Chess

Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide in homes, parks, clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments. ...more

Check & Mate
Checkmate: Genius, Lies, Ambition, and the Biggest Scandal in Chess
The First Move
How to Win at Chess: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners and Beyond
The Last Checkmate
The Steps
The Partisan
La diagonale Alekhine
The Chess Revolution: Understanding the Power of an Ancient Game in the Digital Age
May the Best Player Win
Black & White: The Rise and Fall of Bobby Fischer
The Winning Move (Chess Club #1)
The Queen of Chess: How Judit Polgár Changed the Game
La mossa del matto. L'Iliade di Bobby Fischer
Il Mago di Riga
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained New Algebraic Edition
How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess Mastery Course
The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Mastery
Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner to Master
My 60 Memorable Games
My System: A Treatise on Chess
The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal
Art of Attack in Chess
The Queen's Gambit
Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games
Winning Chess Tactics (Winning Chess - Everyman Chess)
Chess Story
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
100 Endgames You Must Know: Vital Lessons for Every Chess Player Improved and Expanded
Chess Tactics from Scratch by Martin Weteschnik365 Ways To Checkmate by Joe   GallagherTal's Winning Chess Combinations by Mikhail TalBoost Your Chess 1 by Artur YusupovPlay Like A Grandmaster by Alexander Kotov
Chess tactics Books
26 books — 4 voters
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Gawain PoetSilent Knight by Cassie MintBlack Knight by Rina KentRuthless Knights by Eva AshwoodThe British Knight by Louise Bay
Best Books with "Knight" in the Title
261 books — 16 voters

Dejah Thoris Vol. 1 by Amy ChuHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingHypnerotomachia Poliphili by Francesco ColonnaInfinitum ciencia ficción #1 by Juan José FernándezA Prince of Dreamers by Flora Annie Steel
Living chess
51 books — 2 voters
Check & Mate by Ali HazelwoodThe Girl He Used to Know by Tracey Garvis GravesThis Duchess of Mine by Eloisa JamesThe Duchess War by Courtney MilanCheckmate by R.L. Mathewson
Checkmate: Chess in Romance Novels
43 books — 34 voters

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingIA by John Darryl WinstonChess Story by Stefan ZweigThe Flanders Panel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Chess in Fiction
63 books — 47 voters
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby FischerHow to Reassess Your Chess by Jeremy SilmanChess by László PolgárLogical Chess by Irving ChernevThe Reassess Your Chess Workbook by Jeremy Silman
Teach Yourself Chess
81 books — 13 voters


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George Orwell
He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to play and mate in two moves.' Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm po ...more
George Orwell, 1984

Walter Tevis
Chess isn't always competitive. Chess can also be beautiful. ...more
Walter Tevis, The Queen's Gambit

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