Chess

Books, miscellany relating to chess which I would like to read sometime or another in the future.

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Currently Owned

1. How to Play Chess – Lasker
2. The Genius of Paul Morphy – Ward
3. Art of Attack in Chess – Vukovic
4. Capablanca’s Best Chess Endings – Chernev
5. How to Reassess Your Chess – Silman
6. The Reassess Your Chess Workbook – Silman
7. Modern Chess Strategy – Pachman
8. The Inner Game of Chess – Soltis
9. Secrets of Chess Defence – Marin
10. Turning Advantage Into Victory – Soltis
11. Chess Panorama – Lombardy
12. A Psychiatrist Matches Wits with Fritz – Pecci
13. Surviving Changi – Urcan
14. Why Lasker Matters – Soltis
15. Garry Kasparov’s Chess Challenge – Kasparov
16. The Art of the Middlegame – Keres & Kotov
17. The Chess Players – Keyes
18. The Mammoth Book of the World’s Greatest Chess Games – Nunn, et al
19. Chess Middlegames – Polgar
20. Chess Endgames – Polgar
21. Tal-Botvinnik, 1960 – Tal
22. Simple Chess – Stean

The Next 20

1. The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy – Chernev
2. The Chess Advantage in Black & White – Kaufman
3. Queen’s Gambit Declined – Sadler
4. Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games – Polgar
5. The Test of Time – Kasparov
6. My 60 Memorable Games – Fischer
7. My Great Predecessors Vol 1-5 – Kasparov
8. The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal – Tal
9. Fundamental Chess Endings – Muller and Lamprecht
10. Complete Endgame Course – Silman
11. Basic Chess Endings – Fine
12. Zurich 1953 – Bronstein
13. San Luis 2005 – Gershon & Nor
14. Bobby Fischer Rediscovered – Soltis
15. Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy – Watson
16. The Mammoth Book of Chess – Burgess
17. Chess Exam and Training Guide – Khmelnitsky
18. Secrets of Grandmaster Endings – Andrew Soltis
19. Seven Deadly Chess Sins – Rowson
20. Russians Versus Fischer – Plisetsky and Voronkov
    

Openings

1. Opening Preparation – Dvoretsky
2. Modern Chess Openings: MCO-14 – De Firmian
3. Winning with the Najdorf – King
4. Complete Defense to 1.P-K4 – Hooper
5. Beyond the 13th Move – Torre
6. Nunn’s Chess Openings – Nunn et al
7. A Killer Chess Opening Repertoire – Summerscale
8. The Closed Openings in Action – Karpov
9. Beating the Caro-Kann with the Advance Variation – Soltis
10. Beating the Grunfeld – Karpov
11. Catastrophe In The Opening – Neishtadt
12. King Pawn Openings – Marovic/Susic
13. An Opening Repertoire for Black – Marovic/Parma
14. Opening Systems For Competitive Chess Players – Hall
15. The Scandinavian – John Emms
16. Winning Chess Openings – Reinfeld
17. The English Opening – Watson
18. Flank Openings – Keene
19. Kasparov’s Chess Openings – Borik
20. The Chess Openings for You – Evans
21. Chess Openings: Theory And Practice – Horowitz

Fundamentals

1. Chess Fundamentals – Capablanca
2. Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess – Fischer et al
3. A Primer of Chess – Capablanca
4. Ideas behind the Chess openings – Fine
5. 303 Tactical Chess Puzzles – Wilson, Albertson
6. 1000 Best Short Games Of Chess – Chernev
7. 1001 Brilliant Ways To Checkmate – Reinfeld
8. The Complete Chess Player – Reinfeld
9. 365 Ways To Checkmate – Gallagher
10. Logical Chess Move By Move – Chernev
11. 1,001 Sacrifices and Combinations – Reinfeld
12. The Winning Way – Pandolfini
13. Winning Chess Traps – Chernev
14. Chess Rules of Thumb – Alburt and Lawrence
15. Everyone’s Second Chess Book – Heisman
16. The Logical Approach to Chess - Euwe, Blaine, Rumble
17. Complete Book Of Chess Stratagems – Reinfeld
18. Chess The Easy Way – Fine
19. Chess Traps, Pitfalls, And Swindles – Horowitz & Reinfeld
20. Chess Catechism – Evans
21. Chess Secrets I Learned From The Masters – Lasker
22. How To Be A Winner At Chess – Reinfeld
    

