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

Check & Mate
Checkmate: Genius, Lies, Ambition, and the Biggest Scandal in Chess
How to Win at Chess: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners and Beyond
The Last Checkmate
The Partisan
The Steps
The First Move
La diagonale Alekhine
The Winning Move (Chess Club #1)
May the Best Player Win
The Queen of Chess: How Judit Polgár Changed the Game
La mossa del matto. L'Iliade di Bobby Fischer
The Chess Revolution: Understanding the Power of an Ancient Game in the Digital Age
Black & White: The Rise and Fall of Bobby Fischer
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)
Chess Story
100 Endgames You Must Know: Vital Lessons for Every Chess Player Improved and Expanded
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
My 60 Memorable Games by Bobby FischerBobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby FischerLogical Chess by Irving ChernevThe Life and Games of Mikhail Tal by Mikhail TalHow to Reassess Your Chess by Jeremy Silman
Best Chess Books
303 books — 127 voters
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollChess Story by Stefan ZweigThe Eight by Katherine NevilleThe Queen's Gambit by Walter TevisThe Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Chess-themed Fiction
108 books — 140 voters

Twisted Kingdom by Rina KentMidnight Kingdom by Amelia WildeRise of a Queen by Rina KentThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Books with Board Game Pieces on Cover
130 books — 35 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

Check & Mate by Ali HazelwoodThe Girl He Used to Know by Tracey Garvis GravesThis Duchess of Mine by Eloisa JamesThe Duchess War by Courtney MilanCheckmate by R.L. Mathewson
Checkmate: Chess in Romance Novels
43 books — 34 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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Zenna Henderson
If God wanted humans to play chess, he would have made us black or white.
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Stacia Kane
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?
Stacia Kane, Unholy Ghosts

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