Chess libraries
Chess libraries are
Libraries
Public
The three significant public chess libraries are:
The John G. White Chess and Checkers Collection at
The Chess & Draughts collection at the
The M.V. Anderson Chess Collection held at State Library Victoria (Melbourne, Australia) is the largest public chess collection in the Southern hemisphere.[6] This contains in excess of 12,000 books and many journal and newsletter titles. Additional titles are added each year. It is based around M.V. Anderson's personal collection of 6700 volumes donated between 1959 and 1966. [7]
Private
David DeLucia's chess library contains 7,000 to 8,000 chess books, a similar number of autographs (letters, score sheets, manuscripts), and about 1,000 items of "ephemera".[12] DeLucia's library contains such items as "a 15th-century Lucena manuscript, score-sheets ranging from Fischer's Game of the Century against Donald Byrne to all the games of the 1927 New York tournament, eight letters by Morphy, over a hundred Lasker manuscripts, Capablanca's gold pocket watch, [and] the contract of the 1886 Steinitz-Zukertort world championship match".[13] Ten Geutzendam opines that DeLucia's collection "is arguably the finest chess collection in the world".[13]
Former World Champion Anatoly Karpov has a large chess stamp collection.[14]
The
See also
References
- ISBN 0-19-827403-3
- ^ ISBN 0-19-217540-8.
- ^ a b Susan Polgar, Special Chess Records (February 11, 2008). Retrieved on 2009-1-11.
- ^ Root, Alexey (August 17, 2021). "John G. White Collection of Chess and Checkers". Chess News. Archived from the original on January 24, 2022. Retrieved October 30, 2022.
- ^ "Chess & Draughts collection". National Library of the Netherlands. Archived from the original on June 2, 2015. Retrieved October 30, 2022.
- ^ See research guide, Chess Research Guide
- ^ See SLV Collection page, Chess Collection page
- ISBN 0-19-866164-9.
- ISBN 0-517-53146-1.
- ^ Hooper & Whyld, p. 226 ("libraries" entry).
- New in Chess, 2010, No. 5, p. 18. The title of the article refers to David DeLucia's collection, not Schmid's.
- ^ ten Geuzendam, p. 19.
- ^ a b ten Geutzendam, p. 10.
- ^ „Former world chess champion Anatoly Karpov’s writes about his collection“ Archived 2009-11-13 at the Wayback Machine, Stamp Magazine
- ^ British Chess Variants Society "Variant Chess". Archived from the original on 2006-02-07. Retrieved 2006-01-24. "David Pritchard's files have been prepared for transfer to the Musée Suisse du Jeu, where they will be kept in the Ken Whyld Library and made available to future researchers." "Site updated 17 January 2010", retrieved March 13, 2010