Twelfth Annual
ChessCafe.com
Book of the Year

And the winner is...

After several weeks of voting, one book stood out as the runaway winner. In previous years the voting has been close round-by-round, or one book will do well in the first round, but falter in the second. This year players (predominately from France, Israel, and The Netherlands) rallied overwhelmingly around just one title:

Invisible Chess Moves has been voted the ChessCafe.com 2011 Book of the Year. Congratulations to authors Yochanan Afek and Emmanuel Neiman, along with publisher New In Chess. Thank you to all those who voted!

ChessCafe.com
2011 Book of the Year

Invisible Chess Moves
by Yochanan Afek & Emmanuel Neiman

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Previous ChessCafe.com Book of the Year Winners

2010
Chess Duels
by Yasser Seirawan
Everyman Chess

2009
Chess Strategy for Club Players
by Herman Grooten
New In Chess

2008
Forcing Chess Moves
by Charles Hertan
New In Chess

2007
Silman's Complete Endgame Course
by Jeremy Silman
Siles Press

2006
Van Perlo's Endgame Tactics
by G.C. Van Perlo
New In Chess

2005
Learn from the Legends
by Mihail Marin
Quality Chess

2004
Pal Benko: My Life, Games and Compositions
by Pal Benko & Jeremy Silman
Siles Press

2003
Chess Strategy in Action
by John Watson
Gambit Publications

2002
Excelling at Chess
by Jacob Aagaard
Everyman Chess

2001
Understanding Chess Move by Move
by John Nunn
Gambit Publications

2000
Shady Side: The Life and Crimes of Norman Tweed Whitaker
by John S. Hilbert
Caissa Editions

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