Beginner - Intermediate Chess Books

Hello everyone I am fairly new to chess and don't have much experience. I can move the pieces  and understand the tactics used in chess but I often struggle with other things.

My biggest problems include openings, I would like to have solid base in them and know which openings to choose. And I also have a problem with positional chess. Many times when I play chess I am left struggling for a good move to choose and don't know which one to pick. As a result I often find myself being dominated by my opponent. 

Do you guys know any books our a series of books which could assist with these problems? Thank you for your help I really appreciate it.

That 's your book:

http://www.amazon.com/Logical-Chess-Every-Explained-Algebraic/dp/0713484640

Regards

That is an interesting book. Thank you for the help I will consider buying it. I was also thinking about the School of Future Champions series do you know anything about these books. Its hard since Amazon doesn't have any previews on them so i can't judge there skill level or thoroughness.

Again thank you for your book recommendation it helps a lot .

Any one out of Seriwan's winning chess series is great -- seven books in all including openings, tactics, strategies, and endgames.

To the beginner it often seems openings are their weakest, but they really aren't.  As long as you know the general opening principals and a few moves of your favorite opening you'll do fine.  Beginner's biggest weaknesses have to do with tactics, blunder checking before they move, considering the opponent's best move as a reply (instead of hoping for a mistake), and tactics (again).  Still, opening knowledge isn't unimportant so Seriwan's opening book or simply checking your games with this site's opening explorer after your games is useful.

In general, positional chess is hard for all players below the master level, but even novices have some level of positional understanding such as backward pawns or bad bishops.  A feeling of not knowing what to do and being outplayed before any tactics come up have to do with such an understanding.  Besides Seriwan's book, Silman's "The Amateur's Mind" is a good book to fight this.

Thats 100% right - but its really boring to study only tactics every day. Strategy is more interesting but to heavy for beginners. But in "Logical Move" everybody can understand it. (on a simple level)

Thank you all for your contributions much appreciated.

I could do tactics all day long.  I stink at it, but I think Tactics Trainer is fun.  And I do feel like it's helping my game improve.

I've gotten advice from people much better than me to focus on tactics and endgame, and not to worry too much about openings for a while.  I just won a game that got down to two kings and my last pawn, because I had been studying and practicing that endgame.  One wrong move and you're stuck with a draw.

Endgames are like putting in golf.  You can have killer drives and still get bogeys if you can't putt.

you dont have to study tactics that much. 10 minuts each day will help greatly. the most important is that you try to get familiar with the pattern of the tactics you practice instead of just skipping to next puzzle after completing it.