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Harry Golombek (1911–1995)

Author of The Game of Chess

143+ Works 716 Members 4 Reviews 1 Favorited

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Includes the names: H. Golombek, H. Colombek, H. Golombeck, Harry Gm Golombek, HARRY GOLOMBEK (EDITOR)

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Works by Harry Golombek

The Game of Chess (1954) 178 copies
Capablanca's 100 Best Games of Chess (1970) 79 copies, 2 reviews
Réti's best games of chess (1954) 71 copies, 1 review
Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess (1977) 56 copies
Chess: A history (1976) 31 copies
Beginning Chess (Penguin Handbooks) (1981) 31 copies
The World Chess Championship 1948 (1982) 23 copies
Capablanca's Best Games (New American Batsford Chess Library)) (1996) 22 copies
Fischer v Spassky, the World Chess Championship, 1972 (1973) 15 copies
Fifty Great Games of Modern Chess (2003) 15 copies
World Chess Championship 1954 (2002) 12 copies
The Best Games of C. H. O'D. Alexander (1976) 10 copies
Modern opening chess strategy (2004) 7 copies, 1 review
Pocket Guide to the Chess Openings (1974) 7 copies
4th Candidates' Tournament, 1959 Bled-Zagreb-Belgrade September 7th - October 29th (2009) 6 copies
Improve Your Chess (1972) 5 copies
World chess championship, 1957 (1957) 5 copies
The Laws of Chess and Their Interpretations (1976) 5 copies
Southsea Chess Tournament 1949 3 copies
Petrosian v Spassky: The World Championships 1966 and 1969 (2004) 3 copies
Isaac Boleslavsky - David Bronstein, Candidates Play-off Moscow (8) 1950 2 copies
Laws of Chess and Their Interpretations (1976) 2 copies
Reykjavik 1972: Fischer V Spassky - 'The World Chess Championship' and 'The Sporting Scene: White Knights of Reykjavik' (2007) 2 copies
Grandmaster of Chess The Early Games of Paul Keres (1966) 2 copies
22nd U.S.S.R. Chess Championship (1959) 2 copies
1930 Scarborough International Tournament : B.C.M. Quarterly No. 6 (1962) 2 copies
Maroczy Memorial Tournament: Budapest 1952 2 copies
David Bronstein - Isaac Boleslavsky, Candidates Play-off Moscow (7) 1950 2 copies
Instructions to Young Chess-Players (1960) 2 copies
Mario Bertok - Borko Simonovic, Yugoslav Championship Ljubljana (2) 1951 1 copy
Nicolas Rossolimo - Arno Snaevarr, Reyjavik (7) 1951 1 copy
Svetozar Gligoric - Borislav Kostic, Yugoslav Championship Ljubljana (4) 1951 1 copy
Svetozar Gligoric - Mario Bertok, Yugoslav Championship Ljubljana (7) 1951 1 copy
Efim Geller - Paul Keres, USSR Championship-18 Moscow (4) 1950 1 copy
Christian Poulsen - Alberic O’Kelly de Galway, Hoogovens Beverwijk (4) 1951 1 copy
Jan Hein Donner - Christian Poulsen, Hoogovens Beverwijk (7) 1951 1 copy
Mark Taimanov - Lev Aronin, Chigorin Memorial Leningrad 1951 1 copy
Savielly Tartakower - Andrew (A.R.B.) Thomas, Southsea (3) 1951 1 copy
Alberic O’Kelly de Galway - A.R.B. Thomas, Southsea (7) 1951 1 copy
Alexander Tolush - Alexey Sokolsky, USSR Championship-18 (14) 1950 1 copy
Efim Geller - Alexey Sokolsky, USSR Championship-18 Moscow (10) 1950 1 copy
Lev Aronin - Vasily Smyslov, USSR Championship-18 Moscow (9) 1950 1 copy
Paul Keres - Tigran Petrosian, USSR Championship-18 Moscow (16) 1950 1 copy
Savielly Tartakower - Palle Ravn, Southsea (7) 1951 1 copy
Tigran Petrosian - Alexander Tolush, USSR Championship-18 Moscow (2) 1950 1 copy
Isaac Boleslavsky - Lev Aronin, USSR Championship-18 Moscow (4) 1950 1 copy
Igor Bondarevsky - Vladas Mikenas, USSR Championship-18 Moscow (10) 1950 1 copy
Alexander Tolush - Vladas Mikenas, USSR Championship-18 Moscow (12) 1950 1 copy
Isaac Lipnitsky - Vasily Smyslov, USSR Championship-18 Moscow (15) 1950 1 copy
Lev Aronin - Efim Geller, USSR Championship-18 Moscow (12) 1950 1 copy
Jan Hein Donner - Vilho Palomaa, Beverwijk (9) 1951 1 copy
Frits van Seters - Herman Pilnik, Beverwijk (5) 1951 1 copy
Rudolf Teschner - Arthur Henry Trott, Southsea (2) 1951 1 copy
Laszlo Szabo- Eigil Pedersen, Marianske Lazne / Prague Zonal (12) 1951 1 copy
Efim Bogoljubow - Jan Hein Donner, Staunton Memorial (7) 1951 1 copy
Herman Pilnik - Arturo Pomar, Gijon 1951 1 copy
Reti's Best Games of Chess 1 copy
The Game of Chess - One of Britain's Foremost International Masters Describes the Game in All Its Phases. A Book for Beginners as We as for Those Who Already Know How to Play. (1961) 1 copy
El Juego de Ajedrez 1 copy
Hastings Chess Tournament 1948-49 1 copy
Staunton Centenary Tournament 1951 1 copy
XXII U.S.S.R. Chess Championship 1 copy
4th Candidates Tournament Bled-Zagreb-Belgrade (Jugoslavia), 1959 1 copy
Grandmaster of Chess - the middle years of Paul Keres 1 copy
World Chess Championship 1948 (1949) 1 copy
Reti's Best Games of Chess 1 copy
Maroczy Memorial Tournament Budapest 1952 (1952) 1 copy
Nicolas Rossolimo - Max Euwe, Gijon 1951 1 copy
Wolfgang Unzicker - Efim Bogoljubow, Staunton Centenary (10) 1951 1 copy
Mark Taimanov - Isaac Lipnitsky, USSR Championship sf Baku 1951 1 copy
