8 best-selling chess books like Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess by Fred Waitzkin

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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…

If you liked the chess plot in Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess by Fred Waitzkin , here is a list of 8 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

Similar categories in Mikhail Tal's The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal book and Fred Waitzkin's Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • chess
  • games
  • sports
"...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. 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

Similar categories in Frank Brady's Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall—From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness book and Fred Waitzkin's Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess

  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • chess
  • nonfiction
  • games
  • sports
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3. The Plot Against America

By: Philip Roth

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

This may be alternative history, but it is chillingly and convincingly realistic in its portrayal. … read more

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4. 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

Similar categories in Jeremy Silman's How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess Mastery Course book and Fred Waitzkin's Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess

  • games
  • nonfiction
  • chess
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5. 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 Fred Waitzkin's Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • chess
  • nonfiction
  • games
  • sports
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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. 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
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • chess

8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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13. Blood and Guts in High School

By: Kathy Acker , None , None

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Janey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a… 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. 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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16. The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence

By: Josh Waitzkin

4.60

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Josh Waitzkin knows what it means to be at the top of his game. A public figure since winning his f… read more

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17. Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road

By: Kyle Buchanan

4.33

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A full-speed-ahead oral history of the nearly two-decade making of the cultural phenomenon Mad Max:… read more

Similar categories in Kyle Buchanan's Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road book and Fred Waitzkin's Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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18. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

By: Joe Posnanski

4.56

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

A masterful ode to the a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
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19. 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

Similar categories in Levy Rozman's How to Win at Chess: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners and Beyond book and Fred Waitzkin's Searching for Bobby Fischer: The Father of a Prodigy Observes the World of Chess

  • games
  • nonfiction
  • chess
Cover of All the Wrong Moves: A Memoir About Chess, Love, and Ruining Everything by Sasha Chapin

20. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • chess
  • nonfiction
  • sports
Cover of The Grandmaster: Magnus Carlsen and the Match That Made Chess Great Again by Brin-Jonathan Butler

21. The Grandmaster: Magnus Carlsen and the Match That Made Chess Great Again

By: Brin-Jonathan Butler

3.42

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A firsthand account of the dramatic 2016 World Chess Championship between Norway's Magnus Carlsen a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sports
  • biography
  • chess

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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9 Top audiobook books like The Grandmaster: Magnus Carlsen and the Match That Made Chess Great Again by Brin-Jonathan Butler

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

The Angel of Indian Lake (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #3)

Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself

Rich Roll

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Adam Higginbotham

4.37

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