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Chess Books
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Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 741 times as chess)
avg rating 4.02 — 7,018 ratings — published 1966
Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained New Algebraic Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 666 times as chess)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,785 ratings — published 1957
How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess Mastery Course (Paperback)
by (shelved 644 times as chess)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,270 ratings — published
The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Mastery (Paperback)
by (shelved 488 times as chess)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,067 ratings — published 1995
Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner to Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 472 times as chess)
avg rating 4.39 — 911 ratings — published 2006
My 60 Memorable Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 458 times as chess)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,361 ratings — published 1969
My System: A Treatise on Chess (Tartan Books)
by (shelved 444 times as chess)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,222 ratings — published 1925
The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal (Paperback)
by (shelved 321 times as chess)
avg rating 4.50 — 753 ratings — published 1978
Art of Attack in Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 303 times as chess)
avg rating 4.26 — 565 ratings — published 1963
The Queen's Gambit (Paperback)
by (shelved 270 times as chess)
avg rating 4.18 — 134,287 ratings — published 1983
Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games (Paperback)
by (shelved 255 times as chess)
avg rating 4.20 — 699 ratings — published 1994
DVORETSKY'S ENDGAME MANUAL, 2nd Ed. (Paperback)
by (shelved 240 times as chess)
avg rating 4.49 — 380 ratings — published 2004
Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 (Dover Chess)
by (shelved 237 times as chess)
avg rating 4.44 — 454 ratings — published 1956
Winning Chess Tactics (Winning Chess - Everyman Chess)
by (shelved 234 times as chess)
avg rating 4.18 — 750 ratings — published 1992
Chess Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 229 times as chess)
avg rating 4.27 — 162,573 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 229 times as chess)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,906 ratings — published 2006
100 Endgames You Must Know: Vital Lessons for Every Chess Player Improved and Expanded (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as chess)
avg rating 4.48 — 258 ratings — published 2008
Chess Fundamentals (Paperback)
by (shelved 216 times as chess)
avg rating 3.96 — 736 ratings — published 1908
Think Like A Grandmaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 207 times as chess)
avg rating 4.13 — 374 ratings — published 1970
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 1 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 201 times as chess)
avg rating 4.38 — 461 ratings — published 2003
Play Winning Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 194 times as chess)
avg rating 4.12 — 922 ratings — published 1992
Modern Chess Openings (McKay Chess Library)
by (shelved 189 times as chess)
avg rating 4.08 — 553 ratings — published 1972
Understanding Chess Move by Move (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as chess)
avg rating 4.22 — 351 ratings — published 2001
Complete Book of Chess Strategy: Grandmaster Techniques from A to Z (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as chess)
avg rating 4.05 — 622 ratings — published 1998
Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall—From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 165 times as chess)
avg rating 3.94 — 11,056 ratings — published 2011
Winning Chess Strategies (Paperback)
by (shelved 164 times as chess)
avg rating 4.17 — 498 ratings — published 1994
How to Win at Chess: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 151 times as chess)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,397 ratings — published 2023
FCO: Fundamental Chess Openings (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as chess)
avg rating 4.22 — 345 ratings — published 2009
Pawn Structure Chess (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as chess)
avg rating 4.11 — 193 ratings — published 1976
Game Changer: AlphaZero's Groundbreaking Chess Strategies and the Promise of AI (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as chess)
avg rating 4.23 — 277 ratings — published 2019
The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as chess)
avg rating 4.24 — 251 ratings — published 1965
Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as chess)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,489 ratings — published 2003
Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy: Advances since Nimzowitsch (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as chess)
avg rating 4.20 — 189 ratings — published 1999
Check & Mate (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as chess)
avg rating 3.94 — 334,111 ratings — published 2023
Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to Chess: Basic to Advanced Strategies with America's Foremost Chess Instructor (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as chess)
avg rating 3.88 — 669 ratings — published 2003
The Luzhin Defense (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as chess)
avg rating 3.94 — 15,639 ratings — published 1929
My Best Games of Chess, 1908 - 1937 (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as chess)
avg rating 4.41 — 241 ratings — published 1939
How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as chess)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,919 ratings — published 2001
Simple Chess: New Algebraic Edition (Dover Chess)
by (shelved 118 times as chess)
avg rating 4.45 — 282 ratings — published 2003
The Soviet Chess Primer (Chess Classics)
by (shelved 117 times as chess)
avg rating 4.31 — 123 ratings — published 1936
Endgame Strategy (Cadogan Chess Books)
by (shelved 117 times as chess)
avg rating 4.40 — 88 ratings — published 1985
The Woodpecker Method (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as chess)
avg rating 4.31 — 112 ratings — published
Tal-Botvinnik, 1960 (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as chess)
avg rating 4.56 — 278 ratings — published 1961
Mastering Chess Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as chess)
avg rating 4.62 — 47 ratings — published 2010
How to Beat Your Dad at Chess (Chess for Kids)
by (shelved 112 times as chess)
avg rating 4.08 — 529 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 111 times as chess)
avg rating 4.35 — 209 ratings — published 1998
Modern Chess Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as chess)
avg rating 4.05 — 241 ratings — published 1971
The Reassess Your Chess Workbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as chess)
avg rating 4.19 — 224 ratings — published 2000
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins (Audio CD)
by (shelved 102 times as chess)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,458 ratings — published
Chess Structures: A Grandmaster Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as chess)
avg rating 4.59 — 75 ratings — published 2015
“Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it’s futile to continue playing (conceptualizing).”
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“Aye. Freaky iffen you ask me. But guessing that what Terrible like, aye. What he deserve sneaking off into the bathroom with some rigmutton cunt, leaving me on my alones in the bar, and other men talking to me and saying I got me a date there and he fucking some whore while everyone outside the bathroom hearing them.”
― City of Ghosts
― City of Ghosts
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