gars: <OneBadDog>: Here are the thirty-five books John Grefe put in his book:1) "A Programmed Introduction to the Game of Chess" (Sullivan)
2) "Learn Chess: a new way for all", (Alexander & Beach)
3) "Understanding the Open Games" (Soltis, Mednis, Peters)
4) "The Art of Chess Combinations" (Znosko-Borovsky)
5) "Chess Endings: Essential Knowledge" (Averbakh)
6) "The 1000 Best Short Games of Chess" (Chernev)
7) "The Art of the Checkmate" (Renaud and Kahn)
8) "Logical Chess Move by Move" (Chernev)
9) "1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate" and "1001 Winning Sacrifices and Combinations", both by Reinfeld
10)"An Illustrated Dictionary of Chess" (Brace)
11) "The Ideas Behind the Chess Openings" (Fine)
12) "Better Chess for Average Players" (Harding)
13) "The Tactics of the Endgame" (Ban)
14) "How to Play Chess Endings" (Znosko Borosky)
15) "How to open a Chess Game" (Evans, Gligoric, Hort, Petrosian, Keres, Larsen, Portisch)
16) "Practical Endgame Lessons" (Mednis)
17) "Judgement and Planning in Chess" (Euwe)
18) "A Complete Defense to 1 P-K4"
"A Complete Defense to 1 P-D4" (both by Cafferty and Hooper)
19) "Modern Chess Tactics, two volumes" (Pachman)
20) "Modern Chess Strategy" (Pachman). Here you can choose between Dover short edition or Batsford three-volume edition
21) "The Art of Attack in Chess" (Vukovic)
22) "Pawn Structure Chess" (Soltis)
23) "Grandmaster of Chess: The Complete Games of Paul Keres". Here you can choose between the Arco edition in three volumes (Descriptive Notation) or the two-volume Nunn-Keres, "The Road to the Top" and "The Quest for Perfection", in Algebraic Notation.
24) "500 Master Games of Chess" (Tartakower and Dumont)
25) "Modern Chess Opening Theory" (Suetin)
26) "Chess Informant"
27) "Batsford, RHM opening Series"
28) "Basic Chess Endings" (Fine)
29) "Batsford Endgame Series: Rook Endings"
30) "My Best Games of Chess, 1908-1923, 1924-1937" (Alekhine)
31) "The Best Move" (Hort, Jansa)
32) "Psychology of Chess" (Krogius)
33) "Think like a Grandmaster", "Play like a Grandmaster", "Train like a Grandmaster", all of them by Kotov
34) "Grandmaster Preparation" (Polugayevsky)
35) "Encyclopedia of Chess Openings", Volumes one to five.
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