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History and description
- "Game of Chess by the Electric Telegraph" in Littell's Living Age, 5 (57) (14th June, 1845); originally published in the Polytechnic Review.
- Morphy's Games (1860)
- A Literary Steinitz Gambit (1888), by Wilhelm Steinitz
- Chess History and Reminiscences (1893), by Henry Bird
- Chess Sparks (1895), by Author:John Henry Ellis IA
Instructions and tactics
- The Chess-Player's Text Book (1849), by Howard Staunton (transcription project)
- The Book of Chess (1857), by Hyacinth R. Agnel and Howard Staunton IA
- The Chess Openings (1880), by Henry Edward Bird IA
- The Principles of Chess in Theory & Practice (1894), by James Mason IA
- The Major Tactics of Chess (1898), by Franklin Knowles Young IA
- The Minor Tactics of Chess (1901), by Franklin Knowles Young and Edwin C. Howell IA
- How to Play Chess (1907), by Charlotte Boardman Rogers
Chess problems
- Chess Problems (1886), by George E. Carpenter IA
- Knights and Bishops (1909), by Alain Campbell White IA
Authors
Periodicals
A list of periodicals appeared in Notes and Queries in August 1891: "Contribution to a Bibliography of Chess Periodicals".
- Chess Player's Chronicle
- Lasker's Chess Magazine
- British Chess Magazine
- International Chess Magazine
- St. Louis Globe Democrat
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Chess automatons
Verse
Stories
- The Chessmen of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, by Lewis Carroll
Encyclopedia articles
- "Chess," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Chess," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
- Caissa, as defined in Poems, Consisting Chiefly of Translations from the Asiatick Languages
- "Gambling," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)