 | My System: The Chess Player's Strategic Battle (Hardinge Simpole chess classics) by Aron Nimzowitsch
Buy new: £21.80 / Used from: £19.48 Essential reading on basic principles that every chess player should understand
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 | Pawn Power in Chess by Hans Kmoch
Buy new: £7.60 / Used from: £1.71 An ideal follow-up to My System and a genuine classic. This really focuses the mind on the importance of pawns.
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 | The Art of Attack in Chess by Vladimir Vukovic
Buy new: £10.71 / Used from: £9.50 Work through this book and your confidence will rocket. Understanding the themes and ideas in this book are meat and potatotes for any chess player.
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 | Fundamental Chess Endings: A New One-volume Endgame Encyclopaedia for the 21st Century by Karsten Muller
Buy new: £14.83 / Used from: £10.19 Superb, comprehensive, clearly written and a classic. If you had to choose only one reference for endings then this should be it.
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 | Logical Chess Move by Move (Batsford Chess Book) by Irving Chernev
Buy new: £8.49 / Used from: £6.28 Explains chess move by order with no pretence: clear and lucid and ideal for new players.
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 | My 60 Memorable Games, Selected and Fully Annotated. by Bobby Fischer
Buy used from: £6.95 No list is complete without M60MG! One of my very first chess books and now worn out!
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 | Modern Chess Strategy by Ludek Pachman
Buy new: £6.43 / Used from: £3.84 A timeless classic focusing on middlegame principles and thinking.
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 | The Ideas Behind the Chess Openings by Reuben Fine
Buy new: £6.37 / Used from: £3.84 Takes all the nonsense out of understanding the ideas behind various openings and puts them on a plate very clearly.
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