The Dutch Chess Centre NV - 1952/1953 - 1st edition - 2 parts - Ring binders - 14 x 22 cm. Pages not numbered (approximately 180 pp per volume). 1110 grams. Condiion: good, no inscriptions. Years probably not fully completed. Certainly not 1953 and 1963. It is not known how many issues have been compiled per topic or opening.

Exceptionally complex published documentation edited by the world champion Dr. Max Euwe (1901-1981).  Illustrated with chess diagrams. In the volume Middle game, all the games are annotated.

Analysed Openings; Queen's Gambit, Nimzo-Indian, King's Fianchetto, Flank Games, Middle Game, Sicilian (Yugoslav Defence); Spanish (Berlin Defence; Two Knights Game); various open games (Evans Gambit, the Scottish Game); King's Knight Games (Russian Defence); etc.

Chess Archives, by Max Euwe, was the Equivalent of the Chess Informator, 15+ years before it! Chess Archives is no longer published but in its day it provided the cutting edge of chess opening theory. It was published monthly by a team of Dutch chess opening analysts, headed by former World Champion Dr. Max Euwe. If a new opening trick or trap were discovered, one could be sure it would appear soon in Chess Archives. Readers of established books like Modern Chess Openings could have an unpleasant surprise when a line the were playing had been refuted by new discoveries. That was unlikely to happen to any reader of Chess Archives because the new issues would always contain the latest stuff. Bobby Fischer was known to read and devour Chess Archives because he often played new lines that had just appeared in Chess Archives. In one famous game where his opponent had followed Chess Archives, Fischer had found a bust and refuted it in spectacular fashion.