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Hello all I would like to know what chess books do you read? For example secrets of pawn endings,complete book of chess strategy,etc..

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Lots and lots of tactics books.  Chess by Lazlo Polgar, 1001 Deadly Checkmates by John Nunn, Chess Tactics for Champions by Susan Polgar, and Chess Tactics for the Tournament Player by Lev Alburt & Sam Palatnik all come to mind.

 

Also, any game collection will well annotated games I can find.  Such as 500 Master Games of Chess by Tartakower, any of Kasparov's books, tournament books such as San Luis 2005, Reggio Emillia 2007/2008 by Mihail Marin, Korchnoi's Best Games by Korchnoi, My Most Memorable Games by Gelfand, etc.'

 

Also, Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual, Silman's Complete Endgame Course, etc.

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Endgame books, master annotated games (Zurich 1953 by either Bronstein or Najdorf, Alekhine's Best Games, Smyslov's 125 Selected Games, 1000 Best of Informant, etc.), and strategy books.  A favorite of mine is Soviet Middlegame Technique.  It's two great books for the price and convenience of one!  Quality did a good job with it. 

Some tactic books are alright if they teach principles and mental techniques that help with calculation and visualization (method of elimination, revolutionary and evolutionary attacks, etc.) but for building up patterns via rote memory software and websites may be better. 

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I'm looking at the reviews for those books right now and they all seem to be very good ones. Thank you very much I will read some of them. For me I'm currently reading "Secrets of Pawn Endings" by Karsten Muller et al. It's an endgame book about king and pawn(s) endings that I think is very useful to learn and improve endgame concepts and technique.