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Chess Books
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Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 779 times as chess)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,343 ratings — published 1966
Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained New Algebraic Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 708 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 678 times as chess)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,305 ratings — published
The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Mastery (Paperback)
by (shelved 515 times as chess)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,092 ratings — published 1995
Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner to Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 511 times as chess)
avg rating 4.39 — 956 ratings — published 2006
My 60 Memorable Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 494 times as chess)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,426 ratings — published 1969
My System: A Treatise on Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 471 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 312 times as chess)
avg rating 4.26 — 585 ratings — published 1963
The Queen's Gambit (Paperback)
by (shelved 274 times as chess)
avg rating 4.18 — 140,034 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 (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 — 181,855 ratings — published 1942
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 246 times as chess)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,086 ratings — published 2006
Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 (Dover Chess)
by (shelved 244 times as chess)
avg rating 4.44 — 466 ratings — published 1956
Chess Fundamentals (Paperback)
by (shelved 239 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 214 times as chess)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,921 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 — 570 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 181 times as chess)
avg rating 4.23 — 361 ratings — published 2001
Winning Chess Strategies (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as chess)
avg rating 4.18 — 510 ratings — published 1994
Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall—From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 173 times as chess)
avg rating 3.94 — 11,167 ratings — published 2011
FCO: Fundamental Chess Openings (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as chess)
avg rating 4.24 — 361 ratings — published 2009
The Woodpecker Method (Hardcover)
by (shelved 151 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 140 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 138 times as chess)
avg rating 4.20 — 290 ratings — published 2019
Soviet Chess Primer (Chess Classics)
by (shelved 136 times as chess)
avg rating 4.32 — 142 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 — 192 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 — 2,546 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 — 3,055 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 — 16,478 ratings — published 1929
Check & Mate (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as chess)
avg rating 3.94 — 376,540 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 122 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 116 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
“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 power. White always mates.”
― 1984
'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 power. White always mates.”
― 1984
“Now mayhap you quit givin Terrible the fuckin slurpy-eyes an give Bump the listening, yay? Thinkin you can? Gots some fuckin chattering wants doin, needs you fuckin head on straight up.”
― Sacrificial Magic
― Sacrificial Magic
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