Below you will find many of the books recommended in the 2017-2019 Perpetual Chess Interviews. For more recent recommendations, please check the show descriptions of individual episodes. If you would like to see some of the most recommended books on Perpetual Chess you can check out Dr. Patzer’s spreadsheet here.

 

 

Recommended by GM Jan Gustafsson:

 

Recommended by IM Nazi Paikidze:

 

Written by IM Kostya Kavutskiy

Modernized: The Open Sicilian
By Zhanibek Amanov, Kostya Kavutskiy
Buy on Amazon

Written by IM Christof Sielecki

Recommended by IM Christof Sielecki

Endgame Strategy (Everyman Chess)
$17.79
By Mikhail Shereshevsky
Buy on Amazon

Recommended by GM Jon Ludvig Hammer

Written by IM Michael Rahal

Written by GM Alex Yermolinsky (and recommended by Jon Ludvig Hammer)

Recommended by WGM Sabina Foisor

Recommended by GM Mesgen Amanov

Recommended by IM John Bartholomew

Recommended by IM David Pruess

My 60 Memorable Games
$13.31
By Bobby Fischer
Buy on Amazon

Recommended by GM Pontus Carlsson

Written by GM David Smerdon

Recommended by GM David Smerdon

Recommended by GM Eugene Perelshteyn

Perfect Your Chess
By Andrei Volokitin, Vladimir Grabinsky
Buy on Amazon

Written by GM Hikaru Nakamura

Bullet Chess: One Minute to Mate
$19.95
By Hikaru Nakamura, Bruce Harper
Buy on Amazon

Recommended by GM Hikaru Nakamura

Recommended by Writer Sean Williams

Recommended by IM Eric Rosen

Imagination in Chess by Paata Gaprindashvilli (out of print but available used)

 

Written by FM Alisa Melekhina

 

Recommended by FM Alisa Melekhina

Written by GM Danny Gormally

Recommended by GM Danny Gormally

Written by Coach Jay Stallings

Recommended by Coach Jay Stallings

Recommended by GM Robert Hess

My System
By Aron Nimzowitsch, Lou Hays
Buy on Amazon

Written by GM Judit Polgar

Written by James Altucher

Recommended by James Altucher

Recommended by GM Loek Van Wely

Written by GM Jesse Kraii

Recommended by IM Sagar Shah

GM Daniel King's Powerplay DVD Series

Written by IM John Watson

Recommended by GM Cristian Chirila

Recommended by Jonathan Corbblah

Written by WGM Jennifer Shahade

Recommended by WGM Jenn Shahade

Recommended by IM Andrey Ostrovskiy

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Recommended by GM Ben Finegold

Winning Chess Brilliancies
By Yasser Seirawan

Recommended by GM Nils Grandelius

Grandmaster Preparation
By Lev Polugaevsky

Written by IM John Donaldson and IM Eric Tangborn

Bobby Fischer: The Early Years: 1943 - 1962
By John Donaldson and Eric Tangborn
Bobby Fischer: The Later Years: 1963 - 2008
By John Donaldson and Eric Tangborn

Recommended by IM John Donaldson

Recommended by IM Greg Shahade

Mastering Chess Strategy
By Johan Hellsten

Recommended by GM Pepe Cuenca

Recommended by GM Pascal Charbonneau

Recommended by GM Elshan Moradiabadi

Fundamental Chess Endings
By Karsten Müller, Frank Lamprecht
Rook Endings (Tournament Player's Collection)
By Grigory Levenfish, Vasily Smyslov

Recommended by Mark Crowther 

Chess Lessons
By Vladimir Popov

Recommended by John Hartmann

Too many books to list, but here is a google doc with all of John's favorite/recommended chess books. Enjoy. :) 

Recommended by IM Asaf Givon

Recommended by GM Melik Khachiyan

Recommended by GM Yaroslav Zherebukh

Recommended by Adam Weissbarth

 

Recommended by Dan Lucas

 

Recommended by IM Kassa Korley

Perfect Your Chess
By Andrei Volokitin, Vladimir Grabinsky

Recommended by Mike Hoffpauir and Carol Meyer

Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
By Bobby Fischer, Stuart Margulies, Don Mosenfelder

 

Written by Sunil Weerumantry , Alan Abrams and Robert McLellan

Great Moves: Learning Chess Through History
By Sunil Weeramantry, Alan Abrams, Robert McLellan

Recommended by GM Irina Krush

Botvinnik: One Hundred Selected Games
By Mikhail Botvinnik, Stephen Garry

Recommended by Candidate Master Andrzej Kryzdwa

Domination in 2,545 Endgame Studies
By Ghenrikh M. Kasparyan
Pump Up Your Rating
By Axel Smith

Recommended by GM Josh Friedel

Thinking, Fast and Slow
By Daniel Kahneman

 

Written by GM Genna Sosonko

Recommended by Judit Sztaray

Solving in Style
By John Nunn

Written by FM Carsten Hansen

... plus many others :) 

