Vk Chess Books — Popular & Working

Enter (VKontakte), Russia’s largest social network. Over the last decade, VK has quietly become the world’s largest unofficial chess library. For better or worse, what Napster was for music, VK is for chess books.

Use the search operator site:vk.com "chess" "pdf" "Botvinnik" in Google for better results than VK’s internal search. Vk Chess Books

VK is a social media platform (think Facebook + YouTube + Reddit, but Russian). Within VK, thousands of “public pages” (communities) are dedicated solely to sharing scanned chess books in PDF, DJVU, and CBV formats. Enter (VKontakte), Russia’s largest social network

My hope is that someday every chess book ever published will be available legally for a small subscription fee (like the chess equivalent of Scribd). Until then, VK remains a flawed, fascinating, and invaluable resource. Use the search operator site:vk

Yes, but with discipline. Use VK to access out-of-print Soviet training methods that exist nowhere else. Then buy modern books on openings and tactics to support the ecosystem.