Biographies and Players
- 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
- Alexei Radchenko, Mykola Fuzik
- ELO: 1600
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- 1800
- From Vienna to Munich to Stockholm: A Chess Biography of Rudolf Spielmann
- Grigory Bogdanovich
- ELO: 1600
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- 1800
- The Wizard of Warsaw: A Chess Biography of Szymon Winawer
- Grigory Bogdanovich, Tomasz Lissowski
- ELO: 1600
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- 1800
- Alekhine’s Odessa Secrets: Chess, War and Revolution
- Sergei Tkachenko
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.”
