Aagard £16.99
30.Excellence at Chess Calculation, Jacob Aagard £16.99
31.The Complete Chess Workout, Richard Pallister £17.99
32.Practical Opening Tips, Edmar Mednis £12.99
33.Improvers It's Your Move, Chris Ward £12.99
34.Basic Chess Openings, Gabor Kallai £12.99
35.More Basic Chess Openings, Gabor Kallai £14.99
36.Symmetrical English, David Cummings £14.99
37.More Simple Chess, John Emms £14.99
38.Simple Chess, John Emms £14.99
39.Improve Your Chess Now, Jonathan Tisdall £14.99
40.Discovering Chess Openings, John Emms £14.99
41.Dealing with d4 Deviations, John Emms £14.99
42.The Veresov, Nigel Davies £14.99
43. Improve you end game play - Glenn Flear £10.99
44. Concise Chess Middlegames - Neil McDonald £11.99
45.Tips for Young Players, Matthew Sadler
46.Art of Attack in Chess, Vladimir Vuhovic
47.How to Win at Chess, Daniel King
48.Chess Visualization ????? Book 1 - General Tactics, Ian Anderson

49.Chess Openings for White, Explained - GM Lev Alburt
50.Chess Openings for Black, Explained - GM Lev Alburt
51.S.G. Tartakower, MY BEST GAMES OF CHESS 1905-1954
52.Chinese School of Chess - Liu Wenze
53.Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to Chess - Bruce Pandolfini
54.My Best Games of Chess - L. Szabo
55.Half a Century of Chess - M.M. Botvinnik
56.Grandmaster Chess, Move by Move - John Nunn
57.How to win Quickly at Chess - I.M. John Donaldson
58.Grandmaster Achievement - Lyev Polugayevsky
59.The Worlds Greatest Chess Games - Graham Burgess, Dr. John Nunn & John Emms
60.The Chess Teacher - Alan Phillips
61.40 Lessons for the Club Player - Aleksander Kostyev
62.Bobby Fisher, His approach to chess - Elie Agur
63.The Complete Games of Bobby Fisher - Robert G. Wade & Kevin J. O'Connell
64.Gary Kasparov's Fighting Chess - Gary Kasparov, Jon Speelman & Bob Wade
65.Gary Kasparov, My Great Predecessors Part I
66.Gary Kasparov, My Great Predecessors Part III
67.Gary Kasparov, My Great Predecessors: Fischer Part IV
68.Gary Kasparov, My Great Predecessors: Fischer Part V

DVD's and VHS Video's

A. Bartashnikov	Vol.1	The Basic Principles of Chess Strategy
Chessbase	Fritz 8
Chessbase	The Chess Turk	3D Animation
Chessbase	The ABC of the Chess Middlegames
Chessbase	Alexander Bangiev	Squares Strategy 1
Chessbase	Rustam Kasimdzhanov	Strategy Step by Step
Chessbase	Henrik Schlossner	Fritz Technique Trainer
Chessbase	Reinhold Ripperger	How to Play the Nimzo-Indian
Chessbase	Lubomir Ftacnik		1000x Checkmate
Chessbase	Rainer Knaak		Mating Attack against O-O
Chessbase	Andrew Martin		The Basics of Winning Chess
Chessbase	Nigel Davies		The Pirc Opening
Chessbase	Andrew Martin		The ABC of the King's Indian
Chessbase	Andrew Martin		The ABC of Chess Openings
Chessbase	Andrew Martin		The Trompowsky The Easy Way
Chessbase	Karsten Mueller		Chess Endgames 1	Basic Knowledge for Beginners
Chessbase	Jacob Aagaard		Basic Positional Ideas
Chessbase	Daniel King		Check and Mate
Chessbase	Martin Weteschnik	School of Elementary Tactics
Chessbase	George Renko		The Great ABC of Tactics
Chessbase	George Renko		Intensive Course Tactics 2
Chessbase				The ABC of Endgames
ChessOnDVD				Openings Pawn Structures	Advanced Concepts Vol.1
ChessOnDVD				Openings Pawn Structures	Advanced Concepts Vol.2
Convekta Ltd	CT-ART 3.0		Chess Tactics Art
Convekta Ltd	Total Chess Training II	
Convekta Ltd	Rybka 2.3.2a UCI	Chess Opening 2007
Cyber Chess	Windows 95, 98 or NT 4.0	
PC: CD-ROM	Chessmaster 9000
Richard Palliser	Starting Out:	Closed Sicilian
Roman Dzindzichashvili	Roman's Lab	Mastering Opening Series	Vol.16	The English Opening
Roman Dzindzichashvili	Roman's Lab	Mastering Openings Series 	Vol.21	The King's Indian Defense
Foxy Openings	d4 dynamite with GM Aaron Summerscale - VHS Video