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Aaron's Chess Library A picture of the books that I have collected on chess to date. Most have come from either Goodwill or Mount Sheba rummage in Jupiter, NC. I've only read a handful of these books as of yet—slowly working my way through them with a 5" sheesham wood set I just love. Reviews of the books that I have read can be found here: Aaron's Book Reviews I ordered my 5" magnetic set from a guy on eBay. It shipped from India to NC in less than 2 weeks. This was before USCF Sales started carrying similar sets. A list of chess books in the pic above, from left to right: How to Play Chess, Kevin WickerWinning Chess Strategies, Seirawan, Silman (I'm currently reading this) Square One, Bruce Pandolfini Pandolfini's Endgame Course, Pandolfini More Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps 2, Pandolfini MCO 13, Walter Korn An Illustrated Dictionary of Chess, McKay A Guide to Chess and Checkers, Mitchell and Reed The Complete Chess Player, Reinfeld How to Think Ahead in Chess, I.A. Horowitz and Fred Reinfeld The Secret of Tactical Chess, Reinfeld Chess in a Nutshell, Fred Reinfeld Chess for beginners, I.A. Horowitz Modern Ideas in the Chess Opening, Fred Reinfeld The Bright Side of Chess, Chernev How to Win in the Chess Openings, I.A. Horowitz New Traps in the Chess Opening, I.A. Horowitz The Pan Book of Chess, Gerald Abrahams Chess Strategy, Frank Eagan New Ideas in Chess, Larry Evans Great Chess Upsets, Reshevsky Chess Strategy, Lasker Common Sense in Chess, Lasker How Not to Play Chess, Znosko - Borovsky The Middle Game in Chess, Znosko - Borovsky Chess the Easy Way, Reuben Fine The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess GamesBobby Fischer Teaches Chess, Marqulies, Mosenfelder My 60 Memorable Games, Bobby Fischer

Apart from books about Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov, and a few collected short papers on the Russians, it seems to me that a great field is still to be exploited in the art of chess writing: that of in-depth individual chess players' biographies, historical and psychological, with or without games analyses. Can anyone of you book and chess lovers recommend any that I could have missed ? In advance, thank you!

Ideas on best books for Beginners?

hello I've been trying to find a book review on dynamic chess (NOT how to play dynamic chess which is what aminly came up.) has anyone ever read it if so any good reviews.

The ones I have and want to go through are: 100 Endgames You Must Know by de la Villa, Jesus Fundamental Chess Endings, by Muller, Lamprecht, Frank Secrets of Pawn Ending by Muller, Lamprecht, Frank How to Play Chess Endings, by Muller, Karsten, Wolfgang Pajeken Improve Your Chess Pattern Recognition, by de Oudeweetering Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual, by Dvorestsky, Mark

What is your favorite endgame book? Instructional, reference, etc.

I have Kindle as my multiplatform reader.

A classic, now available in modern algebraic notation! www.goodreads.com/book/show/1359046.Think_Like_A_Grandmaster#other_reviews I've forgotten how enjoyable this book was.

Question: The only SA left our group. How do we get a new SA?Answer: Make a forum to have group vote for a new SA. After three days, contact chess.com support and they will make the person with most votes the new SA (even if that person have just one vote).

I was a little disapointed there is no SA and hence, no admins here, but maybe this group can survive those challenges. I did receive a quick message, copied below. thanks! alghul 6/27/14 @ 9:25 AM Send Friend Request Hey, I noticed your message to the book group. What is your favorite book in your chess library? I have over 500 chess books myself, more than I will ever read in my life. I recently discovered a few apps to read chess books which show the position while reading. Goes much faster, love it! Well, I don't have 500, but it does seem that everytime I buy or receive a new book, it is my "favorite"! I guess, my current favorite is A Guide To Chess Improvement by Dan Heisman. It is a gathering of so many chess articles he has written over the years. I treat almost like a topical book to go to when in doubt. I might also breakdown my library into sections and currently I am working on a "Harmony of the Moderns", where I have all 5 books on the Modern Defence and trying to work them into a single, straight line(s). Hmmm.... So. great question!

Hello does someone know the best resource on opening preparation and how to apply it even if it's a book article blog website etc...

Hello can someone suggest chess books who's topics are about self improvements and please no books that just have random tactics as test and stuff or a regualr tactics book.

