 | Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual by Mark Dvoretsky
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $18.49 Contains 213 Precise Endgame Positions every chess player needs to understand perfectly to play endgames well. One of the true 'Secrets of Russian Chess' revealed.
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 | Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games by Laszlo Polgar
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $9.22 A great book of simple mates in 1,2 and 3 moves with combinations and games as well. This book will give you firm visual pattern recognition practice, a necessary building block for tactical combinative play. You would not build a house without bricks - these are the bricks.
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 | My System: 21st Century Edition by Aron Nimzowitsch
Buy new: $17.50 / Used from: $13.45 The classic Chess Strategy book that should be the first chesss strategy book all chessplayers read.
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 | Modern Chess Strategy by Ludek Pachman
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $4.00 Pachman's classic book that is extremely readable and contains a huge amount of useful examples and explanations on CLassic to pseudo-modern chess strategy. A transitory book to be read between "My System" and "Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy".
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 | Fundamental Chess Endings by Karsten Muller
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $13.24 The second book I would recommend for endgame theory. This book is a tremendous resource alone or in addition to the Dvoretsky Endgame Manual.
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 | Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy by John Watson
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $17.78 Examination of the ideas in this book will give the reader a modern perspective on General Chess Strategy.
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 | Sharpen Your Tactics by Anatoly Lein
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $17.95 A more challenging problem book on true combinative play. Problems get more and more difficult as you progress through the book, truly giving the reader a challenge. Use in conjuction with the Polgar book.
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 | Winning Chess Openings (Winning Chess - Everyman Chess) by Yasser Seirawan
Buy new: $16.29 / Used from: $5.99 For beginners - a basic understanding of the opening, it's goals, and what you are trying to accomplish.
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 | Chess Openings for Black, Explained (A Complete Repertoire) by Lev Alburt
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $16.00 The basics for black against just about everything.
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 | Chess Openings for White, Explained: Winning with 1. E4 (Alburt's Opening Guide, Book 1) by Lev Alburt
Buy new: $21.86 / Used from: $14.99 The basics for 1.e4 players.
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 | A Guide to Chess Endings by Max Euwe
Buy new: $9.31 / Used from: $2.92 The basics everyone should know.
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 | Winning Chess Tactics, revised (Winning Chess - Everyman Chess) by Yasser Seirawan
Buy new: $16.29 / Used from: $8.95 Basics of Chess Tactics everyone should know.
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 | Secrets of Chess Tactics (Batsford Chess Library Middle Game) by Mark Dvoretsky
Buy used from: $20.20 Advanced tactical study for the established player.
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 | 1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate (Chess Lovers' Library) by Fred Reinfeld
Buy new: $9.60 / Used from: $4.05 A Fred Reinfeld Classic for novice chess players aspiring to become deadly tacticians.
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 | Imagination in Chess: How to Think Creatively and Avoid Foolish Mistakes by Paata Gaprindashvili
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $8.73 Advanced middlegame strategic and tactical problem-solving for the advanced player.
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 | Chess Endgame Quiz by Larry Evans
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $6.57 Basic Endgame problems every novice should be able to solve and be familiar with. Your first endgame problem-solving book.
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