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Jacques Mieses Bibliography

Jacques Mieses was not only a brilliant tournament player but also the most prolific German-speaking chess author of his generation. His works – from beginner textbooks to tournament books – reached hundreds of thousands of readers and shaped chess education in the German-speaking world for decades.

76

Publications
(DNB)

120+

Years in print
(1881–2004)

31+

Editions
(Textbook)

4+

Languages
(DE, NL, SE, EN)

Mieses vs. His Contemporaries: Most Prolific Chess Authors

While many grandmasters published only a few books, Mieses was an exceptionally prolific author. His productivity far exceeded that of his most famous contemporaries:

Jacques Mieses 76 Publications
Siegbert Tarrasch ("Praeceptor Germaniae") ~15 Publications
Emanuel Lasker (World Champion 1894–1921) ~5 Publications
Aron Nimzowitsch ("My System") ~8 Publications

Works by Category

Textbooks

  • Chess Textbook (Dufresne/Mieses)
  • Chess – Brief Introduction
  • How to Learn Chess Quickly and Easily
  • Practical Chess Textbook

Endgames

  • Endgame Handbook
  • Modern Endgame Studies
  • The Endgame in Modern Master Practice
Opening Monographs
  • The French Defence
  • The Queen's Gambit
  • The Nordic Gambit
  • The Scandinavian Defence
Tournament Books
  • San Sebastian 1911
  • San Sebastian 1912
  • Kaschau 1918
  • DSB Congresses (various)
Game Collections & Essays
  • One Hundred Instructive Positions
  • The Book of Master Games
  • Instructive Selection from Master Games
  • The World Championship in Chess (Kagan, 1920)
Reference Works
  • The Chess Pilot
  • De kleine Schaakgids NL (Dutch adaptation, van Goor)
  • Blindfold Chess
  • Collection of Easier Chess Problems
Unfinished Works
  • Seven Decades in the International Chess Arena Unfinished
    Planned autobiography, ca. 1952–1954 (never published)
    Mentioned in Kurt Richter's obituary (1954): Mieses planned to write his memoirs but did not progress beyond the preliminary work.

Major Publishers

Philipp Reclam jun.

Leipzig / Stuttgart – The traditional publisher was Mieses' most important partner. The "Chess Textbook" and "Chess" appeared here in countless editions.

Hans Hedewig's Successors

Leipzig – Specialized chess publisher where most of Mieses' original works appeared: endgames, tournament books, "The Chess Pilot".

Bernhard Kagan

Berlin – Well-known chess publisher where the opening monographs (Queen's Gambit, Nordic Gambit) appeared.

Bibliography (Selection)

56 entries

Sorted chronologically by year of publication (most recent first). Entries based on the catalogue of the German National Library (DNB). German-language titles are shown in their original form with English translations in parentheses.

  • Lehrbuch des Schachspiels (Chess Textbook)
    Dufresne, Jean. – Stuttgart: Reclam, 1996, 29th ed. / ed. by Rudolf Teschner

  • Schach (Chess – Brief Introduction)
    Mieses, Jacques. – Stuttgart: Reclam, 1974
  • Wie lerne ich schnell und leicht Schach spielen (How to Learn Chess)
    Mieses, Jacques. – Heidelberg: Kemper, 1965
  • Lehrbuch des Schachspiels (Chess Textbook)
    Dufresne, Jean. – Stuttgart: Reclam, 1964, 21st ed. / ed. by Rudolf Teschner
  • Hoe leer ik vlug en gemakkelijk schaken NL
    Mieses, Jacques. – The Hague: van Goor, [1963], 9th printing

