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Chess Books
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Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 759 times as chess)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,202 ratings — published 1966
Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained New Algebraic Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 685 times as chess)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,827 ratings — published 1957
How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess Mastery Course (Paperback)
by (shelved 663 times as chess)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,296 ratings — published
The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Mastery (Paperback)
by (shelved 503 times as chess)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,080 ratings — published 1995
Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner to Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 491 times as chess)
avg rating 4.39 — 939 ratings — published 2006
My 60 Memorable Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 472 times as chess)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,373 ratings — published 1969
My System: A Treatise on Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 462 times as chess)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,236 ratings — published 1925
The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal (Paperback)
by (shelved 331 times as chess)
avg rating 4.50 — 761 ratings — published 1978
Art of Attack in Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 309 times as chess)
avg rating 4.27 — 574 ratings — published 1963
The Queen's Gambit (Paperback)
by (shelved 274 times as chess)
avg rating 4.18 — 137,738 ratings — published 1983
Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 260 times as chess)
avg rating 4.20 — 707 ratings — published 1994
Winning Chess Tactics (Winning Chess - Everyman Chess)
by (shelved 247 times as chess)
avg rating 4.18 — 760 ratings — published 1992
Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 (Dover Chess)
by (shelved 245 times as chess)
avg rating 4.44 — 460 ratings — published 1956
DVORETSKY'S ENDGAME MANUAL, 2nd Ed. (Paperback)
by (shelved 244 times as chess)
avg rating 4.49 — 388 ratings — published 2004
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 241 times as chess)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,003 ratings — published 2006
100 Endgames You Must Know: Vital Lessons for Every Chess Player Improved and Expanded (Paperback)
by (shelved 238 times as chess)
avg rating 4.49 — 263 ratings — published 2008
Chess Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 237 times as chess)
avg rating 4.27 — 174,058 ratings — published 1942
Chess Fundamentals (Paperback)
by (shelved 231 times as chess)
avg rating 3.97 — 760 ratings — published 1908
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 1 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 213 times as chess)
avg rating 4.38 — 470 ratings — published 2003
Think Like A Grandmaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as chess)
avg rating 4.12 — 380 ratings — published 1970
Play Winning Chess (Everyman Chess)
by (shelved 203 times as chess)
avg rating 4.13 — 945 ratings — published 1992
Modern Chess Openings (McKay Chess Library)
by (shelved 194 times as chess)
avg rating 4.08 — 564 ratings — published 1972
How to Win at Chess: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 190 times as chess)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,690 ratings — published 2023
Understanding Chess Move by Move (Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as chess)
avg rating 4.23 — 357 ratings — published 2001
Complete Book of Chess Strategy: Grandmaster Techniques from A to Z (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as chess)
avg rating 4.05 — 645 ratings — published 1998
Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall—From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 169 times as chess)
avg rating 3.94 — 11,123 ratings — published 2011
Winning Chess Strategies (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as chess)
avg rating 4.17 — 507 ratings — published 1994
FCO: Fundamental Chess Openings (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as chess)
avg rating 4.24 — 357 ratings — published 2009
Pawn Structure Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as chess)
avg rating 4.11 — 193 ratings — published 1976
The Woodpecker Method (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as chess)
avg rating 4.32 — 126 ratings — published
Game Changer: AlphaZero's Groundbreaking Chess Strategies and the Promise of AI (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as chess)
avg rating 4.23 — 284 ratings — published 2019
The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 135 times as chess)
avg rating 4.23 — 254 ratings — published 1965
Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as chess)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,518 ratings — published 2003
Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy: Advances since Nimzowitsch (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as chess)
avg rating 4.19 — 190 ratings — published 1999
How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as chess)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,990 ratings — published 2001
Check & Mate (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as chess)
avg rating 3.94 — 360,724 ratings — published 2023
Soviet Chess Primer (Chess Classics)
by (shelved 125 times as chess)
avg rating 4.33 — 129 ratings — published 1936
Simple Chess: New Algebraic Edition (Dover Chess)
by (shelved 125 times as chess)
avg rating 4.46 — 294 ratings — published 2003
The Luzhin Defense (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as chess)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,110 ratings — published 1929
My Best Games of Chess, 1908 - 1937 (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as chess)
avg rating 4.41 — 244 ratings — published 1939
Endgame Strategy (Cadogan Chess Books)
by (shelved 121 times as chess)
avg rating 4.41 — 91 ratings — published 1985
Tal-Botvinnik, 1960 (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as chess)
avg rating 4.57 — 284 ratings — published 1961
Mastering Chess Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as chess)
avg rating 4.61 — 49 ratings — published 2010
Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to Chess: Basic to Advanced Strategies with America's Foremost Chess Instructor (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as chess)
avg rating 3.89 — 679 ratings — published 2003
How to Beat Your Dad at Chess (Chess for Kids)
by (shelved 116 times as chess)
avg rating 4.08 — 545 ratings — published 1998
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 4.36 — 214 ratings — published 1998
Modern Chess Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as chess)
avg rating 4.05 — 247 ratings — published 1971
Chess Structures: A Grandmaster Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as chess)
avg rating 4.59 — 79 ratings — published 2015
Garry Kasparov on Fischer: My Great Predecessors, Part IV (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as chess)
avg rating 4.42 — 261 ratings — published 2005
The Reassess Your Chess Workbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as chess)
avg rating 4.18 — 225 ratings — published 2000
“It's an entire world of just 64 squares. I feel safe in it. I can control it; I can dominate it. And it's predictable. So, if I get hurt, I only have myself to blame.”
― The Queen's Gambit
― The Queen's Gambit
“It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.”
― Never Let Me Go
― Never Let Me Go
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