where to learn chess ideas?

Hi I¨ve played chess for 2 years and im 1900 (blitz only) on chess.com on my other account. I'm looking for a book or something that shows positions and then presents the different ideas of that position.  Nothing tactical though, or if it is tactical it shouldnt be the main focus. 

Most books ive gone through are just horrible. They mindlessly give lines or talk about different chess principles. For example, contesting an open file, which a lot of times could lead to a very boring endgame. I rather have some decent player argue to why it is important and then make my own choice in game.  

To be more specific: material which focuses on chess strategy, help to give purpose to moves and teaches about coordination of pieces and where to put ur pieces and what to target. If the game that is presented is equal from start to end that's fine. Rather a lot of text written about a position than a lot lines given. 

God bless tomatoes, you could add them to any meal. People say everything tastes better with butter, I say don't forget the tomatoes.

That said, you've violated site policy by keeping two accounts - you might want to sort that out. And you've been told this by we the public... at our own leisure.

I have a book lying around that seems pretty interesting; Emmanuel Bricard - Strategic Chess Exercises; the exercises are very open, which makes it feel like you're actually playing a match. You're given a position, and tasked with finding a way to get the advantage. The answers then look through a line or two and discuss this and that briefly. 

I can't access my other account and I randomly had this account since 2009 which is funny. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pE7GaINbgs 

The book u recommended seems good. Although the nature of the puzzles is to get an advantage which maybe makes it a bit more tactical depending on how big the advantage is.

I am confused. It sounds like you are asking for Chess Fundamentals - a book form of John Batholomew’s youtube series. He talks about piece co-ordination, attacking undefended squares and pieces. He also talks about trades, when to and not to make them, typical mistakes etc.

The videos (and presumably book content) are aimed at low rated players (like me). I would have thought a 1900 blitz player (therefore higher rating in rapid and standard chess) would have all these fundamental theories under their belt.

Perhaps you are asking on behalf of a friend?

 

You’ve played chess two years, have a rating of 1900, and have another account that you created ten years ago.

 

Reported.

Possibilities:

https://www.chess.com/article/view/how-to-play-positional-chess

https://www.chess.com/article/view/test-your-positional-chess

https://www.chess.com/article/view/do-you-really-understand-positional-chess

https://www.chess.com/article/view/get-ready-to-test-your-positional-chess-again

https://www.chess.com/article/view/can-you-pass-this-positional-chess-test

https://www.chess.com/article/view/how-to-calculate-long-term-advantages-in-chess

https://www.chess.com/article/view/learning-basic-pawn-structures

https://www.chess.com/article/view/learning-pawn-structure-for-chess-players-under-2000

https://www.chess.com/article/view/your-pawn-structure-is-your-friend

https://www.chess.com/article/view/more-pawn-structures

The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played by Irving Chernev (1965)
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/most-instructive-games-of-chess-ever-played/
Seirawan stuff:
http://seagaard.dk/review/eng/bo_beginner/ev_winning_chess.asp?KATID=BO&ID=BO-Beginner
http://www.nystar.com/tamarkin/review1.htm
50 Essential Chess Lessons by Steve Giddins
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708100833/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review534.pdf
http://www.gambitbooks.com/pdfs/50_Essential_Chess_Lessons.pdf

Amateur's Mind by Jeremy Silman
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708094419/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/ammind.pdf
https://www.silmanjamespress.com/shop/chess/amateurs-mind-the-2nd-edition/

Simple Chess by Stean

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708104258/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review400.pdf

http://store.doverpublications.com/0486424200.html

Chess for Hawks

https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/9041.pdf

Chess Strategy: Move by Move by Adam Hunt

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708093249/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review890.pdf

How to Reassess Your Chess (4th ed.) by Jeremy Silman

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708095832/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review769.pdf
https://www.silmanjamespress.com/shop/chess/how-to-reassess-your-chess-4th-edition/

Masters of the Chessboard by Richard Reti

http://www.thechessmind.net/blog/2012/4/1/book-notice-richard-retis-masters-of-the-chessboard.html

"..., you have to make a decision: have tons of fun playing blitz (without learning much), or be serious and play with longer time controls so you can actually think.

One isn't better than another. Having fun playing bullet is great stuff, while 3-0 and 5-0 are also ways to get your pulse pounding and blood pressure leaping off the charts. But will you become a good player? Most likely not.

Of course, you can do both (long and fast games), but I don’t recommend that right now. ..." - IM Jeremy Silman (June 9, 2016)

https://www.chess.com/article/view/longer-time-controls-are-more-instructive

“Rubicon0367 skrev:
I am confused. It sounds like you are asking for Chess Fundamentals - a book form of John Batholomew’s youtube series. He talks about piece co-ordination, attacking undefended squares and pieces. He also talks about trades, when to and not to make them, typical mistakes etc.

The videos (and presumably book content) are aimed at low rated players (like me). I would have thought a 1900 blitz player (therefore higher rating in rapid and standard chess) would have all these fundamental theories under their belt.

Perhaps you are asking on behalf of a friend?”



“Tomatojuice: I only play blitz and I think it's hard to come up with something decent in a short time in blitz. I don't like playing classical games and because I've stagnated I thought familiarizing with different chess ideas and use them in a blitz game would be the way for me to improve. “

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I was watching a youtube video of two young players in a three minute game. I thought I was following the game pretty well. When the game was done, I read through the comments and saw people saying one of the players could have gained a significant advantage had she made a simple rook move. The move would have indirectly won her the opponent’s queen.

I look back through the video and sure enough, there was the opportunity as clear as day.

I have also experienced similar revelations while reviewing one of my own games when I have finished.

I don’t like the term postmortem however I do think that reviewing played games is a good tool.

Perhaps it would work for you too.

If you are already reviewing your games (at a slower than blitz pace) then as a slow player myself (rapid is as about as quick as I can go without stupid blunders) I have no other recommendations.

Also the book "wsam" recommended  Emmanuel Bricard - Strategic Chess Exercises is insanely good. If anyone knows books similar to this one, please tell. 

I looked through the articles on some of the other recommended books and they weren't very appealing to me. 

Bricard's book is great. I finished only about 1/10 of it and set it aside to study a couple of books on strategy and positional play. I will complete the Bricard book when those are done.

Another book that might interest you is "Test Your Positional Play" by Bellin and Ponzetto. It presents a method of thinking about a position to arrive at a correct plan...in other words, how to think about a position. The bulk of the book consists of positional exercises.

A third quiz book is "Test Your Chess Skills" by Guliev and Guliev. It contains 224 positions that you are called upon to evaluate, and each solution averages almost 2 1/2 pages of explanation.

I tried to work through that book around the time, decades ago, when it was first published, but I fear that I was not ready for it. On the multiple choice questions, my results were about as good as one would expect from a monkey. I am more than a little bit surprised to see that anyone still remembers B&P's work. I thought it went out-of-print long ago. I think that there have been similar books since then. One example would be Modern Chess Planning by Efstratios Grivas.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708110805/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review588.pdf

Bellin and Panzetto is indeed out of print but I found a used copy at a decent price. The Grivas book has 4 reviews on Amazon, 2 of which say that B&P is much better.

 I know what you mean about studying material that is beyond one’s capabilities, having done way too much of that myself. A great example was Botvinnik’s 100 Selected Games. Outstanding book, but written for players well above Class C, where I was at the time.