Chess

Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide in homes, parks, clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments. ...more

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Check & Mate
How to Win at Chess: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners and Beyond
The Last Checkmate
The Partisan
The First Move
May the Best Player Win
The Chess Revolution: Understanding the Power of an Ancient Game in the Digital Age
Il Mago di Riga
La diagonale Alekhine
La mossa del matto. L'Iliade di Bobby Fischer
Black & White: The Rise and Fall of Bobby Fischer
How to Study Chess on Your Own: Creating a Plan that Works… and Sticking to it!
The Queen of Chess: How Judit Polgár Changed the Game
Gagner aux échecs (même quand on débute): Maîtriser sa partie de l'ouverture jusqu'au mat
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
Logical Chess: Move By Move: Every Move Explained New Algebraic Edition
How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess Mastery Course
The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions into Chess Mastery
Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner to Master
My 60 Memorable Games
My System: A Treatise on Chess
The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal
Art of Attack in Chess
The Queen's Gambit
Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games
Winning Chess Tactics (Winning Chess - Everyman Chess)
Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 (Dover Chess)
DVORETSKY'S ENDGAME MANUAL, 2nd Ed.
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
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingIA by John Darryl WinstonChess Story by Stefan ZweigThe Flanders Panel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Chess in Fiction
60 books — 46 voters
Check & Mate by Ali HazelwoodThe Girl He Used to Know by Tracey Garvis GravesThis Duchess of Mine by Eloisa JamesThe Duchess War by Courtney MilanCheckmate by R.L. Mathewson
Checkmate: Chess in Romance Novels
42 books — 33 voters

Ready Player One by Ernest ClineHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingEnder’s Game by Orson Scott CardThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsAlterWorld by D. Rus
The Games We Play
105 books — 57 voters
La variante di Lüneburg by Paolo MaurensigLa regina degli scacchi by Walter TevisLa mossa del cavallo by Andrea CamilleriL'uomo che guardava passare i treni by Georges SimenonNovella degli scacchi by Stefan Zweig
Scacco al libro
24 books — 17 voters

Check & Mate by Ali HazelwoodThe First Move by Jenny IrelandNot an Easy Win by Chrystal D. GilesFocused by Alyson GerberCuriosity by Gary L. Blackwood
YA & Middle Grade Chess Fiction
12 books — 4 voters
My 60 Memorable Games by Bobby FischerBobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby FischerLogical Chess by Irving ChernevThe Life and Games of Mikhail Tal by Mikhail TalHow to Reassess Your Chess by Jeremy Silman
Best Chess Books
298 books — 127 voters


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Marcel Duchamp
All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess. ...more
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There had been a few times over the past year when she felt like this, with her mind not only dizzied but nearly terrified by the endlessness of chess.
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