Strategy books, which order?

Ok i've got these strategy books;

Simple chess Micheal stean

Best lessons of a chess coach Sunni

Weapons of chess Pandolfini

If someone could recommend which order I should read them in i'd be very grateful. I'm assuming I should read the easiest first, which is that?

Nobody is allowed to mention 'how to reassess your chess'

Get your money back on Sunni and Pandolfini.

Simple Chess by Grandmaster Stean.

I'm less familiar with Weapons of Chess but I suspect it is the "easiest".  So, start there.  If it is too basic, move on to Best Lessons. Simple Chess is probably the best of the three, but it is more advanced -- it is a great introduction to positional chess concepts.

Sorry to say that but you have the wrong books.Only "Simple Chess" is a somewhat good book.

Thanks for the advice, I got the books because I thought they would be an easy introduction to strategy for me. I thought the bestt lessons book would be good, as it got good reviews and is written by the step father of hakkimura? US no 1

What are better introductions to strategy?

Thanks

Jon

@Jon

a great book would be Lasker's Chess Manual. Lasker is a bit heavy on philosophy at times; it's a classic though.

Lasker's book is not for beggining your study.It's a classic but a book that may confuse you if you don't know the basics.

   Wonderfull books are Pachman's 3 books Complete Chess Strategy .

2 drawbacks:

1)Writen with the old notation system , some find very difficult although it's actually quite simple

2)Difficult to find them.

If you can find them , take them , even used , without second thought.Pachman explains complicated concepts with an unbelievable simplicity and the examples are all very carefully selected.Reading these 3 books is like doing a "walk" among the best games ever played.  

Yeah I looked at the lasker book, is the newer Dvoresky version better? just worried it might be too hard for me?

Looked at the pachman books as well, avoided because of descriptive notation but I guess I could learn it if its a great book..

Thanks for the comments keep them coming :)

I agree.

you agree the pachman books would be good starting books?

Yes indeed- factly instead of all that crap that's issued/reissued today, an algebraic edition of at least the abridged edition of the Pachman classic should have happened ages ago.

Thank you I will buy the 3 pachman volumes, and read simple chess

any other books?, or should I just re-read those.

thanks

Jon

"Practical Chess Endings" by Paul Keres is also "must read".

Kotov's 3 books ("Play like a GM", "Train like a GM" , and "Think like a GM") are also very good  but not so simple.Have them in  mind for later though.In fact these 6 books plus the 2 excellent Chernev's books ("Capablanca's Best Chess Endings" and "The most instructive games of chess ever played")cover everything you need to know about middle game and together with "Practical Chess endings" almost everything you need to know about endgames(although study never really ends, especially endgame study) .

Surprisingly enough "Capablanca's Best Chess Endings" also exists in algebraic notation. I would add to the above Shereshevsky's "Endgame Stategy" which I believe is hands down the most instructive endgame book ever written.

I have Silman's Endgame, easily broken down by ELO, and a copy of Dvoretsky, that is like a reference, are those alright?

Silman seems easier, for me, at least   

Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual is absolutely stunning... provided that your FIDE ELO is somewhere around 2200 or so.

Silman's book is probably the best one he has ever written, but Shereshevsky's is unique because at heart it is not just an endgame book.

I think that for the start you must try learning the fundamental endgames via the Keres book, and after having a decent knowledge of the basic endings add some Silman (or whatever else) to the soup. For new players, good endgame knowledge is way more important than good openings knowledge.

Pratical Chess Endings?

http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2008/04/best-chess-books-ever.html

The Pachman books are well written. Volumes 1 and 2 can be found at a reasonable price. Volume 3 is rare.

Thing is, you already have those specific books. Why not just skip the melodrama and just start plowing into them and deciding for yourself?

Sunil's book is actualy good. But the problem with his book is the diversity of positions there is not big. I suggest start with Sunil, followed by the book of Stean.