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bcreek

Best books for annotated chess games?

Rsava

Well, that is not an easy question to answer. For instance, what is your rating? How llong have you been playing? Do you know what En Passant is?

Lots of annotated games books, two I like are:

500 Master Games of Chess https://www.amazon.com/500-Master-Games-Chess-Dover/dp/0486232085

The Mammoth Book of Chess https://www.amazon.com/Mammoth-Book-Chess-Graham-Burgess/dp/076243726X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1507478939&sr=1-1&keywords=The+mammoth+book+of+chess

And of course the always good My 60 Memorable Games https://www.amazon.com/My-Memorable-Games-Bobby-Fischer/dp/190638830X/ref=pd_sim_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=190638830X&pd_rd_r=DW0PXR3BVBVNSRBR9SRQ&pd_rd_w=o4WFD&pd_rd_wg=n1Ch1&psc=1&refRID=DW0PXR3BVBVNSRBR9SRQ

But that last one you may want to wait on. 

There are plenty more and I am sure others will come along with different suggestions.

bcreek

Started playing last November. Only play 30 minute rapid with current rating 794. Have worked my way through Logical Chess.  I do tactics daily. Used Silman course in the Great Courses teaching series to get started in addition to other entry level books. Used the Chess.com study plan and now repeating it. Still make the usual embarrassing blunders but feel that I am improving.

Thanks for your suggestions.

dannyhume
Google “Dan Heisman recommended book lists”, click the link, then scroll down to “Game Collections”, which lists annotated game books in roughly the order of difficulty.
jambyvedar
bcreek wrote:

Best books for annotated chess games?

 

For club level and below these are good annotated chess books.

 

Logical Chess Move By Move by Cherneved

The Art of Logical Chess Thinking in Chess by McDonald

Chess Secrets Giants of Strategy by McDonald

Winning Chess Brilliancies by Seirawan

50 Essential Chess Lessons by Giddins

 

bcreek

Many thanks for excellent recommendations. This site is the greatest resource for teaching!!!

RussBell
jambyvedar wrote:
bcreek wrote:

Best books for annotated chess games?

 

For club level and below these are good annotated chess books.

 

Logical Chess Move By Move by Cherneved

The Art of Logical Chess Thinking in Chess by McDonald

Chess Secrets Giants of Strategy by McDonald

Winning Chess Brilliancies by Seirawan

50 Essential Chess Lessons by Giddins

 

That's an excellent list!

CheesyPuns

Gelfand's positional/dynamic decision making are amazing books! helped me alot

jambyvedar
CheesyPuns wrote:

Gelfand's positional/dynamic decision making are amazing books! helped me alot

 

They are excellent books, but they are for more advance readers. The TS is just starting out at chess.