Archaic71 wrote:
Logical Chess - Move by Move, Chernov
Silmans Endgame Course, Silman
Vienna 1953, Bronstein
Best Lessons of a Chess Coach, Veermantry
Zurich 1953 ?
Top 10 Chess Books to Own
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blake78613 wrote:
Vukovic's Art of Attack in Chess is a good book, but I wouldn't call it a book about tactics. If forced to put it in one of your categories, I would call it a book on Strategy.
I never really thought about it. There's probably some cross-over because he talks about fairly long term plans to attack a castled king; but he also talks about mating nets and focal points which have a lot to do with short term tactics like back-rank mate, smothered mate, trapping etc. The book also features a chapter on mating patterns - I always thought the book concerned itself more with practical and immediate things.
As others have said everyone gravitates to different authors and methods BUT if I had to pick a top ten that I got the most out of (which also means I put the most INTO as well!)
Tactics:
- Winning Chess Tactics for Juniors by Hays
- Susan Polgar's two books!
- Art of the Checkmate by Renaud and Kahn
Game Collections:
- Logical Chess by Chernev
- Capablanca's Best Endings by Chernev
- My Fifty Years in Chess by Frank Marshall
Endgame:
- Understanding Chess Ending by John Nunn
- Pandolfini's Endgame Course by Pandolfini (I use this as a endgame puzzle book for the basics!)
Strategy:
- The Amateur's Mind by Jeremy Silman (wth a slight nod to Simple chess by Stean)
So that is ten!
Here's 10 to own. Whether they're the top 10 to own or not, I don't know...
The Test of Time - Garry Kasparov
The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal - Mikhail Tal
7 Deadly Chess Sins - Jonathan Rowson
Chess for Zebras - Jonathan Rowson
Zurich 1953 - David Bronstein
Chess Duels: My Games with the World Champions - Yasser Seirawan
The Road to Chess Improvment - Alex Yermolinksy
Attacking Manual - Jacob Aagaard
Secrets of Modern Chess Startegy - John Watson
Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual - Mark Dvoretsky
May 26, 2011
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My Top Ten chess books for beebejoe, based on his rating, in no particular order: (with alternative choices in parantheses to account for unavailable and/or expensive used copies)
1. Common Sense in Chess by Dr Lasker (Lasker's Manual of Chess by Dr Lasker)
2-3 Chess Fundamentals and My Chess Career by Capablanca (The Unknown Alekhine by Reinfeld, an ironic choice since he & Capa were mortal enemies)
4. 1001 Checkmates by Fred Reinfeld (1001 Best Short Games by Chernev)
5. 1001 Combinations by Fred Reinfeld (or a book on the middlegame by Fine or Euwe)
6. The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played by I. Chernev (Logical Chess Move by Move by Chernev)
7. Practical Chess Endings by I. Chernev (alternative: same title by Paul Keres)
8. Nunn's Chess Openings for reference (Modern Chess Openings 15)
9. My System by Nimzovitch - mandatory!
10. Basic Chess Endings by GM Fine - for reference - highly recommended
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. ~James Bryce
My Great Predecessors by Garry Kasparov
i asked myself the same thing, and built a collection of 40 some odd chess books, and i am really regretting not getting more/ better tactics books. my reccomendations in no particular order would be;
1.nunns chess openings
2.my system
3.amatures mind
4.silmans endgame book
5.chess tactics for students
6.1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations
7.Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games
8.reasses your chess
9.reasses your chess workbook
10.pawn structure chess/pawn power in chess
my system
chess praxis
bobbaduche wrote:
10.pawn structure chess/pawn power in chess
Does anyone know... How does Sokolov's Winning Chess Middlegames: An Essential Guide to Pawn Structures (2009) compare with these two?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Winning-Chess-Middlegames-Essential-Structures/dp/905691264X
Some keepers from my shelf (the unreadable one is Fischer's 60):
Here are some books that are well worth buying:
Dvoretsky & Yusupov - Positional Play
Nimzowitsch - My System
Nimzowitsch - Chess Praxis
Kotov - Think Like a Grandmaster
Dvoretsky - Dvoretsky's Analytical Manual
Dvoretsky - Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual
Polgar - Chess in 5333+1 Positions
Dvoretsky & Yusupov - School of Future Champions 1 - Secrets of Chess Training
Suetin - Plan Like a Grandmaster
Lev & Palatnik - The King in Jeopardy
http://chess-teacher.com/endgame#oid=1131_6
this link may be helpful for you
http://chess-teacher.com/endgame#oid=1131_6
10. My Great Predecessors
9. My 60 Memorable Games
8. Play Like a Grandmaster
7. Pawn Power
6. School of Chess Excellence
5. ECO Collection
4. My System
3. Think Like a Grandmaster
2. How to Reassess Your Chess
1. Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual
I've only been taking chess seriously for a couple of months so I have only so much to say. Mostly I'm looking for new things to read/study. I've been working out of David Levens' "Basic Chess" which has a lot of good material but is plagued by poor editing. It's extremely frustrating to figure out a misprint in a game when you're just learning to read notation. Other than that a friend of mine gave me a copy of "Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess" which I've gotten a lot out of. From what I understand Fischer didn't have much to do with writing it but regardless of who wrote it it has improved my game enormously. It deals with basic mating patterns and is (imho) wonderfully organized.
Seeing as I've only read two books on chess I don't have a top ten yet, but please keep this thread going!
Aug 21, 2012
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The following is not sorted in any significant order of preference. They are all great.
- My System - Nimzowitsch
- My 60 Memorable Games - Fischer
- Rocking the Ramparts: A Guide to Attacking Chess - Christiansen
- Storming the Barricades - Christiansen
- Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 - By Bronstein, but I have ordered the book by Najdorf as I heard some say they liked it better. Either way excellent book on one of the strongest chess tourneys in history.
- Play Like a Grandmaster - Kotov
- The Chess Games of Adolph Anderssen: Master of Attack - Pickard
- My Best Games of Chess, 1908 - 1934 - Alekhine
- How to Reasses Your Chess, 4th Ed. - Silman
- Pawn Power in Chess - Kmoch
Excellent recommendations ; but I would like to apply some more !
1-best lessons of a chess coach ( Sunil)
2-a guide to chess improvement ( Dan heisman)
3- Tao of chess
4-Alekhine's heritage ( 4 volumes by kotov)
5-chess school ( kotov & yudovsky)
6- improve your chess now! ( tisdall)
7-chess, art of logical thinking (neil Mc donald)
chess openings for black explained
chess openings for white explained both wrote lev alburt , roman , and eugene
rubbensteins strategy for white
creative chesss strategy alfosno romero
enclyclopedia of middle games
all enclylopedias of openings a through to e there a must have on anyones shelf
Interesting classification, ZaidejasChEgis.
I'm curious to know - what is so special about Shipov and his Hedgehog book?
the unknown capablanca, capablancas last lectures, my chess career by capablanca, chess fundamentals by capablanca, capablancas chess endings, anatoly karpov endgame virtuouso, My 60 memorable games, Why lasker matters by Soltis, My best games of chess by reshevsky, CJS Purdy fine art of annotiation.
Vukovic's Art of Attack in Chess is a good book, but I wouldn't call it a book about tactics. If forced to put it in one of your categories, I would call it a book on Strategy.