books are helpful or not

Is the books are helpful if yes then which book is best to be a advanced chess player....

Of course books can help you improve your skills.  Some books for beginners:

Garry Kasparov's Checkmate! My First Chess Course is perhaps intended for teenagers who are learning the game for the first time.  It has tons of full colour pictures and diagrams, and is very easy to follow.  He offers a few tips, but you probably need other books to flesh out what he says.

Learn Chess with Nigel Short is another good first book with lots of diagrams.  Short shares interesting little tidbits about his travels as a chess player.

Patrick Wolff's The Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess is a lot longer and more involved, but also uses a lot of diagrams, and is easy to follow.  He gives some good tips on strategy.

Books are helpful.

"... If it’s instruction, you look for an author that addresses players at your level (buying something that’s too advanced won’t help you at all). This means that a classic book that is revered by many people might not be useful for you. ..." - IM Jeremy Silman (2015)
https://www.chess.com/article/view/the-best-chess-books-ever

Any other suggestions.....

Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess is another book you can read without a chessboard.  It explains the rules, and then has a bunch of problems involving back rank mate.

James Eade's Chess for Dummies is more text heavy, but still pretty easy to follow.  It has hints on strategy.

Possibly of interest:
Simple Attacking Plans by Fred Wilson (2012)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708090402/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review874.pdf
http://dev.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Simple-Attacking-Plans-77p3731.htm
Logical Chess: Move by Move by Irving Chernev (1957)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708104437/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/logichess.pdf
The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played by Irving Chernev (1965)
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/most-instructive-games-of-chess-ever-played/
50 Essential Chess Lessons by Steve Giddins
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708100833/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review534.pdf

http://www.gambitbooks.com/pdfs/50_Essential_Chess_Lessons.pdf
Simple Chess by Michael Stean
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708104258/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review400.pdf
Winning Chess by Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld (1949)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708093415/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review919.pdf
Back to Basics: Tactics by Dan Heisman (2007)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708233537/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review585.pdf
Discovering Chess Openings by GM John Emms (2006)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627114655/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen91.pdf
Openings for Amateurs by Pete Tamburro (2014)
http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/05/review-of-pete-tamburros-openings-for.html
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/openings-for-amateurs/
https://www.mongoosepress.com/catalog/excerpts/openings_amateurs.pdf
Chess Endgames for Kids by Karsten Müller (2015)
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/chess-endgames-for-kids/
http://www.gambitbooks.com/pdfs/Chess_Endgames_for_Kids.pdf
A Guide to Chess Improvement by Dan Heisman (2010)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708105628/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review781.pdf
Seirawan stuff:
http://seagaard.dk/review/eng/bo_beginner/ev_winning_chess.asp?KATID=BO&ID=BO-Beginner
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708092617/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review560.pdf
https://www.chess.com/article/view/book-review-winning-chess-endings
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627132508/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen173.pdf
http://www.nystar.com/tamarkin/review1.htm

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708110052/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review587.pdf

kindaspongey's list includes a lot that have helped me improve. The books are a good guide to general principles, especially for how to open a game, how to think about each move, and strategy in general.  I prefer tactics trainers and actual games for improvement in tactics and positions.  Three interactive sites where you should memorize every tactic, pattern, key square, and/or position are here and I strongly recommend the tactics problems at both sites:

http://chesstempo.com/chess-tactics.html

https://chesstempo.com/positional-motifs.html

https://www.chess.com/article/view/chess-tactics--definitions-and-examples

Got to amazon and search for chess books.....

Ya magas

Rajat was unfamiliar with the word "tactics" in another thread.  He quite often leaves pieces en prise or fails to capture when his opponent leaves pieces en prise.  It is probably a good idea for him to start with some very basic material at the start.

What is tactics?

In a chess puzzle, there is one move that is better than the other moves.  If you play that move, you will be able to win a piece, queen a pawn, give checkmate, or force a draw.  These good moves are based on tactics.

This is a good example of why reading a book might help.  Eade or Wolff explain the most important tactical themes, eg. forks, pins, skewers.

BOOKS ARE HELPFUL! DUH! THAN HOW DID PEOPLE BECOME TITLED

Ok i will read... Books

Im currently rereading Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess. I stopped playing in the middle of a slump a whole back, and needed to relearn fundamentals. That book is very good for teaching basic concepts, stuff that I've been botching even in my daily tactics puzzles here.

Best book that will make my mind sharp.....