scottk74 wrote:
i have read many and i dont think they have helped much playing OTB and chating with other players helped me most
how many?
how many chess books have you read?
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Aug 10, 2010
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Any opening book that you can almost guarentee that opening. IE Everymans Kings Indian, Pirc, French ect.
benonidoni wrote:
Any opening book that you can almost guarentee that opening. IE Everymans Kings Indian, Pirc, French ect.
what do you mean 'can almost guarantee that opening'? forgive me for thinking that that is a vague answer.
3 (best games of Reshevsky & Botvinnik and an endgame book by Peter Griffiths) The other 197 became bathroom books. In fact I'm going to go browse on now.
Hmm, I have about 25 books, I've read all of them, I've only finished maybe 2 or 3.
Steve Giddins' 50 Essential Chess Lessons
Joe Gallagher's "Starting Out: The King's Indian" scored some nice wins with this book. Haven't read all of it, just the bits that I play OTB.
Others I've just dipped into as needed.
I have about 40, read front to back about 20.
Edit: I started making a list of the ones I really liked but it turned out to be really long.
tonydal wrote:
God, I don't know...lots. Does that matter? Do you get a trophy for it or something?
nope no trophy, sorry. I was interested as I have just finished my first chess book and wanted to see what general opinion is.
It's not the number we read is how well we understand the lessons and how well we are able to incorporate them in our play. At the beginner's stage of chess development it's best to concentrate most on tactic books in order to master the basics such as pins, double attacks, double attacks with a pawn push, discovered attacks, discovered attack with a check, forks, family forks, skewers, and the basic mating patterns.
I found the Fred Reinfeld books very helpful in that area.
0, but I have one I intend to start on soon.
Mar 13, 2011
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I have many chess books and would recommend anything to do with Paul Keres,especially his early career games with notes by himself.He had a simple way of looking at positions, similiar to capablanca in style. If you are then taken in by these games you can then progress to his mature career games.He started off playing correspondence chess like many of us in the early days and then slowly progressed into amateur tournaments, so in some ways one can relate to him.One other book which i remember reading avidly was called "HOW TO THINK AHEAD IN CHESS".It included the stonewall attack, and the dragon sicilian etc etc.It is probably out of print now but who knows
are there any in particular that you think have improved your chess playing?