Books about Keres and Tal

Edward Winter

Below are lists, as comprehensive as possible, of books about (not by) Paul Keres and Mikhail Tal:

• Keres’ Best Games 1932-1936 by F. Reinfeld (New York, 1937)
• Keres’ Best Games Part II –1937 by F. Reinfeld (New York, 1937)
• Keres’ Best Games of Chess 1931-1940 by F. Reinfeld (London, 1941 and Philadelphia, 1942)
• Keres’ Bedste Skakpartier 1931-1937 by F. Reinfeld (Copenhagen, 1947)
• Keres’ Best Games of Chess 1931-1948 by F. Reinfeld (New York, 1949 and 1960)
• 50 Paul Keresin loistopeliä by E. Ridala (Mikkeli, 1957) plus translations into German and Swedish
• Weltgeschiche des Schachs: Keres by E. Wildhagen (Hamburg, 1960)
• Keres Siegt (Hamburg, circa 1960)
• Meie Keres by V. Heuer (Tallinn, 1977)
• Paul Keres by P. Bagnoli (Santa Maria Capua Vetere, 1978)*
• Paul Keres by D. Marović (Zagreb, 1979)
• Paul Keres 50 parties (1916-1939) by J.-A. Le Monnier (Besançon, 1979)
• Shahmatnyy universitet Paulja Keresa by I. Neishtadt (Moscow, 1982), plus translations into English, German and Hungarian
• Paul Keres Ausgewählte Partien 1958-1975 by H. Postma (Hengelo, 1982)
• Paul Keres by E. Carl (Hollfeld/Of., 1983)
• Mälestusi Paul Keresest by M. Rõtova (Tallinn, 1983)
• Paul Keres Inter Pares by P. Kivine and M. Remmel (Tallinn, 1985)
• Paul Keres’ Best Games, volumes 1 and 2 by E. Varnusz (Oxford, 1987 and 1990)
• Das Schachgenie Paul Keres by A. Suetin (East Berlin, 1987)
• Keres 222 partidas (Madrid, 1989)
• Paul Keres Photographs and Games by H. Olde (Tallinn, 1995)
• Keres Biografía 53 partidas magistrales by J. Chiappini (Rosario, 2001)
• Klassiki shakhmatnogo mira: Paul Keres by V. Heuer (Moscow, 2004)*
• Sigrai kak Keres by N.G. Yakovlev (Saint Petersburg, 2005)*
• Le partite per corrispondenza di Paul Keres by C.A. Pagni (Venice, 2008).

• El extraordinario ajedrez de Miguel Tal by L. Palau (Buenos Aires, 1960)
• The Unknown Tal by V. Zemitis (San Francisco, 1960)
• Miguel Tal campeón del mundo (Barcelona, 1960 and 1980)
• Selected Games of Mikhail Tal by J. Hajtun (London, 1961 and New York, 1975 and German edition, Düsseldorf, 1961)
• The Chess Psychologist World Champion Tal by A. Liepnieks (Chicago, 1961 and 1975)
• Michail Tal by H. Bouwmeester and B.J. Withuis (Amsterdam, 1961)
• Weltgeschichte des Schachs: Tal (Hamburg, 1961)
• Mikhail Tal’s Best Games of Chess by P.H. Clarke (London, 1961 and 1991)
• Talj by A. Koblenz (Zagreb, 1964)
• 50 Selected Games of Mikhail Tal (circa 1972)*
• Tal Since 1960 by W.H. Cozens (St Leonards on Sea, 1974)
• 64 Chess Games of Michail Tal (Makati, 1974)
• Tal’s 100 Best Games 1961-1973 by B. Cafferty (London, 1975)
• Tal’s Masterpieces and other Select Games 1960-1975 by A. Karklins (Chicago, 1976)
• Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1960-66 by H. Thomas (London, 1979)
• Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1967-73 by H. Thomas (London, 1979)
• Complete Games of Mikhail Tal 1936-1959 by H. Thomas (London, 1980)
• Mihail Talj by D. Marović (Zagreb, 1980)
• Selected Games of Thal by Simhadri (K.R. Seshadri?) (India, circa 1984)*
• Tahl 222 partidas (Madrid, 1990)
• Tal the Magnificent by A. Soltis (Dallas, 1990)
• Mihail Tahl by D. Bjelica (Madrid, 1992)
• Mikhail Tal Games 1949-1962 by A. Khalifman (Sofia, 1994)
• Mikhail Tal Games 1963-1972 by A. Khalifman (Sofia, 1995)
• Mikhail Tal Games 1973-1981 by A. Khalifman (Münster, 1996)
• Mikhail Tal Games 1982-1992 by A. Khalifman (Sofia, 1996)
• Mikhail Tal Tvortshestvo 1949-1961 (Riga, 1996)
• Mikhail Tal Tvortshestvo 1962-1967 (Riga, 1998)
• Mikhail Tal Tvortshestvo 1968-1973 (Riga, 1998)
• Mikhail Tahl Biografía 100 partidas magistrales by J. Chiappini (Rosario, 1999)
• The Magic of Mikhail Tal by J. Gallagher (London, 2000)
• Mikhail Tal Tvortshestvo 1974-1979 (Riga, 2001)
• Mikhail Tal Tvortshestvo 1980-1986 (Riga, 2001)
• Mikhail Tal Tvortshestvo 1987-1992 (Riga, 2001)
• Liubov i shakhmaty by S. Landau (Moscow, 2003)
• Mikhail Tal: Zhizn i igra by I. and V. Linder (Moscow, 2008)
• Zau­bern wie Schach­welt­meis­ter Michail Tal by K. Müller and R. Stolze (Zurich, 2010)
• The Chess Greats of the World: Mikhail Tal by D. Lovas (Kecskemét, 2010)
• Mijail Tal by A. Gude (Madrid, 2011).

Books not in our collection are marked with an asterisk. We are grateful to Pierre Bourget (Quebec, Canada), Michael Clapham (Ipswich, England), Roderick Hill (Saint John, Canada), Javier Asturiano Molina (Murcia, Spain) and Yakov Zusmanovich (Pleasanton, CA, USA).

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