Rook House is more than happy to acknowledge the tremendous resources listed below as providing vital pieces to putting together our site.  Without these previously published chess sources, we would not have been able to construct our site.

We thank all of them and hope that we have not left any of them out.  If you feel that you were a potential resource for this site and were not mentioned, please contact us at admin@rookhouse.com.

Websites

The following are website locations from which we were able to piece together facts and information to assist in the creation of our site.  We encourage you to follow the provided links to their respective sites, as they are all excellent sources of chess information.

Chess Analyses (by Jan van Reek)

Website URL: http://www.endgame.nl/

Chess Notes (by Edward Winter)

Website URL: http://www.chesshistory.com/

Chessville

Website URL: http://www.chessville.com/

Graeme Cree's Chess Page

Website URL: http://members.aol.com/graemecree/chesschamps/

La Grande Storia Degli Scacchi

Website URL: http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/index.htm

La Mecca Chess Encyclopedia

Website URL: http://maskeret.com/mecca/index.shtml

Roger Paige's Chess Site

Website URL: http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/

Sarah's Chess Journal

Website URL: http://sbchess.sinfree.net/archives.html

The Game Is Afoot

Website URL: http://starfireproject.com/chess/

World Chess Links

Website URL: http://www.worldchesslinks.net/index.html

Publications

The following are the titles of publications that we purchased for the purpose of documenting historical facts for the site.  All are written very well and are invaluable assets to any chess aficionado. We also included publication dates, authors names, and publishers.

San Antonio 72 (Church's Fried Chicken First Int'l Chess Tournament)

RHM Publishing - 1973

Bent Larsen, David Levy

London 1927 (British Empire Club Tournament)

Dover Publications Inc - 1993

Arthur S. Antler

The Book of the Nottingham Int'l Chess Tournament

RHM Publishing - 1973

Bent Larsen, David Levy

The Great Chess Tournaments and Their Stories

Chilton Book Company - 1975

Andy Soltis

Carlsbad Int'l Chess Tournament 1929

Dover Publications Inc - 1981

Jim Marfia, Aron Nimzowitsch

The Super Clash (SWIFT)

Chequers Chess Publications

W.Hartson, M.Tal, R.Lancaster, A.Whiteley, K.Arkell, S. Arkell

New York 1948-49 Int'l Chess Tournament

The Whitlock Press Inc - 1950

Hans Kmoch

Zurich Int'l Chess Tournament 1953

Dover Publications Inc - 1979

Jim Marfia, David Bronstein

Curacao 1962 (The Battle of Minds That Shook the Chess World)

New In Chess - 2005

Jan Timman

Montreal 1979 (Tournament of Stars)

Pergamon Press - 1980

M.Tal, V.Chepizhny, A.Roshal

First Piatigorsky Cup

The Ward Ritchie Press - 1965

Isaac Kashdan

Second Piatigorsky Cup

The Ward Ritchie Press - 1968

Isaac Kashdan

Russians vs Fischer

Everyman Chess - 2005

D.Plisetsky, S.Voronkov

Bobby Fischer (Profile of a Prodigy)

Dover Publications Inc - 1989

Frank Brady