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Thanks everyone for your info for my list of Canadian chess books! I'll update it as I get time.
I read the 300 books cover to cover. Favourites are any book by Irving Chernev and Edmar Mednis. Also, autobiographical best game collections, like Tartakower's 2 volumes.
After the first 300, I've read 3 more (Profile of a Prodigy, 2nd ed. and Endgame by Frank Brady; and the following).
Here's another book by a Canadian, a chess playing sports journalist from Vancouver:
The Grandmaster: Magnus Carlsen and the match that made chess great again by Brin-Jonathan Butler, hardcover, 2018.
It's about the 2016 World Championship match Carlsen-Karjakin. Great stuff as he explores the winners, losers and oddballs of the chess world to compare them to Carlsen.
I was slightly surprised to see that Liza Orlova has published a chess book entitled "Chess for Beginners: Know the Rules, Choose Your Strategy and Start Winning". I'm not sure of the publishing date but it appears to be available now. The last year or two has seen lots of young Canadian Players publish books. I just got Joshua and John Doknjas's book on the Najdorf Sicilian.
Just out off the press: "The Chess Player's Master Playbook: Develop your situational awareness" by John Bleau. Listed on Amazon (ISBN 1499307985). There is a French version as well.
(I wasn't referring to Canadian chess books, but a big thank you to everyone who pointed out the new Canadian chess books!)
I read another 19 chess books in 2019!
I was browsing for chess books in Fred Wilson's shop and he asks, by the way, have you read the best chess book ever written? What's that? And he reaches up and hands me down ... his book!
Profile of a Prodigy: The Life and Games of Bobby Fischer, revised 2nd ed. Frank Brady
Endgame Frank Brady
The Grandmaster: Magnus Carlsen and the match that made chess great again Brin-Jonathan Butler
1 Move Checkmates: 200 instructive and challenging mates for beginners! Eric Schiller
100 easy checkmates: 1 and 2 move checkmates to challenge your skills Larry Evans
Checkmate!: My first chess book Gary Kasparov
Bobby Fischer Goes to War: How the Soviets lost the most extraordinary chess match of all time David Edmonds, John Eidinow
Turning Advantage into Victory in Chess Andrew Soltis
Simple Attacking Plans Fred Wilson
Simple Chess, algebraic ed. Michael Stean, ed. Fred Wilson
Chess: East and West, Past and Present Charles Wilkinson, Jessie McNab Dennis
World Chess Championship 1957 Harry Golombek
100 Endgames You Must Know, 5th ed. Jesus de la Villa
Charousek's Games of Chess, corrected 2nd ed. Philip Sergeant, ed. Fred Wilson
Combat: My 50 Years at the Chess Board Sidney Bernstein
All the wrong moves: a memoir about chess, love, and ruining everything Alexander (Sasha) Chapin
Averbakh's Selected Games Yuri Averbakh
... and a couple of others. I enjoyed them all, but liked the Averbakh book best.
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