12 Best chess books like Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games by Bruce Pandolfini, László Polgár

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Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games

By: Bruce Pandolfini , László Polgár

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The most complete collection of chess problems ever published, including 5,334 instructional situat…

If you liked the chess plot in Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games by Bruce Pandolfini, László Polgár , here is a list of 12 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
  • reference
"...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

Cover of Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall—From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness by Frank Brady

2. 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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  • games
  • nonfiction
  • chess
Cover of Play Winning Chess by Jeremy Silman, Yasser Seirawan

3. 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
  • reference
Cover of Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 (Dover Chess) by None, Jim Marfia, David Ionovich Bronstein, Boris Samoilovich Vainshtein

4. Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 (Dover Chess)

By: None , Jim Marfia , David Ionovich Bronstein , Boris Samoilovich Vainshtein

4.45

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This legendary tournament features 210 hotly contested games, many of them masterpieces of the firs… read more

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  • games
  • nonfiction
  • chess
  • reference
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5. 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
  • reference
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6. Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games

By: Bruce Pandolfini , László Polgár

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The most complete collection of chess problems ever published, including 5,334 instructional situat… read more

Similar categories in Bruce Pandolfini's Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games book and Bruce Pandolfini's Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games

  • puzzles
  • nonfiction
  • chess
  • reference
  • games
Cover of The Sandman #1 : Sleep of the Just by Neil Gaiman

7. The Sandman #1 : Sleep of the Just

By: Neil Gaiman

3.09

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The first issue of the first volume of Neil Gaiman's horror/fantasy epic. An occultist accidentally… read more

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8. 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

Similar categories in Fred Waitzkin's Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess book and Bruce Pandolfini's Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games

  • games
  • nonfiction
  • chess

9. My Best Games of Chess, 1908-1937

By: Alexander Alekhine

3.93

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

World Champion from 1927-35 and again from 1937-46, Alexander Alekhine ranks as one of the four or … read more

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  • chess
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10. The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman

By: Timothy Ferriss

3.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Thinner, bigger, faster, stronger... which 150 pages will you read? Is it possible to: Reach your g… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • reference
Cover of Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby Fischer, None, None

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. 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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  • games
  • nonfiction
  • chess
  • reference

13. My System

By: Aron Nimzowitsch , None , None

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

For many years, Nimzovich was known as the "Stormy Petrel" of the chess world. Today, his profound … read more

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14. 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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15. Winning Chess Tactics, revised

By: Jeremy Silman , Yasser Seirawan

3.97

Format: None pages, Paperback

The essential guide to the use of tactics, the watchdogs of strategy that take advantage of short-t… read more

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16. 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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17. 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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18. How the Mind Works

By: Steven Pinker

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this extraordinary bestseller, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists, d… read more

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19. 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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20. Chess Fundamentals, Revised

By: José Raúl Capablanca , Nick de Firmian

1.80

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

J.R. Capablanca was a World Chess Champion and one of the greatest players in chess history, yet he… read more

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21. 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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22. The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions Into Chess Mastery

By: Jeremy Silman

3.00

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

This book takes the student on a journey through his own mind and returns him to the chess board wi… read more

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23. 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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24. Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual

By: Jacob Aagaard , Jim Marfia , Mark Dvoretsky , Artur Yusupov , None

3.46

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A Modern Classic - Third Edition! When it first appeared, Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual was immediatel… read more

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25. 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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26. How to Beat Your Dad at Chess

By: Murray Chandler

3.69

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

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27. Chess For Dummies

By: James Eade

3.69

Format: 355 pages,

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28. This Book Is Perfect!

By: Ron Keres

4.53

Format: 20 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning creators of The Scariest Story You've Ever Heard, comes a delightful and whi… read more

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Cover of How to Win at Chess: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners and Beyond by Levy Rozman

29. 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
  • reference
Cover of All the Wrong Moves: A Memoir About Chess, Love, and Ruining Everything by Sasha Chapin

30. 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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  • nonfiction
  • chess
Cover of Perpetual Chess Improvement: Practical Chess Advice from World-Class Players and Dedicated Amateurs (New in Chess) by Ben                 Johnson

31. 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

In a world awash in educational chess content, knowing how to study the game most effectively can b… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • chess

12 Top nonfiction books like Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games by Bruce Pandolfini, László Polgár

Transform Your Habits

The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal

Mikhail Tal , Iakov Damsky , Kenneth P. Neat

4.50

Transform Your Habits

Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall—From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness

Frank Brady

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Play Winning Chess

Jeremy Silman , Yasser Seirawan

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 (Dover Chess)

None , Jim Marfia , David Ionovich Bronstein , Boris Samoilovich Vainshtein

4.45

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10 Top nonfiction books like Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess by Fred Waitzkin

Transform Your Habits

The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal

Mikhail Tal , Iakov Damsky , Kenneth P. Neat

4.50

Transform Your Habits

Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall—From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness

Frank Brady

3.94

Transform Your Habits

How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess Mastery Course

Jeremy Silman

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess

Fred Waitzkin

3.94

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