Chess books on specific players, their games and careers. These are mostly game collections, with annotated instructive game analysis. This is what coaches mean when they say: “Study the classics.”
Rating:
- 1400
- -
- 2000
- Alekhine’s Odessa Secrets: Chess, War and Revolution
- Sergei Tkachenko
Rating:
- 1200
- -
- 2200
- Unveiling the Victory, How Spassky Won The Third World Junior Chess Championship Antwerp 1955
- Henri Serruys
Rating:
- 1400
- -
- 2000
- The Wizard of Warsaw: A Chess Biography of Szymon Winawer
- Tomasz Lissowski, Grigory Bogdanovich
Rating:
- 1400
- -
- 2000
- From Vienna to Munich to Stockholm: A Chess Biography of Rudolf Spielmann
- Grigory Bogdanovich
Rating:
- 1400
- -
- 2000
- First Grandmaster of the Soviet Union: A Chess Biography of Boris Verlinsky
- Sergei Tkachenko
Rating:
- -800
- -
- 2200+
- Critical Theory: A Chess Biography of Isaak Lipnitsky
- Mykola Fuzik, Alexei Radchenko
