There are many good books out there, but if you are interested in Silman's Reassess your Chess, don't hesitate to buy it. I have it, and I highly recommend it.
Middlegame Chess Book for a Beginner
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mattattack99 wrote:
There are many good books out there, but if you are interested in Silman's Reassess your Chess, don't hesitate to buy it. I have it, and I highly recommend it.
I also agree.
I think you'd be better off saving How to Reassess Your Chess for later. Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur(descriptive) by Euwe and Meiden, Winning Chess Strategies(algebraic) by Seirawan, Logical Chess Move by Move(available in algebraic) by Chernev, or even The Amateur's Mind(algebraic) by Silman would be more appropriate for your skill level than How to Reassess Your Chess.
Basic tactics books and basic endgame books would be even more appropriate for your skill level and more likely to produce improvement than middlegame books. Maybe you already have that covered though.
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Legendary_Patzer wrote:
I am a beginner in chess and I want a good middlegame chess book. I don't want any books in descriptive notation (i find it very disorganised and difficult to decipher) and I won't mind if the book is too 'advanced'. My current rating is 838 on chess.com which will equate to 500 - 600 in real life.
I've taken a look at Jerry Silman's How to Reassess Your Chess, but I am a bit hesitant on buying it due to a slandering assessment of Silman's performance i saw on a chess forum.
I hope you're kidding. You're rated under 1000, and you're worried that the IM writing the book you're interested in doesn't have a good enough performance? At that level, you could read a book written by me, if I had one.
I'd also agree with Quasimorphy that tactics are probably the way to go at that level. Strategy does you very little good if you can't spot the fork, or leave a piece hanging.
Silman wouldn't even recommend his book to you at this point. It's too advanced. It's an intermediate book. It's not for beginners. HTRYC is for next year, or the year after that. Get something more appropriate. Morphy is right.
DavidMertz1 wrote:
Legendary_Patzer wrote:
I am a beginner in chess and I want a good middlegame chess book. I don't want any books in descriptive notation (i find it very disorganised and difficult to decipher) and I won't mind if the book is too 'advanced'. My current rating is 838 on chess.com which will equate to 500 - 600 in real life.
I've taken a look at Jerry Silman's How to Reassess Your Chess, but I am a bit hesitant on buying it due to a slandering assessment of Silman's performance i saw on a chess forum.
I hope you're kidding. You're rated under 1000, and you're worried that the IM writing the book you're interested in doesn't have a good enough performance? At that level, you could read a book written by me, if I had one.
I'd also agree with Quasimorphy that tactics are probably the way to go at that level. Strategy does you very little good if you can't spot the fork, or leave a piece hanging.
I only want to learn from the very best. You can't have a teacher who makes the wrong moves. I can spot forks and I dont leave a piece hanging. Heck I have never been in a proper tournament only 10 min online live games
Quasimorphy wrote:
I think you'd be better off saving How to Reassess Your Chess for later. Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur(descriptive) by Euwe and Meiden, Winning Chess Strategies(algebraic) by Seirawan, Logical Chess Move by Move(available in algebraic) by Chernev, or even The Amateur's Mind(algebraic) by Silman would be more appropriate for your skill level than How to Reassess Your Chess.
Basic tactics books and basic endgame books would be even more appropriate for your skill level and more likely to produce improvement than middlegame books. Maybe you already have that covered though.
Read a review on The Amateur's Mind and it wasn't very positive... Leaning towards Winning Chess Strategies and Logical Chess Move by Move.
Thanks!
I am a beginner in chess and I want a good middlegame chess book. I don't want any books in descriptive notation (i find it very disorganised and difficult to decipher) and I won't mind if the book is too 'advanced'. My current rating is 838 on chess.com which will equate to 500 - 600 in real life.
I've taken a look at Jerry Silman's How to Reassess Your Chess, but I am a bit hesitant on buying it due to a slandering assessment of Silman's performance i saw on a chess forum.