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Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 792 times as chess)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,494 ratings — published 1966
Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained New Algebraic Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 723 times as chess)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,895 ratings — published 1957
How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess Mastery Course (Paperback)
by (shelved 692 times as chess)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,322 ratings — published
Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner to Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 523 times as chess)
avg rating 4.40 — 969 ratings — published 2006
The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Mastery (Paperback)
by (shelved 522 times as chess)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,108 ratings — published 1995
My 60 Memorable Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 491 times as chess)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,433 ratings — published 1969
My System: A Treatise on Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 474 times as chess)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,254 ratings — published 1925
The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal (Paperback)
by (shelved 338 times as chess)
avg rating 4.51 — 784 ratings — published 1978
Art of Attack in Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 312 times as chess)
avg rating 4.27 — 585 ratings — published 1963
The Queen's Gambit (Paperback)
by (shelved 282 times as chess)
avg rating 4.18 — 142,993 ratings — published 1983
Chess Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 268 times as chess)
avg rating 4.26 — 196,247 ratings — published 1942
Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 265 times as chess)
avg rating 4.20 — 724 ratings — published 1994
Winning Chess Tactics (Winning Chess - Everyman Chess)
by (shelved 255 times as chess)
avg rating 4.19 — 773 ratings — published 1992
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 254 times as chess)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,153 ratings — published 2006
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 — 274 ratings — published 2008
Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 251 times as chess)
avg rating 4.49 — 394 ratings — published 2004
Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 (Dover Chess)
by (shelved 247 times as chess)
avg rating 4.44 — 470 ratings — published 1956
Chess Fundamentals (Paperback)
by (shelved 246 times as chess)
avg rating 3.97 — 798 ratings — published 1908
How to Win at Chess: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 240 times as chess)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,261 ratings — published 2023
Think Like A Grandmaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as chess)
avg rating 4.13 — 385 ratings — published 1970
Play Winning Chess (Everyman Chess)
by (shelved 215 times as chess)
avg rating 4.13 — 980 ratings — published 1992
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 1 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 215 times as chess)
avg rating 4.39 — 483 ratings — published 2003
Modern Chess Openings (McKay Chess Library)
by (shelved 198 times as chess)
avg rating 4.08 — 577 ratings — published 1972
The Complete Book of Chess Strategy: Grandmaster Techniques from A to Z (Paperback)
by (shelved 188 times as chess)
avg rating 4.07 — 676 ratings — published 1998
Understanding Chess Move by Move (Paperback)
by (shelved 183 times as chess)
avg rating 4.23 — 363 ratings — published 2001
Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall—From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as chess)
avg rating 3.95 — 11,258 ratings — published 2011
Winning Chess Strategies (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as chess)
avg rating 4.18 — 516 ratings — published 1994
FCO: Fundamental Chess Openings (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 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 — 141 ratings — published
Pawn Structure Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as chess)
avg rating 4.11 — 196 ratings — published 1976
Simple Chess: New Algebraic Edition (Dover Chess)
by (shelved 141 times as chess)
avg rating 4.47 — 314 ratings — published 2003
The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as chess)
avg rating 4.23 — 264 ratings — published 1965
Game Changer: AlphaZero's Groundbreaking Chess Strategies and the Promise of AI (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as chess)
avg rating 4.21 — 295 ratings — published 2019
Soviet Chess Primer (Chess Classics)
by (shelved 138 times as chess)
avg rating 4.32 — 142 ratings — published 1936
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 — 2,579 ratings — published 2003
How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as chess)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,116 ratings — published 2001
Check & Mate (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as chess)
avg rating 3.93 — 396,016 ratings — published 2023
Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy: Advances since Nimzowitsch (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as chess)
avg rating 4.20 — 191 ratings — published 1999
Mastering Chess Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as chess)
avg rating 4.60 — 52 ratings — published 2010
The Luzhin Defense (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as chess)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,984 ratings — published 1929
Endgame Strategy (Cadogan Chess Books)
by (shelved 123 times as chess)
avg rating 4.43 — 94 ratings — published 1985
How to Beat Your Dad at Chess (Chess for Kids)
by (shelved 123 times as chess)
avg rating 4.09 — 561 ratings — published 1998
My Best Games of Chess, 1908 - 1937 (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as chess)
avg rating 4.42 — 244 ratings — published 1939
Tal-Botvinnik, 1960 (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as chess)
avg rating 4.56 — 296 ratings — published 1961
Chess Structures: A Grandmaster Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as chess)
avg rating 4.59 — 82 ratings — published 2015
Modern Chess Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as chess)
avg rating 4.06 — 248 ratings — published 1971
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 — 176 ratings — published 2000
Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to Chess: Basic to Advanced Strategies with America's Foremost Chess Instructor (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as chess)
avg rating 3.88 — 688 ratings — published 2003
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins (Audio CD)
by (shelved 113 times as chess)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,626 ratings — published
Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games: Improve Your Chess by Studying the Greatest Games of All time (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as chess)
avg rating 4.37 — 218 ratings — published 1998
“Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it’s futile to continue playing (conceptualizing).”
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“If God wanted humans to play chess, he would have made us black or white.”
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