Chess Books
The Chess Books That Helped Me To Become a Grandmaster I learned to play chess in 1986 and was immediately struck by a chess fever. I started playing at home and at school but soon I started to study with books. At that time this was my only way of learning. There was no internet nor tournaments in my city. So the books were an essential part of my progress. This is the list of the most important books I studied until I achieved the GM title. They are not the best books ever written but those who helped me most on this journey. I think this list can be useful to chess enthusiasts for two main reasons: 1- To understand the way forward and what types of books are most important in the formation of a chess player; 2- To find similar, up to date, works or read the same books – some are classics and timeless in value. The books will be shown in chronological order. That is, the earliest books were studied at the beginning of my development and the last ones when I was already close to the ...