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?
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