Classic Chess Literature, or The Books of Wood Pushing + Hot Women Chess Players

I have accumulated this chess book list from a handful of different sources which include Jeremy Silman and Natalia Pogonina. Also, I am making revisions as I come across more great chess titles.

Currently, I, with my 5" Sheesham wood magnetic pocket set, am reading WINNING CHESS STRATEGIES by Yasser Seirawan with Jeremy Silman.

Here we go!

M. Dvoretsky - all his books!

MY 50 YEARS OF CHESS by Frank Marshall

RUNNING THE GAUNTLET by Alan C. Waite

MASTERING THE CHESS OPENINGS VOL. 1 & 2 by John Watson

LOGICAL CHESS: MOVE BY MOVE by Irving Chernov

NUNN'S CHESS OPENINGS NCO by John Nunn, Joe Gallagher, John Emms, and Graham Burgess

MODERN CHESS OPENINGS: MCO 15th Edition by Nick De Firmian

500 MASTER GAMES OF CHESS by Dr. S. Tartakower

THE CHESS COMPANION by Irving Chernev

PACHMAN’S DECISIVE GAMES (Pitman, 1975), later published by Dover as DECISIVE GAMES IN CHESS HISTORY by Pachman

CHESS FOR FUN AND CHESS FOR BLOOD by Edward Lasker (1942)

MY BEST CHESS GAMES by Anatoly Karpov

THE GREAT CHESS MASTERS AND THEIR GAME (1952)

STEPS by Viktor Bologan

THEORY AND PRACTICE OF CHESS ENDINGS by Alexander N Panchenko

PSYCHOLOGY OF THE CHESS PLAYER by Reuben Fine

CHESS PROBLEMS by Nikolai Shumilin

64 LESSONS OF MASTERSHIP by Sergei Rublevsky

THE BATTLE OF CHESS IDEAS by Anthony Saidy (1972)

CHESS FUNDAMENTALS by Jose Raul Capablanca

MY SYSTEM by Aron Nimzowitsch

THE ZURICH INTERNATIONAL CHESS TOURNAMENT 1953 by David Bronstein

LASKER'S MANUAL OF CHESS by Emanuel Lasker

NOTES OF THE CHESS SECOND (aka "From London to Elista") by Evgeny Bareev and Ilya Levitov

MODERN IDEAS IN CHESS by Richard Reti

MY 60 MEMORABLE GAMES by Bobby Fischer

MY GREAT PREDECESSORS by Gary Kasparov

CHESS OPENINGS by Rueben Fine

I do not own all of these books (as my Chess.com rating proves), though rest assured that I will be seeking them out on eBay and the such.

I have actually read:

Chess In A Nutshell by Fred Reinfeld

Chess For Beginners by Al Horowitz

Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Stuart Margulies and Donn Mosenfelder

Reviews of these 3 and other books I have read may be found here:
http://www.librarything.com/profile/endersreads


Robert Pearson's Chess Blog recently posted a link to the "hottest chess pic". I offer you my two candidates:

Very classy!(Unknown)

Grandmaster Alexandra Kosteniuk comes to the heart of beauty.



Alas, I leave you with a poem:
Chess by Jorge Luis Borges

1
In their solemn corner, the players
govern the lingering pieces. The chessboard
delays them until daybreak in its severe
sphere in which colors are hateful.
Inside they radiate magical severity
the forms: Homeric tower, light
horse, armed queen, last king,
oblique bishop and attacking pawns.
When the players will have gone,
when time will have consumed them,
certainly the ritual will have not ceased.
In the Orient this war was lit
which amphitheater is today all the earth.
As the other, this game is infinite.
2
Fainting king, slanting bishop, fierce
queen, straightforward tower and cunning pawn
on the black and white path
searching and fighting their armed battle.
They ignore the player’s pointing hand
governs his destiny,
they ignore that a tamed severity
holds his will and day.
The player is himself a prisoner
(the sentence is Omar’s) of another board
of dark nights and light days.
God moves the player, and he, the chess piece.
Which God behind God begins the conspiracy
of dust and time and dream and agony?
Translated by Blanca Lista.