My system by Aron Nimzowitsch is a good read or something more interactive online is always good to to like https://www.chessable.com/knights-on-the-attack/course/16475/
Recommended Chess Books?
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For physical books, above all else I recommend the Chess Steps workbooks (level 1 is up to 800 rating USCF, level 2 is up to 1400 rating, level 3 is up to 1600, level 4 is up to 1750, level 5 is up to 1900, and level 6 is up to 2100). Brief lessons, lots of practice problems.
Chess Fundamentals, I think, comes for free with the e+Chess Books app, if you decide you are willing to use an e-reader. While the book is a highly regarded classic, I think you can get more bang for your buck with modern books. For books from that pre-WWII era, “Soviet Chess Primer” by Mazeilis comprehensively covers the game.
Nimzowitsch is advanced for strategy, but controversial according to many (I never read it)... Pachman’s 3 volume set of Complete Chess Strategy comes highly recommended for strategy and is roughly 50 years more modern than My System. Pandolfini’s Weapons of Chess is far more basic, but a great intro to strategy (but my favorite).
Annotated game collections...
Google “Book List Recommendations - Dan Heisman”, click the link, and scroll down to “Game Collections” ... the first 10-12 are very good (everything before Grooten’s book, notably the 2 books by Chernev and the several by McDonald). Grooten’s book is also excellent, but represents a considerable jump in skill level in my low-level opinion.
Chess Fundamentals, I think, comes for free with the e+Chess Books app, if you decide you are willing to use an e-reader. While the book is a highly regarded classic, I think you can get more bang for your buck with modern books. For books from that pre-WWII era, “Soviet Chess Primer” by Mazeilis comprehensively covers the game.
Nimzowitsch is advanced for strategy, but controversial according to many (I never read it)... Pachman’s 3 volume set of Complete Chess Strategy comes highly recommended for strategy and is roughly 50 years more modern than My System. Pandolfini’s Weapons of Chess is far more basic, but a great intro to strategy (but my favorite).
Annotated game collections...
Google “Book List Recommendations - Dan Heisman”, click the link, and scroll down to “Game Collections” ... the first 10-12 are very good (everything before Grooten’s book, notably the 2 books by Chernev and the several by McDonald). Grooten’s book is also excellent, but represents a considerable jump in skill level in my low-level opinion.
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/2015/06/04/the-soviet-chess-primer/
https://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/Soviet_Chess_Primer-extract.pdf
"... The title might suggest it is for beginners, but that is not the case. [The Soviet Chess Primer] does start off with some basic positions, but quickly moves on to much more advanced material including chapters on positional play and techniques of calculation." - IM John Donaldson
Good Chess Books for Beginners and Beyond...
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/good-chess-books-for-beginners-and-beyond
Thanks everyone for the reply!
And to anyone reading this who's thinking of replying for any reason, this is merely just a thread of mine that got duplicated for some reason and I couldn't figure out how to delete it. I'd hate to be the cause for cluttering the forums, so can I ask if you want to reply to reply here instead?
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/recommended-chess-books-2?newCommentCount=12&page=1#first_new_comment
An IM, trainer and book lover says: https://youtu.be/SbRWrXgj4IA
Watch this afterwards: https://youtu.be/WLSPqJmEiTM
Still waiting for part 3.
The topic double posted for some reason sorry for that.
Hello! So I just came across some extra funds recently and was wanting to invest it towards chess. Now, as you can see from my rating, I'm not very good at the game but I'm trying to get better! So I'm looking for some physical books to improve my skills (I don't read books online well) Also, I should add, the kind of notation doesn't matter much as I can understand descriptive if I move slowly though it.
The contenders I have on my list:
Chess fundamentals by Capablanca: This seems to be a classic, and from I saw of it could help my chess by quite a bit
My System/Chess Praxis by nimzowitsch: this one is more likely than not too advanced for me, but from what I heard it has some good/useful ideas in it and I think I should soak in at least a few of them if I work hard enough at it.
Currently I think I should also try to get some annotated game collections, probably of classic games. But I don't even know where to start with that, does anyone have any recommendations or favorites?
I think that's enough of my rambling... What are your guys thoughts on the books I listed? And do you have any books you'd recommend? Thanks in Advance!