  • Seven Decades in the International Chess Arena Unfinished
    Mieses, Jacques. — Planned autobiography, ca. 1952–1954 (never published)
    Mentioned in Kurt Richter's obituary (1954)
  • Hoe leer ik vlug en gemakkelijk schaken NL
    Mieses, Jacques. – The Hague: van Goor, [1959], 8th printing
  • Schach (Chess – Brief Introduction)
    Mieses, Jacques. – Stuttgart: Reclam, 1953, 4th ed.
  • Schack SE
    Mieses, Jacques. – Stockholm: Björck & Börjesson, 1952, 4th rev. ed.
  • Schach (Chess – Brief Introduction)
    Mieses, Jacques. – Leipzig: Reclam, [1950], 2nd ed.
  • Lehrbuch des Schachspiels (Chess Textbook)
    Dufresne, Jean. – Stuttgart: Reclam, 1950, 18th rev. ed.
  • Lehrbuch des Schachspiels (Chess Textbook)
    Dufresne, Jean. – Leipzig: Reclam, [1950], 17th rev. ed.

  • Manual of the End-Game EN
    Mieses, Jacques. – Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay Comp., 1948
  • Manual of the End-Game EN 1st ed.
    Mieses, Jacques. – London: Bell & Sons, 1947
  • The Chess Pilot EN 1st ed.
    Mieses, Jacques. – London: Williams & Norgate, 1947
  • Recollections of A. Nimzowitsch EN Article
    Mieses, Jacques. – In: The British Chess Magazine 67, No. 8
  • Hoe leer ik vlug en gemakkelijk schaken NL
    Mieses, Jacques; Prins, Lodewijk. – The Hague: van Goor, 1945, 5th printing
  • Instructive Positions from Master Chess EN
    Mieses, Jacques. – Philadelphia, Pa.: David McKay Company, 1939

  • Instructive Positions from Master Chess EN 1st ed.
    Mieses, Jacques. – London: Bell & Sons, 1938
  • Schack SE
    Mieses, Jacques. – Stockholm: Björck & Börjessons, 1938, 2nd rev. ed.
  • Lehrbuch des Schachspiels (Chess Textbook)
    Dufresne, Jean. – Leipzig: Reclam, 1935, 13th rev. ed.
  • Der Schachlotse (The Chess Pilot)
    Mieses, Jacques. – Leipzig: Hedewig, 1934, 5th enl. & rev. ed.
  • Schach (Chess – Brief Introduction) 1st ed.
    Mieses, Jacques. – Leipzig: Reclam, 1933
  • Hoe leer ik vlug en gemakkelijk schaken NL 1st ed.
    Mieses, Jacques; Prins, Lodewijk. – The Hague: van Goor, 1933
  • Lehrbuch des Schachspiels (Chess Textbook)
    Dufresne, Jean. – Leipzig: Reclam, 1932, 12th rev. & enl. ed.
  • Kurze Anleitung zur Erlernung des Schachspieles (Brief Guide to Learning Chess)
    Mieses, Jacques. – Leipzig: Hedewig, 1932, 5th rev. ed.

