I'm a philanthropist!

Submitted by ericmittens on Thu, 07/31/2008 at 12:18pm.

Ahh the joy of giving.

Due to a lack of space on my bookshelf I decided to donate a portion of my chess book collection to my local library. The library has a chess club that meets there once a week, and their collection of chess related books is poor. I suggest all of you donate the books you no longer use to your local library.

I might do a review of some of the books before I forget I ever had them. My donations included:

Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess

Capablanca's My Chess Career

The Immortal Game by David Shenk

The Game of Kings by Michael Weinreb

It's Your Move Improvers! by Chris Ward

Modern Chess Strategy by Pachman

Learn From Bobby Fischer's Greatest Games by Schiller

Pandolfini's Endgame Course

Encyclopedia of Chess

Combination Challenge!

The Chess Tactics Workbook

Chess College 1, 2, and 3

Nunn's Chess Openings

Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual

Chess Explained: The French

How to Play Good Opening Moves by Mednis

Easy Guide to the Sveshnikov by Aagaard.

Starting Out: The Scotch Game by John Emms

Morphy's Games of Chess by Phillip Seargant

My 50 Years of Chess by Frank Marshall

I hope the locals enjoy

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by ericmittens - 54 days ago
London, ON Canada

Member Since: Sep 2007
Member Points: 848

Oh! And I've also donated a number of chessbase CDs to the library as well including:

Alexander Bangiev's Square Strategy 1: Tactics

ABC's of Endgames

Check and Mate! by Danny King

Winning in 20 Moves by Lubomir Ftacnik

If anyone wants a review of any of these just send me a message or comment here. I really do encourage all of you to donate books or CDs you know you'll never use or look at again to your local library. Most of them have terrible selections of chess-related material and you could be helping a lot of people learn the game properly!

by ericmittens - 55 days ago
London, ON Canada

Member Since: Sep 2007
Member Points: 848

By the way, if anyone is interested about any of the books on the list you need only ask and I'll give you a mini review as I've read them all.

by farbror - 2 months ago
Uppsala Sweden

Member Since: May 2007
Member Points: 1218

That is a wonderfull idea! I just cannot part from any of my books.

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