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robbie_1969 wrote:

Its a huge mistake to think of chess in mutually exclusive terms as strategic or tactical because there exists a symbiotic relationship between the two. Probably the best book I have read is Test your positional play by Robert Bellin and Peitro Ponzetto.  The title is rather misleading because it deals not with exclusively positional ideas (i.e Silmans rip off of Steinitz principles) but with extracting both strategic and tactical elements from a position and focusing on finding the key element in a chess position.

I have this book on my shelf. Sometimes I think it should be on my study table.

kindaspongey

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

kindaspongey

Understanding Chess Move by Move by John Nunn

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708092945/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review269.pdf

Positional Decision Making in Chess by Boris Gelfand and Jacob Aagaard

https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/positional-decision-making-in-chess/

najdorf96

I've never been able to acquire this book, dunno why (money issues, priority) but I think it's called, "Genesis of Chess" by Stuart Margulies? I should've googled it before making my post but I'm kind of lazy! Heh. Anyways, it's format is similar to another book he'd collaborated on... Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess.

Anyways, I have the, Positional Chess Handbook (Israel Gelfer) which is nice. Reshevsky's Art of Positional Play is alright, but I really like reading his other book that I own also: How Chess Games are Won. Full of Positonal concepts. Of course, Reuben Fine's Middlegame in Chess. Larry Evan's New Ideas in Chess is cool. Silman's classic Reassess your Chess or Seirawan/Silman Winning Chess Strategy is too basic but I've always enjoyed Yasser's writing.

Lastly, studying Capablanca's books is great. But Irving Chernev's Logical Chess: Move by move, for me, is really got me started. I would include studying Fischer's games (The Complete Games of Bobby Fischer, The Chess of Bobby Fischer) but heh. I'm biased.

Good luck

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kindaspongey
speedchesswithbeer wrote (~16 minutes ago):

Hello! could you guys reccomend some good chess books for me? i have grandmaster preparation by jacob aagard, A chess puzzles book by chris ward(Its your move) and a few other books and a endgame book by grivas! i would like some good books on strategy. Could you please reccomend some good books for me?

Maybe try some of the books suggested here.