 | Chess Tactics for Champions: A step-by-step guide to using tactics and combinations the Polgar way by Susan Polgar
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $9.95 One of the best puzzle books from a master tactician.
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 | Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner To Master by Jeremy Silman
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $15.00 Most seem to agree this is the best single volume on the endgame. Divides up the material according to your rating.
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 | Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained New Algebraic Edition by Irving Chernev
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $8.25 A must-have for the improving beginner. Teaches and inspires at the same time. Every single move is annotated/explained to the beginner. Unique (almost).
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 | How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess-Mastery Course(Exp. 3rd Edition) by Jeremy Silman
Buy used from: $15.00 Recognized as a modern classic. Many report it has improved their play/rating considerably.
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 | Winning Chess Strategies, revised (Winning Chess - Everyman Chess) by Yasser Seirawan
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $8.90 Well-regarded as the first book on strategy the aspiring player should read.
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 | Simple Chess: New Algebraic Edition by Michael Stean
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $16.38 Considered a modern classic. It has improved the game of many players.
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 | The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Mastery by Jeremy Silman
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $8.79 Another book by Silman considered a modern classic. Very influential.
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 | Understanding the Chess Openings by Sam Collins
Buy new: $22.00 / Used from: $14.66 Well-regarded. Covers much ground.
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 | Art of Attack in Chess by Vladimir Vukovic
Buy new: $23.04 / Used from: $12.97 A must-have classic! Very instructive.
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 | Chess Tactics for Students by John A. Bain
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $6.95 Considered a modern classic among chess puzzle books. Drill your tactical skills in entertaining style.
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 | Understanding Chess Move by Move by John Nunn
Buy new: $17.90 / Used from: $10.00 Considered a modern classic. In-depth annotation by a top GM and one of the world's best annotators.
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 | Modern Chess Strategy by Ludek Pachman
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $4.58 Considered a classic. Very influential.
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 | The Reassess Your Chess Workbook by Jeremy Silman
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $7.25 Considered as an indispensable companion to Silman's modern classic How To Reassess Your Chess.
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 | Ideas Behind the Chess Openings: Algebraic Edition by Reuben Fine
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.33 Considered a classic on the openings. A must-have.
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 | The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy by Irving Chernev
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $3.95 A classic work.
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 | A World Champion's Guide to Chess: Step-by-step instructions for winning chess the Polgar way by Susan Polgar
Buy new: $12.91 / Used from: $9.93 A new modern classic? Great for understanding the Polgar approach to modern chess.
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 | One Thousand and One Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations by Fred Reinfeld
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.34 A classic puzzle book that should be in everyone's library.
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 | Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games: Improve Your Chess by Studying the Greatest Games of All time, from Adolf Anderssen's 'Immortal' Game to Kramnik Versus Kasparov 2000 by Graham Burgess
Buy used from: $18.61 One of the best compilations of the best ever games of chess. Instructs and delights at the same time.
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 | Best Lessons of a Chess Coach by Sunil Weeramantry
Buy used from: $9.35 Considered a modern classic, it has helped many players improve.
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 | The Game of Chess (Algebraic Edition) by Siegbert Tarrasch
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $11.25 A must-have classic. Goes into some topics other books do not.
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 | Chess Exam And Training Guide: Rate Yourself And Learn How To Improve by Igor Khmelnitsky
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $13.95 Has helped many players determine where and how to improve their game.
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 | Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur by Max Euwe
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $4.42 A classic work and a rare opportunity to see how a GM beats amateurs.
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 | The Art of Sacrifice in Chess by Rudolf Spielmann
Buy new: $8.76 / Used from: $5.46 A classic work.
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 | Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 by David Bronstein
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $4.95 A classic collection of games from a famous tournament. Annotated in fine and instructive style by David Bronstein.
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 | Chess Praxis: The Praxis of My System (Chess Classics) by Aron Nimzowitsch
Buy new: $21.86 / Used from: $25.67 Practical application of the author's "My System". Must-have.
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 | Chess Tactics (Batsford Chess Book) by Paul Littlewood
Buy new: $13.64 / Used from: $7.60 A brilliant little introduction to tactics. Cheap and easy-to-read.
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 | Chess: Tactics and Strategies by Graham Burgess
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.50 An incredible value-for-money compendium of all things chess. One of the best bang-for-your-buck books out there.
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 | Discovering Chess Openings: Building Opening Skills from Basic Principles by John Emms
Buy new: $18.21 / Used from: $7.99 A brilliant book on opening theory for the beginner.
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 | Better Chess for Average Players (Dover Books on Chess) by Tim Harding
Buy new: $8.76 / Used from: $3.21 Does what the title says and in fine style.
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 | How to Open a Chess Game by Larry Evans
Buy used from: $10.98 Considered an absolute classic.
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 | Think Like A Grandmaster: Algebraic Edition by Alexander Kotov
Buy used from: $16.99 Considered an absolute classic.
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 | The Art of the Middle Game by Paul Keres
Buy new: $7.88 / Used from: $3.62 A classic little treatment. Highly recommended.
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 | My System (Chess Classics) by Aron Nimzowitsch
Buy new: $21.56 / Used from: $15.00 Perhaps the most important and influential chess book ever written.
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 | The Art of Checkmate by Georges Renaud
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $4.98 An undisputed classic.
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 | Life & Games of Mikhail Tal by Mikhail Tal
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $9.95 Learn from one of the best attacking players ever. An entertaining and masterful account.
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 | Simple Checkmates by A.J. Gilliam
Buy new: $12.82 / Used from: $1.47 A brilliant practice book for the beginner.
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 | Chess Fundamentals (Algebraic) by Jose Raul Capablanca
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $5.95 Considered a classic guide for the advanced beginner - learn from perhaps the greatest natural chessplayer ever.
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 | Modern Ideas in Chess by Richard Reti
Buy used from: $4.28 An influential work of Hypermodernism by one of its greatest advocates.
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 | Masters of the Chessboard by Richard Reti
Buy new: $25.95 / Used from: $31.13 One of the best and most influential books on chess ever written.
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 | My 60 Memorable Games by Bobby Fischer
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $12.43 His favourite games, straight from the horse's mouth. An unedited, unaltered edition of Fischer's original words. The only difference is the algebraic notation.
Considered one of the finest and most instructive chess books ever written. A must-have for any discerning chessplayer.
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