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It's easy to learn new tricks and tactics and expand your understanding of the game. These books explore the fundamentals of attacking and positional play, the endgame, assessing positions and choosing moves, getting out of difficult positions, time trouble, and many other crucial aspects of the game.
Recommendations... |  |  The Art of Chess Combination
by Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
This essential work provides modern explanations of principles, varieties, and techniques of combination maneuvers, plus the ideas behind them. Examples from the games of many great players provide illustrations. 200 diagrams.
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Products in Intermediate Chess | | | | The Art of Chess Combination
by Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
This essential work provides modern explanations of principles, varieties, and techniques of combination maneuvers, plus the ideas behind them. Examples from the games of many great players provide illustrations. 200 diagrams.
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|  | The Art of Sacrifice in Chess
by Rudolf Spielmann
A Grandmaster shares secrets from 40 years of tournament play, outlining hard-won lessons that enable players to win games by giving up pieces. Suitable for players at every level.
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|  | The Art of the Middle Game
by Paul Keres, Alexander Kotov
Two grandmasters offer masterly analysis of neglected area: attacking the king, defense, pawn structure, much more. Introduction by Harry Golombek.
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|  | Better Chess for Average Players
by Tim Harding
Clear, straightforward guide covers fundamentals of attacking and positional play, the endgame, assessing positions and choosing moves, difficult positions, time-trouble, much more. 384 diagrams.
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|  | Bobby Fischer: Profile of a Prodigy (Revised Edition)
by Frank Brady
Revealing biography of the controversial chess champion chronicles his public and private lives. Includes an analysis of 90 games tracing his rise to supremacy plus complete history of Fischer-Spassky match. 26 photographs.
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|  | Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur
by Max Euwe, Walter Meiden
25 chess games chosen, arranged, annotated to help amateurs avoid a variety of weak strategic and tactical moves. With commentary by 1935–36 World Chess Champion Max Euwe. 1963 edition.
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| |  | Danger in Chess: How to Avoid Making Blunders
by Amatzia Avni
Develop early warning system based on three sources: outside (the opponent); inside (player's own thought process); and the stimulus itself (board position). 24 black-and-white figures.
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|  | The Game of Chess
by Siegbert Tarrasch
Classic introduction offers superb coverage of all aspects, especially Middle Game, combination play. Hundreds of games analyzed. Over 340 diagrams.
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|  | How Good Is Your Chess?
by Daniel King
Instructive, amusing test-yourself guide by a grandmaster asks readers to predict their opponent's moves and helps improve their game by studying the plans and ideas of the best players.
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|  | Modern Chess Strategy
by Ludek Pachman
The use of the queen, the active king, exchanges, pawn play, the center, weak squares, more. Often considered the most important book on strategy. 298 diagrams.
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|  | The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played
by Irving Chernev
Over 60 masterly demonstrations of basic strategies of winning, featuring games by the greatest chess masters. Compiled, diagramed, annotated by one of chess literature's most brilliant authors. 146 illustrations.
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| |  | Strategic Chess: Mastering the Closed Game
by Edmar Mednis
Grandmaster's expert guide probes significance of the opening and how its themes should be carried through the rest of the game. 30 games between Petrosian and Korchnoi, Karpov and Kasparov, others.
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|  | Technique in Chess
by Gerald Abrahams
"Not what to do, but how to do it": 200 examples of end-game play, values of pieces, relative merits of different pawns, gaining the advantage, control of the center, more.
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