Textbooks on all areas of chess

  • ELO: -800
  • -
  • 1000
Chess book review, Chess For Dummies, James Eade
  • Chess For Dummies
  • James Eade
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  • ELO: 1800
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  • 2000
Chess book review, Technique in Chess, Mark Dvoretsky
  • Technique in Chess
  • Mark Dvoretsky, Artur Yusupov
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  • ELO: 2000
  • -
  • 2200+
Chess book review, Secrets of Practical Chess, John Nunn
  • Secrets of Practical Chess
  • John Nunn
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  • ELO: 1800
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  • 2200
Chess book review, The How to Study Chess on Your Own Workbook - Volume 1, Davorin Kuljasevic
  • The How to Study Chess on Your Own Workbook – Volume 1
  • Davorin Kuljasevic
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  • ELO: 1400
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  • 1800
Chess book review, The How to Study Chess on Your Own Workbook - Volume 2, Davorin Kuljasevic
  • The How to Study Chess on Your Own Workbook – Volume 2
  • Davorin Kuljasevic
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  • ELO: 1400
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  • 1800
Book cover of How Chess Games are Won and Lost by Lars Bo Hansen, chess book review
  • How Chess Games are Won and Lost
  • Lars Bo Hansen
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  • ELO: 1800
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  • 2200
Book cover of Modern Ideas in Chess by Richard Réti, chess book review
  • Modern Ideas in Chess
  • Richard Réti
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  • ELO: 1200
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  • 1400
Book cover of Beginners Guide - How to Learn Chess in 60 Minutes by Graham Thompson, chess book review
  • Beginners Guide – How to Learn Chess in 60 Minutes
  • Graham Thompson
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Combine every area of chess study, the opening, the middlegame, the endgame, as well as problem solving, and you get books listed below. I’m generally not a big fan of textbooks that attempt to cover chess as a whole, but some books in this category are remarkable.