Brown Mega Center for Chess Research Book List

A Chess Psychology + Computer Chess Book List:

Psychology

--The Inner Game of Chess. How to Calculate and Win. Andrew Soltis. McKay Chess Library. 1995. 359 pages.

--The Art of Learning. An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance. Josh Waitzkin. Free Press. 2007. 265 pages.

--Psychology in Chess. Nikolai Krogius. RHM Press. 1976. 243 pages.

--The Chess Mind. Gerald Abrahams. A Penguin Handbook. 1960. 346 pages.

--Schachpsychologie. Reinhard Munzert. Beyer Verlag. 1998. 390 pages.

--Chess. The Mechanics of the Mind. Pfleger and Treppner. 1988. 156 pages.

--Predicament in 2 Dimensions. Ariel Mengarini. Thinkers’ Press. 1979. 105 pages.

--Dynamics of Chess Psychology. Cary Utterberg. Chess Digest. 1994. 219 pages.

--The Psychology of Chess. Hartston and Wason. Facts on File. 1984. 138 pages.

--Winning Chess Psychology. Wilf Holloway. Scachfirma Fruth. 1997. 212 pages.

--Winning Chess Psychology 2. Wilf Holloway. 233 pages.

--The Grandmaster’s Mind. Amatzia Avni. Gambit. 2004. 176 pages.

--Thought and Choice in Chess. A. D. De Groot. Basic Books. 1965. 463 pages.

--Secrets of a Grandpatzer. Malibu Chess Press. Kenneth Colby. 1979. 139 pages.

--The Chess Mind. Cranberg and Albert. Guilford Press. 1988. 190 pages.

--The Psychology of Chess Skill. Dennis Holding. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 1985. 271 pages.

--Chess Players’ Thinking. Pertti Saariluoma. Routledge. 1995. 201 pages.

--Chess Psychology. Angus Dunnington. Everyman Chess. 2003. 128 pages.

--Moves in Mind. The Psychology of Board Games. Gobet et al. Psychology Press. 2004. 273 pages.

--Chess Master at Any Age. Rolf Wetzell. Thinkers’ Press. 1994. 300 pages.

--Winning with Chess Psychology. Benko and Hochberg. McKay Chess Library. 1991. 264 pages.

--The Psychology of the Chess Player. Reuben Fine. Dover. 1967. 74 pages.

--Think Like a Grandmaster. Kotov. Batsford. 1994. 200 pages.

--Train Like a Grandmaster. Kotov. Batsford. 1981. 124 pages.

--How to Become a Candidate Master. Alex Dunne. Thinkers’ Press. 1985. 252 pages.

--Chess for Tigers. Simon Webb. Maxwell Macmillan Chess. 1991. 120 Pages.

--The Genius and the Misery of Chess. Zhivko Kaikamjozov. Mongoose Press. 2008. 224 pages.

--Philosophy Looks at Chess. Edited by Benjamin Hale. Open Court. 2008. 236 pages.

--Practical Chess Psychology. Amatzia Avni. Batsford. 2001. 160 pages.

--Blindfold Chess. History, Psychology, Techniques, Champions, World Records, and Important Games. Eliot Hearst and John Knott. McFarland and Company. 2009. 437 pages.

Computers

--Chess Skill in Man and Machine. Edited by Peter W. Frey. Springer-Verlag. 1977. 217 pages.

--Computers, Chess, and Cognition. Edited by T. A. Marsland and J. Schaeffer. Springer-Verlag. 1990. 323 pages.

--All the Right Moves, A VLSI Architecture for Chess. Carl Ebeling. MIT Press. 1986. 145 pages.

--Computer Chess. Monroe Newborn. ACM Monograph Series. 1975. 200 pages.

--Beautiful Mates: Applying Principles of beauty to Computer Chess Heuristics. Ben P. Walls. Dissertation.com. 1997. 115 pages.

--Chess and Computers. David Levy. Computer Science Press. 1976. 145 pages.

Fiction

--Magister Ludi, The Glass Bead Game. Hermann Hesse. Bantam. 1970. 522 pages.