Tactics

1. Mastering Chess Tactics – Mcdonald
2. Winning Chess Tactics For Juniors – Hays
3. Secrets of Chess Tactics – Dvoretsky
4. Sharpen your Tactics – Lein
5. Anthology of Chess Combinations – Matanovic
6. Chess Combinations of the World Champions – Tangborn
7. Combination Challenge – Hays and Hall
8. John Nunn’s Chess Puzzle Book – Nunn
9. Sharpen Your Tactics – Lein & Archangelsky
10. Tactical Chess Training – Shamkovich & Cartier
11. Tactical Targets in Chess, vol I – Pongo
12. Test Your Chess IQ, First Challenge – Livshitz
13. Test Your Chess IQ, Master Challenge – Livshitz
14. Test Your Chess IQ, Grandmaster Challenge – Livshitz
15. Chess Tactics For Champions – Susan Polgar
16. Anthology of Chess Combinations by Informant 64
17. The Art of Chess Combination – Znosko-Borovsky
18. How to Calculate Chess Tactics – Beim
19. Winning Chess Tactics – Seirawan, Silman
20. D. Lemoir – How to Become a Deadly Chess Tactician
21. Combination Challenge – Hays & Hall
22. Combinations: The Heart Of Chess – Chernev
23. Basis Of Combination In Chess – Dumont
24. Chess Tactics for Advanced Players – Averbakh
25. Chess Visualization Course, Book 1: General Tactics - Anderson
26. Chess Tactics for Students - Bain
27. Winning Chess Exercises for Kids – Coakley
28. Practical Chess Exercises – Cheng
29. The Chess Training Pocket Book – Alburt
30. The Chess Tactics Workbook – Woolum
31. Back to Basic: Tactics – Heisman
32. Chess Combination As A Fine Art – Golz & Keres
33. The Chess Combination from Philidor to Karpov – Keene
34. Excelling at Combinational Play – Aagaard
35. Learn Chess Tactics – Nunn
36. Chess Tactics And Strategy – Burgess
37. Chess Tactics For Advanced Players – Averbakh
38. Stategy And Tactics In Chess – Euwe

Endings

1. Essential Chess Endings Explained Move By Move, volume I – Silman
2. Comprehensive Chess Endings – Averbakh
3. Winning Chess Endings – Seirawan
4. Secrets of Rooks Endings – Nunn
5. Chess Endings for the Practical Player – Pachman
6. Endgame Challenge – Hall
7. Pandolfinis’ Endgame Course – Pandolfini
8. Practical Chess Endings – Keres
9. Survival Guide to Rook Endings – Emms
10. Analyzing the Endgame -Speelman
11. The Final Countdown – Hajenius & van Riemsdijk
12. Practical Knight Endings – Mednis
13. Chess Endings Essential Knowledge – Averbakh
14. Endgame Virtuoso – Smyslov
15. Strategy In The Chess Endgame – Reinfeld
16. A Guide To Chess Endings – Euwe & Hooper
17. Practical Chess Endings – Keres
18. Queen And Pawn Endings – Averbakh
19. Rook Endings – Levenfish & Smyslov
20. Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual – Dvoretsky
21. Technique In Chess – Abrahams
22. Technique for the Tournament Player – Dvoretsky
23. Excelling at Technical Chess – Aagaard
    

