Bobby Fischer - The Final Years $39.95 This extraordinary book describes the last years of the great legend and World Chess Champion, Bobby Fischer. It is written by his close friend and confidant, the Icelandic author Gardar Sverrisson who was instrumental in procuring Fischer asylum in... Add to Cart
Emanuel Lasker - A Reader $34.95 Among great chess masters, Emanuel Lasker (1868-1941) stands unique for the depth and broad scope of his intellect. Most of the game’s world champions have been single-mindedly chess-obsessed, with few outside interests. Lasker, however, was very... Add to Cart
Emanuel Lasker - Volume 1 $64.95 One of the most important publications of German publisher Exzelsior-Verlag was the monumental Lasker monograph, published in 2009, which quickly sold out. Now a new, three-part Lasker biography will be published in English.The first volume deals with... Out of stock
Who is the Champion of the Champions? $29.95 The former ICCF World Champion Dr. Fritz Baumbach (Germany), with his undoubted range of talents, has written a wonderful book which is surely one of the best ever produced. He has been assisted by American author and grandmaster Robin Smith and Swiss... Add to Cart
Lasker - Move by Move $29.95 Emanuel Lasker was world champion for a remarkable 27 years (1894-1921) and is generally regarded as having been way ahead of his time in his understanding of chess. He primarily regarded chess as a fight and considered that the strongest move in a... Add to Cart
Smyslov on the Couch $22.49 In his third full-length memoir about one of the world’s greatest ever chess players Genna Sosonko portrays a warm picture of the seventh world champion Vasily Smyslov, with whom he spent considerable time over the board, during tournaments and... Add to Cart
If You Must Play Chess $19.95 Arnold S. Denker was one of America's and the World's leading chess players. He played and competed in almost every leading chess event from 1933 right up until his death just short of age 91. He won the US Chess Championship in 1944 defeating Reuben... Add to Cart
C.J.S. Purdy International Master World Correspondence Chess Champion $25.95 C.J.S. Purdy, Australia's greatest chess player and the first World Correspondence Chess Champion, was widely acclaimed as one of the world's greatest chess writers and teachers. In this book the editors present not only an absorbing account of Pudy's... Add to Cart
Paul Morphy and the Golden Age of Chess $19.95 Everybody knows (or ought to know) of the meteoric career of Paul Morphy, who vanquished the mighty paladins of chess and became the first uncrowned champion of the world. And everyone enjoys (or ought to enjoy) the games, the men and the scene when... Add to Cart
Life and Games of Akiva Rubinstein - VOLUME 1 $29.95 Akiva Rubinstein occupies a unique position in chess history. One of the greatest artists ever to sit down at a chessboard, Rubinstein was also the strongest player never to get a shot at the title of World Champion.The Life & Games of Akiva... Add to Cart
Mikhail Tal's Best Games 3 $29.95 In this, the third and final volume of his landmark series, award-winning author Tibor Károlyi concludes his investigation into the life and career of Mikhail Tal, the most entertaining and popular world chess champion of all time. This book... Add to Cart
Team Tal - An Inside Story $13.95 First published in Russian in 2016 and written by Valentin Kirillov – Mikhail Tal’s close friend, sparring partner, team member and second – this book of memoirs describes key events from Tal’s life, portrays his mentors and... Add to Cart
Keres - Move by Move $29.95 Estonian grandmaster Paul Keres is one of the greatest players in chess history. Along with Viktor Korchnoi he is one of the best never to have gained the ultimate title of world champion. He was numbered among the very top players in the world for more... Add to Cart
The Unknown Alekhine - 1905-1914 $19.95 Fred Reinfeld found that there were many great games by Alekhine that were not included in his My Games Book. Fred set about collecting and going though these games. He found 102 interesting and exciting games not found in the other volumes. So he called... Add to Cart
Max Euwe - Fifth World Chess Champion $24.95 The Gentleman ChampionThe fifth book of the World Chess Champions series focuses on the life and career of the Dutchman Max Euwe. This soft-spoken professor of mathematics rocked the chess world in 1935 when he defeated the seemingly irresistible force,... Add to Cart
Checkmate - Bobby Fischer's Boys' Life Columns $17.95 A Look into BobbyÂ’s Mind From December 1966 until January 1970, Bobby Fischer wrote a chess column for BoysÂ’ Life, the official magazine of the Boy Scouts of America. Now, for the first time, all of these columns have been collected in one volume. It is... Add to Cart
Morphy - Move by Move $29.95 Paul Morphy is a chess legend and without doubt one of the greatest players in the history of the game. His understanding of the game was years ahead of his time and in his era he was easily the best player in the world. His chess career was brief but... Add to Cart
