Chess Resource Guide, page 2

Print resources

The following items are a selection of key print materials available in the Library. They can be located and requested through our online catalogue. These items will then be retrieved from storage and delivered to the book collection points in the La Trobe Reading Room or the Information Centre. Some original or rare items may be delivered to the Heritage Collections Reading Room.

Chess texts in the English language, printed before 1850; an annotated bibliography. Compiled by Ken Whyld and Chris Ravilious, Moravian Chess, Olomouc, Czech Republic, [2003?].

AC 016.7941 W62CH
Besides listing all chess texts in English printed before 1850, this valuable resource also includes articles on chess found in general journals and details of chess columns commenced before 1850. The work is arranged chronologically, and many records include background information, much of it from sources outside the volume being described.

Chess; an annotated bibliography of works published in the English language, 1850-1968. Compiled by Douglas A. Betts, G. K. Hall, Boston, 1974.

AC 016.7941 B466C
Covers all facets of chess play, records of matches, tournaments and the games of individual players, works on, and collections of, chess problems, historical works, periodicals and other serial publications, works on the games derived from chess and literary works in which reference to chess is made. Entries are classified by subject, and within each subject the entries are generally arranged in chronological order.   

Chess : an annotated bibliography, 1969-1988. Andy Lusis, London England; New York, NY, USA Mansell, 1991.

AC 016.7941 L975C
Intended to be a continuation of Betts, listing considerably more titles than found in Betts, but makes no claims to completeness. It is a record of all the works on chess which the author examined over a four-year period. The arrangement is by subject, under which entries are generally listed chronologically.

A catalogue of the books and periodicals to 1900 in the M.V. Anderson Chess Collection. Compiled by Ken Fraser, Double Pawn Press, Melbourne, 1994.

AC 016.7941 F863C (1994)
A list of pre-1901 books, periodicals and tournament reports held in the M.V. Anderson Chess Collection. It does not include 20th century facsimile editions of early chess works, nor books which contain only a section on chess, for example Colonna’s 1499 Hypnerotomachia Poliphili  or fragments of books, such as the single leaf of Caxton’s Game and playe of the chesse.

van Manen, John. The chess literature of Australia and New Zealand : an annotated bibliography. J van Manen, Sydney, 1978.  

AC 016.7941 V331C
The original volume aims to provide as complete a listing as possible, with commentary, of all known chess literature issued in Australia and New Zealand up to 1977. The supplements extend this date to 1988. Arrangement is by subject, under which entries are listed chronological.

Hooper, David & Whyld, Kenneth. The Oxford companion to chess. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1992, 2nd edn.

AC 794.103 H766O (1992)
Provides an overview of the subject of chess that is suitable for the experts and non-experts alike. A large number of technical terms is included along with hundreds of names of openings.  For a player’s most noteworthy performances the score is given in wins, draws and losses.  Entries are in alphabetical order, and are cross-referenced. Appendix 1 contains an index of named openings and variations, while appendix 2 lists chess terms in French, German, Italian, Magyar, Russian and Spanish.