Books for free in Chessable: some suggestions

If you know me, you know already that I am a big fun of the website Chessable. I do a lot of advertisement for it here, as the more players are studying there, the better the website will get (it is already great). 

What is so special in this website? You learn the things by spaced repetition. If you are like me you know that it is difficult to keep in memory things that you just read once or twice. In  Chessable you have to repeat regularly, the often you blunder a position, the often you will review the position. Things that you memorised well you will repeat less often. That's it. 

You have books there on openings (the most books) and endgames. The website has still to build up material on tactics and strategy. 

For the openings there are books from different quality. I like very much the books by GM Colovic, a complete repertoire against everything but 1.e4. The repertoire is based on QGD, and it is from exceptional quality, as far as I see. Cool is that you can ask the authors, and often they will answer you rather quick. Colovic often answer my stupid questions on the same day, often in the same hour.

Another book I like very much is the Scandinavian by  John Bartholomew. He is a strong IM, close to GM. Some of you perhaps know him from his terrific chess videos in YouTube. The book is based on Queen going back to d8. It is funny that I almost thought this move is just rubbish, played by people who do not understand theory. But there are several strong players playing it. Strongly recommended if you want to have a solid position, often giving the opponent the bishop pair and more space, but it is funny to see how white have huge problems to make something out of it.

The endgame books are few, but highly helpful. You can get a book for free on basic stuff, ideal for people who make the first steps in endgames; it is called Basic Endgames.

For experts until GM level you have the famous book "100 Endgames You Must Know". If you go through this stuff you will crash everybody in the endgame (well, if you missed up in the opening / middlegame you can use the book to try to get a draw).

Here the link to the website. Good luck and see you there.

https://www.chessable.com/

Thanks for the suggestion Torri!

Pikelemi, am I not allowed to write about other websites? I don't know exactly the rules, so...

I am not comparing, so...

I like both websites. Chessable is more to learn, hard work. Here is more for fun.

Ops, thank you very much, I will check this in my book.

Actually this is the position 11.4 from this book. As  you see, both pawns have reached the 6th rank. The variation is okay. The white king will go to e8, but avoiding d7:

You are right, it is example 9. Interesting is that the diagram is wrong, it is not coherent with the text (he says that 2.Rh1 does not work with the h-pawn on the 4th or 5th rank, because White can play 3.f5. He wrote this and got confused, putting the pawns on the 4th rank, but they should be on the on the third rank. In Chessable people saw this already and everybody can see a comment on it.   I did not know it because I did not work with this chapter yet.

Otherwise the books is good. Please let me know if you know something else wrong in this book. I will try to contact the author, so he can correct these things in the next edition.

I have to check this.  I have a digital book in Kindle, and there in some diagrams the pawns are half in a square, half in another! But I will go to sleep and check this tomorrow.