Editing Chess libraries (section)

{{Short description|Library with collection related to chess}}
'''Chess libraries''' are [[library]] collections of books and periodicals on the game of [[chess]].  In 1913, preeminent chess [[history|historian]] [[H. J. R. Murray]] estimated the total number of books, magazines, and [[Chess columns in newspapers|newspaper columns]] pertaining to chess to be about 5,000 at that time.<ref>{{citation
 | last=Murray | first=H.J.R. | author-link=H. J. R. Murray
 | year=1913 | title=[[A History of Chess]] 
 | publisher=Oxford University Press | pages=782–784 |isbn=0-19-827403-3}}</ref><ref name="Hooper&Whyld">[[David Hooper (chess player)|Hooper, David]]; [[Ken Whyld|Whyld, Kenneth]] (1984). ''The Oxford Companion to Chess'', Oxford University Press, p. 189. {{ISBN|0-19-217540-8}}.</ref> [[Baruch Harold Wood|B. H. Wood]] estimated that number, as of 1949, to be about 20,000.<ref name="Hooper&Whyld"/> [[David Hooper (chess player)|David Hooper]] and [[Kenneth Whyld]] write that, "Since then there has been a steady increase year by year of the number of new chess publications. No one knows how many have been printed..."<ref name="Hooper&Whyld"/>