HI there! Could anyone help me in selecting books. I am having some doubts.
There's a post by RussBell that is a guide of chess literature at https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/good-chess-books-for-beginners-and-beyond
(Normally he'd be plugging it himself, but your query missed the dragnet).
Anyways, with your rating, you should be considering the books more suited to beginner or novice-intermediate.
HI there! Could anyone help me in selecting books. I am having some doubts.
There's a post by RussBell that is a guide of chess literature at https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/good-chess-books-for-beginners-and-beyond
(Normally he'd be plugging it himself, but your query missed the dragnet).
Anyways, with your rating, you should be considering the books more suited to beginner or novice-intermediate.
Hi there! Thanx for the for suggestion. Can you suggest me some? I am having a hard time finding one myself out.
What book to get depends on what you want from a book, and therefore what *type* of book you're after, and I don't know much about you. There are a bunch of various chess book subgenres - tactics books, tournament books, endgame books, introductions to positional chess, opening guides, annotated games list and so forth. If you want to improve your endgames, buy an endgames book suitable for your rating level. If you like a certain top player and want to understand their games, you get an annotated game list focusing on them, that sort of thing.
I suspect, with your rating and relatively low game count, and your unspecified 'I want to buy a book' wish, you're after a 'how to get better at chess in general' book aimed at beginners or low intermediates rather than a book focusing on a specific aspect of chess, and those kinds of book are a thing. For that genre, I've heard good things about Yasser Seraiwan's 'Play Winning Chess' series and 'How to Beat your Dad at chess', but I've not read either so what I say is just hearsay, and the blog post linked does have plenty of other suggestions for those kinds of book (and others) that might be just as good, or better.
Anyways, once you have an idea of what type of book you want, go through the suggestions of books of that type and check out online reviews and information to see if it's the kind of book you'd like.
Good Chess Openings Books For Beginners and Beyond...
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/good-chess-openings-books-for-beginners-and-beyond
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell
There's so many to choose from. I personally like The Soviet Chess Primer. It's tough reading for beginners and for people who returned to chess after decades away from it (like me), but it covers a lot of ground and it encourages you to really think from the onset. I'm also fond of Beim's Back to Basics: Strategy, and the book 100 Endgames You Must Know. As for tactics, you can use online sources and various books. What I have are those books with the cartoon elephant on the cover, the Chess School series.
Rock Solid Chess and Forcing Chess Moves
I am currently enjoying one of Russ Bell's recommendations, Winning Chess by Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld. I felt the need to work on tactics (don't we all?) and this is an excellent book that explains the basic tactics well, and in a very entertaining way. I am reading it side by side with one of Russ' recommended strategy books, Weapons of Chess by Bruce Pandolfini. Both are excellent.
I'm working through "The Complete C3 Sicilian" by Evgeny Sveshnikov. It's out of print and obtaining a copy can be expensive but it's a really great book. Lots of white responses and lines to play in response to the Sicilian defense by black.
I loooooovvvvveeee opening books. However, my goal is to study 12-18 tactics a week until I hit 2000. The book is called 1001 winning chess tactics by Fred Reinfeld. He wrote a beginner book that proceeds this that is called 1001 Chess Beginner Problems.
HI there! Could anyone help me in selecting books. I am having some doubts.