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One of the finest lists of chess books anywhere! Books on strategy, great tournaments, games collections featuring the super stars of chess history: Alekhine, Capablanca, Lasker, Tartakower, Fischer, others.


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101 Questions on How to Play Chess101 Questions on How to Play Chess 
by Fred Wilson
Chess expert helps beginning players grasp essentials of playing chess to win. Over 100 diagrams.


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Simple Chess: New Algebraic EditionSimple Chess: New Algebraic Edition 
by Michael Stean
Written by a Grand Master, this guide isolates basic elements and illustrates them through Master and Grand Master games, breaking down the mystique of strategy into easy-to-understand ideas.

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The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever PlayedThe Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played 
by Irving Chernev
62 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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500 Master Games of Chess500 Master Games of Chess 
by Dr. S. Tartakower, J. du Mont
Vast collection of great chess games from 1798 through 1938, with much hard-to-find material. Fully annotated, arranged by opening for easier study. 150 years of master play!


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Bobby Fischer: Profile of a Prodigy (Revised Edition)Bobby Fischer: Profile of a Prodigy (Revised Edition) 
by Frank Brady
Revealing biography chronicles the chess champion's brilliant play, controversial behavior, private life, and more. 90 games. 26 photographs. Diagrams.


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Positional Chess Handbook: 495 Instructive Positions from Grandmaster GamesPositional Chess Handbook: 495 Instructive Positions from Grandmaster Games 
by Israel Gelfer
Learn to develop a more powerful strategic game. Key squares, bad bishops, pawn structures, other examples appear in ascending difficulty, with cross-references. For players at every level. 495 black-and-white illustrations.


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Strategic Chess: Mastering the Closed GameStrategic 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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Mastering Chess: A Course in 21 LessonsMastering Chess: A Course in 21 Lessons 
by Danny Kopec, G. Chandler, C. Morrison, N. Davies, I. D. Mullen
This manual focuses on the major topics relevant to every game: combinations, analysis, formulation of a plan, opening a play, and endgame technique. Each of these aspects is explored in four lessons.


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Better Chess for Average PlayersBetter 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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Carlsbad International Chess Tournament 1929Carlsbad International Chess Tournament 1929 
by Aron Nimzovich, Jim Marfia
The tournament's victor offers a captivating retrospective of his triumph over Capablanca, Euwe, Bogolyubov, Tartakower, Sämisch, and others, with a tart analysis of Carlsbad's 30 best games.

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101 Questions on How to Play Chess101 Questions on How to Play Chess
by Fred Wilson
Chess expert helps beginning players grasp essentials of playing chess to win. Over 100 diagrams.



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107 Great Chess Battles, 1939–1945107 Great Chess Battles, 1939–1945
by Alexander Alekhine
One of the game's greatest players annotates scores of fascinating games involving Capablanca, Bogoljubov, Keres, Reshevsky, others. Included are many of Alekhine's own games, plus candid commentary on fellow masters, rivals.



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200 Brilliant Endgames200 Brilliant Endgames
by Irving Chernev
Appropriate for players at every level. Each of the 200 examples features a clear diagram with an algebraic grid and the winning variation presented in algebraic notion.



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200 Open Games200 Open Games
by David Bronstein
Russian grandmaster's finest games, presented in full with wealth of illustrative diagrams. Lively, amusing commentary emphasizes ideas behind moves, influence of 1P-K4-P-K4 on subsequent game. 207 illustrations. Index.



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500 Master Games of Chess500 Master Games of Chess
by Dr. S. Tartakower, J. du Mont
Vast collection of great chess games from 1798 through 1938, with much hard-to-find material. Fully annotated, arranged by opening for easier study. 150 years of master play!



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The Art of CheckmateThe Art of Checkmate
by Georges Renaud, Victor Kahn
All mating situations in basic classification, how tactics adjust to each. 127 games analyzed. 80 quiz examples, answers.



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The Art of Chess CombinationThe Art of Chess Combination
by Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
Modern explanation of principles, varieties, techniques and ideas behind them, illustrasted with many examples from great players. 200 diagrams.



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The Art of Sacrifice in ChessThe Art of Sacrifice in Chess
by Rudolf Spielmann
Grandmaster shows how to win games by giving up pieces. Describes games against Réti, Tarrasch, and other masters. Introduction. 91 diagrams.



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The Art of the Middle GameThe 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 PlayersBetter 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)Bobby Fischer: Profile of a Prodigy (Revised Edition)
by Frank Brady
Revealing biography chronicles the chess champion's brilliant play, controversial behavior, private life, and more. 90 games. 26 photographs. Diagrams.



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Botvinnik: 100 Selected GamesBotvinnik: 100 Selected Games
by Mikhail Botvinnik
World champion who dominated chess in the 1940s and '50s selects and annotates his own best games to 1946. 221 diagrams.



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Capablanca’s Best Chess EndingsCapablanca’s Best Chess Endings
by Irving Chernev
60 complete games, annotated throughout but emphasizing endings that seem like long-contemplated works of art.



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Carlsbad International Chess Tournament 1929Carlsbad International Chess Tournament 1929
by Aron Nimzovich, Jim Marfia
The tournament's victor offers a captivating retrospective of his triumph over Capablanca, Euwe, Bogolyubov, Tartakower, Sämisch, and others, with a tart analysis of Carlsbad's 30 best games.


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Chess Master vs. Chess AmateurChess 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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Chess OpeningsChess Openings
by Tim Harding, Leonard Barden
Indispensable resource for players at all levels provides expert coverage of all openings, among them the Benko Gambit, Bird's Opening, Centre Game, and Stonewall Attack. Updated edition incorporates universal algebraic notation.



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Chess StrategyChess Strategy
by Edward Lasker
One of a half-dozen great theoretical works in chess, shows principles of action above and beyond moves. Acclaimed by Capablanca, Keres, and other greats.



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Chess World Title Contenders and Their StylesChess World Title Contenders and Their Styles
by Danny Kopec, Craig Pritchett
Rich selection includes games by Kasparov, Timman, Browne, Hübner, Ribli, more. Profiles of careers, personalities, styles; also, thoroughly annotated selection of finest and most characteristic games. 8 halftones. 108 figures.



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Classic Chess Problems by Pioneer ComposersClassic Chess Problems by Pioneer Composers
by Kenneth S. Howard
155 problems, solutions. Loyd, White, Klett, Shinkman, Havel, other lesser-known but brilliant composers.



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Combinations: The Heart of ChessCombinations: The Heart of Chess
by Irving Chernev
Step-by-step explanation of intricacies of combinative play. 356 combinations by Botvinnik, Keres, Capablanca, others, all annotated. 356 diagrams.



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