What are the best german chess books never translated to English?

Dr. Hartlaubs glanzpartien

Friedrich Michéls

C. Ronniger, 1923 - Chess - 168 pages

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Playing through Dr Hartlaubs's games feels like watching a German Morphy. Should be an entertaining book for chess lovers, if the book was translated (and annotated.)

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 "I also enjoyed Dr Hartlaub's Glanzpartien (in German) were I found the games are quite wild and fun to play through!" - GM Alexander Baburin.

One of the best courses in chess is from the argentinian master Roberto Grau, "Tratado General de Ajedrez". In 4 volumes he explains everything one must know about the game. A few years ago they republished it in algebraic notation. It is a pity that they did not translated it to english. It is a classic and in Cuba (even today a strong chess country) it is mandatory for the beginners and the club player.

Another very famous book, at least here in South America, especially in Brazil (where I live) is Pachman's "Modern chess strategy" and in english the version is an abridged volume, because the original one has 3. Everybody I know here has studied the book in their early years but only a few know that it is a spanish translation from the english version, that means the abridged one.

Der Dr Hartlaub und seine subtile Handhaltung

Pachman’s “Complete Chess Strategy” was published in full in several volumes in English. They are intermittently hard to find and are often overpriced, though fair prices can be found if you are patient. The abridged version in English was published by Dover and is more widely available. Check out viaLibri.net and Amazon.

The four volumne set on Alekhine by Kotov was never translated completely into english as far as I know, but there was a highlights book. It was quite common practise to do this with Soviet books.

Ruby and Elk are translating quite a few old Russian ones, the latest is Mikhail Tal: The Street-Fighting years by Koblenz.

Emanuel Lasker: Denker Weltenbürger Schachweltmeister, Richard Forster, Stefan Hansen, Michael Negele is being updated with some new material into a three volumne english translation set. So far two volumnes have been published.

I have been interested in chess books published during the Soviet era and were never translated to English. I am even disappointed that some more recent Russian books lost content when they were translated to English such as Kasparov's books.

German Chess books sometimes are available for a dime a dozen in the local flee markets but the hardbound prints are mostly used and second hand. Their are no good sources to buy these online except the e-book variants. 

The last volumne of  the three for english translation and expansion of the Emanuel Lasker book is available now.

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Do you refer ebay for this purchase. Share some links please?

Are any of the Lasker's books available in other native languages as well?

There are 2 good books on the Tarrasch defense to QGD in German, never translated.

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"What are the best german chess books never translated to English?"
++ None at all. When it is a good book, then it has been translated.
When it has not been translated, then it was not good enough to merit translation.

I have a german book, by Stefan Bücker, named Groteske Schacheröfgnungen (grotesque openings in chess), edited in 1990. I also have Taimanov's Damengambit bis Holländisch.

TGroteske Schacheröfgnungen ist ein interessanter Fund.

Well, i want to mention an interesting book, which was published in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1924. Only published in swedish, as far as i know, so not a german book   It´s a book about Schlechter´s chess career, Schlechter was in fact a guy who wrote in german, and the author too, the author was Rudolf Spielmann, so the book might have been written in german, then translated to swedish. I´ve been dipping in to the book and it looks interesting, Schlechter was of course a strong player, who f.ex. played a short match against Lasker. 125 games played by Schlechter + some fragments. 

There are 2 really good, specialist German books I have that I can recommend, both titled

Die Tarrasch -Verteidigung.

One by Keilhack which is an encyclopedic reference and one thin one by Carlstedt which is excellent to learn it and enough to play the Tarrasch in OTB tournaments.

The ChessPlanet series is only written in German so far! There are two books published, there gonna be 4 in total. So let's hope that it will be translated into English one day! Fortunately, I'm German, so I can read them. :)

Die Tarrasch -Verteidigung is a great book and has been referred quite a bit. A lot of the modern teachings out here are influenced from the same.