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If there were only 1 chess book you could reccomend what would it be ?

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  hansen999
  #41 Dec 30, 2012

  If just one book: Khmelnitskys Chess Exam and Training Guide because it will help you identify your strengths and weaknesses and at the same time doing the tests will increase your understanding of the different aspects of the game because the positions and comments are very instructive.

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  Andre_Harding
  #42 Dec 30, 2012

  Only one book?

  The Middle Game in Chess by Reuben Fine.

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  darnezee
  #43 Dec 30, 2012

  I am reading reassess your chess and I have found it helpful. I know there are some people on here who are not fans of silman's books. What specifically is wrong with it just out of curiosity

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  AndyClifton
  #44 Dec 30, 2012

  Pawn Structure Chess--Andy Soltis

  Complete Chess Strategy--Ludek Pachman

  (okay, so that's 2...I couldn't make up my mind) 

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  Grouper78
  #45 Dec 30, 2012

  Unorthodox Chess Openings -- Eric Schiller.

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  AndyClifton
  #46 Dec 30, 2012

  eek!

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  DrSpudnik
  #47 Dec 30, 2012
  AndyClifton wrote:

  eek!

  You see a mouse?

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  AndyClifton
  #48 Dec 30, 2012

  More like I smell a rat. 

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  orangeishblue
  #49 Dec 30, 2012

  500 Master Games by Dumont and Tartakower Single Volume

  Chess Informant Multi Volume

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  rnunesmagalhaes
  #50 Dec 30, 2012

  None of these books seem to be available on Kindle, and this is true for other chess books as well. Why is that?

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  varelse1
  #51 Dec 30, 2012

  Silman's Complete Endgame Chess Course.

  I don't care if you're Magnus Carlsen, or you just learned the moves yesterday. This book literally has something for Anyone in it.

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  AndyClifton
  #52 Dec 30, 2012

  Perhaps we first should ask Magnus about that...

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  Grouper78
  #53 Dec 30, 2012

  I think endgame study is overrated.  I just learned to play chess a few weeks ago and haven't played a single endgame yet. 

  Everyone, however, plays openings... 

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  AndyClifton
  #54 Dec 30, 2012

  Never argue with Sinatra.

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  taffy76
  #55 Dec 30, 2012
  Grouper78 wrote:

  I think endgame study is overrated.  I just learned to play chess a few weeks ago and haven't played a single endgame yet. 

  Everyone, however, plays openings... 

  Are you baiting for trolls?

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  waffllemaster
  #56 Dec 30, 2012
  Grouper78 wrote:

  I think endgame study is overrated.  I just learned to play chess a few weeks ago and haven't played a single endgame yet. 

  Everyone, however, plays openings... 

  Gotta be honest, you're not really wowing me with your credentials.

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  varelse1
  #57 Dec 30, 2012
  pfren wrote:

  Silman's endgame course is a very fine book- factly, it's just about the only Silman book I would recommend to someone. It won't substitute any of the endgame classics (Keres, Shereshevsky, Averbakh) or the stunning Dvoretsky endgame manual, but it CAN be used as your single endgame learning source.

  Sorry to say that I do not regard his middlegame books too highly... I find them plagiarizing, and largely flawed. Get Pachman instead, you can hardly go wrong with such stuff.

  Now that you bring it up, Pfren, I think Silman's books owe more of their success to the large print than the writing style or instructional value.

  But that's okay. Because I think the large print rocks!!!

  Lets hope other chess authors figure out that little secret.

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  Immoney5252
  #58 Dec 30, 2012

  I think this topic is beneficial for everyone......Grouper78 is not helping that cause.....start another thread with silly postings...thanks

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  SmyslovFan
  #59 Dec 30, 2012
  varelse1 wrote:

  pfren wrote:

  Silman's endgame course is a very fine book- factly, it's just about the only Silman book I would recommend to someone. It won't substitute any of the endgame classics (Keres, Shereshevsky, Averbakh) or the stunning Dvoretsky endgame manual, but it CAN be used as your single endgame learning source.

  Sorry to say that I do not regard his middlegame books too highly... I find them plagiarizing, and largely flawed. Get Pachman instead, you can hardly go wrong with such stuff.

  Now that you bring it up, Pfren, I think Silman's books owe more of their success to the large print than the writing style or instructional value.

  But that's okay. Because I think the large print rocks!!!

  Lets hope other chess authors figure out that little secret.

  Does it have the words, "Don't Panic" printed in large letters on the back as well?  I understand that's an absolute guarantee the book will be a galactic bestseller!

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  1024x768
  #60 Dec 31, 2012
  pfren wrote:

  For the record, if you are interested in the Reti book, you can read it for free in fully electronic form at http://www.openchessbooks.org/

  All games with their annotations can be downloaded and viewed with your favorable pgn viewer.

  much valuable post.thanks.