Books to start with

Hmm, I think Reassess your chess is a good book and a book that would be worth to try at least. I have read a lot of good things about it.

About how to beat your dad, well, I need to understand postional advantage and especially endgames, I think that if I am good at something, it is finding those kind of tactics (or at least I have that sense more developed than the others).

I have Romanovsky's Chess Middlegame Planning. I don't know if that's a different version of the same book or a different book. I do know that I found it quite helpful when I worked through much of it ten years ago. 

Yes you may need to play the games over the board (taking the winners side). So as to see how he developed his winning plans. And yes you may want to cover the moves of the winner to guess what the next move is and compare em with yours.Because this way youll start questioning why a certain move was played and why it was different from your move, it is there when you read through the annotators analysis that you get the answers. Petrosian did this in his study of nimzovich's books (Tigran Petrosian: His life and games) and Nimzovich too in his study of Tarrasch's games (Chess Praxis). CJS Purdy did the same (CJS Purdys FIne art of annotiation). :)

I might mention here that the format in which the book is written and laid out on the page sometimes makes it easy or not easy to cover the moves and guess the continuation.  If you plan to use a book in that manner, be sure to look at a representative page to see if that might be a problem (i.e. many moves on each horizontal line).

Ok, thanks. I guess it will take a lot of time to do it correctly. I plan to do it with Kasparov's games. Maybe one game a week is enought to get started while studying the other books.

I read How to beat your Dad at chess but doesnt work,He still beat me!

Well, if your father is a grandmaster, I think I know why you can't beat him yet :P

at least three games a week.

Wow. 3! I wanted to analize every move quite deeply. I don't know how long it will take. But if I can reach 3 in a week, I'll do it ;)

By the way, I have been taking a more careful look at Capablanca's book and I like it. I think you were right guys to recomend me that one to start with :)

Thanks!

And also, I said that I didn't really like the endgame manual by Dvoretsky because the way everything was explained. I regret saying that. I now think it is at least, a good book.

hey sky, id like to take you on a challenge. try studying Tals games say 2 games a day. Then play otb, Youll get the urge to leave pieces for the taking but will develop your gut feeling for a win by risking. I tried that against a 1900 here on chess.com and won.

Ok, I thought you meant "challenge me". I will try to do that, though 2 games per day may be excesive.

Ok guys, thanks for your advices. i must say I have gone through Capablanca´s book (almost enterely) and I found it very useful at the beggining. Not so useful in the middle (which I haven't mastered yet, maybe because of that...), and I haven't studied yet the games that he presents. But I do consider it a good book to read/study. 

And I am also studying Silman's Endgame course and I must say I love it. Everything is very good explained and I have already learnt quite some useful things from it. I wonder if the other books from Silman are so well written, beacuse if they are, I may start with how to reasses your chess or turning amateur ideas into mastery.

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If you are looking for a book on strategy, I can wholeheartedly recommend Michael Stean's "Simple Chess", very well written and enjoyable to read in my opinion.

I will try to take a look at that one, but so far I think about strategy I am going to study Yusupov's books.

Thanks!

The series by Yusupov is very complete and very advanced if you move beyond the first three.  It is also expensive, but if money is not an object, and you have the time and self-discipline to really study them, it is an excellent way to cover the game.  Plan on spending a LOT of time working on the test positions.

Yes, I have been reading a lot of things about this series and I think it is worth it. I guess the correct order to study them is:

build your chess 1, boost your chess 1, chess evolution 1, build your chess 2, boost your chess 2, chess evolution 2, and then the same for the 3.

I just took a look at the windmill in on of the books a couple of weeks ago, and I could apply kind of what I saw in the book in a real game, and I won. That encouraged me to keep working on those books. I expect them to be very effective.

I think the proper order is not the same as the advertisements (made by book sellers, not chess players) show.

There are 3 books in each of 3 series.  Series 1 (orange cover), Series 2 (blue cover) and Series 3 (green cover).  Within each series the books are named "Build Up Your Chess," "Boost Your Chess," and "Chess Evolution."  So you would start with Series 1 "Build Up", etc.  The books do not appear to be very thick, but the paper is thin but excellent quality, and each book contains around 250 pages - no wasted space.

So you are suggesting a different order. Hmm. I don't think it is going to be a big problem if you study the books in the wrong order, right? 

I will try to see which order is the correct anyway, though if they sell them with an especific order, I guess they should know better than us.

I think I was right about the order

http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/docs/14/artur_yusupovs_awardwinning_training_course/

Using the link above, begin with the 3 books in level 1, then 3 in level 2, then 3 in level 3.  Reading from left to right, top to bottom, as you would read a book, which is how I listed them  I have the set and believe me you don't want to start with the green level 3 books.