Bibliography

Bibliography : List of all known books on Latvian gambit. It serves no specific purpose, but as curiosity I think it’s worth on known it... in case somebody decides to start analyzing it carefully.

Here's the list, with the year of publication and the number of pages of each title (...) :

• "El Contragambito del Greco" J. M. Lobato Puebla, Mexico 1914 (80)

                                                             

• "Lettisk Gambit" B. Andersen & H. Nielsen Viborg 1973 (48)

• "Le gambit letton" P.Meinsohn France 1974 (12)

• "Latvian Gambit" K. Smith USA 1977 (93)

• "El Gambito Leton" R. Crusi More Barcelona 1978 (80)

                                                               

• "Latvian Gambit" T. Kapitaniak Nottingham 1980 (35)

• "Lettisches Gambit" H. Tiemann & H. Vetter Dusseldorf 1980 (104)

                                                          

• "The Latvian Gambit" K. Grivainis USA 1985 (198)

• "Lettisches Gambit" L. Orban Hamburg 1987 (90)

• "Lettisches Gambit", 2nd edition H. Tiemann & H. Vetter Dusseldorf 1989 (102)

• "The Latvian Gambit Made Easy" K. Grivainis & J. Elburg USA 1991 (38)

                                                             

• "Lettisches Gambit", part 1 (lines with 3Nxe5) L. Diepstraten Venlo 1993 (324)

                                                         

• "Latvian gambit, collection games" Echecs Itn. Luxembourg 1994 (27)

• "The Latvian Gambit" T. Kosten England 1995 (144)

• "The Latvian Gambit" A. Lein & S. Pickard USA 1995 (155)

• "Lettisches Gambit", part 2 (lines with 3Bc4) L. Diepstraten Venlo 1996 (246)

                                                           

• "Lettisches Gambit", part 3 (other 3rd moves and history) L. Diepstraten Venlo 1997 (387)

                                                       

• "New Developments in the LG" K. Grivainis & J. Elburg USA 1998 (80)

• "The Latvian gambit lives!" T. Kosten England 2001 (224)

•  "Latvian Gambit: The Strautins Gambit" D.R. Lonsdale  2006 (24pp).

•  "Latvian Gambit: The Zemitis variation" D.R. Lonsdale  2006 (24pp).

•  "Latvian Gambit: 6...Nf6 in Svedenborg's Variation" D.R. Lonsdale 2006 (27pp).

Of course there are many other sources of information, mainly games and tournaments, some of them can be found on the Web as well as journal articles and book chapters.

Perhaps the best collection on the CD is "Latvian gambit into the Next Millenium" compiled by John Elburg and Giorgio Ruggeri, although for us, devotees, has become somewhat outdated after staging in 2004. It contains, however, in addition of 8500 games, a tree and opening key, pictures and videos that make it very attractive (see the link)