Chess Books

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December 10, 2025

For any chess player serious about improvement, the bookshelf begins to feel like a graveyard of good intentions. We collect...

December 5, 2025

For any serious student of the open games, holding a monograph written by the 12th World Champion, Anatoly Karpov, feels...

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December 3, 2025

If you have been following the meteoric rise of Indian chess over the last decade, you have likely heard the...

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December 1, 2025

Valeri Beim’s 2011 book, Back to Basics: Strategy, is a serious and methodical attempt to classify positional advantages and explain...

November 29, 2025

Few chess books have shaped the way players think as much as Alexander Kotov’s Think Like a Grandmaster. First published...

November 24, 2025

Since its first publication in 2003, Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual has been universally recognized as one of the greatest chess books...

November 21, 2025

If you’ve ever wanted to play the Sicilian against Black rather than survive it, Marc Esserman’s Mayhem in the Morra...

November 20, 2025

Most opening books promise “dangerous ideas” or “powerful weapons.”Very few actually deliver them in a way club players can use...

November 18, 2025

In July 2017, I felt stuck. My blitz rating on Chess.com was 1724 and it had stayed there for months....

November 17, 2025

If you’ve ever stared at a grandmaster game and thought, “Cool… but I would never reach this position,” then Dan...