I would suggest "The Soviet Chess Primer" by Ilya Maizelis and after you get that one done "Soviet Middlegame Technique" by Peter Romanovsky is good. Personal I am still looking for some good opening books too. I have been thinking of ordering "Chess Opening Essentials: The Complete Series (Volumes 1-4)" off Amazon but its 112 US Dollars so I am not sure if its worth it or not. But I would highly recommend the "The Soviet Chess Primer" it is written very good.
Could you recommend chess tactics book
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Encyclopedia of chess combinations 5th edition (mother of all tactics books)
But it's more for intermediate + level
May 21, 2020
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magnusshields wrote:
I would suggest "The Soviet Chess Primer" by Ilya Maizelis and after you get that one done "Soviet Middlegame Technique" by Peter Romanovsky is good. Personal I am still looking for some good opening books too. I have been thinking of ordering "Chess Opening Essentials: The Complete Series (Volumes 1-4)" off Amazon but its 112 US Dollars so I am not sure if its worth it or not. But I would highly recommend the "The Soviet Chess Primer" it is written very good.
The Chess Opening Essentials books are terrible. They play a couple of moves, say a few words, draw a few arrows, and provide a few unannoted games, and then move on to the next opening. Hot garbage!
For example. Two Knights Defense. 4.Ng5 it claims is the critical test. It is not! 4.d4 is. 4.Ng5 just has a few cheap traps that anybody over 1600 would not fall for. After 4...d5 5.exd5, it says that 5...Nxd5 used to be popular but that 6.d4 and 6.Nxf7, the Fried Liver, have been found to be better for White, and so now 5...Na5 is the move and basically leaves it at that with 5 mostly unannotated games, mostly black wins.
What have you really learned?
1) Do not play 5...Nxd5 because of 6.d4 or 6.Nxf7 - just trust me!
2) 4.Ng5 is the critical test, though not really because after 5...Na5, White basically has nothing.
3) Here are some Black wins, go figure it out yourself.
No annotated games.
No tree structure.
(So neither traditional opening book format is used.)
If I want unannotated games, I can use an online database.
If you have ever seen Standard Chess Openings by Eric Schiller, except maybe the fact that there are fewer errors here, these 4 books are about as bad as the Schiller books.
The others you mention are indeed recommendations. For opening books, look elsewhere!
I honestly don’t understand buying tactics books, what is the difference from doing chess tactics on chess.com? I bought the Chess Steps books and like them, The only difference is they give you certain puzzles in order and have each book set out for levels of skill set
"Learn Chess Tactics" by John Nunn is the logical step up.
May 23, 2020
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ThrillerFan wrote:
The Chess Opening Essentials books are terrible. They play a couple of moves, say a few words, draw a few arrows, and provide a few unannoted games, and then move on to the next opening. Hot garbage!
For example. Two Knights Defense. 4.Ng5 it claims is the critical test. It is not! 4.d4 is. 4.Ng5 just has a few cheap traps that anybody over 1600 would not fall for. After 4...d5 5.exd5, it says that 5...Nxd5 used to be popular but that 6.d4 and 6.Nxf7, the Fried Liver, have been found to be better for White, and so now 5...Na5 is the move and basically leaves it at that with 5 mostly unannotated games, mostly black wins.
What have you really learned?
1) Do not play 5...Nxd5 because of 6.d4 or 6.Nxf7 - just trust me!
2) 4.Ng5 is the critical test, though not really because after 5...Na5, White basically has nothing.
3) Here are some Black wins, go figure it out yourself.
No annotated games.
No tree structure.
(So neither traditional opening book format is used.)
If I want unannotated games, I can use an online database.
If you have ever seen Standard Chess Openings by Eric Schiller, except maybe the fact that there are fewer errors here, these 4 books are about as bad as the Schiller books.
The others you mention are indeed recommendations. For opening books, look elsewhere!
Thank you very much ThrillerFan, I will be sure not to get the Chess Opening Essentials books. I have been wondering how they were for awhile, thank you for your very honest review of them.
Hello, I am looking for chess tactics book. But I can;t decide what to read. I already read polgar 5334. not checkmate book, tactics book please. sorry for my grammer