Saturday, January 3, 2009

Free Online Chess Books

Free Chess Books Online Resources

 Internet Archive - Over a thousand chess books for easy download. You can also use their search feature to sort them for you.

The Bishops Bounty - Free Tactics Books Page  -  15 Books (Page in Tactics Section of site)


Google Search of Books in Public Domain 

(Click link to Download PDF Version of Book)
(These Books are still Here, just enter Captcha on Googles site and download starts for some or click "Ebook - Free" Button for others) 


Strategy and Instruction

The Complete Guide to Chess Master: Chess Tactics, Chess Openings and Chess Strategies - 144 pg
Chess Praxis - By Howard Staunton
The Chess Tournament - By Howard Staunton
The Chess-player's Companion -By Howard Staunton
The Modern Chess Instructor - By William Steinitz
Mr. Blackburne's Games at Chess - By Joeseph henry Blackburne
The Laws and Practice of Chess -By Howard Staunton, Robert B. Wormald, Robert Bownas
Chess Strategy - By Eduard Lasker 
Chess Studies Comprising 1000 Games - By George Walker
Laskers Chess Magazine Vol 2 -  By Emanuel Lasker
Analysis of the game of Chess - Philidor
The Book of Chess - By Howard Staunton
The American Chess Players Handbook - By Howard Staunton



Chess Player Books

Morphys Games of Chess By Paul Charles Morphy, Johann Löwenthal
Marshals Chess Swindles - By Frank J Marshal (Over 125 Tourn. and Match Games)


Chess Opening Books

Chess Openings -By Frank James Marshall
Modern Chess Openings  - By Griffith and White  (Pretty old book of openings but FREE)
The Chess Openings considered critically and practically - By Henry Bird
Chess Openings For Beginners - By Cunningham
Positions in the Chess Openings most Freq. Played - Thomas Long
Chess Players Compendium (Practical Guide to Openings) - By William Cook
Synopsis of the Chess Openings - By William Cook
Chess Openings - By Fredrick Longman
The Chess Openings - By Ginsburg
Jaenisch's Chess Preceptor - Jaenisch and Valker 
The Chess Openings (Notable positions and problems) - By Bird


Chess Endgame Books

Chess Endings - By Freebourough
Chess Symposium - By Halpern  (100 Endgame Studies)
Select Chess Endgames from Actual Play - By Freebourough


Chess Problem Books (Tactics Books)

A Selection of Popular Two Move Chess Problems -  Brownson (100 problems)
A Collection of 200 Chess Problems -  By Francis Healey
Chess Problems  - By Pierce (Hundreds of Problems)

(Page of Internet Archive Downloads, Free Chessable Tactics Courses , ETC)

 

Chess Tournament Books

International Masters Tournament  Manhattan Chess Club 1918 - (Marshall and Capablanca present)
London Intern. Tourn. 1883  (Bird and Winawer present)
The Hastings Chess Tourn. 1885
The Monte Carlo Tourn 1903 - (Tarrasch, Marshall, and Maroczy)


(Final Note : Many of My Sidebar Topics Normally Have Links to Books or any type of PDF I may have found on that individual Topic near the top of each page. Quite a few of the PDF's are Smaller Pamphlet size Books 4 - 25 pages in size)

 
A stack of old Chess Books with chess pieces on top of the stack.



2 comments:

pratima said...

Playing chess will help in mental exercises, if you are newbie for playing chess there are lots of books available online that can be used.

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