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
The Chess Revolution: Understanding the Power of an Ancient Game in the Digital Age
La mossa del matto. L'Iliade di Bobby Fischer
The Partisan
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
La diagonale Alekhine
Black & White: The Rise and Fall of Bobby Fischer
May the Best Player Win
How to Study Chess on Your Own: Creating a Plan that Works… and Sticking to it!
Il Mago di Riga
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)
Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 (Dover Chess)
DVORETSKY'S ENDGAME MANUAL, 2nd Ed.
The Immortal Game: A History of Chess, or How 32 Carved Pieces on a Board Illuminated Our Understanding of War, Art, Science and the Human Brain
Splintered by A.G. HowardHeartless by Marissa MeyerUnhinged by A.G. HowardEnsnared by A.G. HowardAlice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter
YA in Wonderland
61 books — 136 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardThe Glass Bead Game by Hermann HesseReady Player One by Ernest ClineChess Story by Stefan Zweig
Game Theory
431 books — 102 voters

Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby FischerHow to Reassess Your Chess by Jeremy SilmanChess by László PolgárLogical Chess by Irving ChernevThe Reassess Your Chess Workbook by Jeremy Silman
Teach Yourself Chess
81 books — 13 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

Check & Mate by Ali HazelwoodThe First Move by Jenny IrelandNot an Easy Win by Chrystal D. GilesFocused by Alyson GerberCuriosity by Gary L. Blackwood
YA & Middle Grade Chess Fiction
12 books — 4 voters
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingIA by John Darryl WinstonChess Story by Stefan ZweigThe Flanders Panel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Chess in Fiction
62 books — 46 voters


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I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game. ...more
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I’m not into danger, either.” “Aw, Chess. You so into it you ain’t climb out with a rope. Why else you do your job, live down here, buy from Bump?” “It’s just—I mean—I just do, is all.” Her cheeks burned. She shouldn’t have let him come in here. She should have just sent him home and let him wash his stupid shirt himself. “No shame in it. Some of us needs an edge on things make us feel right, else we ain’t like feeling at all, aye?
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