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My 60 Memorable Games
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The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal
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Logical Chess Move By Move: Every Move Explained New Algebraic Edition
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Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
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How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess Mastery Course
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The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions Into Chess Mastery
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Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953
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Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual
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Tal-Botvinnik 1960
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My System
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Pawn Power in Chess
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Kasparov vs Karpov 1975-1985
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Pawn Structure Chess
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How to Choose a Chess Move
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Art of Attack in Chess
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Complete Chess Strategy 1: Planning the Pieces
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Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner to Master
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Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time
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Modern Chess Strategy
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Pump Up Your Rating
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1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations
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Caro-Kann Defence: Advance Variation and Gambit System
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Modern Chess Openings
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Kasparov against the World
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Best Lessons of a Chess Coach
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Better Chess for Average Players
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Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games
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Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 1
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500 Master Games of Chess
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My Best Games of Chess, 1908-1937
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Lasker's Manual of Chess
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3.96 avg rating — 251 ratings
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The Middlegame, Book 2: Dynamic & Subjective Features
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The Art of Planning in Chess: Move by Move
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Garry Kasparov on Fischer: My Great Predecessors, Part IV
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4.41 avg rating — 218 ratings
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Chess Fundamentals, Revised
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3.98 avg rating — 394 ratings
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How Not to Play Chess
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Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 2
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Win at Chess
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Birth of the Chess Queen: A History
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Rubinstein's Chess Masterpieces: 100 Selected Games
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Think Like A Grandmaster
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107 Great Chess Battles, 1939-1945
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The Middlegame - Book I : Static Features (Algebraic Edition) (Bk. 1)
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4.06 avg rating — 32 ratings
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1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate
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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
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The Art of Chess Combination
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How to Beat Your Dad at Chess
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Chess for Zebras
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The Ruy Lopez Explained (Batsford Chess Books)
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Chess Reform Chess
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My Best Games of Chess 1935-1957
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The Art of the Middle Game
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Kiln People
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Samurai Chess: Mastering Strategic Thinking Through The Martial Art of the Mind
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Learn Chess Quickly
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Tactics Time 2: 1001 Real Chess Tactics From Real Games
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Sacrifice and Initiative in Chess: Seize the Moment to Get the Advantage
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Queenmagic, Kingmagic
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The Game of Chess
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Beginners Guide - How to Learn Chess in 60 Minutes. Everything You Need to Learn How to Play Winning Chess Quickly!
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Great Chess Books of the Twentieth Century in English
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The Inner Game of Chess: How to Calculate and Win
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The Chess Opening For You: A Complete System For White And Black
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Judgment and Planning in Chess
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The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine
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Tratado General de Ajedrez - 4 Tomos
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Complete Chess Strategy: Principles Of Pawn Play And The Center
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Chess Tactics for Kids
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The Seven Deadly Chess Sins
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Better Thinking for Better Chess
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The Golden Treasury Of Chess
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Forcing Chess Moves: The Key to Better Calculation
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Better Thinking for Better Chess
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Grandmaster Preparation - Attack & Defence
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Combinations: The Heart of Chess
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Nunn's Chess Openings
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Batsford Book of Chess Records (Batsford Chess Books (Paperback))
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Complete Chess Strategy 3: Play on the Wings
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Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov, Part II: 1985-1993
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Carlsbad International Chess Tournament 1929
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Kasparov v Deeper Blue: The Ultimate Man v Machine Challenge
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A Parent's Guide to Chess
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Practical Chess Endings
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Storming the Barricades
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The Hippopotamus Rises: The Re-Emergence of a Chess Opening (Batsford Chess Books)
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Alexander Alekhine's Best Games
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Build up your Chess 1: The Fundamentals
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Fischer/Spassky: The New York Times Report on the Chess Match of the Century,
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From My Chess Games, 1920-1937
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Jeugdschaak : leerboek van de Koninklijke Nederlandse schaakbond KNSB : voor beginners, voor licht-gevorderden, voor doorzetters
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Paul Felix Schmidt / A Winning Formula
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Chess Opening Names: The Fascinating & Entertaining History Behind The First Few Moves
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Bishop V. Knight
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Fundamental Chess Endings
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Winning Chess Tactics, revised
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Chess Evolution 1: The Fundamentals
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The Grandmaster: Magnus Carlsen and the Match That Made Chess Great Again
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How to be a Winner at Chess
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Play Like A Grandmaster
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Chess Lessons
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1. Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess is a non-descript not particularly good book
2. Capablanca's Best Games by Golumbak is a very good intermediate book.
3. Drovetsky is one of the outstanding writers and more of his books should have made the top 50. I'd put his book Tactical Play, no 2.
4. Logical Chess Move by Move is a good book but probably not no. 2.
5. Fireside Book of Chess and Chess for Fun, Chess for Blood are good story books.
6. Tal's book on his match with Botvinnik should probably be up there.
7. Polgar's book on combinations and progressive learning is well done and one of the best books for someone learning or even intermediate. his daughters are outstanding chess players for a reason.
8. Averbakh's book on chess ending, available in English on disc is a well-organized educational book on endings that I put in the top 5.
9. Kasparov's book on his match provides a somewhat biased view and his annotations are hard.