Note- ratings are meant to approximate USCF/FIDE ratings.

Rating guidelines are approximate guesses!Ī (Partial) List of Ben’s Favorite Chess Books Lots of these books are also available on Chessable and other “e book” websites, so be sure to check for each book in your preferred format. For a sophisticated and functional set, the Marble Chess Set ( view at CB2) is an aesthetic and modern set that is made out of durable and handsome marble. Please note that we are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to and affiliated sites. GM++ top human chess book: 24,944,386 positions/moves, 1,064,993 variations based on 932,670 GM human games Tournament CTG book with 29,465,051 positions/moves and 1,813,194 variations based on 1,777,433 top quality games 'I subscribe to your Powerbook now and Im pretty impressed by it, I use it all the time in my chess teaching. The board itself folds in half, making for easy storagethat is, if you ever want to take this handsome set off display. Bobby Fischer’s book is still one of the best-selling chess books. Learning how to play Chess from a number of the best players ever proved to be useful for a generation of chess players. by Bobby Fischer, Stuart Margulies, and Don Mosenfelder. I have attempted to sort these books by level of difficulty within each rating range. Below are the Best Chess Books: Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess. I don’t always agree with my guests’ suggestions, so I also thought it might be helpful to make a list of my own favorite chess books for various experience levels. In January of 2021, Dr, Patzer (creator of the excellent Patzer’s Review, book review blog) made a spreadsheet with the total number of recommendations per book. For recommendations on more recent episodes please go to the show notes for each interview. You can still see the old list of all books recommended by guests through 2019 here. In the early days of the podcast, I kept a list books recommended by guests that I updated regularly, but it grew so large that I stopped updating it. As regular listeners know, I love chess books and often ask guests to recommend their favorites.

Best chess books