KOSTYA'S RECOMMENDATIONSand links
Chess Fundamentals
Ilya Mazelis - The Soviet Chess Primer (0 - 1800)
Irving Chernev - Logical Chess Move by Move (0 - 1800)
Irving Chernev - The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played (1000 - 1800)
John Nunn - Understanding Chess Move by Move (1500 - 2000)
John Watson - Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy (1600 - 2000)
R.B. Ramesh - Fundamental Chess: Logical Decision Making (1400-2200)
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Tactics & Calculation
Susan Polgar - Learn Chess The Right Way (5 books, 0 - 1400)
Alburt & Palatnik - Tactics for the Tournament Player (1200 - 2000)
Vladimir Vuckovic - The Art of Attack (1400 - 2200)
Spielmann & Muller - The Art of Sacrifice in Chess (1400 - 2200)
Maxim Blokh - Combinative Motifs (1400 - 2200)
Smith & Tikkanen - The Woodpecker Method (1600 - 2400)
Jacob Aagaard - Excelling at Chess Calculation (1800 - 2200)
Volokitin & Grabinsky - Perfect Your Chess (2200+)
Chessking software/apps (PC, Apple, Android) - Tactics For Beginners, CT-Art (1400-1600), and CT-Art 4.0 to name a few but there are many others.
Middlegame Play
Jeremy Silman - Reassess Your Chess, 4th edition (1200 - 1800)
Johan Hellsten - Mastering Chess Strategy (1400 - 2200)
Mauricio Flores Rios - Chess Structures: A Grandmaster Guide (1600 - 2200)
Alexey Suetin - A Contemporary Approach to the MIddlegame (1800 - 2200)
Israel Gelfer - Positional Chess Handbook (1800 - 2200)
Landa & Sakaev - The Complete Manual of Positional Chess 1 & 2 (2000 - 2400)
Boris Gelfand - Positional Decision Making in Chess & Dynamic Decision Making in Chess (2000+)
Endgame Play
Jeremy Silman - Complete Endgame Course (0 - 2200)
Mikhail Shereshevsky - Endgame Strategy (1200 - 2200)
Johan Hellsten - Mastering Endgame Strategy (1400 - 2200)
Jesus de la Villa - 100 Endgames You Must Know (1200 - 2400)
Mark Dvoretsky - Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual (2200+)
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Openings
Quality Chess - GM Repertoire series (1800+)
Chess24/Chessbase/Chessable courses (level greatly varies)
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Series of Books - (for players who want a structured training program)
Yasser Seirawan - Winning Chess (1000-1600)
Artur Yusupov - Build Up Your Chess/Boost Your Chess/Chess Evolution (1400-2200)
Jacob Aagaard - Excelling at Chess (1800-2200)
Mark Dvoretsky - School of Chess Excellence & School for Future Champions (2100+)
Jacob Aagaard - Grandmaster Preparation (2200+)
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Game Collections (suitable for all levels with the exception of Kasparov)
Mikhail Tal - Life and Games of Mikhail Tal
Bobby Fischer - My 60 Memorable Games
Alexei Shirov - Fire on Board 1 & 2
Vladimir Kramnik - My Life and Games
Garry Kasparov - My Great Predecessors I-V & Kasparov on Kasparov 1-3 (1800+)
Simen Agdestein - Wonderboy Magnus Carlsen
DAVID'S RECOMMENDATIONSand links
Game Collections
My Best Games of Chess 1908-1937 by Alekhine
100 Selected Games by Botvinnik
My 60 Memorable Games by Fischer
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice by Bronstein
Tournament/Match Books
The March of Ideas
Modern Ideas in Chess (1000+) by Reti
My Great Predecessors (1800+) by Kasparov
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Psychology/Self-Improvement
The Seven Deadly Sins by Rowson
The Road to Chess Improvement by Yermolinsky
The Art of Learning by Waitzkin
Tactics
https://www.chess.com/puzzles (0+)
Chess 5534 Problems (0+) by Polgar
Openings
Grandmaster Preparation (1400+) by Lev Polugaevsky
Winning Quickly at Chess (1400+) by Iakov Neishtadt
*Avoid* “winning with the blah” or “play the blah”
Endgames
Endgame Strategy (1200+) by Shereshevsky
Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual (2200+) by Dvoretsky
Endgame Studies 101 by Kavutskiy
Middlegame
Winning Chess Strategy (1200-1600) by Seirawan and Silman
My System (1400+) by Nimzovitsch
The Art of the Middlegame (1400+) by Keres and Kotov
Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy (1600+) by Watson
Small Steps to Giant Improvement (1400+) by Shankland
Fiction/Fun
The Queen’s Gambit by Netflix
JESSE'S RECOMMENDATIONSand links
General Books
The Seven Deadly Chess Sins, Rowson
Secrets of Grandmaster Play, Nunn
The Most Instructive Games of Chess ever played, Chernev
Tactics
Encyclopedia of Chess Combinations, Matanovic
Middlegame
Perfect Your Chess, Grabinsky and Volokitin
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Endgames
Rook Endgames, Levenfish and Smyslov
Endgame Strategy, Shereshevsky
Encyclopedia of Chess Endings, Kalinichenko
Game Collections
My 60 Memorable Games, Fischer
Openings
Chessbase + Chessable
For Coach and Student
Lichess analysis board