hey everyone,

i am looking for good chess books on Tactics and strategy that begin with the basics but climb up to the difficult stuff.

i'm looking for this because i've kinda been thrown into the game and feel that i do not completely master all the basics. hence it would be dangerous to already start with the advanced stuff.

so i'm looking for chess books on tactics and strategy that start easy and end dificult.

does anyone have any recomendations?

best,

styxtwo

I don't know if a book exists that covers basic and advanced tactics and strategy.

If you are just starting out like me, you'd want to start out by studying tactics. I recommend reading Ward Farnsworth's Predator at the Chessboard, which is available here. It covers each tactic, explaining each position in detail, which has really helped my game.

The problem with a book like that is that It wouldn't cover any concept completely enough.  Just buy a beginner book and an advanced book, but honestly if you haven't mastered beginner books, why are you going onto advanced books?  They contain concepts you will rarely use!  Knowing to develop pieces quickly always helps me, knowing what a minority attack is rarely helps me.

Can't go wrong with Pachman's Modern Chess Tactics and Modern Chess Strategy.  Unabridged, the first will be in two volumes, if you get the PH Clarke translation they will be titled Modern Chess Tactics and Attack and Defense in Modern Chess Tactics.  The strategy book will be in three volumes, but you can get the abridged Dover edition in one volume, translated by Russell or some such name.

     I love these books.  They improved my game tremendously when I read them the first time.  One of my greatest regrets is giving them away to some high school students when I "gave up" chess years and years ago.  Now that I've taken it up "again" I'm kicking myself for having lost those books.  I can't find them anywhere in the Philippines or Singapore.  Not even the biggest bookstores have them.

Styxtwo as hackneyed as the saying may be "99% of chess is tactics" is fairly accurate, especially at lower levels. After looking at the game you played against mijovic91 on February 22nd you missed/overlooked tactical opportunities including a removal of the guard, a pawn fork, and a pin. I highly recommend taking the commonly advised practice of studying tactics until you dream about them. John Nunn's Learn Chess Tactics is one of my favorites and I'd advise anyone to give it a read.

"The Art of Attack In Chess", "My System" -- considered to be one of the most important books to ever be written about chess by one of the greatest GM's ever Aron Nimzovich, "The Complete Chessplayer" by Fred Reinfeld  -- each one of these books are very instructional and well written ... though I hate extended notation, you'll have to get used to it if you're reading chessbooks

Max Euwe middlegame volumes 1 and 2 , jugdment and planning in chess, chess master vs chess amateur,  my system by nimzovitch, reassess your chess by silman,

chess tactics for the tournament player by lev alburt, winning chess tactics by seirawan.

paul littlewoods chess tactics. this improved my tactics amazingly

"The Art of Attack In Chess", "My System"

Horrid choices for a 1400.  Not only do they contain topics that aren't useful for a 1400 to learn, but a lot of the book is likely to go over a 1400s head as they don't have a solid enough chess foundation.

 I must agree. Art of Attack is too much for a chess.com 1400 and would be too much for a USCF 1400 as well. Better to kick ass on tactics exercises and have the basic principles of opening and middlegame play down. Learn and work on the positional elements a bit.

My System is very basic the first part of the book but may be too much later on. I haven't had it on my shelf in years so cannot be sure.

Pachman's Modern Chess Strategy is a more accessible book than My System and is probably a better choice. After doing lots of tactics etc. and getting the strength up.

Here's an Amazon link for Pachman's book, and you can examine the table of contents and peek inside.

http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Chess-Strategy-Ludek-Pachman/dp/0486202909

I recommend Common Sense in Chess by Emanuel Lasker. He's one of the greatest champions, he writes clearly and well, and he starts easy and builds across a range of topics including openings, attack, and defense. It helped me a lot, and I still go back to it.

this highlights my problem, i often miss the simple tactics and this leads to many lost games.

i guess i should start at the beginning. what Tactics book would be apropriate for a beginner (my rating might be 1400, but my tactics are way worse than that). 

what is the best Tactic book for beginners?

ps: thank you for the previous comments, i'll take all of them in concideration when buying the proper book :)

"winning chess tactics" and "chess tactics for champions" are pretty good choices.

..and I agree that "the art of attach in chess" is a little bit too advanced for 1400 guy.that and much of the analysis in that book is wrong anyway..