Bill Cross who died in 2001 played for Dudley in the 1980's and 1990's. His son, Robert, who lived in Halesowen before emigrating to Australia, donated his father's chess library to halesowen Chess Club, so that other local chess enthuisiasts could enjoy them. And what a collection! A few further books were added to the library in 2011, donated by the family of our former treasurer, Derk Digger.
To borrow a book send an e-mail to the webmaster.
A photo of Bill from 1992 follows, together with a complete list of all the books.
Author | Title | Date | Type | On-loan to? |
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Abrahams | The Chess Mind | 1951 | Instruction | |
Abrahams | The Chess Mind | 1951 | Instruction | |
Abrahams | The Pan book of Chess | 1965 | Instruction | |
Abrahams | Brilliance in Chess | 1977 | Collection | |
Alekhine | My Best Games of Chess 1908-1923 | 1927 | Collection | Andrew Field |
Alekhine | Nottingham 1936 | 1937 | Tournament | |
Alekhine | My Best Games of Chess 1924-1937 | 1939 | Collection | |
Alexander | Alekhine's Best Games of Chess 1938-1945 | 1949 | Collection | |
Alexander | Fischer v Spassky - Reykjavik 1972 | 1972 | Match | |
Alexander | Penguin book of Chess Positions | 1973 | Puzzles | |
Barden | How to play the Endgame in chess | 1975 | Endings | Paul Evans |
Barden & Harding | The Batsford's Guide to Chess Openings | 1976 | Openings | |
Barden, Harston & Keene | The King's Indian Defence | 1969 | Openings | Bob Grimes |
Barnes | The Pick of the best Chess Problems | 1976 | Problems | |
Botterill & Keene | The Pirc Defence | 1973 | Openings | |
Botvinnik | One Hundred Selected Games | 1949 | Collection | |
Botvinnik | Botvinnik's Best Games 1947-1970 | 1972 | Collection | |
Bouwmeester | Winning Chess Combinations | 1977 | Instruction | |
Bronstein | 200 Open Games | 1970 | Collection | |
Cafferty | Spassky's 100 Best Games | 1972 | Collection | |
Capablanca | Chess Fundamentals | 1921 | Instruction | |
Capablanca | Capablanca's last chess Lectures | 1967 | Instruction | |
Chernev | The most instructive games of Chess ever played | 1966 | Collection | Adrian Priest |
Clarke | Mikhail Tal's Best Games of Chess | 1961 | Collection | |
Du Mont | The basis of Combination in Chess | 1938 | Instruction | |
Euwe | From my games 1920-1937 | 1939 | Collection | |
Euwe | Meet the Masters | 1940 | Collection | |
Euwe | The Development of Chess Style | 1966 | Instruction | |
Euwe & Hooper | A Guide to chess Endings | 1959 | Endings | Bob Grimes |
Euwe & Kramer | The Middle Game | 1957 | Instruction | |
Euwe & Meiden | The Road to Chess Mastery | 1968 | Instruction | |
Fine | Basic Chess Endings | 1941 | Endings | Malcolm Hunt |
Fine | The ideas behind the Chess Openings | 1948 | Instruction | |
Fine | The Psychology of the Chess Player | 1956 | Instruction | |
Fischer | My 60 Memorable Games | 1969 | Collection | |
Gligoric | Fischer v Spassky - Match of the century | 1972 | Match | |
Gligoric & Sokolov | The Sicilian Defence - Book One | 1970 | Openings | |
Golombek | Fischer v Spassky | 1972 | Match | |
Golombek | Capablanca's 100 Best Games of Chess | 1947 | Collection | |
Golombek | The Game of Chess | 1954 | General | |
Golombek | The Encyclopedia of Chess | 1977 | General | |
Griffith & Golombek | A Pocket Guide to the Chess Openings | 1958 | Openings | |
Harding | Counter Gambits - Black to play and win | 1974 | Openings | Paul Evans |