Tigran Petrosian - Nikolai Kopylov, USSR Championship-19 Moscow (1) 1951 1 copy
Andor Lilienthal - Leonid Shamkovich, USSR Championship sf Baku (6) 1951 1 copy
Ivo Ney - Isaac Lipnitsky, USSR Championship sf Baku 1951 1 copy
Jaroslav Sajtar - Ludek Pachman, Marianske Lane / Prague Zonal (1) 1951 1 copy
Harry Golombek - Max Euwe, Paignton (1) 1951 1 copy
Gerhard Pfeiffer -Miguel Najdorf, (14) 1950 1 copy
Ludek Pachman - Alexander Tsvetkov, Marianske Lazne/ Prague Zonal (9) 1951 1 copy
Miguel Najdorf - Reuben Fine, Wertheim Memorial New York (7) 1951 1 copy
Arthur Bisguier - Larry Evans, Wertheim Memorial New York (2) 1951 1 copy
Alexander Tolush - Salomon Flohr, USSR Championship-18 Moscow 1 copy
Andrija Fuderer - Miguel Najdorf, Bled (9) 1950 1 copy
Mikhail Tal: the shooting star of chess (2004) 1 copy
Andrija Fuderer - Savielly Tartakower, Bled (11) 1950 1 copy
Nicolas Rossolimo - Larry Evans, Hastings (9) 1949-50 1 copy
Paul Keres - Jaroslav Sajtar, Amsterdam Olympiad 1954 1 copy
Paul Keres - Mikhail Botvinnik, USSR Championships-22 Moscow (19) 1955 1 copy
Alexander Tolush - Mikhail Botvinnik, Moscow Championships 1943/44 1 copy
Viktor Lyublinsky - Dmitry Rovner, Soviet Army Championships Moscow 1955 1 copy
Octavio Troianescu - Harry Golombek, Karlovy Vary / Marianske Lazne (9) 1948 1 copy
Alexander Ilyin-Zhenevsky - Richard Reti, Moscow (17) 1925 1 copy
Rudolf Spielmann - Frederick Dewhirst Yates, Prague Olympiad (8) 1931 1 copy
Victor Ciocaltea - Jan Sefc, Dresden (4) 1956 1 copy
Joszef Szily - Bogdan Sliwa, Budapest (13) 1952 1 copy
Emanuel Lasker - Jose Raul Capablanca, New York (2) 1924 1 copy
Paul Keres - Wolfgang Unzicker, Hamburg m (4) 1956 1 copy
Herman Pilnik - Fridrik Olafsson, Reykjavik m (3) 1955 1 copy
Alexei Sokolsky - Nikolay Kopaev, Cernowitz 1946 1 copy
Alexander Matanovic - Frits Roessel, Beverwijk (5) 1956 1 copy
Mikhail Botvinnik - Vassily Smyslov, World Championships Moscow (17) 1957 1 copy
Frank Marshall - Akiba Rubinstein, Moscow (18) 1925 1 copy
Laszlo Szabo - Philip Stuart Milner-Barry, Hastings (1) 1938/39 1 copy
Jose Raul Capablanca -Frederick Dewhirst Yates, Bad Kissingen 1928 1 copy
Max Euwe - William Winter, NED-ENG Match 1937 1 copy
Paul Keres - Andor Lilienthal, USSR Absolute Championships (19) 1941 1 copy
Vassily Smyslov - Mikhail Botvinnik, World Championships Moscow (11) 1954 1 copy
Conel H O'D Alexander - Mikhail Botvinnik, USSR-GB Radio Match 1946 1 copy
Jose Raul Capablanca - Marc Fonaroff, New York casual 1918 1 copy
J. R. Capablanca - 75 seiner schönsten Partien 1 copy
VIII campeonato mundial juvenil de ajedrez: Fide Juniors, España 1965 1 copy
Bobby Fischer's: Games of Chess 1 copy
Grandmaster of chess : the later years of Paul Keres 1 copy
Henri Grob - Alberic O’Kelly de Galway, Ostend 1956 1 copy
Arthur Bisguier - Israel Albert Horowitz, Rosenwald New York (9) 1955/56 1 copy
Ludwig Rellstab - Miguel Najdorf, Bled (5) 1950 1 copy
Harry Golombek - Ossip Bernstein, Ostend 1956 1 copy
Andrija Fuderer - Alberic O’Kelly de Galway, Bled (2) 1950 1 copy
Allergic O’Kelly de Galway - Alan Phillips, Hastings (9) 1950/51 1 copy
Wolfgang Unzicker -Vincenzo Castaldi, Hastings (8) 1950/51 1 copy
Nicolas Rossolimo - Jonathan Penrose, Hastings (7) 1950/51 1 copy
Wolfgang Unzicker - Leonard Barden, Hastings (6) 1950/51 1 copy
Vincenzo Castaldi - ARB Thomas, Hastings (2) 1950/51 1 copy
Prague 1946 1 copy
Gideon Stahlberg - David Bronstein, Budapest Candidates (17) 1950 1 copy
Alexander Kotov - Vasily Smyslov, Budapest Candidates (16) 1950 1 copy
Isaac Boleslavsky - Andor Lilienthal, Budapest Candidates (14) 1950 1 copy
Alexander Kotov - Paul Keres, Budapest Candidates (14) 1950 1 copy
Vassily Smyslov - Mikhail Botvinnik, USSR Championships-22 Moscow (11) 1 copy
Harry Golombek - William Winter, British Championships Nottingham (5) 1946 1 copy
David Bronstein - Antonio Medina Garcia, Gothenburg Interzonal (14) 1955 1 copy
Fridrik Olafsson - Mark Taimanov, Hastings (1) 1955/56 1 copy
Miroslav Filip - Alfred Beni, Steinitz Memorial Marianske Lazne / Prague (10) 1956 1 copy
Mikhail Botvinnik - David Bronstein, World Championship Moscow (11) 1951 1 copy
Efim Geller - Vassily Smyslov, Amsterdam Candidates (2) 1956 1 copy
William Winter - Edgard Colle, Scarborough (5) 1930 1 copy
Edmond Mulcahy - Heinz Lehmann, Munich Zonal (4) 1954 1 copy
Ilya Kan - Isaac Boleslavsky, USSR Championships-20 Moscow (6) 1952 1 copy
Svetozar Gligoric - Vasilije Tomovic, Yugoslav Championships Skopje (18) 1956 1 copy
Miguel Najdorf - Borislav Ivkov, Bled (2) 1950 1 copy
Edgard College- Victor Buehrer, Hastings (1) 1928/29 1 copy
Alberic O’Kelly de Galway - Wolfgang Heidenfeld, Dublin 1956 1 copy
Benjamin Blumenfeld - Abram Rabinovich, Moscow Championships 1925 1 copy
Vassily Smyslov - Jonathan Penrose, Amsterdam Olympiad Final A (2) 1954 1 copy
Vasily Smyslov - Gideon Stahlberg, Budapest Candidates (12) 1950 1 copy
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Associated Works

