The author has scoured sources around the worldin order to accumulate this, the largest Reshevsky collection available. Reshevsky's career spanned eight decades from child prodigy to veteran and, in many ways, his story is that of twentieth century U.S. chess. Although most of these games are without anotations there are diagrams, crosstables and indexes. A collector's book, clothbound. Pub. 1997, hardback, 406 pages.
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This revised reprint of "Akiba Rubinstein: Uncrowned King" includes five new games from the Ostend tournament of 1906 but otherwise is a faithful copy of an outstanding and carefully researched book on one of the chess world's greatest players. Rubinstein could and did outplay the leading players of his day such as Capablanca and Lasker but, in spite of many fine tournament victories, did not possess the psychological strength to defeat them consistently in match play. Nevertheless many of his games remain exemplars of logic and beauty in chess and repay careful study even today. This edition contains nearly 500 of Rubinstein's games with annotations from top players of the time including Lasker, Tarrasch and Rubinstein himself. The book includes tournament crosstables, biographical information, annotated games and indexes of opponents, openings and annotators. This is a book worth having in any chess library. Pub. 2006, softback, 402 pages.
Akiba Rubinstein was both a brilliant tactician and an almost flawless technician. His best games are models of technical perfection, outshining even Capablanca, although he is most famous for the incredible stream of tactics he used to win a game against Rotlevi (included here). He also made important contributions to the theory of the Four Knights Game and QGD. This book contains 100 of his best games, all annotated by Hans Kmoch, together with a short account of Rubinstein's tragic life. In English descriptive notation. (1.P-K4 etc) Pub. 1978, softback, 192 pages.