Hartston | The Benoni | 1969 | Openings | |
Hay | King's Gambit | 1973 | Openings | |
Hooper | Practical Chess Endgames | 1968 | Endings | |
Hooper & Brandreth | The Unknown Capablanca | 1975 | Collection | |
Hooper & Whyld | The Oxford Companion to Chess | 1984 | General | |
Horowitz | New Traps in the Chess Opening | 1964 | Openings | |
Horowitz | Chess Openings - Theory and Practice | 1965 | Openings | Paul Evans |
Keene and Botterill | The Modern Defence | 1972 | Openings | |
Keene | Aron Nimzowitsch: A Reappraisal | 1974 | Biography | |
Keres & Kotov | The Art of the middlegame | 1964 | Instruction | |
Kmoch | Rubinstein's Chess Masterpieces | 1941 | Collection | |
Korn | Modern Chess Openings 11 | 1972 | Openings | |
Korn | Modern Chess Openings 11 | 1976 | Openings | |
Kotov | Think Like a Grandmaster | 1971 | Instruction | |
Kotov | Alexander Alekhine | 1973 | Collection | |
Kotov | Play like a Grandmaster | 1978 | Instruction | |
Lasker (Ed) | Chess Secrets I learned from the Masters | 1951 | Instruction | Bob Grimes |
Lasker (Ed) | Modern Chess Strategy | 1961 | Instruction | |
Lasker (Ed) | Chess | 1972 | General | |
Lasker (Em) | Common Sense in Chess | 1917 | Collection | |
Lasker (Em) | Lasker's manual of Chess | 1947 | Instruction | |
Levenfish & Smyslov | Rook Endings | 1971 | Endings | Bob Grimes |
Levy | The Sicilian Dragon | 1972 | Openings | |
Levy | How Fischer Plays Chess | 1975 | Instruction | |
Levy | Play Chess Combinations and Sacrifices | 1980 | Instruction | Joyce Evans |
Levy & Keene | How to play the Opening in chess | 1974 | Openings | |
Levy & Keene | How to play the Opening in chess | 1974 | Openings | |
Levy & O'Connell | How to play the Sicilian Defence | 1978 | Openings | |
Marovic & Parma | An Opening Repertoire for Black | 1978 | Openings | |
Marovic & Susic | King Pawn Openings | 1975 | Openings | |
Mason | The Principles of Chess | 1896 | Instruction | |
Negyesy-Hegyi | Combination in chess | 1970 | Instruction | |
Nimzovich | Chess Praxis | 1936 | Collection | |
Nimzowitsch | My System | 1929 | Instruction | |
O'Kelly de Galway | The Sicilian Flank Game | 1969 | Openings | |
Pachman | Queen's Gambit | 1964 | Openings | |
Pachman | Modern Chess Tactics | 1970 | Instruction | |
Pachman | Attack and Defence in Modern Chess Tactics | 1973 | Instruction | |
Reshevsky | The Fischer - Spassky Games | 1972 | Match | |
Schonberg | Grandmasters of Chess | 1974 | History | Chris Haddon |
Schonberg | Grandmasters of Chess | 1974 | History | |
Sokolsky | The Modern Openings in Theory and Practice | 1972 | Instruction | |
Soltis | Chess Mistakes - How to Detect and Avoid Them | 1975 | Instruction | Joyce Evans |
Tartakower | My Best games of Chess 1905 - 1954 | 1985 | Collection | |
Thimann | King's Gambit | 1974 | Openings | |
Various | Kasparov v Karpov 1986 | 1986 | Match | |
Vukovic | The Art of Attack in Chess | 1965 | Instruction | |
Vukovic | The Art of Attack in Chess | 1965 | Instruction | |
Vukovic | The Chess Sacrifice | 1968 | Instruction | |
Wade & O'Connell | The Games of Robert J Fischer | 1972 | Collection | |
Wenman | 175 Chess Brilliancies | 1947 | Collection | |
Wichmann & Wichmann | Chess Pieces from Antiquity to Modern Times | 1960 | General | |
Yanofsky | Chess the Hard way! | 1953 | Collection | |
Znosko-Borovsky | How not to play chess | 1949 | Instruction |