Anthologies – specific players

1. My Best Games of Chess 1908-1923 – Alekhine
2. 50 Selected Games – Larsen
3. Kasparov’s Fighting Chess, 1993-1998 – Karolyi & Aplin
4. Kasparov’s Fighting Chess, 1999-2005 – Karolyi & Aplin
5. The Games of Anatoly Karpov – O’Connell, Adams
6. How to Beat Bobby Fischer – Mednis
7. The Immortal Games of Capablanca – Reinfeld
8. Botvinnik’s 100 Selected Games, 1926-1946 – Botvinnik
9. Tigran Petrosian: His life and Games – Vasiliev
10. Spassky’s 100 Best Games – Cafferty
11. The Games of Robert James Fischer – O’Connell
12. My 50 Years of Chess – Marshall
13. Fire on Board: Shirov’s Best Games – Shirov
14. My Chess Career – Capablanca
15. Anatoly Karpov: His road to the world championship – Botvinnik
16. Gary Kasparov: His career in chess- Yudovich
17. Tigran Petrosian : Master of Defense, 1946 to 1963 – Clarke
18. Aron Nimzowitsch: Master of Planning – Keene
19. Chess At the Top, 1979 to 1984 – Karpov
20. Garry Kasparov’s Fighting Chess – Kasparov, Speelman & Wade
21. My Best Games of Chess, 1935-1957 – Smyslov
22. Reshevsky’s Best games of chess – Reshevsky
23. Jon Speelman’s Best Games of Chess – Speelman
24. Development of a GM – Adams
25. John Nunn’s Best Games – Nunn
26. Grandmaster Achievement – Polugaevsky
27. Mikhail Tal’s Best Games of Chess – Clarke
28. My Life and Games – Kramnik & Damsky
29. My 300 Best Games – Karpov
30. Reshevsky’s Best Games Of Chess – Reshevsky
31. Rubenstein’s Chess Masterpieces: 100 Selected Games – Kmoch
32. Paul Keres: The Road to the Top – Keres
33. Paul Keres: The Quest for Perfection – Keres
34. Anatoly Karpov: The Road To The World Chess Championship – Byrne
35. The Best Chess Games Of Boris Spassky – Soltis
36. Botvinnik’s Best Games Of Chess 1947-1970 – Botvinnik
37. Capablanca’s 100 Best Games Of Chess – Golombek
38. Chess Is My Life – Korchnoi
39. The Chess Of Bobby Fischer – Burger
40. The Chess Of Gligoric – Levy
41. My Best Games of Chess – Anand
42. My Best Games (Games With White) – Korchnoi
43. Secrets of Grandmaster Play – Nunn
44. Garry Kasparov – New World Chess Champion – Kasparov
45. Garry Kasparov’s Greatest Games: Volume 2 – Stohl
46. Mikhail Tal: Tactical Genius – Raetsky & Chetverik
47. How Fischer Plays Chess – Levy
48. How Karpov Wins – Mednis
49. Lessons From My Games – Fine
    

Anthologies – tournaments & matches

1. World Chess Championship 1954 – Golombek
2. The World Chess Championship: 1948-1969 – Gilgoric & Wade
3. The World Chess Championship: Korchnoi/Karpov – Keene
4. World Chess Championship – Kasparov v Anand – Keene
5. Chess World Championship 1972: Fischer vs. Spassky – Evans
6. End Game – Lawson
7. Fischer Spassky: NY Times Report – Roberts
8. Fischer versus Spassky – Golombek
9. Fischer vs Spassky – Gligoric
10. Fischer vs. Spassky – Alexander
11. Kasparov vs Karpov – Kasparov et al
12. 1990 World Chess Championship: Karpov vs. Kasparov – Wall
13. Second Piatigorsky Cup – Kashdan
14. U.S. Championship Chess – Lombardy & Daniels
15. U.S.S.R. v Rest Of The World: Challenge Match – Keene & Goodman
16. Book Of The Nottingham International Chess Tournament – Alekhine
17. Kasparov and Deep Blue – Pandolfini
18. Kasparov vs Deeper Blue – King
19. The Great Chess Tournaments and Their Stories – Soltis

Anthology – misc games

1. Masters of the Chessboard – Reti
2. 107 Great Chess Battles: 1939-1945 – Alekhine
3. Chess Brilliancy: 250 Historic Games From The Masters – Damsky
4. The Art of Chess Analysis – Timman
5. The King Hunt – Cozens
6. Understanding Chess Move by Move – Nunn
7. Great Chess Upsets – Reshevsky
8. Duels Of The Mind: Twelve Best Games Of Chess – Keene
9. Instructive Modern Chess Masterpieces – Stohl
10. Winning Chess Brilliancies – Seirawan
11. The World’s Great Chess Games – Fine
12. Decisive Games In Chess History – Pachman
13. Kings Of Chess: Chess Champions Of The Twentieth Century – Winter
14. Lessons With The Masters – Evans & Smith
15. 50 Essential Chess Lessons – Giddins