Eugenio Torre - Legendary Chess Careers $21.95 In this book, the author drives you through the very rich chess career of Eugenio Torre while interviewing him. This unique concept makes the book easy to read and gives the reader some inside information about that is happening also off the board thing... Add to Cart
Nona Gaprindashvili - Legendary Chess Careers $21.95 In this book, the author drives you through the very rich chess career of the 6th Women World Champion Nona Gaprindashvili while interviewing her. This unique concept makes the book easy to read and gives the reader some inside information about what is... Add to Cart
The Genius of Paul Morphy $25.95 Paul Charles Morphy (1837-84) was an extraordinary and precocious talent: a child prodigy who quickly rose to become the best player in America, and then the world, before he effectively retired from serious play at the age of 21. Morphy's prowess... Add to Cart
Lajos Portisch - Legendary Chess Careers $21.95 In this book, the author drives you through the very rich chess career of Lajos Portisch while interviewing him. This unique concept makes the book easy to read and gives the reader some inside information about what is happening also off the board,... Add to Cart
Tal - Move by Move $29.95 Mikhail Tal is a true legend of chess. He was the World Champion and also holds the world record for the longest unbeaten run in competitive chess. Tal is widely regarded to be the greatest attacking player of all time. Nicknamed ‘the magician from... Out of stock
Mikhail Chigorin $49.50 Mikhail Chigorin (1850-1908), the first great Russian chess master, belongs to that select group of exceptionally strong players who did not quite succeed in winning the world championship. The defining moment for Chigorin came when he blundered away a... Out of stock
Rubinstein - Move by Move $29.95 Akiba Rubinstein is a famous figure in the in the history of chess. At his peak, he was arguably the strongest player in the World, and only the outbreak of World War I deprived him of the opportunity to challenge his main rival Emanuel Lasker for the... Add to Cart
Alexander Alekhine $24.95 The World Chess Champion Series The fourth title in the popular World Chess Champion Series is about the enigmatic Alexander Alekhine. Tracing the Russian-born champion from his youth in Russia, through his assault on the chess Olympus and... Add to Cart
Stein - Move by Move $34.95 Leonid Stein was a three-time Soviet Chess Champion and one of the World's strongest players during his career, which was tragically cut short at its peak by his premature death in 1973. Stein was a fierce competitor who defeated virtually all of his... Add to Cart
Steinitz - Move by Move $27.95 Wilhelm Steinitz was the first undisputed World Chess Champion, and a true legend of the game. Steinitz played chess in precisely the same highly innovative, risk-taking, hard-hitting, yet thoroughly concrete way as any modern great. Allied to his... Add to Cart
Fischer - Move by Move $29.95 Bobby Fischer is a legendary chess figure, and many consider him to be the greatest chess player of all time. Fischer was a child prodigy who later developed into a phenomenal force. During his peak years he dominated his nearest rivals in a manner that... Add to Cart
Spassky - Move by Move $29.95 Boris Spassky is one of the greatest chess players in the history of the game. He was the World Champion for three years, after winning the title by beating Tigran Petrosian. His name is forever linked with his great rival Bobby Fischer and their epic... Add to Cart
Capablanca's Hundred Best Games of Chess $25.95 Jose Raoul Capablanca is widely regarded as the strongest chess player who ever lived prior to Bobby Fischer. The authoritative work, “The Rating of Chess Players Past and Present” by Arpad Elo, inventor of the modern rating system, rates... Add to Cart
Mikhail Tals best games 2 $29.95 In this, the second of three volumes, award-winning author Tibor Károlyi continues his groundbreaking exploration of Tal's sparkling career. Mikhail Tal is one of the most celebrated chess players of all time, and in 1960 he demolished... Add to Cart
Jose Raul Capablanca $54.95 About the BookThis is the most complete and thorough biography of José Raúl Capablanca, one of the greatest players in the history of chess. Beginning with his family background, birth, childhood and introduction to the game in Cuba, it... Add to Cart
Joseph Henry Blackburne $74.95 About the BookDuring a career spanning more than 50 years, J.H. Blackburne (1841–1924) won the British Chess Championship and several international tournaments, at his peak becoming one of the world’s top three chess masters. A professional... Add to Cart
Nimzovich the Hypermodern $19.95 Fred Reinfeld is the most prolific chess writer in the United States if not the world. He has achieved eminence as a player as well as an author and has defeated many of America's leading chess masters in tournament play. His victims include Denker,... Add to Cart
