EVERYMAN CHESS

Regarding opening study, which books to select from EVERYMAN CHESS? 

play the series, or starting out series, or dangerous weapons or move by move series.

Whats the difference among them? Are they for players with different ratings? Why different series regarding same opening from same publication?

Mostly because they keep releasing tons and tons of opening books, and giving them all the same name would become a bit confusing.

I don't think there's much of a series idea behind the "Play the" books. The Starting Out books are supposed to be an introduction to an opening. Dangerous Weapons doesn't treat the opening as a whole, but has chapters on various new and interesting variations within it, so that if you already play that opening with either side you can probably pick a few of them to add to what you already play. "Move by Move" is supposed to feature some kind of question/answer system that tries to emulate what you would get from a session with a trainer.

What you should select rather depends on your level, what you already know, and what you want to play. Which series the book is in matters less, some of them are much better than others in the same series.

kikvors but from your discription i think move by move sounds the most promising.

My favorite Author John Emms writes for Everyman Chess. Although I have many, many books that I haven't read -I did enjoy Emms style of writing.

http://www.everymanchess.com/disp_biog.php?id=19

Although, as has been pointed out here before, it isn't strictly move by move - at least not in the sense of commenting on every single move, a la Irving Chernev's Logical Chess: Move by Move.

Id suggest move by move.

Most starting out books (there are exceptions) are very very skimpy, authors seem to have taken it as permission to slack in their work, and it really shows.

The 'play the' series are repertoire books, which can be good if you  simply want to be told what to play without figuring it out yourself. However they often assume prior knowldge of the opening and you can miss out on important positional and tactical themes.

Move by Move is kind of like starting out, but much better since the format kind of forces the author to explain everything.

AssauIt wrote:

Id suggest move by move.Most starting out books (there are exceptions) are very very skimpy, authors seem to have taken it as permission to slack in their work, and it really shows.The 'play the' series are repertoire books, which can be good if you  simply want to be told what to play without figuring it out yourself. However they often assume prior knowldge of the opening and you can miss out on important positional and tactical themes.

Move by Move is kind of like starting out, but much better since the format kind of forces the author to explain everything.

+1.