Eric Schiller's Books on Chess

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Last updated February 18, 2008

Eric Schiller has written over 100 books on chess, as sole author and in collaboration with leading chess personalities including Joel Benjamin, Eduard Gufeld, Garry Kasparov, Raymond Keene, Leonid Shamkovich, Jonathan Tisdall and John Watson.

Chess Books by Eric Schiller
For Beginners and Intermediate	General Books	For Advanced Players
Learn from Bobby Fischer's Greatest Games	Standard Chess Openings	Complete Defense to King Pawn Openings
Learn from Garry Kasparov's Greatest Games	Gambit Chess Openings Over 900 opening strategies!	Complete Defense to Queen Pawn Openings Featuring the Tarrasch Defense
Killer Chess Tactics	Unorthodox Chess Openings	Hypermodern Opening Repertoire For White
Whiz Kids Teach Chess: Chess for young Players by Ten Child Prodigies	World Champion Openings	100 Awesome Chess Moves
The Official Rules of Chess	Survive & Beat Annoying Chess Openings	639 End Game Positions
Encyclopedia of Chess Wisdom	Handbook of Tricky Opening Strategies in Chess	Development of Chess Master
First Chess Openings	How to Win with Hypermodern Chess Strategy	Secrets of the Sicilian Dragon
Gambit Opening Repertoire for White	Gambit Opening Repertoire for Black	Secrets of the King's Indian
The Rubinstein Attack
An endgame book in a unique format for all levels of players. Of Kings and Pawns Coming later this year: World Champion Openings (3rd edition)	CD-ROMs The Ultimate Tarrasch Bobby Fischer plays White Fall 2004 Collection Weapons of Chess Destruction Scholastic Chess Openings

Previews and sample chapters from published and upcoming books are available:

• Survive and Beat Annoying Chess Openings (with John Watson)
• Complete Defense to King Pawn Openings (2nd ed.)
•  The Official Rules of Chess (2nd edition)
• The Encyclopedia of Chess Wisdom (3rd Edition)
• Development of a Chess Master
• Standard Chess Openings (2nd Edition)
• Unorthodox Chess Openings (2nd Edition)
• Gambit Chess Openings
• Gambit Opening Repertoire for Black
• Hypermodern Opening Repertoire for White
• Whiz Kids Teach Chess

• Learn from Bobby Fischer's Greatest Games

• Learn from Garry Kasparov's Greatest Games (Bonus Chapters!)

• First Chess Openings (June 2005)

• Checkmate in One Move (August 2005)

• The Big Book of Chess (2007)

• The Rubinstein Attack: An Opening Strategy for White

More excerpts are available on the chess openings page. If you have broadband, feel free to download a 13 Meg file of PDF excerpts from many of my books.

Electronic Books and CDs

• The Ultimate Tarrasch

• The Janowski Indian

• Bobby Fischer plays White!

• Weapons of Chess Destruction

The Pterodactyl (1...g6, 2...Bg7, 3...c5) (Coming from Chess Central)

Electronic chess books in Bookup format are still available, but are out of date.

Chess books and CDs from other publishers, mostly out of print.

These books are listed with just ISBNs, not links, as you may have to search for them.