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Chess Books
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Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 767 times as chess)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,277 ratings — published 1966
Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained New Algebraic Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 692 times as chess)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,844 ratings — published 1957
How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess Mastery Course (Paperback)
by (shelved 672 times as chess)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,304 ratings — published
The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Mastery (Paperback)
by (shelved 509 times as chess)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,085 ratings — published 1995
Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner to Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 501 times as chess)
avg rating 4.39 — 946 ratings — published 2006
My 60 Memorable Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 489 times as chess)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,416 ratings — published 1969
My System: A Treatise on Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 468 times as chess)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,243 ratings — published 1925
The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal (Paperback)
by (shelved 336 times as chess)
avg rating 4.50 — 767 ratings — published 1978
Art of Attack in Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 309 times as chess)
avg rating 4.27 — 581 ratings — published 1963
The Queen's Gambit (Paperback)
by (shelved 276 times as chess)
avg rating 4.18 — 138,979 ratings — published 1983
Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 262 times as chess)
avg rating 4.19 — 710 ratings — published 1994
Winning Chess Tactics (Winning Chess - Everyman Chess)
by (shelved 255 times as chess)
avg rating 4.19 — 765 ratings — published 1992
100 Endgames You Must Know: Vital Lessons for Every Chess Player Improved and Expanded (Paperback)
by (shelved 248 times as chess)
avg rating 4.49 — 267 ratings — published 2008
DVORETSKY'S ENDGAME MANUAL, 2nd Ed. (Paperback)
by (shelved 247 times as chess)
avg rating 4.49 — 388 ratings — published 2004
Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 (Dover Chess)
by (shelved 245 times as chess)
avg rating 4.44 — 462 ratings — published 1956
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 243 times as chess)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,047 ratings — published 2006
Chess Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 240 times as chess)
avg rating 4.26 — 178,169 ratings — published 1942
Chess Fundamentals (Paperback)
by (shelved 235 times as chess)
avg rating 3.96 — 769 ratings — published 1908
Think Like A Grandmaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 215 times as chess)
avg rating 4.12 — 381 ratings — published 1970
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 1 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 214 times as chess)
avg rating 4.39 — 474 ratings — published 2003
Play Winning Chess (Everyman Chess)
by (shelved 207 times as chess)
avg rating 4.13 — 953 ratings — published 1992
How to Win at Chess: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 201 times as chess)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,805 ratings — published 2023
Modern Chess Openings (McKay Chess Library)
by (shelved 193 times as chess)
avg rating 4.08 — 568 ratings — published 1972
Complete Book of Chess Strategy: Grandmaster Techniques from A to Z (Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as chess)
avg rating 4.05 — 656 ratings — published 1998
Understanding Chess Move by Move (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as chess)
avg rating 4.23 — 358 ratings — published 2001
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 — 11,150 ratings — published 2011
Winning Chess Strategies (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as chess)
avg rating 4.17 — 507 ratings — published 1994
FCO: Fundamental Chess Openings (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as chess)
avg rating 4.24 — 358 ratings — published 2009
Pawn Structure Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as chess)
avg rating 4.11 — 194 ratings — published 1976
The Woodpecker Method (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as chess)
avg rating 4.32 — 127 ratings — published
Game Changer: AlphaZero's Groundbreaking Chess Strategies and the Promise of AI (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as chess)
avg rating 4.21 — 289 ratings — published 2019
The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as chess)
avg rating 4.23 — 258 ratings — published 1965
Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy: Advances since Nimzowitsch (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as chess)
avg rating 4.19 — 190 ratings — published 1999
Simple Chess: New Algebraic Edition (Dover Chess)
by (shelved 131 times as chess)
avg rating 4.46 — 300 ratings — published 2003
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 — 2,532 ratings — published 2003
Soviet Chess Primer (Chess Classics)
by (shelved 130 times as chess)
avg rating 4.33 — 131 ratings — published 1936
How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as chess)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,022 ratings — published 2001
Mastering Chess Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as chess)
avg rating 4.60 — 50 ratings — published 2010
Check & Mate (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as chess)
avg rating 3.94 — 369,142 ratings — published 2023
The Luzhin Defense (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as chess)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,293 ratings — published 1929
Endgame Strategy (Cadogan Chess Books)
by (shelved 122 times as chess)
avg rating 4.43 — 94 ratings — published 1985
My Best Games of Chess, 1908 - 1937 (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as chess)
avg rating 4.42 — 243 ratings — published 1939
Tal-Botvinnik, 1960 (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as chess)
avg rating 4.55 — 287 ratings — published 1961
How to Beat Your Dad at Chess (Chess for Kids)
by (shelved 120 times as chess)
avg rating 4.09 — 548 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 — 686 ratings — published 2003
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 — 214 ratings — published 1998
Chess Structures: A Grandmaster Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as chess)
avg rating 4.60 — 80 ratings — published 2015
Modern Chess Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 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 111 times as chess)
avg rating 4.35 — 168 ratings — published 2000
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as chess)
avg rating 4.41 — 224 ratings — published 2004
“She’d fucked him over hardcore. She’d betrayed him and she’d lied to him, and she knew that as far as he was concerned she’d led him on and used him as well, had consorted with people who wanted to see him dead and given them information to help them make him so. Most of all, she’d hurt him. And if the pain in her chest was anything close to what he’d felt, she was more than willing to admit he deserved to get his own back. Was willing to do more than admit it; was willing to take it, in the hopes he’d eventually decide she’d been punished enough and they could maybe move on.”
― City of Ghosts
― City of Ghosts
“Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.”
― The Flanders Panel
― The Flanders Panel
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