Hello everyone. I've recently been inspired to take another crack at Dvoretsky's endgame manual. I propose that anyone else who's interested in tackling this monster should post updates about his/her progress in this thread. Hopefully seeing others improving and making headway into this thing will help push us all along. My goal is an average of atleast 5 pages each week. Sounds somewhat tame until you actually read the book! Anyways good luck to anyone else willing to join me in this journey.

Is anyone reading this book? I have just started it and it seems hard yet it has a 5 star rating by about 43 people. How does it seem to you and how is it helping you?

Can recommend this book of annotated Carlsen games by IM Colin Crouch. Starts off with chapter on his loses 2010 -2012 period. Then his games in two tournaments which acheived record rating. Basic idea is how used crisis period to improve his game.

Am a big fan of these series of red hardback books. The best of them are translations of classics previously only available in non english, a particularly good example is Tarrasch's St Petersburg 1914. Will do a review of the ones have got in due course. Will start with the one or two which have in my opinion more superficial commentary because think will be helpful to people to avoid making an expensive purchase. These one were not translated classics, the orginals by strong players, but "made up" ones for an Author with interest in chess history, but apparantly not a strong player.

I'm not the strongest player in this group, just 1816 uscf right now, but here are some good books that have helped me to become a stronger chess player, and a few more I'm currently working on. I will also include how much my rating increased after reading them. Hopefully my experiences will help you find the books you are looking for. Learning the moves to some openings I liked, doing a few puzzles, and playing games took me from a beginner to a 1300 uscf level. After that -The Amateurs Mind by Jeremy Silman. This book really helped me to figure out what I should be trying to do to go forward in a game and to develop plans. My rating was still rising from what I had learned but I took a break from chess at this point. (1300 to 1584 uscf) - 303 Tricky Chess Tactics by Fred Wilson and Bruce Albertson. To a lesser degree Secrets of the Kings Indian by Schiller and Gufeld, just for the ideas of counter attacking, attacking on separate side of the board, and learning how to push pawns aggressively. These were the books I studied after returning from my break, and I briefly reviewed the Amateurs Mind. I just played in one tournament after studying these, before taking another break from competitive chess.(1584 to 1655 uscf) - 303 Tricky Chess Tactics by Fred Wilson and Bruce Albertson, 1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations by Fred Reinfeld, and Silman's Complete Endgame Course by Jeremy Silman. Starting at the beginning of 2010 I went through 303 tricky chess tactics a number of times and 1001 winning chess sacrifices and combinations just once (it's much harder and the notation is in the old style), both of which greatly increased my tactical strength and level of play. Silman's Complete Endgame Course seemed pretty easy and my endgame play improved a lot from it. I've played in three tournaments since reading these and in each one my rating jumped by atleast 40 points, so I'm still going up. (1655-1816 uscf) The books I'm going to be working on in the upcoming months: -Still reviewing both the tactics books. I never realized what a big deal tactics were, but going through the books really took me to another level of play. The more times I go through them, the sharper I seem to get. Also it doesn't just improve your middle game, it has improved my endgame too. - Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual. Silman has said a number of times that learning endgames is one of the most important things you can do to improve and many people consider this book to be THE book on the endgame. Each exercise takes me about 20 minutes to figure out, and often even after all that calculation and effort there is one final twist at the end that I miss. Probably because of all the effort and the time it takes, my endgame play and thinking has improved a lot from it, and I'm still only in the first chapter! Just going to say I'm probably a little understrength to be reading this book, personally I don't mind, but I wouldn't recommend it to somebody unless they were around or above expert level, or have a really strong grasp on tactics like I do. - Endgame Strategy by Shereshevsky, and Turning Advantage Into Victory in Chess by Andrew Soltis. A strong player recommended that I learn not just endgame technique from Dvoretsky, but also how to strategically play the endgame and he said that these books were what I should go for. Haven't started them yet, focusing on Dvoretsky right now. - My System by Aron Nimzovich, edited by Fred Reinfeld. It's a really old version of the book my friend bought me, and it along with the accompanying book Chess Praxis by Nimzovich are considered must haves for understanding positional chess at higher levels. I have just barely started reading it and will probably get into it heavily after I finish the endgame books. - Pawn Structure Chess by Andrew Soltis. I don't actually have this book, but it's one I'm preparing to buy fairly soon. My opening is the weakest part of my game and this book is supposed to go over common pawn structures found in various openings, and tell you what the fundamental plans are in that position based on the pawn structures. I think this should help my game against all openings, and prepare me to really understand an opening when I decide to shift my study in that direction.

Which book with (many) Capa games are best suited for a semi beginner?