zazen5 wrote:

I suggest Go problems as a welcome variant to the chess players study.

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I play Go / Weiqi for many years already and I can recommend it to anyone, not only chess players. It is a beautiful and very 'deep' game, there is lots of fine literature et cetera.

I also play Chinese Chess (Xiangqi) and Shogi (Japanese chess). Very fine games at well, no waste of time to learn and play them.

In my opinion though Shogi is the only one of the three games mentioned that is relevant as training for the playing of our Western chess variant, like we play OTB and here on Chess.com

Shogi learns you a lot about attacking dynamics, counter attacking, switching over the fight to another part of the board, building safe castles en defending the king.

Apart from al that Shogi is of course a very fine game on it self, just as difficult, deep and exciting as the kind of chess we play.

Oh my God, a deranged chimpanzee has commandeered victorpu's account!

Chess Fundamentals - José Capablanca

How to Reassess your Chess is much too advanced for you. I would recommend Chernev's Logical Chess: Move by Move: Every Move Explained.

The bulk of your chess "study" time at your level should be tactics training. And be sure to play plenty of slow games (at least 30 minutes per side, preferably something like 45 45 [45 minutes each side, with 45 second increment]), which will help you improve far more than if you play mostly blitz.

Dan Heisman has an excellent page of Recommended Chess Books organized by level.

This is enough material to take you to 1700.

Has anyone brought up Polgars 5000+ puzzles book yet?