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Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 790 times as chess)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,451 ratings — published 1966
Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained New Algebraic Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 719 times as chess)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,885 ratings — published 1957
How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess Mastery Course (Paperback)
by (shelved 685 times as chess)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,320 ratings — published
Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner to Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 522 times as chess)
avg rating 4.40 — 965 ratings — published 2006
The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Mastery (Paperback)
by (shelved 522 times as chess)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,102 ratings — published 1995
My 60 Memorable Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 490 times as chess)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,432 ratings — published 1969
My System: A Treatise on Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 472 times as chess)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,249 ratings — published 1925
The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal (Paperback)
by (shelved 338 times as chess)
avg rating 4.50 — 781 ratings — published 1978
Art of Attack in Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 313 times as chess)
avg rating 4.27 — 585 ratings — published 1963
The Queen's Gambit (Paperback)
by (shelved 279 times as chess)
avg rating 4.18 — 142,013 ratings — published 1983
Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 266 times as chess)
avg rating 4.20 — 721 ratings — published 1994
Chess Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 259 times as chess)
avg rating 4.26 — 190,686 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 255 times as chess)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,130 ratings — published 2006
Winning Chess Tactics (Winning Chess - Everyman Chess)
by (shelved 254 times as chess)
avg rating 4.18 — 771 ratings — published 1992
Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 250 times as chess)
avg rating 4.49 — 392 ratings — published 2004
100 Endgames You Must Know: Vital Lessons for Every Chess Player Improved and Expanded (Paperback)
by (shelved 249 times as chess)
avg rating 4.49 — 275 ratings — published 2008
Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 (Dover Chess)
by (shelved 246 times as chess)
avg rating 4.44 — 469 ratings — published 1956
Chess Fundamentals (Paperback)
by (shelved 241 times as chess)
avg rating 3.97 — 793 ratings — published 1908
How to Win at Chess: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 228 times as chess)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,148 ratings — published 2023
Think Like A Grandmaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as chess)
avg rating 4.12 — 386 ratings — published 1970
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 1 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 217 times as chess)
avg rating 4.39 — 483 ratings — published 2003
Play Winning Chess (Everyman Chess)
by (shelved 209 times as chess)
avg rating 4.13 — 970 ratings — published 1992
Modern Chess Openings (McKay Chess Library)
by (shelved 194 times as chess)
avg rating 4.08 — 574 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 — 669 ratings — published 1998
Understanding Chess Move by Move (Paperback)
by (shelved 183 times as chess)
avg rating 4.23 — 362 ratings — published 2001
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 3.95 — 11,216 ratings — published 2011
Winning Chess Strategies (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as chess)
avg rating 4.18 — 513 ratings — published 1994
FCO: Fundamental Chess Openings (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as chess)
avg rating 4.23 — 366 ratings — published 2009
The Woodpecker Method (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as chess)
avg rating 4.33 — 138 ratings — published
Pawn Structure Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as chess)
avg rating 4.11 — 195 ratings — published 1976
The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as chess)
avg rating 4.23 — 263 ratings — published 1965
Game Changer: AlphaZero's Groundbreaking Chess Strategies and the Promise of AI (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as chess)
avg rating 4.21 — 294 ratings — published 2019
Soviet Chess Primer (Chess Classics)
by (shelved 137 times as chess)
avg rating 4.32 — 141 ratings — published 1936
Simple Chess: New Algebraic Edition (Dover Chess)
by (shelved 134 times as chess)
avg rating 4.47 — 312 ratings — published 2003
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 — 2,567 ratings — published 2003
Mastering Chess Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as chess)
avg rating 4.60 — 52 ratings — published 2010
Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy: Advances since Nimzowitsch (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as chess)
avg rating 4.20 — 191 ratings — published 1999
How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as chess)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,092 ratings — published 2001
Check & Mate (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as chess)
avg rating 3.93 — 389,970 ratings — published 2023
The Luzhin Defense (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as chess)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,792 ratings — published 1929
How to Beat Your Dad at Chess (Chess for Kids)
by (shelved 124 times as chess)
avg rating 4.09 — 559 ratings — published 1998
Endgame Strategy (Cadogan Chess Books)
by (shelved 122 times as chess)
avg rating 4.43 — 94 ratings — published 1985
Tal-Botvinnik, 1960 (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as chess)
avg rating 4.56 — 295 ratings — published 1961
My Best Games of Chess, 1908 - 1937 (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as chess)
avg rating 4.42 — 243 ratings — published 1939
Chess Structures: A Grandmaster Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as chess)
avg rating 4.59 — 82 ratings — published 2015
Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to Chess: Basic to Advanced Strategies with America's Foremost Chess Instructor (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as chess)
avg rating 3.88 — 689 ratings — published 2003
The Seven Deadly Chess Sins (A British Champion discusses the most common causes of disaster in chess)
by (shelved 115 times as chess)
avg rating 4.35 — 172 ratings — published 2000
Modern Chess Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as chess)
avg rating 4.05 — 248 ratings — published 1971
Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games: Improve Your Chess by Studying the Greatest Games of All time (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as chess)
avg rating 4.37 — 218 ratings — published 1998
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins (Audio CD)
by (shelved 111 times as chess)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,607 ratings — published
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