What chess books do you guys recommend for beginners?
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I became quite interested in learning about Chess recently and I was wondering if you peeps read about some books related to openings, the middle game, and endgame. I really want to learn about the openings and gambits etc. such as the Queen's Gambit, Pirc Defense and King's Indian. And I don't quite know what to do once I entered a middle game. And for the endgame, I rarely lose to people on my Elo(300) except if I blunder. So, anyone here know some books about things like that? Sorry if my English is inadequate btw.
Apr 1, 2022
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I've always recommended "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess" by Patrick Wolff. It covers all 3 parts of the game, and it has so many diagrams that one can read it profitably without a board. As to learning about these specific openings, forget it until you've gotten to about 1400. Concentrate on general principles instead. At lower levels, you'll spend hours learning the Pirc, for instance, and then by the third move your opponent is out of book, and you're on your own anyway.
Good Chess Books for Beginners and Beyond...
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/good-chess-books-for-beginners-and-beyond
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell
Graham Burgess 'The Mammoth Book of chess' I think is really good value and comprehensive introduction, there's always something to learn from it. Probably the chess book I've read the most over the years
Thank you for your recommendations. I will try get them on Amazon if I can.
Apr 2, 2022
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Chess for the gifted and busy, chess the easy way, Journey to the chess kingdom, Guide to good chess. Any of these would be a great book to read over and over and over.
Yasser Seirawan's Winning Chess series. (Maybe no need to buy book 1 (Play Winning Chess), as it mainly just teaches the basic rules).
Also, Logical Chess: Move by Move (by Irwin Chernev) which is quite old, but gold.
Apr 4, 2022
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-I recommend two books for you: “50 Poison Pieces” and “Queen For A Day: The Girl’s Guide To Chess Mastery.” Both books are available on Amazon.com. Both books are endorsed by chess masters!
These books are perfect for beginners!
@laurengoodkindchess - It would be good form to add a disclosure that you authored the two books you recommended.
I should say the 50 Poison Pieces book has a clever and original premise.
Donnsteinz kirjoitti:
Yasser Seirawan's Winning Chess series. (Maybe no need to buy book 1 (Play Winning Chess), as it mainly just teaches the basic rules).
Also, Logical Chess: Move by Move (by Irwin Chernev) which is quite old, but gold.
I just finished reading "Play Winning Chess" by Seirawan (I have not played through all the annotated games at the end yet though) and I must disagree with you. The book teaches a lot more than the basic rules if you read it any further than the first few pages.
The book teaches the importance of controlling the center and how it is done, the importance of developing quickly and king safety. It teaches the dangers of bringing your Queen out too early. It teaches about the concepts of time, space and force (and I am not talking about general relativity or Star Wars here). It teaches how to do a space count. It teaches things about pawn structure, isolated pawns, backward pawns, doubled and tripled pawns, passed pawns and so on. It teaches about the power of getting a rook or both rooks on the 7th (or 2nd) rank. It teaches about outposts for knights, good and bad bishops... It teaches basic opening traps like Legall's mate, Scholar's mate etc (and how to defend against those). It has games that are annotated clearly so that beginners can understand what is going on...
I strongly recommend this book for all beginners between 0 and 1500 rating. It has a lot to offer and I really think your comment about it only teaching the basic rules shows that either you have not really read the book or you have not really paid any attention to what you read.