How long does it take to read The Mammoth Book of Chess?
Graham Burgess
The Mammoth Book of Chess by Graham Burgess takes about 9 hours 51 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 51 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1997. 537 pages, about 147,675 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 25 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 51 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This comprehensive, up-to-date, all-purpose guide to chess is guaranteed to improve the game of the novice and to enable players of even limited experience to advance to good club level or better. Not only does this invaluable volume illuminate the elegance and mysteries of the classic chess game, it has also been revised to bring readers up to the minute about the myriad possibilities of chess on the Internet. Among the outstanding features of this user-friendly mammoth book are a complete guide to the main chess openings, hundreds of test positions for players of all standards, courses in tactics and attacking strategy, practical advice for further study, and an exceptionally helpful glossary as well as information about international chess events. In addition to providing a history of some of the greatest games ever played, it forecasts the exciting future for chess around the world and on the Internet.
Subjects: Chess, Collections of games
