domination in 2,545 chess endgames
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Name only one book that has biggest impact in your chess improvement?
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1000 Best of the Best by chess informant. I learned almost everything... tactics, endgames, strategy and openings.
my system nimzowitsch
and seirawans book of openings
also I found the Bobby Fischer's complete book of games by Karsten Muller extremely helpful. also very interesting.
For books that I have read I'd say pandolfini's 111 winning endgames, which is a puzzle book that gives you various fundamental tactics in different end game positions to solve has been the most rewarding to my chess. But tal 's book life&games gave me a better understanding of how great chess players may look at chess positions, handle stress and set backs, and most importantly gave me the inspiration to study chess and not just play it as a casual past time on occasion which may have a greater long term effect on my chess.
The two chess books that have affected me the most are probably Irving Chrenov's Logical Chess: Move by Move and Jeremy Silman's How To Reassess Your Chess.
Sorry for naming more than one. I'm just not sure which impacted me more. Logical Chess really helped me about a year and a half ago while Reassess Your Chess really helped me in the last five months.
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It's been awhile but there was a book called Pawn Power in Chess that taught me how pawn structure influences success.
My System
Logical chess move by move because its so easy to understand. and still one of my all time favs.
Well since I am a beginner I will say Play Winning Chess by Yasser Seirawan It has helped me by leaps and bounds
Jeremy Silman's book take your pick,
The Hippopotamus Rises by Andrew Martin. (Don't kill me, I'm serious!) After reading through it, I somehow learnt about flexibility, strategy and most importantly, pawn breaks. And of course, the Hippo.
Karpov - "The road to championship" (just a translation of the title, I read this book in Polish ("Droga do mistrzostwa") and it was probably not translated to English).
The book is a choice of Karpov's best games up to 1985 with his own annotations and the introduction by Tal. After studying this book my rating "magically" increased by some 250 points and I started to understand much more positional details of chess.
Btw, at the Millenium Blitz Cup in Poland I got the book signed by Karpov and took a photo with him. He is my favourite grandmaster, I love his squezing, constricting style of play which leaves the opponents with no doubts of who was better in a game.
Le nouveau guide des échecs
An history of the best chess players from Philidor, with game analysis
Name only one book that has biggest impact in your chess improvement?