The Art of the Middle Game (1964) — Translator, some editions — 275 copies, 1 review
My Best Games of Chess, 1905-1954 (1953) — Translator, some editions — 65 copies
Bobby Fischer's Chess Games (1973) — Contributor — 58 copies
The Modern Openings in Theory and Practice: Their Influence on the Middle Game (1966) — Editor, some editions — 24 copies

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate
1911-03-01
Date of death
1995-01-07
Gender
male
Education
Wilson's Grammar School
University of London
Occupations
chess grandmaster
chess writer
journalist
Awards and honors
Order of the British Empire (Officer, 1966)
Nationality
England
UK
Birthplace
London, England, UK
Associated Place (for map)
England, UK

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5 reviews
lcl999204 reviews
Modern opening chess strategy by Harry Golombek
Golombek does not cover all openings, but provides good guidance for a subset to suit most players. The chapters are
1. The Ruy Lopez
2. Other King's Pawn Openings
3. The Half-open Defences
4.The Sicilian Defence
5. The Nimzovitch Defence to the Queen's Pawn
6. The Queen's Indian Defence
7. Other Q-side Openings
8. The English Opening
It uses the old notation, P-K4 etc
I think he could have spent a little time for beginners on the basics of all openings. Mobilising pieces, not wasting a tempo, etc.
Jun 12, 2022
V.Komodov1 review
Capablanca's Hundred Best Games of Chess by Harry Golombek
Instructive Chess Book
Jun 30, 20191 other review
marshallchesslibrary220 reviews
Reti's Best Games of Chess by Richard Réti
2nd Edition
Dec 15, 2022
laplantelibrary4,803 reviews
Capablanca's 100 Best Games of Chess by Harry Golombek
3/4/22
Mar 4, 20221 other review

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