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Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 790 times as chess)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,451 ratings — published 1966
Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained New Algebraic Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 719 times as chess)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,885 ratings — published 1957
How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess Mastery Course (Paperback)
by (shelved 685 times as chess)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,320 ratings — published
Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner to Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 522 times as chess)
avg rating 4.40 — 965 ratings — published 2006
The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Mastery (Paperback)
by (shelved 522 times as chess)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,102 ratings — published 1995
My 60 Memorable Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 490 times as chess)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,432 ratings — published 1969
My System: A Treatise on Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 472 times as chess)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,249 ratings — published 1925
The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal (Paperback)
by (shelved 338 times as chess)
avg rating 4.50 — 781 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 279 times as chess)
avg rating 4.18 — 142,009 ratings — published 1983
Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 266 times as chess)
avg rating 4.20 — 721 ratings — published 1994
Chess Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 259 times as chess)
avg rating 4.26 — 190,677 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 255 times as chess)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,130 ratings — published 2006
Winning Chess Tactics (Winning Chess - Everyman Chess)
by (shelved 254 times as chess)
avg rating 4.18 — 771 ratings — published 1992
Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 250 times as chess)
avg rating 4.49 — 392 ratings — published 2004
100 Endgames You Must Know: Vital Lessons for Every Chess Player Improved and Expanded (Paperback)
by (shelved 249 times as chess)
avg rating 4.49 — 275 ratings — published 2008
Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 (Dover Chess)
by (shelved 246 times as chess)
avg rating 4.44 — 469 ratings — published 1956
Chess Fundamentals (Paperback)
by (shelved 241 times as chess)
avg rating 3.97 — 793 ratings — published 1908
How to Win at Chess: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 228 times as chess)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,148 ratings — published 2023
Think Like A Grandmaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as chess)
avg rating 4.12 — 386 ratings — published 1970
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 1 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 217 times as chess)
avg rating 4.39 — 483 ratings — published 2003
Play Winning Chess (Everyman Chess)
by (shelved 209 times as chess)
avg rating 4.13 — 970 ratings — published 1992
Modern Chess Openings (McKay Chess Library)
by (shelved 194 times as chess)
avg rating 4.08 — 574 ratings — published 1972
The Complete Book of Chess Strategy: Grandmaster Techniques from A to Z (Paperback)
by (shelved 189 times as chess)
avg rating 4.06 — 669 ratings — published 1998
Understanding Chess Move by Move (Paperback)
by (shelved 183 times as chess)
avg rating 4.23 — 362 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 — 11,216 ratings — published 2011
Winning Chess Strategies (Paperback)
by (shelved 174 times as chess)
avg rating 4.18 — 513 ratings — published 1994
FCO: Fundamental Chess Openings (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as chess)
avg rating 4.23 — 366 ratings — published 2009
The Woodpecker Method (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as chess)
avg rating 4.33 — 138 ratings — published
Pawn Structure Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as chess)
avg rating 4.11 — 195 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 4.23 — 263 ratings — published 1965
Game Changer: AlphaZero's Groundbreaking Chess Strategies and the Promise of AI (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as chess)
avg rating 4.21 — 294 ratings — published 2019
Soviet Chess Primer (Chess Classics)
by (shelved 137 times as chess)
avg rating 4.32 — 141 ratings — published 1936
Simple Chess: New Algebraic Edition (Dover Chess)
by (shelved 134 times as chess)
avg rating 4.47 — 312 ratings — published 2003
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 — 2,567 ratings — published 2003
Mastering Chess Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as chess)
avg rating 4.60 — 52 ratings — published 2010
Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy: Advances since Nimzowitsch (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as chess)
avg rating 4.20 — 191 ratings — published 1999
How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as chess)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,092 ratings — published 2001
Check & Mate (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as chess)
avg rating 3.93 — 389,967 ratings — published 2023
The Luzhin Defense (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as chess)
avg rating 3.94 — 16,792 ratings — published 1929
How to Beat Your Dad at Chess (Chess for Kids)
by (shelved 124 times as chess)
avg rating 4.09 — 559 ratings — published 1998
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 — 295 ratings — published 1961
My Best Games of Chess, 1908 - 1937 (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as chess)
avg rating 4.42 — 243 ratings — published 1939
Chess Structures: A Grandmaster Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as chess)
avg rating 4.59 — 82 ratings — published 2015
Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to Chess: Basic to Advanced Strategies with America's Foremost Chess Instructor (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as chess)
avg rating 3.88 — 689 ratings — published 2003
The Seven Deadly Chess Sins (A British Champion discusses the most common causes of disaster in chess)
by (shelved 115 times as chess)
avg rating 4.35 — 172 ratings — published 2000
Modern Chess Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as chess)
avg rating 4.05 — 248 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 113 times as chess)
avg rating 4.37 — 218 ratings — published 1998
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins (Audio CD)
by (shelved 111 times as chess)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,607 ratings — published
“I’m not into danger, either.” “Aw, Chess. You so into it you ain’t climb out with a rope. Why else you do your job, live down here, buy from Bump?” “It’s just—I mean—I just do, is all.” Her cheeks burned. She shouldn’t have let him come in here. She should have just sent him home and let him wash his stupid shirt himself. “No shame in it. Some of us needs an edge on things make us feel right, else we ain’t like feeling at all, aye?”
― Unholy Ghosts
― Unholy Ghosts
“How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.”
― Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot
― Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot
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chess-books, chess-games, chess-library, and chess-related