 | Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations by R. C. Bell
Buy used from: $5.12 Two volumes in one. One on regional chess variants & one on boardgames other than chess
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 | Games Ancient and Oriental and How to Play Them by Edward Falkener
Buy used from: $5.00 Older book on historical & regional chess variants and also boardgames other than chess.
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 | A History of Chess by Harold J.R. Murray
Buy used from: $125.00 Mammoth chess history containing descriptions of numerous historical and regional variants.
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| Short History Chess by Henry A. Davidson
Buy used from: $4.04 Gives a few historical variants.
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 | The genealogy of chess by David H Li
Buy new: $25.00 / Used from: $19.97 Describes several ancient variants of modern Chinese chess
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| The Oxford Companion to Chess (Oxford Paperback Reference)
Buy used from: $12.95 Contains numerous entries on ancient and regional variants & also fairy chess variants
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| Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess by Harry Golombek
Buy used from: $3.59 Contains numerous entries on ancient and regional variants & also fairy chess variants
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 | Encyclopedia of Chess Variants by David Pritchard
Buy used from: $179.95 Exhaustive catalog of historical & regional variants & also fairy chess variants. Contains several variants invented by yours truly.
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| Chess Variations, Ancient, Regional, and Modern by John Gollon
Buy used from: $11.00 A collection of ancient & regional variants with a section on fairy chess. Also describes Jetan, or Martian chess.
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 | Popular Chess Variants (Batsford Chess Books) by D.B. Pritchard
Buy used from: $0.85 Discusses in depth the most popular chess variants.
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 | Five Classics of Fairy Chess by Thomas Rayner Dawson
Buy used from: $19.50 More concerned with fairy chess problems, but does describe 3D chess.
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| Guide to Fairy Chess by Anthony Stewart Mackay Dickins
Buy used from: $3.49 More into chess problems than game descriptions
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| Shogi for Beginners by John Fairbairn
Buy used from: $48.97 The best modern Western introduction to Japanese chess.
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 | Shogi Japan's Game of Strategy (P) by Trevor Leggett
Buy used from: $9.99 Older Westen introduction to Shogi. Uses an eccentric notation system, but still good.
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 | Chinese Chess: An Introduction to China's Ancient Game of Strategy by H. T. Lau
Buy new: $11.21 / Used from: $4.98 The best modern Western introduction to Chinese chess.
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