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M. V. Anderson Chess

The Library’s Chess Collection is one of the three largest public chess collections in the world.

The Collection was originally donated to the Library in 1956 by Magnus Victor Anderson, a Melbourne accountant and keen chess player. Anderson personally looked after the collection for the next ten years, continuing to purchase books for it. By the time he died in 1966, the M.V. Anderson Chess Collection had expanded from 1500 to over 6000 volumes.

Collection overview

The Library has continued to acquire at a comprehensive level materials relating to chess. This includes:

  • all works published in Australia regardless of format
  • all books in English and major works in other languages
  • chess magazines in many languages
  • reports of tournaments from every country
  • a range of manuscripts and ephemera.

Material not generally collected
  • chess sets except for a few examples
  • chess internet sites.

 

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