Which 3rd book to order?

Hello guys,

I'm looking to buy some chess books, so far I've decided to purchase Amateurs Mind and Silmans's complete endgame course. I'm looking for a book that can help me to start developping a plan, I can see tactics but sometimes I just don't know what to do in a position to improve it.

Suggestions are welcome!

The Amateur's Mind should help quite a bit with figuring out what to do when no tactics are obvious.

So perhaps an opening book? I want to try to get a set of books which will give me an overall view of the chess game

I would recommend Reti's Masters of the Chessboard. It will help you develop a feel for strong play

Reti's book is a good suggestion.

I've always found Capablanca's games to be instructive, so maybe Cyrus Lakdawala's "Capablanca: Move by Move" as another option.

http://www.amazon.com/Capablanca-Move-Cyrus-Lakdawala/dp/1857446984

The logical follow-up to The Amateur's Mind is another Silman book; "How to Reassess your Chess", but I think you're better off waiting a bit before getting that one.

A less well-known book in this category I've heard decent things about is Max Eeuwe's "Oordeel en Plan", or "Judgement and Planning in Chess". In reality you're probably fine with Amateur's Mind for now though, until you get to about 1600 strength (1800ish online or 1600ish live I believe, not sure).

I advise against opening study at this point, beyond the principles.

Opening: Nothing imo, but you could get van der Sterren's "FCO" as an introductory opening manual which explains ideas and basic theory for all openings.

Tactics: A combination of forcing simple patterns through repetition and doing harder long tactical problems for your board vision and calculation skills. I'd advise doing the latter on Chesstempo, and the earlier on Chessimo or something similar.

Strategy: Amateur's Mind for now, HTRYC in a bit, Nimzowitsch's "My System" when you approach 2000 strength is a solid approach.

Endgame: Silman's book will be enough for a while.

@ JWestlake: I'm already training on chesstempo which offers a great deal of help indeed.

Alright, thankyou guys! Masters of the Chessboard, Amateurs Mind amd Silmans endgame course. 

And your fourth book should maybe be an opening encyclopedia that explains the main ideas for each side.  No, not endless unexplained lines like MCO but one where the author will take a paragraph to explain some moves.  You also don't need one that goes deep since databases are everywhere (some free); just something that will get you 8 to 10 moves into the game.  Maybe something like Paul van der Sterren's Fundamental Chess Openings (FCO).

EDIT: Oops, sorry JWestlake, didn't realize you had already mentioned FCO.  My bad.