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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.
Recommendations... 101 Questions on How to Play Chess
by Fred Wilson
Easy-to-follow, question-and-answer format explains the most basic rules and essentials of play, but also offers advice on opening, combinations, middle- and end-game strategies, notation, castling, and other topics. Over 100 diagrams.
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| |  Simple 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 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 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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| |  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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 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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| |  Carlsbad 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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Products in Chess | | | | 101 Questions on How to Play Chess
by Fred Wilson
Easy-to-follow, question-and-answer format explains the most basic rules and essentials of play, but also offers advice on opening, combinations, middle- and end-game strategies, notation, castling, and other topics. Over 100 diagrams.
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|  | 107 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 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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| | 500 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 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
by James Mason
Endings, combinations, and extensive development of standard openings. Updated by Fred Reinfeld, Sydney Bernstein. 448 diagrams.
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|  | 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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|  | Botvinnik: 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 Endings
by Irving Chernev
These 60 complete games, annotated throughout, emphasize the Cuban master's elegant, classic, accurate, lethal endgame play against Alekhine, Lasker, Marshall, Nimzowitsch, Réti, the best. Here are real games from match and tournament play.
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| | Carlsbad 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 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 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 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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|  | Combinations: 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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|  | Counter Gambits
by T. D. Harding
Expert analysis of such topics as dynamic counterplay, counter-gambits in open games, Black sacrifices in the half-open games, counters to the Queen's Gambit, and Indian counter-gambits. 67 fully annotated games.
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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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