My list of books to buy

O.K.

I have a list of books I am ready to buy based on recommendations. What do you think, being I am a beginner?

My System, Nimzowitsch

Alekine's My best games of chess

Chess Tactics for Champions (By Polgar)...it was either this or the Tactics books by Seirawan

Reassess your chess (just to have for later).

There are sooooo many books that I want to be sure I am buying the appropriate ones. I thought My System may be too advanced, so what about

60 Games by Bobby Fisher.

Best!

Mike

I have all those books polgar's book I recommend.

chess fundamentasl by capablanca

Reassess your chess is a book that teachess positional concepts which is not always good for the bigginer. My System is also potional book, but I enjoyed the book, the book is written on Nimzowitsch's ideas in chess and at the back is some annotated games. Alekhine's book is my favorite annotated game book, although the analysis isn't really for a begginer. I haven't read enough of Bobby 60 best games to recommend it.

You are like a kid in a candy store, aren't you?  AND there is nothing wrong with that given your novice status and enthusiasm for the game.  Here's the thing though,  almost every chess player will admit to having a large selection of unread chess books that they're going to get to "someday".  Nothing wrong with having a library, but do you really need more things to work on?  My advice would be to hit some of the basic Chess Mentor courses hard until you have a better feel for what you need.   If you feel you must have some more advanced material, then try some of Silman's strategy courses.  Just another patzer's $.02.

One good book studied in depth is worth 40 lightly skimmed. 

Haha. I am a little bit. I think you may be right about the books. Maybe just one for now. I hear good things about Polgar's book, so I might give that a shot. Silmans endgame book is hard core good. So I imagine most things by him are first rate.

How true you are...

I would get Logical Chess by Chernev before My System.

Here's NM Dan Heisman's recomondations based on ratings

http://danheisman.home.comcast.net/~danheisman/Events_Books/General_Book_Guide.htm

I think My System is not a book for a beginner?

My absolute favorite book as a beginner which is dogged eared, written in, tattered and still carried in my purse to go through when I'm waiting at the bank or anywhere else is..........Secrets of the Russian Chess Masters Vol 1  by Lev Alburt & Larry Par.  Vol 2 is a great follow up as well.  Easy to understand, large print and many many exercises with well explained thought processes.  I'm a big reader and have a lot of chess books on my shelf but it's still my favorite and my first choice to recommend to beginners.

don't forget arthur yusupov books.....u can't go wrong with it

I agree with this.  I got to 1900 uscf without ever reading a book cover to cover. I might have  read small snipets of books, but nothing more.  I personally think its easier to learn from videos, but some people have different learning styles since I personally think chess books are really boring.

Chess Training for Budding Champions by jesper hall

And also Improve your positional chess by Hansen

Hi redchessman how can improve my blitz level

Openings.  In the last year my otb rating has barely improved and I've always been pretty strong in openings, but this might be attributed to me not playing tournaments regularly like once in 2 months is pretty bad.  But like in September of this year I really structured my openings in chessbase and started learning a lot about the small details/nuances.  Also every week i'd attend chess practices with my university team and this helped a lot since I am constantly playing with people stronger than me and this resulted in me jumping from the 2000s to nearly 2300.  But on the basic level I really don't know from 1000 to 2000 in blitz.  However, I do know that getting better in your overall chess understanding will also help in blitz.  And the best way to do this is playing lots and lots of tournaments in real life.  I learn way way more playing at a long time-control tournament otb than online.  But if you want to only improve at blitz.  you need strong opening understandings.  Because basically if you understand the opening and know more theory than your opponent you'll save lots of time on the clock.  However, just because you get good positions out of the opening won't mean you'll win which is why I reccomend playing in over the board tournaments with long time controls to get stronger at middlegame/endgame.

You'll learn a lot from reading My System but keep in mind that almost all of Nimzovitch's opening analysis in the book needs to be taken with a grain of salt now - although it was undoubtedly correct for 1930 when the book was first published.

Absolutely agree, it's a must for beginners and even a good book for intermediate players, has a lot of good tips. An advanced player would probably sneer at it, but Mikhail Botvinnik praised Capa's book highly and said it was one of the best chess books ever written.

I agree AND you can get this book electronically and free of charges from e+chess. It is the best electronic type of chess book by the way. The capa book is very good. Very well explained.