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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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
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My 60 Memorable Games
My System: A Treatise on Chess
The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal
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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.
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YA & Middle Grade Chess Fiction
13 books — 5 voters
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Best Books About Chess
59 books — 30 voters

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[ATY 2023] Related to a Chess Piece
720 books — 101 voters
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Best Books with "Knight" in the Title
261 books — 16 voters

Chess Tactics from Scratch by Martin Weteschnik365 Ways To Checkmate by Joe   GallagherTal's Winning Chess Combinations by Mikhail TalBoost Your Chess 1 by Artur YusupovPlay Like A Grandmaster by Alexander Kotov
Chess tactics Books
26 books — 4 voters
Fundamental Chess Patterns by Rodolfo PardiEncyclopedia of Chess Patterns, part 1 by Rodolfo PardiA Selection of additional Chess Patterns by Rodolfo PardiThe most important Chess Pattern - Critical Squares by Rodolfo PardiFork, a common Chess Pattern by Rodolfo Pardi
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George Bernard Shaw
[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
George Bernard Shaw, The Irrational Knot

Susanna Kearsley
Tis action moves the world....[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if does mean to cross it.
Susanna Kearsley, The Winter Sea

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