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Chess Books
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Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 776 times as chess)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,337 ratings — published 1966
Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained New Algebraic Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 707 times as chess)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,856 ratings — published 1957
How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess Mastery Course (Paperback)
by (shelved 676 times as chess)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,305 ratings — published
The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Mastery (Paperback)
by (shelved 514 times as chess)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,092 ratings — published 1995
Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner to Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 509 times as chess)
avg rating 4.39 — 954 ratings — published 2006
My 60 Memorable Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 493 times as chess)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,426 ratings — published 1969
My System: A Treatise on Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 469 times as chess)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,245 ratings — published 1925
The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal (Paperback)
by (shelved 336 times as chess)
avg rating 4.50 — 772 ratings — published 1978
Art of Attack in Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 311 times as chess)
avg rating 4.27 — 584 ratings — published 1963
The Queen's Gambit (Paperback)
by (shelved 274 times as chess)
avg rating 4.18 — 139,936 ratings — published 1983
Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 265 times as chess)
avg rating 4.19 — 713 ratings — published 1994
Winning Chess Tactics (Winning Chess - Everyman Chess)
by (shelved 255 times as chess)
avg rating 4.18 — 764 ratings — published 1992
100 Endgames You Must Know: Vital Lessons for Every Chess Player Improved and Expanded (Paperback)
by (shelved 251 times as chess)
avg rating 4.50 — 270 ratings — published 2008
DVORETSKY'S ENDGAME MANUAL, 2nd Ed. (Paperback)
by (shelved 248 times as chess)
avg rating 4.49 — 389 ratings — published 2004
Chess Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 246 times as chess)
avg rating 4.26 — 181,564 ratings — published 1942
Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 (Dover Chess)
by (shelved 244 times as chess)
avg rating 4.44 — 466 ratings — published 1956
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 244 times as chess)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,084 ratings — published 2006
Chess Fundamentals (Paperback)
by (shelved 237 times as chess)
avg rating 3.96 — 778 ratings — published 1908
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 1 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 216 times as chess)
avg rating 4.38 — 480 ratings — published 2003
Think Like A Grandmaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 215 times as chess)
avg rating 4.12 — 385 ratings — published 1970
How to Win at Chess: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 211 times as chess)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,910 ratings — published 2023
Play Winning Chess (Everyman Chess)
by (shelved 209 times as chess)
avg rating 4.13 — 958 ratings — published 1992
Modern Chess Openings (McKay Chess Library)
by (shelved 193 times as chess)
avg rating 4.08 — 569 ratings — published 1972
The Complete Book of Chess Strategy: Grandmaster Techniques from A to Z (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as chess)
avg rating 4.06 — 664 ratings — published 1998
Understanding Chess Move by Move (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as chess)
avg rating 4.23 — 361 ratings — published 2001
Winning Chess Strategies (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as chess)
avg rating 4.18 — 508 ratings — published 1994
Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall—From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as chess)
avg rating 3.94 — 11,166 ratings — published 2011
FCO: Fundamental Chess Openings (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as chess)
avg rating 4.24 — 360 ratings — published 2009
The Woodpecker Method (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as chess)
avg rating 4.31 — 134 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 139 times as chess)
avg rating 4.22 — 258 ratings — published 1965
Game Changer: AlphaZero's Groundbreaking Chess Strategies and the Promise of AI (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as chess)
avg rating 4.20 — 290 ratings — published 2019
Soviet Chess Primer (Chess Classics)
by (shelved 134 times as chess)
avg rating 4.33 — 132 ratings — published 1936
Simple Chess: New Algebraic Edition (Dover Chess)
by (shelved 133 times as chess)
avg rating 4.46 — 303 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
Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as chess)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,544 ratings — published 2003
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 — 3,050 ratings — published 2001
Mastering Chess Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as chess)
avg rating 4.59 — 51 ratings — published 2010
The Luzhin Defense (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as chess)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,462 ratings — published 1929
Check & Mate (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as chess)
avg rating 3.94 — 375,939 ratings — published 2023
My Best Games of Chess, 1908 - 1937 (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as chess)
avg rating 4.41 — 244 ratings — published 1939
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 — 293 ratings — published 1961
How to Beat Your Dad at Chess (Chess for Kids)
by (shelved 121 times as chess)
avg rating 4.09 — 553 ratings — published 1998
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 3.89 — 687 ratings — published 2003
Chess Structures: A Grandmaster Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 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 114 times as chess)
avg rating 4.37 — 214 ratings — published 1998
Modern Chess Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as chess)
avg rating 4.05 — 247 ratings — published 1971
The Seven Deadly Chess Sins (A British Champion discusses the most common causes of disaster in chess)
by (shelved 112 times as chess)
avg rating 4.35 — 170 ratings — published 2000
Garry Kasparov on Fischer: My Great Predecessors, Part IV (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as chess)
avg rating 4.42 — 263 ratings — published 2005
“An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead of complaining about it they sat up all night and invented the game of chess so that everyone else in the world, on evenings when there is nothing to do, can also be bored by the perplexing and tedious game they invented.”
― Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
― Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
“and a most curious country it was. There were a number of tiny little brooks running straight across it from side to side, and the ground between was divided up into squares by a number of little green hedges, that reached from brook to brook.
I declare it's marked out just like a large chessboard!' Alice said at last. 'There ought to be some men moving about somewhere--and so there are!' she added in a tone of delight, and her heart began to beat quick with excitement as she went on. 'It's a great huge game of chess that's being played--all over the world--if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is!”
― Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
I declare it's marked out just like a large chessboard!' Alice said at last. 'There ought to be some men moving about somewhere--and so there are!' she added in a tone of delight, and her heart began to beat quick with excitement as she went on. 'It's a great huge game of chess that's being played--all over the world--if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is!”
― Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
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