What Chess book to buy?

hi eciruam,do you happen to know when it was first published?

London chess centre seems to have a clearance sale, you could get some good book there.

http://shop.chess.co.uk/Chess-Book-SALE-s/1861.htm

Hi there Apotek...The book that I recommend was first published in the United Kingdom in 2008 by

Batsford

Old West London Magistrates Court

1 is available0, Southcombe Street

London W14 ORA

An imprint of Anova Books Company Ltd.

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.....It's worth the effort.

Ignore...1 is available0, Southcombe Street.....It should read

10 Southcombe Street

thank you very much eciruam!sounds like a must-have!

You're most welcome

If you are looking for games look at chessgames.com or so. If you can live with old notations books like chernev on the most instructive games ever played or euwe on master versus amateur are great books for everbody. The book by aljechin is also great since it explains the fundamentals of chess far better than any other.

@Rishi9: thanks but I actually live in Chicago, so I'm not sure if they'll ship to the US (if so then it'll probably be expensive)

@Newkidonadonkey: I actually already use chessgames.com quite a bit already.  I use it to play through master games from 'Mammoth Book of Greatest Games' without notation so I can analyze and try to guess the moves myself first, before I read the notation in the book.  Thanks for the other tips too

Learn To Play Winning Chess - History, Rules, Skills And Tactics by John Saunders.

I've got th' book, it's pre'y gud. 

Ok, so after much deliberation I think I'm actually going to get two Chess books (I just can't resist it!):

• Build up Your Chess, Fundamentals by Yusupov - several strong players are recommending it and it looks like a really solid, heavyweight system for improving my game.  I liked the examples as well.
• Logical Chess Move by Move by Chernev - also seems to be highly recommended and it's the one I liked the look of the most on the preview.  I think this might be better for a light read than the other one. It looks like basically a game collection, but I like the way he gives explanations for every single move, so he doesn't assume any prior knowledge.  Might help me catch any basic stuff I may have missed and shore up the fundamentals.

There are a lot of other books that also look great, so it's a hard choice.  Silman's books look good as well and I know his Endgame Course is excellent, as I've borrowed that from the library.  But I'm not sure Amateur's Mind is what I'm looking for at the moment.

Thanks for all the tips and I'll let you know how I get on with these!

Grea' chess books, all o' these. 

Thanks for the tip - I'll certainly check it out for the future

Oki doki, no problemo. 'Tis pre'y cheap in t'ese parts. 

They do have chapters on positional chess and strategy, but I think the intent is to lay a solid foundation for players 1500-1600 in all aspects of chess.  If you are looking for a book that is pure strategy, there are quite a few recommendations out there.  Personally I am a fan of Silman (I enjoy his articles), but I do realize that he is not for everyone.

Let me know what you bought and give us a bit of a "book review" when you do!

Ok, cool.  It sounds like a structured course to help development in an all-round kind of way, which is definitely appealing.  At my level I probably can't get enough tactics anyway and I want to focus on improvement, so I'm ok to leave the 'purer' positional/strategy books for now.  Thanks!

What about Dvoretsky's "School of" series.  There's of Chess Excellence and Future Champions, both are good.  Also Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual is good but you might want to try out Van Perlo's Endgame Tactics first.  Uhlmann's book on open files is a great one too. 

A friend of mine at the local chess club (rated in the 1900's OTB) is busy working through Dvoretsky's series of books and he is quite challenged by the material.  I have not seen them myself, but judging from some of the other forum posts on these books, they seem to be quite complex are more suited for the advanced players.  I would guess 2000 OTB and up.

Ok, I've ordered Build Up Your Chess Fundamentals and Logical Chess Move by Move - I'll let you know how I get on with those.  The Dvoretsky books sound good but they may be a bit out of my league at the moment.  Maybe I'll check those out later.  Thanks for the sugestion though TheGreatOogieBoogie

okay my coach said logical chess move by move is suitable for approx. 1600-1900 FIDE and there was another one he said which was good for like 2000+ FIDE i forget it. I think it was Understanding chess move by move, something like that

Logical chess move by move is a good choice if my fantastic coach reccomended it.