The Modern Chess Instructor
Wilhelm Steinitz
Published 1889
252 pages
Free board & card games books
These books are for players of chess, cards and board games. Learn openings and endgames, improve at poker or bridge, or discover the history of the games people have played for centuries. Rule collections are here too, to settle arguments at the table. This list shows the ones you can read in full for free.
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Tarocchi Introducing the Card Games for Tarot
Philebus
Published 2009
226 pages
The Illustrated Book of Patience Games
Hoffmann (Professor)
Published 1892
138 pages
How to Play Chess
G. C. Heywood
Published 1893
52 pages
Researches Into the History of Playing Cards
Samuel Weller Singer
Published 1816
448 pages
Travel Time - European Trip
Ronaldo Siète
Published 2023
24 pages
The Modern Hoyle; Or, How to Play Whist-chess-cribbage-dominoes-draughts-backgammon, & Besique ...
Frederic Hardy, J. R. Ware
Published 1870
200 pages
Korean Games with Notes on the Corresponding Games of China and Japan
Stewart Culin
Published 1895
276 pages
The Game of "Hana-awase"
Rossetsu Uchiyama
Published 1892
70 pages
A Descriptive Catalogue of Playing and Other Cards in the British Museum
William Hughes Willshire
Published 1877
152 pages
Hoyle's Games
Edmond Hoyle
Published 1854
170 pages
Frerè's Chess Hand-book
Thomas Frere
Published 1858
126 pages
Westminster Papers
Published 1874
282 pages
Bézique, Euchre, Ecarté, All-Fours, Napoleon, and All the Round Games Now Played on the Card Table
Rawdon CRAWLEY (Captain, pseud. [i.e. George Frederick Pardon.])
Published 1876
136 pages
Hoyle's Games
Thomas Frere
Published 1875
384 pages
Hoyle's Games
Edmond Hoyle
Published 1882
342 pages
The Young Folk's Cyclopædia of Games and Sports
John Denison Champlin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick
Published 1890
788 pages
Chess in Philadelphia
Gustavus Reichhelm, Gustavus Charles Reichhelm, Walter Penn Shipley
Published 1898
194 pages
The Court Gamester Or, Full and Easy Instructions for Playing the Games Now in Vogue
Richard Seymour (Esq)
Published 1719
142 pages
Chess Gems
John Augustus Miles
Published 1878
500 pages
Crumbs from the Chess-board
Charles Alexander Gilberg
Published 1890
268 pages
The Principles of Chess in Theory and Practice
James Mason
1894 · 1896 edition
346 pages
Westminster Papers
Published 1873
220 pages
Book of Chess Problems
Theodore Morris Brown
Published 1874
430 pages