Recommended by FM Carsten Hansen

Recommended by FM Mike Klein

Written by NM Fred Wilson

Picture History of Chess
By Fred Wilson
Simple Attacking Plans
By Fred Wilson

plus many more :) 

Recommended by NM Fred Wilson

Attacking Technique
By Colin Crouch
Botvinnik: One Hundred Selected Games
By Mikhail Botvinnik, Stephen Garry
Stein: Move by Move
By Thomas Engquvist

Recommended by Stacia Pugh

Recommended by GM Yannick Pelletier

 

Recommended by IM Kostya Kavuiskiy

Recommended by IM Saravanan

Written by GM Andy Soltis

Soviet Chess 1917-1991
By Andrew Soltis

and many more :)

Recommended by GM Andy Soltis

Written by GM Lev Alburt

Plus many more. :)

Recommended by GM Lev Alburt

Chess Fundamentals (Algebraic)
By Jose Raul Capablanca

Plus the books of Yasser Seirawan, Susan Polgar and Dvoretsky.

Recommended by Tarjei Svensen

Combinative Motifs
By Maxim Blokh

Written by Elliott Neff

Recommended by Elliott Neff

Outliers: The Story of Success
By Malcolm Gladwell
Practical Endgame Tips
By Edmar Mednis

Written by Christopher Chabris

The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us
By Christopher Chabris, Daniel Simons

Recommended by Christopher Chabris

Under the Surface
By Jan Markos
Chess Structures: A Grandmaster Guide
By Mauricio Flores Rios

Recommended by Cristobal Cervino

Endgame Strategy
By Mikhail Shereshevsky

Recommended by NM Alex King

The Chess Tutor (using the Steps Method)

Chess Notes by Edward Winter

Solving in Style
By John Nunn
The Best in Chess
By I.A. Horowitz, Jack Straley Battell
Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual
By Mark Dvoretsky

Recommended by GM Michael Rohde

Art of Attack in Chess
By Ladimir Vukovic

Recommended by Chessable Co-Founder David Kramaley

Recommended by Carsten Hensel

Grandmasters of Chess
By Harold C Schonberg



Recommended by GM Pontus Carlsson

Chess Structures: A Grandmaster Guide
By Mauricio Flores Rios

Recommended by IM Mark Dvoretsky

Test Your Positional Play (Macmillan Library of Chess)
By Robert Bellin, Pietro Ponzetto
The Best Move
By Vlastimil Hort, Vlastimil Jansa
Practical Endgame Tips
By Edmar Mednis

Recommended by GM Johann Hjartarson

50 Attacking Games by Fridrick Olafsson (available only in Icelandic)

Written by GM Joel Benjamin

Recommended by GM Joel Benjamin

Pawn Structure Chess
By Andrew Soltis
How to Open a Chess Game
By Larry Evans

Written by GM Alexandra Kosteniuk

Diary of a Chess Queen
By Alexandra Kosteniuk

Recommended by GM Alexandra Kosteniuk

Recommended by USCF Master Vinesh Ravuri

Endgame Strategy (Cadogan Chess Books)
By Mikhail Shereshevsky

Recommended by IM Tania Sachdev

Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual
By Mark Dvoretsky

Written by GM Mauricio Flores

Chess Structures: A Grandmaster Guide
By Mauricio Flores Rios

Recommended by GM Mauricio Flores

Written by GM Jacob Aagaard

(plus many more great books)

Recommended by GM Jacob Aagaard

Perfect Your Chess
By Andrei Volokitin, Vladimir Grabinsky

Written by GM Matthew Sadler and WIM Natash Regan

Chess for Life
By Matthew Sadler, Natasha Regan

Recommended by GM Matthew Sadler and WIM Natasha Regan

My 60 Memorable Games
By Bobby Fischer

Written by GM Michal Krasenkow

Learn from Michal Krasenkow

Recommended by GM Michal Krasenkow

Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual
By Mark Dvoretsky

Recommended by Stjepan Tomić

My System
By Aron Nimzowitsch
The Rules of Winning Chess
By Nigel Davies
Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual
By Mark Dvoretsky
Attack with Mikhail Tal (Cadogan Chess Books)
By Mikhail Tal, Iakov Damsky
Concise Chess Middlegames
By Neil McDonald
My 60 Memorable Games
By Bobby Fischer

Written by IM Herman Grooten

Written by GM Alex Colovic

Check out GM Colovic’s Chessable courses, including the Najdorf simplified, here.

Recommended by GM Alex Colovic

For all of Alex’s book recommendations check out his blog posts herehere and here.

Recommended by John Hartmann

Practical Chess Beauty
By Yochanan Afek

My Magical Years with Topalov by GM Romain Eduoard

Inside the World Chess Championship by GM Jan Gustafsson, Peter Heine Nielsen and Laurent Fressinet (via Chess24)

Written and Recommended by WIM Alexey Root

Too many to list :), please click over to the episode description and scroll to the bottom to see all of Alexey’s recommendations

See them here.

Written by GM Gata Kamsky

Recommended by Philadelphia Chess Society

Chess Tactics for Kids
By Murray Chandler