Portal:Chess
This category lists works related to Chess hosted on Wikisource.
History and description
- "Game of Chess by the Electric Telegraph" in Littell's Living Age, 5 (57) (June 14, 1845); originally published in the Polytechnic Review.
- Morphy's Games (1860)
- A Literary Steinitz Gambit (1888), by Wilhelm Steinitz
- Chess History and Reminiscences (1893), by Henry Bird
- Chess Sparks (1895), by Author:John Henry Ellis (external scan)
Instructions and tactics
- The Chess-Player's Text Book (1849), by Howard Staunton (transcription project)
- The Book of Chess (1857), by Hyacinth R. Agnel and Howard Staunton (external scan)
- The Chess Openings (1880), by Henry Edward Bird (external scan)
- The Principles of Chess in Theory & Practice (1894), by James Mason (external scan)
- The Major Tactics of Chess (1898), by Franklin Knowles Young (external scan)
- The Minor Tactics of Chess (1901), by Franklin Knowles Young and Edwin C. Howell (external scan)
- How to Play Chess (1907), by Charlotte Boardman Rogers
Chess problems
- Chess Problems (1886), by George E. Carpenter (external scan)
- Knights and Bishops (1909), by Alain Campbell White (external scan)
Authors
Periodicals
A list of periodicals appeared in Notes and Queries in August 1891: "Contribution to a Bibliography of Chess Periodicals".
Chess automatons
Verse
Stories
Encyclopedia articles
- "Chess," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Chess," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
- Caissa, as defined in Poems, Consisting Chiefly of Translations from the Asiatick Languages
- "Gambling," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)