Perpetual Chess Improvement: Practical Chess Advice from World-Class Players and Dedicated Amateurs (New in Chess)
By: Ben Johnson
4.33
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
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1. Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall—From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness
By: Frank Brady
3.94
Format: 402 pages, Hardcover
Endgame is acclaimed biographer Frank Brady’s decades-in-the-making tracing of the meteoric ascent—… read more
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2. Play Winning Chess
By: Jeremy Silman , Yasser Seirawan
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Play Winning Chess is an introduction to the moves, strategies and philosophy of chess, with clear … read more
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3. Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess
By: Fred Waitzkin
3.94
Format: 338 pages, Paperback
The compelling sage of three years in the life of a real American chess prodigy - now a Major Motio… read more
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4. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
By: Peter C. Brown , Henry L. Roediger III , Mark A. McDaniel
4.30
Format: None pages, Hardcover
To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we … read more
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5. My 60 Memorable Games
By: Bobby Fischer
3.86
Format: 136 pages,
In this book, published by Simon and Schuster in 1969, Bobby Fischer analyzes his most important an… read more
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6. The Immortal Game: A History of Chess, or How 32 Carved Pieces on a Board Illuminated Our Understanding of War, Art, Science and the Human Brain
By: David Shenk
3.97
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A surprising, charming, and ever-fascinating history of the seemingly simple game that has had a pr… read more
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7. Logical Chess Move By Move: Every Move Explained New Algebraic Edition
By: Irving Chernev
3.97
Format: None pages, Paperback
Having learned the basic moves, how exactly should a player improve? In this popular classic, the a… read more
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8. A Personal Matter
By: Kenzaburō Ōe , John Nathan
4.12
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Kenzaburo Oe, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature, is internationally acclaimed as on… read more
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9. How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom
By: Garry Kasparov , None
3.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
One of the most highly regarded strategists of our time teaches us how the tools that made him a wo… read more
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10. Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets Lost the Most Extraordinary Chess Match of All Time
By: David Edmonds , John Eidinow
4.28
Format: 120 pages,
In the summer of 1972, with a presidential crisis stirring in the United States and the cold war at… read more
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11. The Guns of August
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
4.18
Format: 658 pages, Kindle Edition
The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Guns of August, and The Zimmerman Telegram comprise… read more
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"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings"-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
"To think meant to give room for freedom of initiative, for the imponderable to win over the material, for will to demonstrate its power over circumstance."-Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August
12. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
By: Cal Newport
3.73
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more
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"What are we really doing here?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
13. Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II
By: Alex Kershaw
4.32
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The national bestselling author of The First Wave tells the untold story of four of the most decora… read more
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14. How to Win at Chess: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners and Beyond
By: Levy Rozman
4.40
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
Learn chess from International Master and Youtube's top chess teacher Levy Rozman (aka GothamChess)… read more
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15. Move by Move: Life Lessons on and off the Chessboard
By: Maurice Ashley
3.71
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A little book of life advice drawing on the timeless wisdom of chess from Maurice Ashley, the first… read more
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16. All the Wrong Moves: A Memoir About Chess, Love, and Ruining Everything
By: Sasha Chapin
3.79
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Sasha Chapin is a victim of chess. Like countless amateurs before him--Albert Einstein, Humphrey Bo… read more
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17. Chess Queens: The True Story of a Chess Champion and the Greatest Female Players of All Time
By: Jennifer Shahade
4.12
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
For fans of The Queen's Gambit , this is the real life story of a female chess champion travelling … read more
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18. Perpetual Chess Improvement: Practical Chess Advice from World-Class Players and Dedicated Amateurs (New in Chess)
By: Ben Johnson
4.33
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
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19. UNMASKED
By: Ellie Middleton
4.24
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
Brought to you by Penguin. Whether you are neurodivergent, suspect you might be, or want to be a… read more
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20. Discovering Chess Openings: Building Opening Skills from Basic Principles
By: John Emms
3.74
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In Discovering Chess Openings John Emms argues that studying openings doesn't have to be hard work … read more
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21. Everyone's First Chess Workbook: Fundamental Tactics and Checkmates for Improvers – 738 Practical Exercises
By: Daniel Naroditsky
4.43
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Working on chess tactics and checkmates will help you win more games. It develops your pattern reco… read more
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