Books for rating 1200~1300

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Bob_the_human_1

I'm looking for a book for myself who is in the standard rating in chess.com in 1200~1300. I have put Susan Polgar's Chess Tactics for Champions on hold in my nearest library as someone recommended that to me. Any other suggestions for books for people in my rating?

Bob_the_human_1

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Pfren has recommended Reti's Masters of the Chessboard in past topics.

Chernev's Logical Chess Move by Move is sometimes mentioned.

Pikelemi

Depends a little on what your interest is, what you need to train etc. But some general suggestions could be:

 

Artur Yusupov: Build up your chess 1-3

Jeremy Silman: How to reassess your chess

And the "triology" by Johan Hellsten about opening, endgame and general strategy.

The "Winning Chess" serie by Yasser Seirawan could maybe also be interesting for you but I will say it is aimed for a little lower rating.

Bob_the_human_1

Thank you I will check those books in the future.

Daybreak57

There are so many different ideas of what is a good starter chess book.  A lot of people say Jeremy Silman:  How to reassess your chess, however, in that book, you are expected to know stuff from his previous book, Jeremy Silmans, Amateurs Mind, plus, that material is a bit advanced.  Not that a beginner wouldn't understand the puzzles in the book, just that time would be better spent learning more basic concepts about positional strategy.  Those Silmans books have a lot on positional strategy, but that stuff should be learned later, afer you have more of a grasp of more fundamental positional tactics, like aquisition of the center.  Direct and indirect attacks, basic tactical motifs, learning how to use open files, and the 2nd and 7th rank.  There are more, but that is just a few.  Without that fundamental knowledge, all that stuff won't mean anything, because you will be losing games because you'd be neglecting other more fundamental principles.

 

I'm not going to tell you what books to read, as it seems most people are going to read what they want to anyway so I figure why bother.  All I am saying, and this is coming from people a lot better than me, a combination of tactics training and basic positional play would probably be more benificial for you to learn at your level rather than other more advanced concepts that more than often take place in positions you might actually have no idea what to do in.  Yes, those Silmans books will help you learn what to do in those I don't know what to do situations, but there are a lot of basic strategies you are probably not aware of, being taught at the lower level, that you'd be skipping, not to mention a lot of other broader topics that you should know about that are taught by Dan Heisman.  

I'll leave it up to you to decide what books to read.  Do your own research.  I myself actually was hell bent on studying 10+ hours a day in hopes to reach around 1800 in a couple of years, however, someone told me studying chess and nothing but chess probably isn't the best thing for me.  So I took a different route.  I may get to 1800, I may not.  I'm not very good at all at chess, so what I am saying is probably not going to carry much weight for anyone, however, I got what I know from people a lot more advanced than I, and I know I am right in saying what I say.  But do what you like.