Best Chess Books
Discover the best chess books ever written, featuring expert picks like Kings, Commoners and Knaves by Edward Winter and The Oxford Companion to Chess by David Hooper. Perfect for players seeking strategy, history, and game analysis—boost your chess knowledge with this curated essential reading list.
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The Oxford Companion to Chess
by David Hooper
This newly revised edition, by former British Correspondence Chess Chanpion David Hooper, has been called one of the most readable and useful chess reference books available. More than 2,500 entries cover subjects from named openings and strategies to computers and theatre. Illustrated with over 500 chess diagrams, this book will appeal to chess players of all levels.
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Kings, Commoners and Knaves
by Edward Winter
A cornucopia of games, positions, biographies, mysteries, howlers, reviews, quotations, etc., featuring a cast of hundreds from the chess world of today and yesteryear -- the champions and the under-achievers; the scholars and the bunglers; the saints and the sinners. Every page provides fascinating, little-known material from an author who is prepared to name names.
