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Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess, Polgar 5334, The Ideas behind the Opening, How to Open a chess game by (5 or 7) Grandmasters, Logical Chess Move by Move
These would be all very good books at your rating
About half a century ago, I think the Fine book, Ideas Behind the Chess Openings, was considered to be nearly essential reading, but now, I fear that its information is seriously out-of-date.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708112658/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review315.pdf
I have often seen praise for How to Open a Chess Game, but it should perhaps be mentioned that, having been written about four decades ago, it used descriptive notation (1 P-K4 P-K4 2 N-KB3 N-QB3 etc.). Also, the reader should perhaps be warned that, apart from Evans himself, none of the GM authors "was given a specific topic or assignment." For more overall organization, one might want to turn to a book by a single author.
Logical Chess: Move by Move by Irving Chernev (1957)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708104437/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/logichess.pdf
These may be dated books however their information is still relevant for new players
At this level, the Ideas are more important which these books do a fine job of!
I suspect that some books go out-of-print for a good reason. Not only does the Fine book seem to be out-of-date, but books of that type seem to have gone out of favor. Has there been anything like it since FCO, about a decade ago?
https://web.archive.org/web/20140626173432/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen128.pdf
"... A modern day version of Reuben Fine’s Ideas Behind The Chess Openings, Fundamental Chess Openings ... is primarily aimed at those from 1400 to 1800 who …"
http://www.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/FCO-Fundamental-Chess-Openings-76p3561.htm
http://www.gambitbooks.com/pdfs/FCO_Fundamental_Chess_Openings.pdf
In How to Open a Chess Game, Evans described his own chapter as "addressed to the beginner", but what about some of those other chapters?
"... Petrosian reveals how he prepared a defense against Fischer in their 1971 match by studying Fischer's pet variations as 'carefully as a field engineer with a mine detector.' … Keres lets us peer into the secret kitchen of a grandmaster and shows us how his home cooking fares against Fischer and the world's leading players. He traces the Keres Variation of the Ruy Lopez …"
Considering the rating use chess.com Everything you need to know about chess series of videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21L45Qo6EIY
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