- ELO: 1600
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- 1800
- Chess Secrets: Heroes of Classical Chess
- Craig Pritchett
- ELO: 1600
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- 2000
- Complete Chess Strategy, Play on the Wings
- Ludek Pachman
- ELO: 1400
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- 1800
- The Practical Endgame Bible, Guidelines for the Fundamentals of the Endgame
- Boroljub Zlatanovic
- ELO: 1800
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- 2000
- Learn From the Legends, Chess Champions at Their Best (10th Anniversary Edition)
- Mihail Marin
- ELO: 1800
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- 2000
- The French Defense Revisited
- Dragoljub Jacimovic, Boroljub Zlatanovic
- ELO: 2000
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- 2200+
- Opening for White According to Anand 1.e4, Volume 11
- Alexander Khalifman
- ELO: 1600
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- 1800
- The Mammoth Book of the World’s Greatest Chess Games
- Graham Burgess, John Nunn, Wesley So, John Emms, Michael Adams
- ELO: 2000
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- 2200
- A complete Opening Repertoire for Black after 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6! 1, Nimzo-Indian
- Dariusz Swiercz
- ELO: 1800
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- 2000
- Comprehensive Chess Endings Volume 5, Rook Endings
- Yuri Averbakh, Nikolai Kopayev
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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
- For any rating
- Critical Theory: A Chess Biography of Isaak Lipnitsky
- Mykola Fuzik, Alexei Radchenko
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