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Thunder_Penguin
Jan 21, 2014
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Pump up your rating by Axel Smith.
Aagard's GM Preperation Series and Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual and Analysis Manual, Informant's 1000 Best Games, and the ECE I hear are great books for master level and above. Don't take my word for it read their reviews.
The GM Preperation Series has a book on calculation, positional play, and strategy. A serious study of this series should bring your three fundamental chess abilities (everything boils down to calculation, imbalances, and planning) up to at least FM level, and even GM level if you have the potential.
Some books I own that I've looked through, read some of, and enjoyed, but felt they were a little too high-level for me...
Jon Speelman's Best Games
I Play Against Pieces - Gligoric
Lessons With a GM 1/2 - Gulko
I like Korchnoi's games collection ("My Best Games", I think).
adypady02 wrote:
Kasparov's Great Predecessors lots of Classical Games
+10! :D I'd recommend that one for anyone.
Dvoretskys school of chess excellence (5 books on different subjects) should be notoriously difficult. As earlier said, Aargards Grandmaster preparation series is also aimed at master level players. I can't recommend either based on personal experience since they're a bit too advanced for me (to say it lightly) but they seem to enjoy a great reputation.
Kijiri wrote:
Dvoretskys school of chess excellence (5 books on different subjects) should be notoriously difficult. As earlier said, Aargards Grandmaster preparation series is also aimed at master level players. I can't recommend either based on personal experience since they're a bit too advanced for me (to say it lightly) but they seem to enjoy a great reputation.
I have his School of Chess Excellence 2: Tactical Play and some parts are reasonable while others are really hard. I'm currently past page 100 and The Game Played Many Times chapter is really nuts.
Thunder_Penguin wrote:
Can you please post links to where I can get the Aagard series for free? So far, I only found the strategical play one on 4shared
Didn't see that one coming.
TheGreatOogieBoogie wrote:
adypady02 wrote:
Kasparov's Great Predecessors lots of Classical Games
+10! :D I'd recommend that one for anyone.
+20! really good books. Ah another one is Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov. Despite the rather boring title, and the discouraging amout of lines, it is a great book. My sister got it for me for christmas and realized for the the first time that i was really really into chess.
CP6033 wrote:
TheGreatOogieBoogie wrote:
adypady02 wrote:
Kasparov's Great Predecessors lots of Classical Games
+10! :D I'd recommend that one for anyone.
+20! really good books. Ah another one is Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov. Despite the rather boring title, and the discouraging amout of lines, it is a great book. My sister got it for me for christmas and realized for the the first time that i was really really into chess.
Boring?! Nah that sounds awesome! :D Does he cover the match where Deep Blue upset him (and yes it was an upset computers in those days just brute forced and humans can plan and Kasparov tried a faulty anti-computer strategy in one of the games and resigned a forced draw in the other, okay?!)
my 60 memorable games bobby ficher