  • Lehrbuch des Schachspiels (Chess Textbook)
    Dufresne, Jean. – Leipzig: Reclam, [1927], 11th rev. ed.
  • Taschenbuch des Endspiels (Endgame Handbook)
    Mieses, Jacques. – Leipzig: H. Hedewig's Nachf., 1927, 3rd rev. ed.
  • Praktisches Lehrbuch des Schachspiels (Practical Chess Textbook)
    Mieses, Jacques. – Hamburg: Deutscher Auslandverlag, 1926
  • Wie erlernt man schnell und leicht das Schachspiel? (How to Learn Chess Quickly)
    Mieses, Jacques. – Berlin: H. Steinitz, 1926, rev. ed. (136th–140th thousand)
  • Die französische Partie (The French Defence)
    Mieses, Jacques. – Leipzig: H. Hedewig's Nachf., 1926
  • Kurze Anleitung zur Erlernung des Schachspiels (Brief Guide to Learning Chess)
    Mieses, Jacques. – Leipzig: H. Hedewig's Nachf., 1924
  • Moderne Endspielstudien (Modern Endgame Studies)
    Mieses, Jacques. – Leipzig: Hedewig's Nachf., 1922, 2nd rev. & enl. ed.
  • Kleines Lehrbuch des Schachspiels (Little Chess Textbook)
    Dufresne, Jean. – Leipzig: Reclam, 1922, 10th rev. ed.
  • Wie erlernt man schnell und leicht das Schachspiel? (How to Learn Chess Quickly)
    Mieses, Jacques. – Berlin: H. Steinitz, [1922], 8th rev. ed.
  • Das Endspiel in der modernen Meisterpraxis (The Endgame in Modern Master Practice)
    Mieses, Jacques. – Leipzig: Hedewigs Nachf., 1922, 2nd enl. ed.
  • Lehrreiche Blumenlese aus Schachmeisterpartien (Instructive Selection from Master Games)
    Mieses, Jacques. – Leipzig: H. Hedewig's Nachf., 1922
  • Taschenbuch des Endspiels (Endgame Handbook)
    Mieses, Jacques. – Leipzig: Hedewig, 1920, 2nd rev. ed.
  • Der Schachlotse (The Chess Pilot)
    Mieses, Jacques. – Leipzig: Ronniger, 1920, 3rd enl. & rev. ed.
  • 2. internationales Schachturnier zu San Sebastian 1912 (2nd International Tournament)
    Mieses, Jacques; Lewitt, Moritz. – Leipzig: Hedewig, 1920, 2nd ed.
  • Die Weltmeisterschaft im Schach (The World Championship in Chess)
    Mieses, Jacques. – Berlin: Kagan, [1920]
    Digital copy (DNB, free access)

  • Internationales Schach-Turnier zu San Sebastian 1911
    Mieses, Jacques; Lewitt, Moritz. – Leipzig: Hedewig, 1919, 2nd rev. ed.
  • Hundert lehrreiche Stellungen aus Schachmeisterpartien (One Hundred Instructive Positions)
    Mieses, Jacques. – Leipzig: Hedewig, 1918
  • 15 ausgewählte Partien des Schachmeisterturniers in Kaschau (15 Selected Games from Kaschau)
    Mieses, Jacques. – Leipzig: Hedwig, 1918
  • Das nordische Gambit (The Nordic Gambit)
    Mieses, Jacques. – Berlin: Kagan, [1918]
  • Das Damengambit (The Queen's Gambit)
    Mieses, Jacques. – Berlin: Kagan, 1918
  • Die skandinavische Partie (The Scandinavian Defence)
    Mieses, Jacques. – Berlin: Kagan, 1918
  • Das Blindspielen (Blindfold Chess)
    Mieses, Jacques. – Leipzig: Hedewig, 1918
  • Taschenbuch des Endspiels (Endgame Handbook) 1st ed.
    Mieses, Jacques. – Leipzig: Hedewig's Nachf., [c. 1916]
  • Der Schachlotse (The Chess Pilot)
    Mieses, Jacques. – Leipzig: Hedewig, 1916, 2nd enl. & rev. ed.
  • Der Schachlotse (The Chess Pilot) 1st ed.
    Mieses, Jacques. – Leipzig: Hedewig's Nachf., [c. 1916]
  • Kleines Lehrbuch des Schachspiels (Little Chess Textbook)
    Dufresne, Jean. – Leipzig: Reclam, 1916, 9th rev. ed. / ed. by Jacques Mieses
  • Lehrbuch des Schachspiels für Anfänger und fortgeschrittene Spieler (Textbook for Beginners and Advanced Players)
    Mieses, Jacques. – Leipzig: Grethlein, [1914]
  • Das Buch der Schachmeisterpartien (The Book of Master Games)
    Mieses, Jacques. – Leipzig: Reclam, 1913
  • Das Buch der Schachmeisterpartien (The Book of Master Games)
    Mieses, Jacques. – Leipzig: Reclam jun.
  • Sammlung leichterer Schachaufgaben (Collection of Easier Chess Problems)
    Dufresne, Jean. – Leipzig: Reclam
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