People smarter than me have said that often chess players learn concepts in the order they were learned in chess history. Not many people on this site would beat Capablanca.
I find the older games more instructive for my level because the concepts are easier to grasp. Just went through "Logical Chess Move by Move" Great book for my level and some games were over a hundred years old!
Hello chess.com!
Recently I have rekindled my childhood interest in chess. I have played a lot of games recently with some of my friends but they are sick of me beating their pants off so now here I am on the internet looking for a challenge!!! But....
I want to learn and soak up all the chess I can so I started looking for books about chess. I found a bunch of free old chess books on Project Gutenberg at gutenberg.org. Unfortunately most of these books are really old, but does that matter? Chess really hasn't changed, the pieces all move the same way, the rules are the same. Why should I buy a bunch of fancy new books when I can get free books written by the original old school world champions?
Already I'm going though Capablanca's Chess Fundamentals and feel like I'm learning a ton, cold a modern author really have anything worth while more to say about such an old game?
I figure if Bobby Fischer became the best player ever using old books and old school techniques, then it's good enough for me.