Now for the last few months I've been reading beginner level books, websites, and articles.  Vertually everything dan heismen has touched I've read, I've read Winning chess openings, strategies, and tactics.  I've skimmed through chesstactics.org, read logical chess, have been working hard on all sorts of basic puzzles, and theres a lot more I could list but I'm too lazy.

Anyways, I've done so many beginner books that the concepts have become second nature to me.  I could explain why pinning pieces to a king can be so dangerous to my mother.  I probably have enough knowlodge to make my own beginner book.

So what I'm looking for now is intermediate level books, as I've already mastered beginner concepts.  Can somebody tell me what some "must have" classics are for intermediate books?

Dan Heismen is an overrated mouthpiece who knows little about chess. I have a huge plus score against Heismen on ICC, and against Mig on playchess.com. You're better off reading material from someone who actually knows what they're talking about, such as Jeremy Silman

I would like to disagree. A lot of Heisman's articles are very usefull for beginners.

"Silman's Complete Endgame Course" is probably a friend for life for many chess players.

Play a lot, analyze your games and solve Tactics problems before attaking more advanced texts. It is a trap to spend too little time on developing practical Chess Skills.

I might be stretching a bit but reading too many and too advanced chess books might greatly increase you skill at reading chess books but do very little for your playing strength.

"I would like to disagree. A lot of Heisman's articles are very usefull for beginners."

And you know this how exactly? Have you done a study?

The reality is that Heisman's material is shoddy and innacurate. It can be damaging and hold back a prospective new player who is trying to improve, by giving them false ideas.

You speak as though you're trying to pass yourself off as some sort of chess authority here, yet you have a mediocre rating, and your average opponent rating is a mere 1559. Care to have a few fast online games somewhere, so I can make an example out of you?

I can't wait to hear the creative excuse you come up with for not being able to play, lol

If thats true mindwars, work on not being snarky and insulting for the reason of "disagrees with you" and you would be a great chess teacher.  Farbror if you are reading this don't bother degrading yourself by trying to defend yourself against such mud-slinging, nobody sympathizes with mindwars.

Anyways though, I believe my question was what intermediate level books i could buy (with a lot of filler that basically meant WARNING do not advise me to read more beginner books WARNING thats the least helpful advice to me WARNING).

But I haven't gotten any specific books except for "Silman's Complete Endgame Course".  I know silmans a good author, but I thought it best to start on beginner level books, inaccurate as they might be, to fill up some holes in my chess knowlodge before going any further.

Firstly, you're a hypocrite and a troll....go away.

Now on to the books!

I liked:

Silman's Complete Endgame Course

Pachman's "Modern Chess Strategy"

Chernev's "The most instructive chess games ever played"

McDonald's "The Art of Logical Thinking in Chess"

I hear "how to reassess your chess" is good from silman i think it was....

Everybody posting about how much mindwars sucks: watch that you aren't feeding a troll.  Trolls love to see everybody get into a frenzy over the pure stupidity of their post, it makes them feel superior.

A OTB expert and scholastic coach recommended Understanding Chess Tactics by Weteschnik as an intermediate-level tactics book and I'm enjoying it. Lots of explanation and puzzles. It's more advanced than Chessmaster, Winning Chess Tactics, Back to Basics: Tactics, Chess Tactics for Champions, or Predator at the Chessboard. It's less difficult than the ChessCafe Puzzle Book or Imagination in Chess.

Regarding the trolling, I say this for members who may not know--Farbor is a friendly, humble, and helpful member of this site. NM Heisman was given a meritorious service award by the USCF and his articles for adult beginners are widely acclaimed.

Thank you all so far for the helpful suggestions =).  Thank you mindwars for pulling people into my thread via your mindless trolling.

likesforests, I've read through winning chess tactics, predator at the chessboard (Actually it was my first book =) ), Chess tactics for champions, and yes even back to basics tactics (but no chessmasteR).  So that seems like a logical book to advance to, I'm going to look it up right now!

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                                                         Regards:Nane

I'm not sure if my suggestion for an intermediate book will fit your needs, but offer my two cents anyway...

While it was not available when I was a developing player, Silman's "How to Reassess Your Chess", as touted in above posting is an excellent selection, as is Chernev's "The Most Instructive Chess Games Ever Played".

I still have fondness in my heart for a classic book by Euwe, "Judgement & Planning in Chess". It opened my eyes to new topics such as IQP, minority attack, queenside majority, strong squares, king side attack...Suddenly pawn structure meant a lot more to me.

More in that vein, but more advanced would be Soltis' "Pawn Structure Chess".

This book helped me evolve from a tactics only 1250 USCF caveman to a 1600 player when I was a teen.

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There are my selected titles. Hope you like them and find them helpful. I have over 80 chess books and those are the ones that have had big impact on my improvement.

intermediate level: some old classics:

Eugene Znosko-borovsky's : the middle game in chess

Eugene Znosko-borovsky's: art of chess combination

Max Euwe's: judgment and planning in chess

Keres and Kotov: the art of the middle game - advanced, but: the introductory chapter by harry golombek [added in the english translation only! <or, at least, not in the orig. russian> -  a case of 'gained in translation' :) ] is intermediate all right!

Pachman's Modern Chess Tactics (2 vols.) translated by PH Clarke

Pachman's Modern Chess Strategy (an abridged edition is available from Dover Publications)

Reti's Masters of the Chessboard

Euwe's Guide to Chess Endings

Soltis's 'Pawn Structure Chess' is a great book, , and I have recommended it several times elsewhere on chess.com and on other sites [and off the internet too :)] - but I would classify it as 'advanced', not 'intermediate'.

In my book [pun unintended] an 'intermediate' book is one from which a fide-master has nothing to learn. [maybe something to review, but nothing new to learn.]

The topic inspired me to locate and purchase the fore-mentioned favorite "Judgement & Planning" by Euwe (no small task, as it appears out of print.)

I'll still keep my trusty 35 year-old hardbound descriptive notation copy, but now I have a newer softcover algebraic edition to review.