books by nigel short are very good, he is an excellet writer.
I find the books done by Everyman Chess are very good books.
Ofcourse, you must have read "Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess" must read for everyone
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Jun 16, 2012
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Get any basic tactics manual to start. Don't look at any openings or any other stuff until you can get 99% of basic and intermediate tactics right. In fact, don't look at any openings at all until you've mastered tactics, then endgames, then middlegame play.
Once you've figured all that stuff out and know what kind of middlegame positions you are good at, the choice of openings becomes simple. You don't want to pick the open Sicilian or KID or Caro-Kann if you don't play those positions well.
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Jun 16, 2012
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If you're looking for chess performance, a tactics primer such as Seïrawan's Winning Chess Tactics is great.
If you're looking for overall development, then a good classical games collection like Reti's Masters of the Chessboard would be an eye-opener.
"Chess for Dummies"...it is a good, solid, very readable and comprehensive book for low and middle level players.
I believe national master Dans Heisman has a huge number of chess book recommendations on his website at http://home.comcast.net/~danheisman/Events_Books/General_Book_Guide.htm. You can also try and take a look at http://www.squidoo.com/chess-reference.
I'm not really a beginner in chess; I'm familiar with the rules and basic play of the game, for I've been playing my whole life. I haven't however, studied out any tactics, strategies, openings, etc,. I was wondering which book(s) would be more relevant to that?