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Chess Books
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Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 786 times as chess)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,388 ratings — published 1966
Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained New Algebraic Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 710 times as chess)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,871 ratings — published 1957
How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess Mastery Course (Paperback)
by (shelved 682 times as chess)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,312 ratings — published
The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Mastery (Paperback)
by (shelved 518 times as chess)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,099 ratings — published 1995
Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner to Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 517 times as chess)
avg rating 4.40 — 961 ratings — published 2006
My 60 Memorable Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 491 times as chess)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,426 ratings — published 1969
My System: A Treatise on Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 470 times as chess)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,250 ratings — published 1925
The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal (Paperback)
by (shelved 339 times as chess)
avg rating 4.50 — 776 ratings — published 1978
Art of Attack in Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 314 times as chess)
avg rating 4.27 — 587 ratings — published 1963
The Queen's Gambit (Paperback)
by (shelved 277 times as chess)
avg rating 4.18 — 140,917 ratings — published 1983
Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 266 times as chess)
avg rating 4.20 — 718 ratings — published 1994
Winning Chess Tactics (Winning Chess - Everyman Chess)
by (shelved 256 times as chess)
avg rating 4.18 — 768 ratings — published 1992
100 Endgames You Must Know: Vital Lessons for Every Chess Player Improved and Expanded (Paperback)
by (shelved 253 times as chess)
avg rating 4.49 — 272 ratings — published 2008
Chess Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 253 times as chess)
avg rating 4.26 — 185,249 ratings — published 1942
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 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 252 times as chess)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,105 ratings — published 2006
Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 248 times as chess)
avg rating 4.49 — 390 ratings — published 2004
Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 (Dover Chess)
by (shelved 244 times as chess)
avg rating 4.44 — 467 ratings — published 1956
Chess Fundamentals (Paperback)
by (shelved 238 times as chess)
avg rating 3.96 — 787 ratings — published 1908
How to Win at Chess: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 221 times as chess)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,026 ratings — published 2023
Think Like A Grandmaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 216 times as chess)
avg rating 4.12 — 385 ratings — published 1970
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 1 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 213 times as chess)
avg rating 4.38 — 482 ratings — published 2003
Play Winning Chess (Everyman Chess)
by (shelved 212 times as chess)
avg rating 4.13 — 966 ratings — published 1992
Modern Chess Openings (McKay Chess Library)
by (shelved 195 times as chess)
avg rating 4.08 — 573 ratings — published 1972
The Complete Book of Chess Strategy: Grandmaster Techniques from A to Z (Paperback)
by (shelved 189 times as chess)
avg rating 4.06 — 666 ratings — published 1998
Understanding Chess Move by Move (Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as chess)
avg rating 4.23 — 361 ratings — published 2001
Winning Chess Strategies (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as chess)
avg rating 4.18 — 513 ratings — published 1994
Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall—From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 175 times as chess)
avg rating 3.94 — 11,192 ratings — published 2011
FCO: Fundamental Chess Openings (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as chess)
avg rating 4.23 — 365 ratings — published 2009
The Woodpecker Method (Hardcover)
by (shelved 151 times as chess)
avg rating 4.32 — 136 ratings — published
Pawn Structure Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as chess)
avg rating 4.11 — 194 ratings — published 1976
The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as chess)
avg rating 4.23 — 261 ratings — published 1965
Soviet Chess Primer (Chess Classics)
by (shelved 137 times as chess)
avg rating 4.32 — 142 ratings — published 1936
Game Changer: AlphaZero's Groundbreaking Chess Strategies and the Promise of AI (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as chess)
avg rating 4.21 — 294 ratings — published 2019
Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as chess)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,560 ratings — published 2003
Simple Chess: New Algebraic Edition (Dover Chess)
by (shelved 132 times as chess)
avg rating 4.46 — 306 ratings — published 2003
Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy: Advances since Nimzowitsch (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as chess)
avg rating 4.19 — 191 ratings — published 1999
Mastering Chess Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as chess)
avg rating 4.59 — 51 ratings — published 2010
How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as chess)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,071 ratings — published 2001
Check & Mate (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as chess)
avg rating 3.93 — 382,471 ratings — published 2023
The Luzhin Defense (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as chess)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,616 ratings — published 1929
How to Beat Your Dad at Chess (Chess for Kids)
by (shelved 126 times as chess)
avg rating 4.09 — 556 ratings — published 1998
My Best Games of Chess, 1908 - 1937 (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as chess)
avg rating 4.41 — 244 ratings — published 1939
Tal-Botvinnik, 1960 (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as chess)
avg rating 4.56 — 295 ratings — published 1961
Endgame Strategy (Cadogan Chess Books)
by (shelved 121 times as chess)
avg rating 4.43 — 94 ratings — published 1985
Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to Chess: Basic to Advanced Strategies with America's Foremost Chess Instructor (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as chess)
avg rating 3.88 — 689 ratings — published 2003
Chess Structures: A Grandmaster Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as chess)
avg rating 4.59 — 82 ratings — published 2015
Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games: Improve Your Chess by Studying the Greatest Games of All time (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as chess)
avg rating 4.37 — 217 ratings — published 1998
Modern Chess Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as chess)
avg rating 4.05 — 248 ratings — published 1971
The Seven Deadly Chess Sins (A British Champion discusses the most common causes of disaster in chess)
by (shelved 113 times as chess)
avg rating 4.35 — 170 ratings — published 2000
The Reassess Your Chess Workbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as chess)
avg rating 4.18 — 227 ratings — published 2000
“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.”
― The Winter Sea
― The Winter Sea
“So aint you think just causen you in this car now means any damn thing. It aint. He pretending it do, he lying and saying it do, but it aint. Pretend that other dame just he friend, so he say, but aint like it true.
Some churchbitch she is too. Leastaways that what Amy telling me. Amy say she met her once and she aint shit.”
― City of Ghosts
Some churchbitch she is too. Leastaways that what Amy telling me. Amy say she met her once and she aint shit.”
― City of Ghosts
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