9 Best nonfiction books like The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy by Irving Chernev

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The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy

By: Irving Chernev

4.24

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

Here are 62 masterly demonstrations of the basic strategies of winning at chess, compiled and annot…

"Chess, like love, is infectious at any age - Salo Flohr"

-Irving Chernev, The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy

"Chess, like love, is infectious at any age - Salo Flohr"

-Irving Chernev, The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy by Irving Chernev , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Napoleon: A Life

By: Andrew Roberts

4.23

Format: 976 pages, Paperback

The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. – Napoleon"

-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life

"I have beaten the Russian and Austrian army commanded by the two emperors. I am a little tired."

-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life

"His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives."

-Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life

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2. Winning Chess Strategies, revised

By: Jeremy Silman , Yasser Seirawan

4.01

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

A complete overview of proven chess principles that teaches readers how to deploy their pieces usin… read more

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  • games
  • nonfiction
  • chess
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3. How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess Mastery Course

By: Jeremy Silman

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

How to Reassess Your Chess is the popular step-by-step course that will create a marked improvement… read more

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  • games
  • nonfiction
  • chess
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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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  • nonfiction
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5. Alexander Hamilton

By: Ron Chernow

3.77

Format: 32 pages,

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the … read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess

By: Bobby Fischer , None , None

3.90

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

This book is essentially a teaching machine. The way a teaching machine works is: It asks you a que… read more

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7. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

By: Cal Newport

3.82

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this sk… read more

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8. The Queen's Gambit

By: Walter Tevis

4.30

Format: 543 pages,

Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is un… read more

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9. Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner to Master

By: Jeremy Silman

4.14

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

For over 100 years, the world's leading chess players and teachers have told their students to stud… read more

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10. 1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations

By: Fred Reinfeld

3.95

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

Reprint. Originally published: New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 1955. read more

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11. Art of Attack in Chess

By: None

3.78

Format: 584 pages, Paperback

One of the finest chess books ever written, the Art of Attack has been transcribed into algebraic n… read more

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12. For Whom the Bell Tolls

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.76

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found  In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Sp… read more

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13. The Crucible

By: Arthur Miller , Christopher Bigsby

3.60

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most… read more

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14. 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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15. Simple Chess: New Algebraic Edition

By: Fred Wilson , None

4.53

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Written by a young Grand Master, this introduction to chess strategy is aimed primarily at players … read more

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16. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

By: Bill Watterson

3.93

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Calvin and Hobbesis unquestionably one of the most popular comic strips of all time. The imaginativ… read more

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17. Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past

By: David Reich

4.13

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking book about how ancient DNA has profoundly changed our understanding of human histo… read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. King: A Life

By: Jonathan Eig

4.67

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail

By: Ray Dalio

4.28

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From legendary investor Ray Dalio, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Principles, who has s… read more

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20. The Pariah (Covenant of Steel, #1)

By: Anthony Ryan

4.19

Format: 600 pages, ebook

Born into the troubled kingdom of Albermaine, Alwyn Scribe is raised as an outlaw. Quick of wit and… read more

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21. The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy

By: Irving Chernev

4.24

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

Here are 62 masterly demonstrations of the basic strategies of winning at chess, compiled and annot… read more

Similar categories in Irving Chernev's The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy book and Irving Chernev's The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy

  • games
  • nonfiction
  • chess
"Chess, like love, is infectious at any age - Salo Flohr"

-Irving Chernev, The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played: 62 Masterpieces of Chess Strategy

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Luke Scull

3.50

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David Wong

3.88

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James Islington

4.63

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