Best Chess Resources for Beginning Players

Here are 10 excellent resources — books, videos, and websites — for beginners, and for stronger players too !

1) 101 Questions on How to Play Chess (Dover Chess, paperback book)  … by Fred Wilson

2) Winning Chess  (paperback book) … by Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld

3) Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess (paperback book) … by GM Bobby Fischer, and Stuart Margulies, Ph.D. and Donn Mosenfelder

4) Logical Chess, Move by Move: Every Move Explained  (paperback book) … by Irving Chernev

5) Chess Tactics for Champions: A step-by-step guide to using tactics and combinations the Polgar way (paperback book) … by Susan Polgar and Paul Truong

6) Videos on YouTube by NM Dan Heisman, at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCswhXU9OJwOB85Z8RgGEKOA

7) Simple Chess: New Algebraic Edition (Dover Chess) … by Michael Stean.

8) Chess Tonight Magazaine online (available now) and Chess Tonight YouTube channel (coming soon), at https://ChessTonight.com. Edited and published by NM Michael Pastore.

9) Silman’s Complete Endgame Course (paperback book) … by IM Jeremy Silman

10) The Mammoth Book of the World’s Greatest Chess Games (paperback book) … edited by Graham Burgess, John Nunn, John Emms.