Editing Chess libraries (section)

===Private===
[[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]] [[Lothar Schmid]] of [[Bamberg]], Germany reportedly owned the world's largest private collection of chess books and memorabilia.<ref>"A collector of chess books and paraphernalia, he has the largest private chess library in the world." [[David Hooper (chess player)|David Hooper]] and [[Kenneth Whyld]], ''[[The Oxford Companion to Chess]]'' (2nd ed. 1992), p. 358. {{ISBN|0-19-866164-9}}.</ref><ref>"Schmid owns the largest private collection of chess books and other chess material." [[Harry Golombek]], ''Golombek's Chess Encyclopedia'', Crown Publishers, 1977, p. 290. {{ISBN|0-517-53146-1}}.</ref> In 1992, [[David Hooper (chess player)|Hooper]] and [[Kenneth Whyld|Whyld]] stated that Schmid's chess library "is the largest and finest in private hands, with more than 15,000 items".<ref>Hooper & Whyld, p. 226 ("libraries" entry).</ref> In 2008, [[Susan Polgar]] stated that Schmid "has over 20,000 chess books".<ref name="PolgarRecords"/> Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam states that Schmid "boasts to have amassed 50,000 chess books.<ref>Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam, "The Finest Chess Collection in the World", ''[[New in Chess]]'', 2010, No. 5, p. 18. The title of the article refers to David DeLucia's collection, not Schmid's.</ref>

David DeLucia's chess library contains 7,000 to 8,000 chess books, a similar number of autographs (letters, score sheets, manuscripts), and about 1,000 items of "ephemera".<ref>ten Geuzendam, p. 19.</ref> DeLucia's library contains such items as "a 15th-century Lucena manuscript, score-sheets ranging from Fischer's Game of the Century against Donald Byrne to all the games of the 1927 New York tournament, eight letters by [[Paul Morphy|Morphy]], over a hundred [[Emanuel Lasker|Lasker]] manuscripts, [[José Raúl Capablanca|Capablanca's]] gold pocket watch, [and] the contract of the 1886 Steinitz-Zukertort world championship match".<ref name="ten Geutzendam, p. 10">ten Geutzendam, p. 10.</ref> Ten Geutzendam opines that DeLucia's collection "is arguably the finest chess collection in the world".<ref name="ten Geutzendam, p. 10"/>

Former [[World Chess Championship|World Champion]] [[Anatoly Karpov]] has a large chess stamp collection.<ref>[http://www.stampmagazine.co.uk/content/famous/anatoly_karpov.html „Former world chess champion Anatoly Karpov’s writes about his collection“] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091113013434/http://www.stampmagazine.co.uk/content/famous/anatoly_karpov.html |date=2009-11-13 }}, Stamp Magazine</ref>

The [[Musée Suisse du Jeu]] in Switzerland has a room devoted to chess, according to [https://web.archive.org/web/20171203040610/http://www.gadycosteff.com/eg/eg.html number 152] of ''[[EG (magazine)|EG]]'', which reports their purchase of [[Ken Whyld]]'s library in 2004. As of January 2010, the British Chess Variants Society was planning to transfer five boxes of archival material related to [[David Pritchard (chess player)|David Pritchard]]'s research for the Encyclopedia of Chess Variants to that collection.<ref>British Chess Variants Society {{cite web |url=http://www.bcvs.ukf.net/ |title=Variant Chess |access-date=2006-01-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060207025335/http://www.bcvs.ukf.net/ |archive-date=2006-02-07 }} "David Pritchard's files have been prepared for transfer to the Musée Suisse du Jeu, where they will be kept in the Ken Whyld Library and made available to future researchers." "Site updated 17 January 2010", retrieved March 13, 2010</ref>