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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
Checkmate: Genius, Lies, Ambition, and the Biggest Scandal in Chess
Chess Not Checkers (RomCom University, #1)
How to Win at Chess: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners and Beyond
The Last Checkmate
The Steps
The Partisan
The First Move
May the Best Player Win
Rebel Queen: The Cold War, Misogyny, and the Making of a Grandmaster
The Winning Move (Chess Club #1)
Black & White: The Rise and Fall of Bobby Fischer
Gagner aux échecs (même quand on débute): Maîtriser sa partie de l'ouverture jusqu'au mat
The Chess Revolution: Understanding the Power of an Ancient Game in the Digital Age
The Queen of Chess: How Judit Polgár Changed the Game
La mossa del matto. L'Iliade di Bobby Fischer
Il Mago di Riga
How to Study Chess on Your Own: Creating a Plan that Works… and Sticking to it!
La diagonale Alekhine

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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
Stefan Zweig, Chess Story

Stefan Zweig
In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.
Stefan Zweig, Chess Story

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