General

1. My System – Nimzowitsch
2. Dvoretsky – Positional Play
3. Dvoretsky – Attack and Defence
4. Think Like a Grandmaster – Kotov
5. Excelling at Chess – Aagaard
6. Best Lessons of a Chess Coach – Weeramantry
7. The Amateur’s Mind – Silman
8. The Art of Positional Play – Reshevsky
9. The 10 Common Chess Mistakes – Evans
10. Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur – Euwe
11. Master Class Typical Mistakes – McDonald
12. The Art of Planning in Chess – McDonald
13. Bobby Fischer: His Approach to Chess – Agur
14. The Road to Chess Improvement – Yermolinsky
15. Pawn Structure Chess – Soltis
16. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – Bronstein
17. Learn from the Legends – Marin
18. The Development of Chess Style – Euwe & Nunn
19. The Application Of Chess Theory – Geller
20. The Art Of Defense In Chess – Soltis
21. Attack And Counterattack In Chess – Reinfeld
22. Battle Of Chess Ideas – Saidy
23. Bishop v Knight: The Verdict – Mayer
24. Confessions Of A Chess Grandmaster – Soltis
25. Evans On Chess – Evans
26. How Not To Play Chess – Znosko-Borovsky
27. How To Defeat A Superior Opponent – Mednis
28. How To Get Better At Chess – Evans, Silman &Roberts
29. How To Learn From Your Defeats – Karpov
30. How To Play The Middle Game In Chess – Littlewood
31. An Invitation To Chess – Chernev
32. Judgement And Planning In Chess – Euwe
33. King Power In Chess – Mednis
34. March Of Chess Ideas – Saidy
35. The Middle Game In Chess – Fine
36. The Middle Game, Book One: Static Features – Euwe/Kramer
37. The Middle Game, Book Two: Dynamic Features – Euwe/Kramer
38. Modern Chess Strategy – Lasker
39. Modern Ideas In Chess – Reti
40. Pawn Power In Chess – Kmoch
41. Reshevsky On Chess – Reshevsky
42. Excelling at Chess Calculation – Aagaard
43. Excelling at Positional Chess – Aagaard
44. Practical Chess Defence – Aagaard
45. The Art of Logical Chess Thinking – McDonald
46. Dynamic Chess Strategy – Suba.
47. Elements of Positional Evaluation – Heisman
48. The Improving Annotator – Heisman
49. Improver’s It’s Your Move – Ward
50. Inside The Chess Mind – Aagaard
51. Thought and Choice in Chess – deGroot
52. The Art of Sacrifice in Chess – Spielmann
53. The Blockade – Nimzowitsch
54. Catalog Of Chess Mistakes – Soltis
55. Chess From Morphy To Botvinnik: A Century Of Chess Evolution – Konig
56. Chess Sacrifice – Vukovic
57. Chess Strategy In Action – Watson
58. The Chess Struggle In Practice – Bronstein
59. Test And Improve Your Chess – Alburt
60. Learn Chess from the World Champions – Levy
61. Attack with Mikhail Tal – Tal & Damsky
62. Training for the Tournament Player – Dvoretsky
63. Foundations of Chess Strategy – Hansen
64. How To Cheat At Chess – Hartson
65. Chess Praxis – Nimzowitsch
66. New Ideas in Chess – Evans
67. From Beginner to expert in 40 Lessons – Kostyev
68. 3 Steps To Chess Mastery – Suetin
69. Train Like a GM – Kotov
70. A Contemporary Approach to the Middlegame – Suetin
71. Plan Like a GM – Suetin
72. Understanding the Sacrifice – Dunnington
73. Improve Your Chess now- Tisdall
74. CJS Purdy’s Fine art of Annotation Vol. 1 to 3 -Purdy
    

Miscellaneous

1. The Bobby Fischer I Knew & Other Stories – Denker
2. Chess for Fun & Chess for blood – Ed Lasker
3. The Oxford Companion to Chess – Whyld and Hooper
4. The Batsford Chess Encyclopedia – Nathan Divinsky
5. Inside the Chess Mind – Aagaard
6. The Soviet School of Chess – Kotov, Yudovich
7. The Human Comedy of Chess – Ree
8. The Enjoyment of Chess Problems – Howard
9. Test Tube Chess – Roycroft
10. The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes – Smullyan
11. The Personality of Chess – Horowitz
12. Chess Treasury of the Air – Tiller
13. The Adventure of Chess – Ed Lasker
14. The Chess Companion – Chernev
15. Searching For Bobby Fischer – Waitzkin
16. The Unknown Bobby Fischer- Donaldson & Tangborn
17. The Unknown Capablanca – Hooper & Brandreth
18. The Soviet Chess Conveyor – Shereshevsky
19. Bobby Fischer: From Genius to Legend – Gufeld
20. Profile of A Prodigy – Brady
21. Achieving the Aim – Botvinnik
22. Inside Deep Blue – Hsu
23. Underhanded Chess – Sohl
24. Bobby Fischer vs. The Rest Of The World – Darrach