13 must-read chess books like Learn Chess the Right Way!: Book 1: Must-know Checkmates by Susan Polgar

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Learn Chess the Right Way!: Book 1: Must-know Checkmates

By: Susan Polgar

4.42

Format: 578 pages, Kindle Edition

THE POLGAR WAY TO BETTER CHESS! Learn Chess the Right Way is a five-volume chess puzzle book series…

If you liked the chess plot in Learn Chess the Right Way!: Book 1: Must-know Checkmates by Susan Polgar , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal

By: Mikhail Tal , Iakov Damsky , Kenneth P. Neat

4.50

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

Mikhail Tal, the 'magician from Riga,' was the greatest attacking World Champion of them all, and t… read more

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  • games
  • nonfiction
  • chess
"...That is my biography from the first day of my chess life to the present. JOURNALIST. And your plans. PLAYER. To play!"

-Mikhail Tal, The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal

"I prefer to make my annotations 'hot on the heels', as it were, when the fortunes of battle, the worries, hopes and disappointments are still sufficiently fresh in my mind. Much as I would like to, I…"

-Mikhail Tal, The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal

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2. Hidden Depths (Vera Stanhope, #3)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A hot summer on the Northumberland coast, and Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find… read more

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3. Telling Tales (Vera Stanhope, #2)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

It has been ten years since Jeanie Long was charged with the murder of fifteen-year-old Abigail Man… read more

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4. The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World

By: Adam Gazzaley , Larry D. Rosen

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Most of us will freely admit that we are obsessed with our devices. We pride ourselves on our abili… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. 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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  • games
  • nonfiction
  • chess
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6. 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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7. Waiting for Godot

By: Samuel Beckett

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more

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8. Don Quixote

By: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a k… read more

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9. A Guide to Chess Improvement: The Best of Novice Nook

By: Dan Heisman

3.87

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

A Guide to Chess Improvementfeatures the very best of Dan Heisman's multi-award winning chess colum… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • chess
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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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13. Rapid Chess Improvement

By: None

4.57

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

A book for all enthusiastic adult players. Michael de la Maza reveals the secrets of a unique study… read more

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14. 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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15. The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

16. Bushido: The Soul of Japan. A Classic Essay on Samurai Ethics

By: Nitobe Inazō

3.29

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The Code of the warrior. The traditional japanese text as written by Dr. Inazo Nitobe in 1904 edite… read more

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17. Erasure

By: Percival Everett

3.62

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more

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18. Comprehensive Chess Course, Volume Two: From Beginner to Tournament Player in 12 Lessons

By: Lev Alburt , None

3.95

Format: 473 pages, Paperback

Thirty years ago, Roman Pelts was my chess teacher in Odessa, Russia. Later he assembled all knowle… read more

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19. 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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20. Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins

By: Garry Kasparov , None

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Audio CD

Garry Kasparov's 1997 chess match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue was a watershed moment in… read more

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21. White Noise

By: Don DeLillo

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film… read more

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"The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,"

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

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22. 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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  • games
  • nonfiction
  • chess

23. The Rising Tide (Vera Stanhope, #10)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.33

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebra… read more

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24. The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

By: Kevin Simler

3.98

Format: 408 pages, ebook

Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed … read more

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  • nonfiction
"In Debt, the anthropologist David Graeber tells the story of Tei Reinga, a Maori villager and “notorious glutton"

-Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

"Take school, for instance. We say that the function of school is to teach valuable skills and knowledge. Yet students don't remember most of what they're taught, and most of what they do remember isn…"

-Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

"Social status among humans actually comes in two flavors: dominance and prestige.12 Dominance is the kind of status we get from being able to intimidate others (think Joseph Stalin), and on the low-s…"

-Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

"The point is, our minds aren't as private as we like to imagine. Other people have partial visibility into what we're thinking. Faced with the translucency of our own minds, then, self-deception is o…"

-Kevin Simler, The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

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25. 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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  • nonfiction
  • chess
Cover of Everyone's First Chess Workbook: Fundamental Tactics and Checkmates for Improvers – 738 Practical Exercises by Daniel Naroditsky

26. 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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  • games
  • chess
Cover of Chess Improvement: It's all in the mindset by Barry Hymer

27. Chess Improvement: It's all in the mindset

By: Barry Hymer

4.00

Format: 469 pages, Kindle Edition

Written by Barry Hymer and Peter Wells, Chess It's all in the mindset is an engaging and instructi… read more

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28. The Soviet Chess Primer (Chess Classics)

By: Ilya Maizelis

4.32

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Ilya Maizelis's masterpiece is the definitive introduction to the game of chess. It has inspired ge… read more

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  • games
  • nonfiction
  • chess
Cover of Learn Chess the Right Way!: Book 1: Must-know Checkmates by Susan Polgar

29. Learn Chess the Right Way!: Book 1: Must-know Checkmates

By: Susan Polgar

4.42

Format: 578 pages, Kindle Edition

THE POLGAR WAY TO BETTER CHESS! Learn Chess the Right Way is a five-volume chess puzzle book series… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • chess
Cover of Learning Chess - Workbook Step 1 Plus (Chess-Steps, Stappenmethode, the Steps Method) by Cor van Wijgerden

30. Learning Chess - Workbook Step 1 Plus (Chess-Steps, Stappenmethode, the Steps Method)

By: Cor van Wijgerden

4.52

Format: None pages, Paperback

Students often proceed to the next step too fast. The workbooks 'Plus' of Chess-Steps offer more ex… read more

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  • chess
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31. Learning Chess - Workbook Step 1

By: Rob Brunia

4.47

Format: 56 pages, Board Book

Steps Method workbook 1 is the first book in the series of 6 steps. Suitable for age 6+ (younger ch… read more

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  • chess

13 Top nonfiction books like Learn Chess the Right Way!: Book 1: Must-know Checkmates by Susan Polgar

Transform Your Habits

The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal

Mikhail Tal , Iakov Damsky , Kenneth P. Neat

4.50

Transform Your Habits

The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World

Adam Gazzaley , Larry D. Rosen

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Play Winning Chess

Jeremy Silman , Yasser Seirawan

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Winning Chess Strategies, revised

Jeremy Silman , Yasser Seirawan

4.01

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Transform Your Habits

Play Winning Chess

Jeremy Silman , Yasser Seirawan

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Winning Chess Strategies, revised

Jeremy Silman , Yasser Seirawan

4.01

Transform Your Habits

How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships

Leil Lowndes

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius , Martin Hammond , Diskin Clay

3.75

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