German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher, Emanuel Lasker, PhD (1868–1941), who was World Chess Champion from 1894 to 1921, reveals his secrets in this classic how-to chess primer. In his prime the author was one of the most dominant champions...

A Primer of Chess teaches you how to find the good moves. When it is your turn to move, your objective as a chess player should be to find a good move. If every move you play in the game is a good move, you will win, usually because your opponent will...

Brought together for the first time in one volume are three books by the titan of chess, José Capablanca. One of the greatest chess prodigies of all time, he evolved the most perfect chess technique seen on a chessboard. A former World champion,...

Last Lectures is, as the name suggests, a series of lectures given over the radio by former World Chess Champion José Raúl Capablanca just a few months before he died. While he was preparing these lectures, he dictated them to his wife,...

Tartakower’s Legendary Magnum OpusThe decade after the First World War was one of exciting change for the royal game. A new wave of dynamic chess was taking shape, led by the young lions Alekhine, Réti, Nimzowitsch, Breyer, Euwe, Tartakower...

Ilya Maizelis’s masterpiece is the definitive introduction to the game of chess. It has inspired generations of Russians to take up the game, including arguably the two greatest players of all time, the 12th and 13th World Champions.   In the...

Are you a chess addict, or do you just play at it? Whatever you are, you will be enlightened, intrigued, amused by this gossipy, intimate account of chess masters and how they operate. Like all of Fine's book, this one combines humor, understanding and...

Book Description Meet the Masters contains the biographies of the eight strongest players in the world at that time. It includes their histories, photographs, games and an analysis and critique of their playing styles. Each of these eight players had...

Book Description The Chess-Player's Companion: Comprising a New Treatise On Odds, and a Collection of Games Contested by the Author with Various Distinguished Players during the last ten years including the Great French Match with Mons. St. Amant; to...

  Publisher: Ishi Press Author: Larry Evans Year of Publication: 2010 (2nd) Pages: 138 Notation Type: Descriptive (DN)   Book Introduction: Trophy Chess was one of Bobby Fischer's favorite books. He studied it with great care...

  Publisher: Ishi Press Author: Howard Staunton Year of Publication: 2009 Pages: 578 Notation Type: Descriptive (DN)   Book Description The name "Staunton" has become so closely associated with chess that the words have become...

  Publisher: Ishi Press Author: Jose Raul CapablancaYear of Publication: 2009(2nd) Pages: 121 Notation Type: Descriptive (DN)   Book Description This is the masterpiece by World Chess Champion Jose Raul Capablanca who is regarded...

  Publisher: Ishi Press Author: Richard RetiYear of Publication: 2009(2nd) Pages: 223 Notation Type: Descriptive (DN)   Book Description Modern Ideas in Chess is one of the Great Classics of chess literature. Originally published...

  Publisher: Ishi Press Author: Francis J. Wellmuth Year of Publication: 2009 (2nd) Pages: 248 Notation Type: Descriptive (DN)   Book Introduction: The Golden Treasury of Chess is one of the most popular and most often reprinted...

  Publisher: Ishi Press Author: Richard RetiYear of Publication: 2008(2nd) Pages: 436 Notation Type: Descriptive (DN)   Book Description Widely regarded as the best chess book ever written, "Masters of the Chessboard", discusses...

  Publisher: Ishi Press Author: Weaver W. AdamsYear of Publication: 2007(2nd) Pages: 252 Notation Type: Descriptive (DN)   Book Description When "White to Play and Win" was first published, it created a great sensation because...

  Publisher: Dover Author: Emanuel Lasker Year of Publication: 1960 Pages: 349 Notation Type: Descriptive (DN)   Book Description Lasker's Manual of Chess is one of the greatest chess books ever written. The fact that it was first...