What is your favorite Strategy book?

What is your favorite strategy book in which it helps you improve your game?

Depends on where you are at.

If you are just getting started on chess strategy, my favorite recommendations would be:

- Classic + reputed annotated game books (Chernev, Euwe, Nunn, Weeramantry etc.)

- Simple Chess by Michael Stean

Regarding Simple Chess by Stean. How would you compare it with Modern Chess Strategy by Pachman. I have Winning Chess Stragey by Seirawan, How to Play Chess Endgame by Muller, Creative Chess Strategy by Romero, Lessons in Chess Strategy by Beim. Do you think I can still learn something from Simple Chess? But I like collecting good books.

Stean's book is way easier to read (quite tiny by comparison to the others you've mentioned) but a great starter book for chess strategy.  All the others you mentioned (except Seirawan) are quite tough to read + absorb if you're not a decent player already.

The complete book of chess strategy - IM SIlman! duh 4 me

@shivsky, with all the books that I listed do you think it's worth if I still buy Stean's book? I forget to mention I also have Chess Strategy for Tournement players by Alburt.

@maelith: Depends ... aren't you getting enough from those books?

The absolutely necessary series of books is Complete Chess Strategy,3 books by Ludek Pachman.

Hi Michael

What is the full title of each of these books please?

Complete Chess Strategy 1:Planning the pieces

Complete Chess Strategy 2:Pawn Play and the centre

Complete Chess Strategy 3:Play on the wings

Chess Middlegame Planning; Chess Middlegame Combinations by Romanovsky

Questions of Modern Chess Theory by Lipnitsky

Soviet classics!

Make sure you GET the 3 individual books and not the "abridged single edition" as it leaves out a lot of content present in the originals.

with regard to Shivsky's post -- yes, indeed. The books are out of print but the three volume set can still be picked up cheaply. (NB: They are in English descriptive notation; no problems for guys like me who grew up with it but some find it off-putting. Given the vast wealth of good books, out of print, with descriptive it pays to learn it if you don't know it.)

Tao Te Ching by Lao-tzu

Pawn Structure Chess by Andy Soltis

Peter Romanovsky, Chess Middlegame Planning

Think Like a Grandmaster --Kotov

I really like  Chess Strategy for Club Players: the Road to Positional Advantage so far, but am only a few chapters into it.