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IpswichMatt wrote:

Wow, good luck with that, I hope you make the grade. Are you doing coaching too to make some beer-money?

Yes, I coach and have many students. My current rate is $20/hr.

A lot of my students have made rapid progress after taking lessons.

 

700 --> 1300 USCF in 6 months: Prajith Velicheti

800 --> 1400 USCF in 9 months (later resumed and earned 1698 USCF): Darshan Koushik

Unrated (1200-1300 on chess.com) --> 1700+ USCF in under 1 year: Stephen Hoven

1300 --> 1750 USCF in 1 year: Raghav Aggarwal

1000 USCF --> 1300+ USCF in 3-4 months: Abhinav Mysore

I could name other students who've rapidly progressed but now will name some masters who've claimed that I've helped them.

Claimed that he was self-taught until 2200, but that I helped him have a breakthrough. Now FM and 2300+ USCF. Didn't pay me for lessons, but analyzed with me and accepted study advice from me: FM Anish Vivekananthan

Helped him with openings before his NM breakthrough, shouted me out on his stream after he broke master. "You’re the one that motivates us all" - NM Joseph Truelson

Rating progress doubles in speed after I start studying with him regularly (fall 2017). Possibly a coincidence, who knows. Also helped him with openings many times: NM Daniel Girsh

Right before Sharjah Masters, where he got 5/9 and drew an IM and a GM, and before Srilanka Asian Youth (2.5/3 so far): "I am feeling more confident and the sole reason is YOU!!! happy.png To me, you are the world's leading theoretician." - FM Ajay Karthikeyan

 

I'm also an author on Chessable.com. 3 of my courses are GM endorsed and several masters have left positive reviews. My courses can be found here.

wayne_thomas

Jan Timman's On the Attack.

Razvan Preotu and Michael Song's The Chess Attacker's Handbook.

Alexander Kotov has a chapter on attacking strategy in The Art of the Middlegame.

LogoCzar
wayne_thomas wrote:

Jan Timman's On the Attack.

I haven't been able to find a copy of this for under $40. Do you know where I could purchase this for a reasonable price?

LogoCzar
Loseronthechessboard wrote:

Pretty impressive list you have. Hard to come up with more suggestion if you really read and worked through those books

Rashid Nezhmetdinov was a fantastic attacking player but sadly there aren't too many game collection of him beside this one (not sure if just game collection or a bio): https://www.amazon.com/Super-Nezh-Rashid-Nezhmetdinov-Assassin/dp/0938650912

 

Or a good book of Topalov's game (not mentionned in your list)? Finally Geller, Keres and Anand are also players to watch for

Thank you.

The cheapest copy of that book on amazon is over $100, too much for one book, in my opinion.

I have San Lois 2005 which annotates the WC tournament that Topalov won, I didn't consider putting this on the above list before, but you are right. I updated the above list to include that book.

LogoCzar
wayne_thomas wrote:

Razvan Preotu and Michael Song's The Chess Attacker's Handbook.

Thanks, purchased.

IpswichMatt
logozar wrote:
wayne_thomas wrote:

Jan Timman's On the Attack.

I haven't been able to find a copy of this for under $40. Do you know where I could purchase this for a reasonable price?

The Kindle edition at Amazon is only $6.55

I'm guessing you want a proper book though, not kindle-crap

LogoCzar
uri65 wrote:

Chess Secrets: The Giants of Power Play (Neil McDonald)

The Art of Attacking Chess (Zenon Franco)

Best attacking games of 2012-2015 (Arkadij Naiditsch & Csaba Balogh)

Thanks, purchased all 3.

LogoCzar
IpswichMatt wrote:
logozar wrote:
wayne_thomas wrote:

Jan Timman's On the Attack.

I haven't been able to find a copy of this for under $40. Do you know where I could purchase this for a reasonable price?

The Kindle edition at Amazon is only $6.55

I'm guessing you want a proper book though, not kindle-crap

I've heard that the Kindle editions often mess up with chess notation, and if the notation is unreadable, so is the book.

LogoCzar
SeniorPatzer wrote:

Would you consider Alekhine's self-annotated games a worthy collection for your list?

I included that in my list already.

hikarunaku

How much time do you devote to chess everyday? 

LogoCzar
hikarunaku wrote:

How much time do you devote to chess everyday? 

I do chess full time. Exceptions are almost exclusively necessities or exercise.

hikarunaku

That's awesome . Seems like you have a lot of passion for the game,which is the most important asset to have to be successful in any profession.

RussBell

 

Considering that (I assume) you are not earning an income, and therefore that finances for book purchases could be an issue for you, perhaps you might want to check out Scribd.com....a site and economical resource for reading and downloading books, including chess books (subscription is $10USD/month).  I can vouch that the site is legitimate and perfectly safe.  I have used it many times for downloading copies of chess books.  You can browse titles for free....they also have a free trial offer, which I recommend to give a try to see how you like it...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/scribd-com-for-online-chess-book-reading

 

Joseph_Truelson

Wow, nice bragging! RAR THE. ALL

LogoCzar

@RussBell,

I actually do earn income, so I can afford to buy chess books. Thanks for the suggestion though, perhaps they have some of the books that are unreasonably priced.

drmrboss

May be this book. Or Install Leela.

https://www.bookdepository.com/Game-Changer-Matthew-Sadler/9789056918187?redirected=true&utm_medium=Google&utm_campaign=Base1&utm_source=AU&utm_content=Game-Changer&selectCurrency=AUD&w=AF45AU9TV51072A803TU&pdg=pla-104399445939:kwd-104399445939:cmp-683605187:adg-34943826637:crv-151966416706:pid-9789056918187:dev-m&gclid=Cj0KCQjw1pblBRDSARIsACfUG10aqFCfqZ6KZCFA4QFaWgbFtaK5nVVzgXnO-29TDjhTiy6MJSiyWeYaAs6UEALw_wcB

 

P.S , AI plays different way of chess than human and traditional engines. The way how AI see chess is another dimension of chess.

kindaspongey

https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/9073.pdf

RussBell

Game Changer by Matthew Sadler & Natasha Regan.......April's book review by @schack_2.....recent book about Alpha Zero....its games against Stockfish, it's choice of openings, its style of play.....an outstanding book (I recently purchased it).....the book is certain to win awards....

https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/2019/04/01/game-changer/

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/new-chess-book-review-blog?page=13

 

LogoCzar

Thanks for the suggestion! I am actually already studying the Alpha-Zero book and am more than halfway through it, but I forgot to include it in the list. I will update it to avoid confusion.

MGT88
RussBell wrote:

 

Considering that (I assume) you are not earning an income, and therefore that finances for book purchases could be an issue for you, perhaps you might want to check out Scribd.com....a site and economical resource for reading and downloading books, including chess books (subscription is $10USD/month).  I can vouch that the site is legitimate and perfectly safe.  I have used it many times for downloading copies of chess books.  You can browse titles for free....they also have a free trial offer, which I recommend to give a try to see how you like it...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/scribd-com-for-online-chess-book-reading

 

seems illegal or at least ethically unacceptable; seems like they skirt around copyright issues by requiring owners of copyrighted material to flag documents infringing on their copyright; this is basically torrenting for the masses under quasi-legal pretences