Chess

Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide in homes, parks, clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments. ...more

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Check & Mate
How to Win at Chess: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners and Beyond
The Last Checkmate
The First Move
May the Best Player Win
La mossa del matto. L'Iliade di Bobby Fischer
Black & White: The Rise and Fall of Bobby Fischer
The Partisan
La diagonale Alekhine
Il Mago di Riga
How to Study Chess on Your Own: Creating a Plan that Works… and Sticking to it!
Gagner aux échecs (même quand on débute): Maîtriser sa partie de l'ouverture jusqu'au mat
The Queen of Chess: How Judit Polgár Changed the Game
The Chess Revolution: Understanding the Power of an Ancient Game in the Digital Age
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained New Algebraic Edition
How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess Mastery Course
The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Mastery
Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner to Master
My 60 Memorable Games
My System: A Treatise on Chess
The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal
Art of Attack in Chess
The Queen's Gambit
Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games
Winning Chess Tactics (Winning Chess - Everyman Chess)
100 Endgames You Must Know: Vital Lessons for Every Chess Player Improved and Expanded
DVORETSKY'S ENDGAME MANUAL, 2nd Ed.
Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 (Dover Chess)
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YA in Wonderland
61 books — 136 voters
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Checkmate: Chess in Romance Novels
43 books — 33 voters

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YA & Middle Grade Chess Fiction
13 books — 5 voters
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Chess-themed Fiction
106 books — 140 voters

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Teach Yourself Chess
81 books — 13 voters
Bobby Fischer Goes to War by David EdmondsBirth of the Chess Queen by Marilyn YalomMy 60 Memorable Games by Bobby FischerTal-Botvinnik, 1960 by Mikhail TalLisa by Jesse Kraai
Best Books About Chess
59 books — 30 voters


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Stefan Zweig
But is it not already an insult to call chess anything so narrow as a game? Is it not also a science, an art, hovering between these categories like Muhammad's coffin between heaven and earth, a unique yoking of opposites, ancient and yet eternally new, mechanically constituted and yet an activity of the imagination alone, limited to a fixed geometric area but unlimited in its permutations, constantly evolving and yet sterile, a cogitation producing nothing, a mathematics calculating nothing, an ...more
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Zenna Henderson
If God wanted humans to play chess, he would have made us black or white.
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