Free chess books

If you want chess books as PDFs or other formats without paying for them, then search for chess books at the Internet Archive or GoogleBooks. There are hundreds of chess books that are old enough that the copyright has expired. Moreover, most of them are full of games that are not in any databases. That's right, original material.

If you want free PDFs of chess books that are still under copyright, I'm gonna help shut down your forum thread.

chess.com needs a "like" button...

And I'll wield the sword. 

darn! i was just about to post many pdf's of some. starting with ghost of pushwood's iconic, "i start with a3!", along with a long winded analysis that says next to nothing (but some will think the *analysis* is grand!)

or, drspudnik's "how to fight the fried liver with a baked kidney". 

or, the classic "how to really use the bongcloud" by returnofthesonof.

I'll just post because you guys are cool and I want to be like yous when I grow up.

we haven't grown up yet!

(but don't tell anyone!)

Hmm. I will go check that out thanks

i think a guy named mike skinner wrote about him.