The chess club has a book collection, consisting of books you can borrow, books you can request to look at during meetups (reference), and sometimes even books being given away. They are also separated by sections designating
To borrower or arrange for a reference viewing, contact Mark Jenkins by email mark@parit.ca or catch him at a monthly meetup.
The monthly meetups are also the preferred location for loans and viewing though alternative arrangements can be made with a good reason.
Also contact Mark if you’d like to make some of your home chess library available for borrowing or reference, you wouldn’t need to put your contact info or name on this site, people could reach out to Mark and he’d make the arrangements.
Reference section
These titles can not be borrowed. You can only arrange to view them at monthly meetups or alternatively at other times if there’s a good reason.
Algebraic notation
Made available by Mark Jenkins
- Play Winning Chess
Yasser Seirawan with Jeremy Silman
ISBN 9781556152719 - Winning Chess Strategies
Yasser Seirawan with Jeremy Silman - Silman’s Complete Endgame Course : From Beginner to Master
Jeremy Silman - Chess Queens
Jennifer Shahade
ISBN 9781399701372
Made available by Anonymous
- Complete Book of Chess Strategy: Grandmaster Techniques from A to Z
ISBN 1890085014 - Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps
Bruce Pandolfini - Modern Chess Openings (MCO) 14th edition
ISBN 0812930843 - The Fine Art of Swindling
Ali Mortazavi
ISBN 1857441052 - Opening Preparation
Mark Dvorečkij; Artur Jusupov; Sergej Dolmatov; John N Sugden, Schaken; et al
ISBN 0713475099 - Kasparov V Deeper Blue
Daniel King
ISBN 0713483229 - The Amateur’s Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Mastery
Jeremy Silman
ISBN 1890085022 - Improve Your Middlegame Play
Andrew Kinsman
ISBN 1857442415 - Nunn’s Chess Openings
John Nunn
ISBN 9781857442212 - Pawn Structure Chess
Andrew Soltis
ISBN 9780812925296
Descriptive (classical) notation
Made available by Anonymous
- Art of Positional Play
Samuel Reshevsky
ISBN 0679141014 - How to Improve Your Chess
I A Horowitz; Fred Reinfeld
ISBN 9780020288909
No notation or both notations
Made available by Anonymous
- Underhanded chess : a hilarious handbook of devious diversions and stratagems for winning at chess
Jerry Sohl
ISBN 9780801581304
Available for Loan section
These titles can be borrowed. We can recall them after a month if someone else wants to borrow. Currently this consists entirely of books donated to the club.
Algebraic notation
- Chess Champion from China
Jun Xie
ISBN 1901983064 - Learn to attack, with Rudolf Spielmann
Eric Schiller - Encyclopedia of chess openings, volume B (II), first edition 1975, 1978 reprint
- 1.e4 without 1…c6, 1…c5, 1…e6, 1…e5 (B00–B09)
- 1.e4 c6: Caro–Kann Defence (B10–B19)
- 1.e4 c5: Sicilian Defence (B20–B99)
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Секреты дебютной подготовки
Sekrety debyutnoy podgotovki (Opening Secrets)
(in Russian)
M. I. Dvoret︠s︡kiĭ and Artur Yusupov - Unbeatable Chess Lessons for Juniors
Robert M Snyder
ISBN 081293511X - HOW TO THINK IN CHESS
Jan Przewoźnik; Marek Soszynski
ISBN 1888690100 - Catalan Chess
Eric Schiller
ISBN 0931462266 - (Teach Yourself) Chess
William Roland Hartston
ISBN 0844239135 - Botvinnik move by move
Cyrus Lakdawala
ISBN 9781781941027 - Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games
Laszlo Polgar
ISBN 9781579121303 - Chess Endgame Training
Bernd Rosen
ISBN 9781904600015 - More Chessercizes: Checkmate!
Bruce Pandolfini
ISBN 9780671701857 - The Chess Doctor
Descriptive (classical) notation
- Chess for Beginners
D Brine Pritchard
ISBN 9781899606337 - P-QN4
Andrew Soltis
OCLC 1704270 - ART OF SACRIFICE IN CHESS
Rudolf Spielmann
Translated by J du Mont
Edited and revised by Fred Reinfeld and L.a. Horowitz
ISBN 9781861187314 - Chess (revised edition)
R.F. Green
ISBN 0713505060 - Practical Chess Openings
Reuban Fine
ISBN 9784871875349 - My Chess Career
José Raúl Capablanca
ISBN 0486215482 - Common sense in chess
Emanuel Lasker
ISBN 9780265876121 - Reinfeld Explains Chess
Fred Reinfeld
OCLC 63432725 - Rubinstein’s Chess Masterpieces — 100 Selected Games
Annotated by Hans Kmoch, Translated by Barnie F. Winkelman
No notation or both notations
- Bobby Fischer teaches chess
by Bobby Fischer, Stuart Margulies, Donn Mosenfelder
ISBN 9780553263152 - Chess For Kids Everything You need to Learn & Play
Kevin F R Smith; Daniel C Macdonald
ISBN 1552860159 - The Encyclopaedia of Chess
Patricia Anne Sunnucks; M Euwe; et al - The Chess Doctor — Surefire Cures for What Ails Your Game
Bruce Pandolfini
ISBN 9780684801216
(digital backup has been made on this one, asking about helping with converting to a pgn we could make available through controlled digital lending)
Magazines available for giveaway
- Chess Life (USCF), ISSN 0197-260X
- Chess Life and Review (USCF), ISSN 0009-3351
- The USCF has full digital archives for Chess Life and Review
Magazines with a digitization in progress
- En Pessant (CFC) ISSN 0822-5672
- Chess Canada Echecs (CFC) ISSN 0225-7351
- Scholars Mate (Chess n Math) OCLC 317759819
- Inside Chess ISSN 0896-8195