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Masters of the Chess Board (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.52 — 65 ratings — published 1923
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)
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avg rating 4.00 — 2,907 ratings — published 2006
The KGB Plays Chess: The Soviet Secret Police and the Fight for the World Chess Crown (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.33 — 55 ratings — published 2010
My Best Games of Chess, 1908 - 1937 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.41 — 241 ratings — published 1939
Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 (Dover Chess)
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avg rating 4.44 — 454 ratings — published 1956
New York 1936: The first modern United States chess championship (Hardcover)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2000
Lasker & His Contemporaries No. 5 (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1997
Chess: A history (Hardcover)
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avg rating 2.67 — 6 ratings — published 1976
CHESS OMNIBUS (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.45 — 11 ratings — published 2003
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 3 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 180 ratings — published 2004
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 5 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 158 ratings — published 2006
Garry Kasparov on Fischer: My Great Predecessors, Part IV (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 259 ratings — published 2005
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 1 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 461 ratings — published 2003
Decisive Games in Chess History (Dover Books on Chess)
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avg rating 4.25 — 12 ratings — published 1975
Soviet Chess 1917-1991 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 26 ratings — published 1999
The Chess Revolution: Understanding the Power of an Ancient Game in the Digital Age (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.85 — 151 ratings — published 2024
The Real Paul Morphy: His Life and Chess Games (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 4 ratings — published
Hero of the Pre-War Olympiads: Grandmaster Vladimirs Petrovs (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Arcymistrzowie. Złota era polskich szachów (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 9 ratings — published
Wonders and Curiosities of Chess (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 1975
The Classical Era of Modern Chess (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.80 — 5 ratings — published 2012
Chess Queens: The True Story of a Chess Champion and the Greatest Female Players of All Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 203 ratings — published
Chess Opening Names: The Fascinating & Entertaining History Behind The First Few Moves (The Chess Collection Book 1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 306 ratings — published
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins (Audio CD)
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avg rating 3.88 — 3,458 ratings — published
Modern Chess: From Steinitz to the 21st Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Alekhine's Odessa Secrets: Chess, War and Revolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published
A History Of Chess (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 52 ratings — published 1986
Sultan Khan: The Indian Servant Who Became Chess Champion of the British Empire (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.43 — 14 ratings — published
The Soviet Championships (Everyman Chess Classics)
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avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
The Chinese School of Chess (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published 2003
Bobby Fischer - The Greatest? (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published 1976
A World of Chess: Its Development and Variations through Centuries and Civilizations (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.71 — 7 ratings — published
Pawns in a greater game. The Buenos Aires Chess Olympiad August-September 1939 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published
Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall—From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 11,057 ratings — published 2011
Smart Chip From St Petersburg: and other tales from a bygone chess area (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 31 ratings — published 2006
The Reliable Past (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 33 ratings — published 2003
The World Champions I Knew (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 33 ratings — published 2013
Russian Silhouettes: Portraits of the Heroes of a Vanished age (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 69 ratings — published 2005
Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 2,489 ratings — published 2003
Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 1,586 ratings — published 1988
Blindfold Chess: History, Psychology, Techniques, Champions, World Records, and Important Games (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 11 ratings — published 2008
The Greatest Ever Chess Endgames (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 2012
Fire On Board: Shirov's Best Games (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 58 ratings — published 1997
Paul Morphy - A Collection of His Games with Detailed Notes (ebook)
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avg rating 4.62 — 8 ratings — published 1909
Timman's Selected Games: Chess the Adventurous Way (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.67 — 6 ratings — published 1996
Grandmaster Geller at the chessboard; (The Chess player)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1969
My Best Games of Chess, 1931-1954 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published 2003
Grandmaster of Chess: The Complete Games of Paul Keres (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.58 — 12 ratings — published 1972
Paul Keres: The Quest for Perfection (New American Batsford Chess Library)
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avg rating 4.37 — 19 ratings — published 1999
Fire on Board: Opening Secrets Behind 1 E4 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.75 — 8 ratings — published 2006
