Inspiration

@Pi_Addict111 ... However Insoiration can Derive From Studying Chess ... The books & Videos I had in mind are Inspirational . Which is the whole point of what we are speaking of' . Inspirational works are FUN ! You can find these & other examples Exist ... What Inspies you to have fun playing & Studying Chess Have You watched great entaertaining Chess Videos for Instance that Inpired you or a great Story or Poem even . Many years ago a few books were written that have not much ado with theory or anything other than trying to spur the reader on like The Chess Companion by Irving Chernev or An Essay On Chess by Anthony sainestire (Misspelled) an a book by Chess Life 7 Review which had poems & stories Articles . Also people used to marvel at get Inspired by tal's games & I do say even the Golden Treasury of Chess hehe by horrowitz!>>> LOL

Any Vasyl Ivanchuk interview.
Like the famous one in Gibraltar 2018 by Tania Sachdev, or the other one in 2020 with the espresso cup.

For many years, chess was just a pastime, nothing more. Then the inspiration: I read Averbakh-Bejlin’s chessbook for beginners. Exciting, engaging, well written. Since then, chess has became another thing for me. I can well say that this book got me into chess, in all its aspects: the game, its history... even champions’ biographies ( from Morphy to Fischer, from Steinitz to Kasparov ).
Afterwards, I studied others chess books, all for beginners or little more advanced because my level is still low. Those were inspirational too, somehow.