How many Chess Books have you finished?

With so many having a plethora of chess books I cannot help but wonder how many  titles you have actually finished? So let us fess up and list the titles that you have read from cover to cover. For me the list is as follows:

1.       Logical Chess Move by Move

2.       Winning Chess Strategy for Kids

3.       Winning Chess: How to see three moves ahead

4.       Chess Tactics for Students

5.       A First Book on Morphy

6.       Chess: The Art of Logical Thinking

7.       All of Yasser Seirawan’s  Winning Chess Series

8.     Power Chess for Kids

The books I’M currently working on are:

1.       Pandolfini’s Endgame Course- it is a very good book minus all the typos

2.       The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played-just 20 more games to go…really enjoying it

3.       Chess Tactics for Students-I can breeze through this thing now but making sure I fully absorb the patterns of the various tactical motifs

4.       The Chess Tactics Workbook-I started this one a couple of days ago and so far so good…..more patterns….more learning…….

so far i have completed:

bobby fischer teaches chess

learn chess tactics (john nunn)

simple chess (stean)

i'm just over halfway through the amateur's mind, i've read bits and pieces of chess fundamentals and chess endings essential knowledge. i've also dipped in and out of various opening books.

next up i plan to go through test your positional chess, chess training pocket book and most instructive games ever played.

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Please be relevant, helpful & nice!

Do two 1/2 books equal 1? If so put me down for 1

What do you mean by "actually finished"? I have got to the last page of dozens of chess book, having read pretty much every page. Does that count, or is it something deeper than that?

I'm with the Conflagration_Planet on this one and yes, I am slightly embarassed by it, although if we can use Bronco70"s math then I must have done at least 2 or 3.     EDIT   Oh wait, I did finish Bain's Chess Tactics For Students.  Whew!  I feel so much better about myself now. 

no offence but why your rating is that low? I've finished one book (bobby fischer teaches chess) and I'm better.

With the books you're read I think you should be 1500 here I guess

My results would be much more impressive if you'd asked how many chess books have I started. As it is, put me down for 2.

What a way to humiliate a guy!! OK, confession time: "Logical Chess Move by Move" and "Chess Tactics for Students."

However, I've turned Bain's "Chess Tactics for Students" into about 430 flash cards, and I leaf through them all the time. So that must count for something.

a 1150+ plus can beat a 1250+ in any given game.  Don't get to arrogant.  You did lose to an 8-900 player not to long ago

Ones I am certain I finished completely is forcing chess moves and chess openings for black explained.  I am sure there are plenty more.  Came pretty close to secrets of pawn endings but definitely didn't understand all of it.  

I'm not arrogant, all I want to say is that he is doing something wrong. I/O  wasting his time with chess books he should try something else, like chesstmpo 1 hour/day. 15 books already with not so good results is like he is reading literature, not chess books. 

You stated you were better without ever playing him and only a marginally better rating.  So yes it was slightly arrogant.  If instead you just said maybe someone your level would spend your time better at chess tempo then you would be helpful.  But, you didn't even offer advice.  Just told them your better with less work.  

OK, you're right. Sorry for being arrogant, didn't meant to. It desn't matter who is better, all that matters is stop wasting our time

so far i have read only bobby fischer teaches chess. 

i bought silman's complete endgame course and fundamental chess openings by van der sterren two days ago. i still need good tactics book.

Coach Dan Heisman recommends Bain's "Chess Tactics for Students" as a first tactics book and if you notice it is one of the few books mentioned in this thread that people have both purchased and read.  Wander over to the coaches website (danheisman.com) for more recommendations.

I suppose the purpose of the opening book I bought would be to find out what are basic ideas behind opening moves of most important openings.

Bought about 120, finished only about 15.

I wasted entirely too much time on opening books.  Duh?

But I have it on authoritative advice that the next 15 books in my queue are KILLERS, for sure.  

Johan Hellsten, John Nunn, and Gennady Nesis, are all dynamite authors.  So they say.

                 1.Logical Chess Move by Move- finished 2 months ago

                 2.Winning Chess Strategy for Kids-finished 1 week ago

3.Winning Chess: How to see three moves ahead-finished 3 months ago

4.Chess Tactics for Students-finished several times and still use

5.A First Book on Morphy-finished 1 month ago

6.Chess: The Art of Logical Thinking-finished 5 years ago

7.All of Yasser Seirawan’s Winning Chess Series-finished 6 years ago

8. Power Chess for Kids-finished 2months ago

I would take a look at my win loss ratio over the last two months and I think it clearly shows the benefit of my recent study.  I just play 3 minute blitz here so it does not mean much but my OtB play has improved dramatically. I should be 1500 at 3 min blitz? That would mean I would have to be carrying a standard OtB chess rating of at least 1700.  I do not have this rating, just look at the titles I’M reading, but I can tell you without a doubt that my studies have improved my play and understanding of this great game. One important fact I should mention is I really enjoy studying the game and improvement in my play is a just a pleasant side effect. As for Seirawan’s series I got absolutely nothing from them so when I began my first serious foray into chess this past summer again I would say I’M right where I should be for the moment…….

Books I've completed

1. "Best Lessons of a chess coach"

2. "Gary lane-Improve your chess in 7 days"

3. "Jonas Flesch-Planning in chess"

4. "Neil MacDonald CHESS SUCCESS planning after the opening"

5. "Silman Jeremy- The amateurs mind"

6. "Silman Jeremy-The complete book on chess strategy"

7. "Silmans Complete endgame coarse"

8. "Susan Polgar chess tactis for champions"

9. "1000 Ceckmate combinations by Victor Henkin"

10. "How good is your chess by Larry Evans"

Book I'm still busy reading

1. Forcing chess moves

2. Practical chess exercises 

3. The Art of planning

4. How to reassess your chess 3rd ed.

5. The art of Attack

6. Play like a Grand Master

7. Logical chess move by move

8. Dveretsky's endgame manuel

9. Pawn Stucture

10. My system 

11. Alexandra_Alekhine best games

12.  How to Reasees your chess 4th edition

13. Sharpen your taicics

14. Pal Benko