Around the Chess World in 80 Years - Lasker - Pillsbury - Rubinstein - Capablanca - Alekhine - Botvinnik $19.95 This is a study of the six greatest chess players in the world during the period 1870 to 1950 including all the games they played against each other, with biographies, annotations and statistics by chess master and mathematics professor Dr. Nathan J... Add to Cart
Botvinnik's Complete Games and Selected Writings Part 3 - 1957 - 1970 $44.95 Mikhail Botvinnik´s Analiticheskie i kriticheskije raboty were originally published in four volumes between 1984 and 1987. The first three volumes covered his best games, and an English translation of these has already been published by Moravian... Add to Cart
Larsen - Move by Move $29.95 Bent Larsen was one of the most influential chess players of the 20th century. He was a four-time Candidate for the World Championship and the first westerner to seriously challenge the Soviet Union's post-war dominance of the game. Larsen was admired by... Add to Cart
Nimzowitsch - Move by Move $27.95 Aron Nimzowitsch is one of the most important figures in chess history. He was one of the World's strongest players and contributed enormously to the development of chess both through his games and his writings, which influenced many grandmasters who... Add to Cart
Mikhail Tal's Best Games - VOL. 1 $29.95 Mikhail Tal is one of the most celebrated chess players of all time. The eighth World Champion not only won the title at a record young age, but did so using a ferocious, high-risk attacking style. Tal's spectacular games, along with his charming... Add to Cart
Korchnoi - Move by Move $29.95 Viktor Korchnoi is a chess legend. In a career which has spanned over 60 years, he won countless grandmaster tournaments, was a four-time Soviet Champion, a multi-time World Championship Candidate, and twice fought for the World Championship in famous... Add to Cart
The Immortal Games of Capablanca $19.95 This is the biography of Jose R. Capablanca, famous grandmaster of Chess, with 113 of his greatest games. The fame of the great Cuban Master Chess champion of the world from 1921 to 1927, is ample assurance that this superbly annotated... Add to Cart
Grandmasters of Chess - from Philidor to Capablanca and Alekhine $25.95 In Grandmasters of Chess, Harold Schonberg chronicles the life and times of some of the greatest Grandmasters of all time, from Philidor to Capablanca and Alekhine to everyone in between. Add to Cart
Aron Nimzowitsch - 1928-1935 $39.95 Every chess player who is serious about improving his game, should study the lessons of Aron Nimzowitsch (1886-1935). 'My System' (published in 1925) and 'Chess Praxis' (1928) had tremendous impact and made Nimzowitsch one of the most influential chess... Add to Cart
Botvinnik - Move by Move $29.95 Mikhail Botvinnik was a three-time World Chess Champion and is widely regarded as one of the World's greatest ever players. Botvinnik possessed a universal, all-round style with an emphasis on logic and strategy. He loved to attack but, in contrast to –... Add to Cart
Bobby Fischer - 60 More Memorable Games $24.95 National Master and Top Selling Amazon author Paul Powell explores the games of Bobby Fischer from a unique point of view. Focusing on his own personal journey and taking up the mission statement of his bestselling book “Chess Patzer to Master - How an... Add to Cart
My Best Games of Chess - 1908-1937 $34.95 The Genius of Alekhine- In chess literature, there have only been a very few chess books that have immediately-and permanently-established themselves as classics. Lasker's Manual of Chess by Emanuel Lasker, Masters of the... Add to Cart
The Great Chess Masters and Their Games $25.95 Is there any quality common in the world's greatest chess masters, any peculiarity which made them contestants upon that particular parti-coloured board and on no other? Is there, in other words, a chess-mind? Since 1851 there have been seven... Add to Cart
Bobby Fischer and His Predeccessors $25.95 The distinguished author, himself a past world champion and President of FIDE, analyzes aspects of Fischer's play in comparison with previous holders of the title Alekhine, Botvinnik, Capablanca, Euwe, Lasker, Petrosian, Smyslov, Spassky, Tal. He... Add to Cart
Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik - One Hundred Selected Games $25.95 Botvinnik One Hundred Selected Games is a direct translation in Descriptive Notation of a book in Russian published in Leningrad in 1949. Unlike most other cases where the translator takes some liberties, we have not been able to find any differences in... Add to Cart
Keres' Best Games of Chess $25.95 UNIVERSALLY acclaimed as the most brilliant master since the days of Paul Morphy. Keres has delighted the chess world with his dynamic combinative play and slashing surprise moves. In this exciting collection of his finest games, his claim to world... Add to Cart