- ELO: 1400
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- 1800
- Chess Exam: You vs. Bobby Fischer: Matches Against Chess Legends, You vs. Bobby Fischer
- Igor Khmelnitsky
- ELO: 1800
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- 2000
- Learn from the Legends, Chess Champions at their Best
- Mihail Marin
- ELO: 1600
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- 1800
- First Grandmaster of the Soviet Union: A Chess Biography of Boris Verlinsky
- Sergei Tkachenko
- ELO: -800
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- 1000
- Chess for Kids: My First Chess Book to Learn How to Play and Win
- Samuel Mate
- ELO: 1600
- -
- 2000
- Sicilian Attacks: Powerful Charges & Typical Tactics
- Yuri Yakovich
- ELO: 2000
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- 2200+
- Opening for White According to Kramnik 1.Nf3, Volume 1
- Alexander Khalifman
- ELO: 1200
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- 1400
- Learn Chess the Right Way! Book 3: Mastering Defensive Techniques
- Susan Polgar
- ELO: 1200
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- 1400
- Side-Stepping Mainline Theory
- Gerard Welling, Steve Giddins
- ELO: 1400
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- 1600
- The Lasker Method to Improve in Chess
- Gerard Welling, Steve Giddins
- ELO: 1800
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- 2000
- The King’s Gambit: A modern view of a swashbuckling opening
- Neil McDonald
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- ELO: 1800
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- 2200
- Playing the Caro-Kann: A Counter-attacking Repertoire
- Lars Schandorff
- ELO: 1600
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- 1800
- First Grandmaster of the Soviet Union: A Chess Biography of Boris Verlinsky
- Sergei Tkachenko
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- Critical Theory: A Chess Biography of Isaak Lipnitsky
- Mykola Fuzik, Alexei Radchenko
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