Best Books About Chess

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Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time
Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time 3.90 avg rating β€” 2,481 ratings
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Birth of the Chess Queen: A History
Birth of the Chess Queen: A History 3.66 avg rating β€” 583 ratings
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My 60 Memorable Games
My 60 Memorable Games 4.41 avg rating β€” 1,349 ratings
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Tal-Botvinnik, 1960
Tal-Botvinnik, 1960 4.56 avg rating β€” 277 ratings
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Lisa: A Chess Novel
Lisa: A Chess Novel 3.90 avg rating β€” 150 ratings
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The Immortal Game: A History of Chess
The Immortal Game: A History of Chess 4.01 avg rating β€” 2,883 ratings
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The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal
The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal 4.50 avg rating β€” 750 ratings
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Kasparov vs Karpov 1975-1985
Kasparov vs Karpov 1975-1985 4.43 avg rating β€” 98 ratings
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The Kings of New York: A Year Among the Geeks, Oddballs, and Geniuses Who Make Up America's Top High School Chess Team
The Kings of New York: A Year Among the Geeks, Oddballs, and Geniuses Who Make Up America's Top High School Chess Team 3.65 avg rating β€” 702 ratings
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Chess Story
Chess Story 4.27 avg rating β€” 158,990 ratings
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Modern Chess Strategy
Modern Chess Strategy 4.05 avg rating β€” 241 ratings
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The Queen's Gambit
The Queen's Gambit 4.18 avg rating β€” 133,041 ratings
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The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine
The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine 3.93 avg rating β€” 718 ratings
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Chess Opening Names: The Fascinating & Entertaining History Behind The First Few Moves (The Chess Collection Book 1)
Chess Opening Names: The Fascinating & Entertaining History Behind The First Few Moves (The Chess Collection Book 1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 304 ratings
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Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy: Advances since Nimzowitsch
Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy: Advances since Nimzowitsch 4.20 avg rating β€” 187 ratings
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Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953
Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 4.44 avg rating β€” 449 ratings
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Alexander Alekhine's Best Games
Alexander Alekhine's Best Games 4.54 avg rating β€” 67 ratings
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The Luzhin Defense
The Luzhin Defense 3.94 avg rating β€” 15,464 ratings
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Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland 4.03 avg rating β€” 395,720 ratings
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Bobby Fischer: Profile of a Prodigy
Bobby Fischer: Profile of a Prodigy 4.05 avg rating β€” 190 ratings
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My System: A Treatise on Chess (Tartan Books)
My System: A Treatise on Chess (Tartan Books) 4.19 avg rating β€” 1,217 ratings
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Chess Fundamentals
Chess Fundamentals 3.96 avg rating β€” 734 ratings
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Pawn structure chess
Pawn structure chess 4.11 avg rating β€” 192 ratings
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Art of Attack in Chess
Art of Attack in Chess 4.26 avg rating β€” 563 ratings
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The Art of the Middle Game
The Art of the Middle Game 4.02 avg rating β€” 105 ratings
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess 3.97 avg rating β€” 274 ratings
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Art of Chess Analysis
Art of Chess Analysis 4.29 avg rating β€” 28 ratings
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Think Like A Grandmaster
Think Like A Grandmaster 4.13 avg rating β€” 371 ratings
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Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess 4.02 avg rating β€” 6,939 ratings
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Pittura su legno. Una morality play
Pittura su legno. Una morality play 3.73 avg rating β€” 15 ratings
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The Seventh Seal
The Seventh Seal 4.23 avg rating β€” 481 ratings
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The Chess Machine
The Chess Machine 3.51 avg rating β€” 1,594 ratings
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The Even More Complete Chess Addict
