Chess books?

What would be your favourite/best chess book you have read?

Renaud and Kahn, The Art of the Checkmate.

Thanks I'll check them out!

Please other people comment there favourites too, I need to get better, thanks

Even though I've been playing chess for 40 years, I'm one of those guys with way way more books than I have read--thus my seemingly permanent low rating.

However, the one chess book that opened my eyes more than any other single one (and one of the few I read and studied cover to cover) was Alburt's "Comprehensive Chess Course"--especially volume II.

Alburt's method of slowly developing concepts through exercises, short games, questions, hundreds of examples, and quizzes just made the game all fall together for me. Additionally, he treats the game as an organic whole. He doesn't separate openings, tactics, strategy, and endings into discrete parts. Rather he addresses each in turn as they arise throughout the book. That way the developing student learns through a more holistic approach.

It's the one book I turn back to frequently.

Play Winning Chess by Seirawan. Yes this is a beginner book, but this is the book that maked me appreciate chess..

Learn from the masters. The basics of chess is important. "Chess Fundamentals" by Capablanca.

Thanks guys

http://ebookee.org/CHESS-Attack-with-GM-Julian-Hodgson-Book-2-1997-_1332521.html Attack with GM Julain Hodgson Book 2. Its pretty good and the only chess book I have read cover to cover.