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Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 798 times as chess)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,539 ratings — published 1966
Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained New Algebraic Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 724 times as chess)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,907 ratings — published 1957
How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess Mastery Course (Paperback)
by (shelved 696 times as chess)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,328 ratings — published
The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Mastery (Paperback)
by (shelved 524 times as chess)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,113 ratings — published 1995
Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner to Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 523 times as chess)
avg rating 4.40 — 973 ratings — published 2006
My 60 Memorable Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 489 times as chess)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,437 ratings — published 1969
My System: A Treatise on Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 476 times as chess)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,257 ratings — published 1925
The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal (Paperback)
by (shelved 339 times as chess)
avg rating 4.50 — 789 ratings — published 1978
Art of Attack in Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 313 times as chess)
avg rating 4.27 — 585 ratings — published 1963
The Queen's Gambit (Paperback)
by (shelved 287 times as chess)
avg rating 4.18 — 143,996 ratings — published 1983
Chess Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 271 times as chess)
avg rating 4.26 — 201,193 ratings — published 1942
Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 266 times as chess)
avg rating 4.20 — 725 ratings — published 1994
How to Win at Chess: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 262 times as chess)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,409 ratings — published 2023
Winning Chess Tactics (Winning Chess - Everyman Chess)
by (shelved 258 times as chess)
avg rating 4.19 — 774 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 — 3,183 ratings — published 2006
Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 253 times as chess)
avg rating 4.49 — 396 ratings — published 2004
100 Endgames You Must Know: Vital Lessons for Every Chess Player Improved and Expanded (Paperback)
by (shelved 250 times as chess)
avg rating 4.48 — 278 ratings — published 2008
Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 (Dover Chess)
by (shelved 247 times as chess)
avg rating 4.44 — 474 ratings — published 1956
Chess Fundamentals (Paperback)
by (shelved 246 times as chess)
avg rating 3.98 — 806 ratings — published 1908
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 — 983 ratings — published 1992
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 1 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 213 times as chess)
avg rating 4.38 — 485 ratings — published 2003
Modern Chess Openings (McKay Chess Library)
by (shelved 196 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 — 681 ratings — published 1998
Understanding Chess Move by Move (Paperback)
by (shelved 183 times as chess)
avg rating 4.23 — 364 ratings — published 2001
Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall—From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 175 times as chess)
avg rating 3.95 — 11,312 ratings — published 2011
Winning Chess Strategies (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as chess)
avg rating 4.18 — 518 ratings — published 1994
FCO: Fundamental Chess Openings (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as chess)
avg rating 4.23 — 366 ratings — published 2009
The Woodpecker Method (Hardcover)
by (shelved 152 times as chess)
avg rating 4.32 — 144 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 143 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 — 265 ratings — published 1965
Game Changer: AlphaZero's Groundbreaking Chess Strategies and the Promise of AI (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as chess)
avg rating 4.20 — 299 ratings — published 2019
Soviet Chess Primer (Chess Classics)
by (shelved 138 times as chess)
avg rating 4.33 — 143 ratings — published 1936
Check & Mate (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as chess)
avg rating 3.93 — 401,928 ratings — published 2023
Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy: Advances since Nimzowitsch (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as chess)
avg rating 4.19 — 193 ratings — published 1999
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 — 2,582 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 — 3,129 ratings — published 2001
Mastering Chess Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 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 — 17,128 ratings — published 1929
Endgame Strategy (Cadogan Chess Books)
by (shelved 123 times as chess)
avg rating 4.42 — 97 ratings — published 1985
My Best Games of Chess, 1908 - 1937 (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as chess)
avg rating 4.42 — 244 ratings — published 1939
Chess Structures: A Grandmaster Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as chess)
avg rating 4.58 — 83 ratings — published 2015
How to Beat Your Dad at Chess (Chess for Kids)
by (shelved 121 times as chess)
avg rating 4.09 — 561 ratings — published 1998
Tal-Botvinnik, 1960 (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as chess)
avg rating 4.56 — 298 ratings — published 1961
The Seven Deadly Chess Sins (A British Champion discusses the most common causes of disaster in chess)
by (shelved 118 times as chess)
avg rating 4.35 — 177 ratings — published 2000
Modern Chess Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as chess)
avg rating 4.06 — 249 ratings — published 1971
Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games: Improve Your Chess by Studying the Greatest Games of All time (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as chess)
avg rating 4.37 — 220 ratings — published 1998
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 — 689 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 — 3,640 ratings — published
“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
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“I like the moment when I break a man's ego”
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chess-books, chess-games, chess-library, and chess-related