Biographies

"Collector's volume, developed by FIDE for the 100th anniversary - printed in only 1000 copies"For...

The beginning of the 20th century was a different time in chess. The World Champion was the German...

Judit Polgar Teaches Chess 3This exceptional book completes the unique project where one of the...

Adolf Albin, a Romanian-born chess master of German origins, was renowned in epoque for his...

‘The Man Chess Made’Albert Beauregard Hodges is a legend among chess aficionados. One of the...

Award-winning historian Sergey Voronkov has written a four-volume psychological biography of...

Hikaru is a five-time US chess champion, ranked as high as second in the world with a stratospheric...

The Ultimate Fischer Collection!The years after the Second World War saw international chess...

Boris Spassky is the most underappreciated World Champion in chess history, remembered as the...

Mikhail Botvinnik is widely regarded as one of the greatest chess players of all time, in the same...

“My overall conception of this book poses a challenge, as most books on chess history don't focus...

José Raúl Capablanca (1888-1942, World Champion 1921-1927) had a way of posting his pieces on...

"How the Game Was Played, Glorified, and Abused in Nazi Germany, 1933–1945"The USSR is famous as...

Many historical chess books focus on individual 19th century masters and tournaments yet little is...

In Chess Survivor – The Last of the Greats a chess legend shares his life story and annotates his...

"How Alexander Alekhine Alienated the World and Changed the Game"Starting his reign in 1927,...

"The Life & Games of Géza Maróczy"Ask any chessplayer today if they recognize the name...

This is the autobiography of chess grandmaster and journalist Andy Soltis, one of the very few...

"A Chess Biography with 1,832 Games"Emanuel Lasker (1868–1941) had the longest reign of any world...

Two years ago, when we agreed with Tuinkers Publishing House on a series of books under the title...

"The Fascinating Chess and Football Careers of Simen Agdestein" Simen Agdestein was...

"The Musketeer Years 1908–1939"Gideon Ståhlberg (1908–1967) reigned among the world’s best...

"The Musketeer Years 1908–1939"Gideon Ståhlberg (1908–1967) reigned among the world’s best...

Robert Hübner (1948-2025) was one of the world’s leading players in the 1970s-1980s, reaching...