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My recommendations:
Logical Chess: Move by Move by Irving Chernev
The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played by Irving Chernev
Chess: The Art of Logical Thinking by Neil McDonald
The Art of Planning in Chess by Neil McDonald
Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur by Max Euwe
50 Essential Chess Lessons by Steve Giddens
Chess Success: Planning After the Opening by Neil McDonald
Winning Chess Brilliancies by Yasser Seirawan
Understanding Chess Move by Move by John Nunn
Instructive Modern Chess Masterpieces by Igor Stohl
Zurich 1953 by David Bronstein
Everyone's Second Chess Book by Dan Heisman
Modern Chess Strategy by Ludek Pachman
Modern Chess Openings 15 by Nick de Firmian
The Amateur's Mind by Jeremy Silman
Elements of Positional Evaluation by Dan Heisman
Improver's It's Your Move by Chris Ward
The Art of Attack by Vladimir Vukovic
How to Defend in Chess by Colin Crouch
Pawn Structure Chess by Andrew Soltis
How to Reassess Your Chess by Jeremy Silman
How to Reassess Your Chess Workbook by Jeremy Silman
Judgement and Planning in Chess by Max Euwe
It's Your Move by Chris Ward
Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy by John Watson
The Seven Deadly Chess Sins by Jonothan Rowson
That should keep you busy....
ericmittens wrote:
My recommendations: Logical Chess: Move by Move by Irving Chernev The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played by Irving Chernev Chess: The Art of Logical Thinking by Neil McDonald The Art of Planning in Chess by Neil McDonald Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur by Max Euwe 50 Essential Chess Lessons by Steve Giddens Chess Success: Planning After the Opening by Neil McDonald Winning Chess Brilliancies by Yasser Seirawan Understanding Chess Move by Move by John Nunn Instructive Modern Chess Masterpieces by Igor Stohl Zurich 1953 by David Bronstein Everyone's Second Chess Book by Dan Heisman Modern Chess Strategy by Ludek Pachman Modern Chess Openings 15 by Nick de Firmian The Amateur's Mind by Jeremy Silman Elements of Positional Evaluation by Dan Heisman Improver's It's Your Move by Chris Ward The Art of Attack by Vladimir Vukovic How to Defend in Chess by Colin Crouch Pawn Structure Chess by Andrew Soltis How to Reassess Your Chess by Jeremy Silman How to Reassess Your Chess Workbook by Jeremy Silman Judgement and Planning in Chess by Max Euwe It's Your Move by Chris Ward Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy by John Watson The Seven Deadly Chess Sins by Jonothan Rowson That should keep you busy....
Good googly moogly eric, don't tell me you've read all those=? If so nice going m8.
Jeremy Silman has said (and I agree with him) that one of the best ways to improve at chess is to study master games. Get a good well annotated collection of games and play over them studying the notes. I love playing over games of players I like - Alekhine, Tal, Nunn, Capablanca all have superb collections of their games available. Beyond this analyze and study your own games. Don't just throw them into a computer, actually do the analysis yourself or have a more experienced/knowledgable player help you annotate and analyze them.
Here are some of my favorite game collections:
The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal - Tal
Capablanca's Best Games - Golombek
Zurich International Chess Tournament 1953 - Bronstein
Tal Botvinnik 1960 - Tal
My Best Games of Chess 1908-1937 - Alekhine
Winning Chess Brilliancies - Seirawan
100 Selected Games - Botvinnik
Grandmaster Chess Move by Move - Nunn
Pal Benko - My Life, Games, and Compositions - Benko/Silman
I Play Against the Pieces - Gilgoric
The Sorceror's Apprentice - Bronstein
Carlsbad International Chess Tournament 1929 - Nimzowitsch
Yea game books are important, but it's all about the annotation. If the annotations are crap much of the value is lost. The trick is finding good game books with excellent instructive annotations at your skill level.
The top of the list I gave earlier are all annotated game collections I really like, in order of difficulty!
Jul 26, 2008
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diskamyl wrote:
What do you think is the highest possible rating (for someone that does not have the brain of like Bobby Fischer or something) can be achieved without the aid of books or a teacher?
phishcake5 wrote:
Either that or we're being somewhat decieved. I personally do not believe anyone could get very close to 2200 without having studied several books from cover to cover. (that is, without something like chessmentor or an actual chess coach, of course. But I doubt any serious chess coach wouldn't at least involve some book material in sessions.)
diskamyl wrote:
You know, its funny, this is not the first time I've heard this sort of thing from masters around here. Its like they forgot what they did to get where they are and who helped them get there.
Very curious words from a 2200 player. I really wonder how you play the endings against that level of opposition, without having read any books. hmm..
Jul 26, 2008
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torqamada, thanks for being persistent with your point of view. I do sometimes play the engines. I just now decide to play the engines with an extra dose of determination, using some openings I'm not very familiar with, trying to get decent positions. It does raise some specific questions in my mind, like "why did it play that move?", and some vague questions, like "why the heck can't I get a decent position?"! I can see that with trial and error and repetition those questions may become clearer, and the answers may stick better when I find them.
phishcake5 wrote:
ericmittens wrote: Good googly moogly eric, don't tell me you've read all those=? If so nice going m8.
No, but I have read a good many of them and the rest are sitting on the shelf waiting to be read after much research and review.
Has anyone used any videos from this series, Grandmaster Roman Dzindzichashvili, he seems to have a very extensive library so I thought I might start picking some up if they have been well received. I thought about going with the Fritz DVD's but to be honest, I'm one of those people who finds Fritz in general to be uneccessarily unweildly. I know its a great engine, but I tend to spend as much time fumbling with settings and non-game issues as I do playing the actual game. Thanks for all the insights in previous posts, great topic.
All the fritztrainer DVDs come with chessbase light, so you don't need to install an engine to view them.
Aug 16, 2022
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MRNChess wrote:
Here is my current chess library. If you have any book reccomendations for me plz feel free to post them. Thanks!
Introduction to Chess Moves and Tactics Simply Explained-Leonard Barden
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess-Bobby Fischer
Chess Strategy- Edward Lasker
The Logical Approach to Chess- Dr. Max Euwe
Art of the Middle Game- Paul Keres and Alexander Kotov
Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps- Bruce Pandolfini
Chess Openings for Black, Explained- Lev Alburt
Starting Out: The Sicilian- John Emms
Silman’s Complete Endgame Course- Jeremy Silman
The Art of Combination- Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
How Not to Play Chess- Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
500 Master Games of Chess- Savielly Tartakower
Bobby Fischer: Profile of a Prodigy- Frank Brady
Award Winning Chess Problems- Burt Hochberg
You need better endgame books.
Well yes I do understand much about chess but I still myself making several blunders per game