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Chess

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Chess

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

• Paul Morphy
• Johann Löwenthal

Periodicals

A list of periodicals appeared in Notes and Queries in August 1891: "Contribution to a Bibliography of Chess Periodicals".

• Chess Player's Chronicle
• Lasker's Chess Magazine
• British Chess Magazine
• International Chess Magazine
  • International Chess Magazine/Introduction
• St. Louis Globe Democrat
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Chess automatons

• Maelzel's Chess-Player, by Edgar Allan Poe

Verse

• The Song of Chess, by Abraham ibn Ezra
• Caissa, or The Game at Chess

Stories

• The Chessmen of Mars

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)