The Even More Complete Chess Addict
by: Mike Fox
3.83 avg rating β€” 23 ratings
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Chess Opening Names - Volume 2: Even More Enthralling & Amazing History Behind The First Few Moves
Chess Opening Names - Volume 2: Even More Enthralling & Amazing History Behind The First Few Moves 4.33 avg rating β€” 18 ratings
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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
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 4.01 avg rating β€” 2,883 ratings
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Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained New Algebraic Edition
Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained New Algebraic Edition 4.30 avg rating β€” 1,764 ratings
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All the Wrong Moves: A Memoir About Chess, Love, and Ruining Everything
All the Wrong Moves: A Memoir About Chess, Love, and Ruining Everything 3.79 avg rating β€” 739 ratings
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Tarrasch's Best Games Of Chess
Tarrasch's Best Games Of Chess 3.67 avg rating β€” 9 ratings
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The Game of Chess
The Game of Chess 4.01 avg rating β€” 79 ratings
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The Chess Artist: Genius, Obsession, and the World's Oldest Game
The Chess Artist: Genius, Obsession, and the World's Oldest Game 3.63 avg rating β€” 243 ratings
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Garry Kasparov on Fischer: My Great Predecessors, Part IV
Garry Kasparov on Fischer: My Great Predecessors, Part IV 4.42 avg rating β€” 258 ratings
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The Flanders Panel
The Flanders Panel 3.78 avg rating β€” 26,730 ratings
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King's Gambit: A Son, A Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game
King's Gambit: A Son, A Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game 3.76 avg rating β€” 306 ratings
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Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 2
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Part 2 4.41 avg rating β€” 223 ratings
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Mystery Mile (Albert Campion Mystery, #2)
Mystery Mile (Albert Campion Mystery, #2) 3.89 avg rating β€” 5,628 ratings
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Fischer World Champion!: Finally Available in English - The Acclaimed Classic About the 1972 Fischer-Spassky World Championship Match
Fischer World Champion!: Finally Available in English - The Acclaimed Classic About the 1972 Fischer-Spassky World Championship Match
by: Max Euwe
4.62 avg rating β€” 13 ratings
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The Middlegame, Book 2: Dynamic & Subjective Features
The Middlegame, Book 2: Dynamic & Subjective Features
by: Max Euwe
4.14 avg rating β€” 42 ratings
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Gambit (Nero Wolfe, #37)
Gambit (Nero Wolfe, #37)
by: Rex Stout
4.22 avg rating β€” 3,364 ratings
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The True Game (Land of the True Game, #1-3)
The True Game (Land of the True Game, #1-3) 4.21 avg rating β€” 1,379 ratings
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How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess Mastery Course
How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess Mastery Course 4.34 avg rating β€” 1,259 ratings
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Gods, Men and Ghosts: The Best Supernatural Fiction of Lord Dunsany
Gods, Men and Ghosts: The Best Supernatural Fiction of Lord Dunsany 4.18 avg rating β€” 129 ratings
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Lasker's Manual of Chess
Lasker's Manual of Chess 3.97 avg rating β€” 283 ratings
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Spassky Versus Fischer: Chess Match of the century
Spassky Versus Fischer: Chess Match of the century 4.05 avg rating β€” 59 ratings
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Kasparov against the World
Kasparov against the World 4.02 avg rating β€” 55 ratings
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On The Attack: The Art of Attacking Chess According to the Modern Masters
On The Attack: The Art of Attacking Chess According to the Modern Masters 3.65 avg rating β€” 17 ratings
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Kasparov v Deeper Blue: The Ultimate Man v Machine Challenge
Kasparov v Deeper Blue: The Ultimate Man v Machine Challenge 3.85 avg rating β€” 20 ratings
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Kasparov vs Karpov 1988-2009
Kasparov vs Karpov 1988-2009 4.27 avg rating β€” 30 ratings
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Kasparov vs. Karpov 1986-1987
Kasparov vs. Karpov 1986-1987 4.62 avg rating β€” 74 ratings
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Karpov Vs. Korchnoi: World Chess Championship, 1978
Karpov Vs. Korchnoi: World Chess Championship, 1978 4.07 avg rating β€” 14 ratings