📚 Chess

The sixty-four squares: openings and endings, world champions, and the board’s serious following.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject chess in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Chess fundamentals	José Raúl Capablanca	1921	62
	My system, a treatise on chess	Aron Nimzowitsch	1925	32
	Chess for Dummies	James Eade	1996	25
	Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess	Bobby Fischer	1966	16
	My 60 memorable games	Robert J. Fischer	1969	16
	The art of the checkmate	Georges Renaud	1955	12
	Birth of the Chess Queen	Marilyn Yalom	2004	11
	The chess-player's handbook	Howard Staunton	1848	10
	Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur	Max Euwe	1963	10
	The Breathing Method	Stephen King	1984	10
	Complete Chess Player	Fred Reinfeld	1953	9
	Judgement and Planning in Chess	Max Euwe	1953	9
	The art of attack in chess	Vladimir Vuković	1965	8
	Test Your Chess IQ	August Livshitz	1981	8
	Chess for Beginners	Israel Albert Horowitz	1959	7
	Learn chess	C. H. O'D Alexander	1963	7
	Begin Chess	David B. Pritchard	1973	7
	The Chess Player's Bible	James Eade	2004	7
	Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual	Mark Dvoretsky	2006	7
	A history of chess	H. J. R. Murray	1913	6
	Modern chess strategy	Edward Lasker	1950	6
	Modern Chess Openings	John Herbert White	1972	6
	World Champion Openings	Eric Schiller	1997	6
	Chess Openings	Frank James Marshall	1904	5
	How to be a winner at chess	Fred Reinfeld	1954	5
	The game of chess	Harry Golombek	1957	5
	The art of defence in chess	Lev Polugaevskiĭ	1988	5
	How to reassess your chess	Jeremy Silman	1991	5
	Chess	Laszlo Polgar	1995	5
	The Mammoth Book of Chess	Graham Burgess	1997	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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