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Jeremy Gaige: Chess Personalia. A Biobibliography.

Jeremy Gaige’s Chess Personalia has been called “one of the most useful chess books ever published” (Edward Winter in New in Chess). The book is an invaluable resource for researchers and enthusiasts, and original copies are highly sought after by chess collectors. This biobibliography contains around 14,000 worldwide entries, each entry offering full name, date and place of birth and death, FIDE title, country of citizenship and citations to mentions in the world’s media. Variants in names are cross-referenced. Those knowledgeable in the chess world will recognize the author’s name and be completely assured as to the comprehensiveness, accuracy, lack of bias, and sedulous research this extraordinary reference work represents. Index of obituaries in British Chess Magazine 1881-1986 (pp 483-505). 

16 x 23 cm. xvii + 505 pages in publisher's red linen hardback with white print on spine and front cover. 
Mc Farland, Jefferson, 1987. Some easy removable pencil updates by former owner ICCF tournament director Erik Larsson. Spine somewhat faded and worn (see scan). Otherwise condition VG.

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