Planning in Chess

What are some chess books that talk about how to plan in chess for beginner/intermediate (what ever you think this means) players?

-Simple Chess by Michael Stean. 

-The Silman Books ( start with Amateur's mind and then read Reassess your chess)

-Good annotated instructional books like Chernev's Logical Chess, Chernev's the most Instructive games of chess, Euwe's Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur and the more recent book by Neil McDonald.  Weeramantry's Best lessons of a chess book is a fantastic resource as well.

Though I've noticed that all these texts make one "cardinal" assumption about it's reader : that's you're decent enough to already KNOW the  most basic "caveman chess" plans, namely =>

- When you find an enemy weakness (Square, piece, pawn), look for ways to apply force to it.  This will invariably lead to concessions or tactical situations. 

- Conversely, make sure your moves don't introduce blatant weaknesses that he can zero in on immediately.

- Break moves with pawns are serious business ...  they CHANGE the whole flow of the game so handle these with utmost care.

- Never make moves that help him more than it helps you.  This includes helping him improve  the position of his pieces, trading that benefits him instead of you and making silly threats that he can easily meet and actually helps him move a piece to a better square.

- Most importantly, if you are mostly only reacting to your opponent's threats move after move, you really are not going to stand a chance in the game.

If you as a player are not aware and actively practicing the above in your own games, you really ought to go over your games and see how often you're doing these.  Like an AA member, admit you have a problem and try to stop making those mistakes....then...and only THEN....dive into a strategy/planning book.

The really talented (naturally) players do all of the above by intuition, so it makes sense for THEM to pick up My System as their very first book ... but if you're not, simply reading more complicated strategic concepts like outposts,  prophylaxis or playing with/against the IQP right away is inefficient at best and suicidal at worst.... you're just building a skyscraper ontop of a rickety foundation. I've made this mistake and I'm still paying for it :)

Thanks Mitch and Shivsky,

I've already have "My System" (an older version) and "Simple Chess" and have gone through the early chapters of both. If I had had more time I would have gone through them entirely (because I did find them instructional), but summer is the only time I really have for this. Anyway, I plan on buying "Amateur's Mind" and going through that in order to develop a better foundation upon to build on, unless (I highly doubt this) I find it to be too simple.