gotham chess - New Chessly course

@thaiviet14 have you considered buying books over courses? Personally I’m a bit old school. I like books. 

Yes I have book too in e-book format but given my schedule I can only practice with app (and I have more content that I can use already ). 
I am planning to buy a book because I really like the presentation GM Finegold did with the author. 

https://www.amazon.com/Evaluate-Like-Grandmaster-Eugene-Perelshteyn/dp/B0BHNF5CWB/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1YY32YCUN36I4&keywords=evaluate+like+a+grandmaster&qid=1666446193&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIxLjI1IiwicXNhIjoiMC42MiIsInFzcCI6IjAuNTQifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=evaluate+%2Caps%2C332&sr=8-1

I was able to solve the "evaluation" presented in the youtube video due to the course " the art of exchanging piece ", basically here if you had taken the free pawn you would have traded a medium knight against your best bishop :-) 

Ordering the book is a little complicated because I am in South East Asia but I am happen to be living very close of a local GM  and I want to offer him this book :-) as I am pretty sure that he does not have it. 

My recommendation:

you will hate my library lol. Wait a second

the left half is just opening books lol

And I only have two endgame books

The number of endgame books you have is about the same number of books I have, wow. Now the only thing left is to wait until someone comes in and mentions that this is the difference between the younger and older generation of chess players

jealous how orderly everyone keeps their books, my books are everywhere.

That is the case with me - most of my books are all over the place, so it usually takes 5-10 mins just to find the book that I am after when I need it.

This is a small portion of my collection though:

I don’t have a bookshelf for my chess books. I spent 20 minutes tracking down all my books from various corners of my house and stacking them. Lol

I paid for the intermediate course - I'm not even halfway through and I hit a new peak Blitz rating yesterday.

I can't have a book shelf of book on chess they don't sell them where I live. 
But I have a book explaining the basic rule of chess in Thai and the difference with Thai chess and another one on the basic rule of chess in Vietnamese

I have about two to three times as many books on openings as I do on endgames, but I find them less useful. I noticed the Czech-Benoni text at the top. I have Andrew Martin's DVD on the opening and went through all of it some years ago. It is an opening that I use from time to time.

On the right, I just finished reading Bobby Fischer and His World. John Donaldson is an excellent historian. What do you thin about the New in Chess combined volume of the two Nimzowitsch classics? I have old and tattered editions in descriptive. I've read that these newer editions are better translations.

I enjoyed it a lot, although I must confess that I skipped most of the "My System" part of the book since I didn't really learn a lot. Instead, I found "Chess Praxis" much more interesting. It was filled with interesting new ideas, and I enjoyed trying to incorporate them into my own play. 

The book itself is quite good. It smells nice, which is a plus, the text is easy to read, and although I'd wish there were more diagrams, the book is big enough as it is. I think the paperback binding will have problems in the future with heavy usage, but so far it's been holding up quite well. It's probably one of the top 5 books that I've used the most. The pages are thick enough to feel sturdy, you won't worry about ripping them. I've occasionally spilled some stuff on the pages, and they power through and are completely fine. 

I wonder what would happen if you put perfume on a chess book.

My favorite part about Donaldson's book is not necessarily the history, since I'm not a chess history buff, but rather the chapter that I can never find, which is the part that has all of Fischer's Maroczy Bind games as black. 

Czech benoni used to be my thing. It actually gave me plenty of 2100+ USCF regular wins, the highest one being around 2160. But it just doesn't hold up if I want to climb higher.

My favorite part about the opening books is less about the openings themselves, but the ideas presented within them. Maneuvering, thoughts, ideas. 

i would smell it

do you people not flip the pages of the book and smell them

I don't own many hardcopy books.

And also sometimes I'll go through them but I don't smell pages lol.

you're missing out

Have you ever looked at The Ragozin Complex by Vladimir Barsky? Of all the opening books that I have, I think this one is the best for explaining ideas. I have Reuben Fine, The Ideas Behind the Chess Openings and Larry Evans, et al., How to Open a Chess Game. Both of these are very good, but I think Barsky is better.

No, the ragozin is from the QGD I believe? And I don’t enjoy playing in classical style.  But maybe, in the future! 

It is derived from the Nimzo-Indian. It has brought me good results OTB.

The intro to the book is by Isaac Lipnitsky, author of the exceptional Questions of Modern Chess Theory. The first time I played the Ragozin in an OTB tournament, Lipnitsky’s article is the only part of the book I had read. It was enough to give the resources that brought victory against an opponent who has given me trouble. I beat him again with it two years later and he still likes the position that I was aiming for and that we reached. He remains convinced that White is better when my bishop on d6 is part of a pawn chain. My knights on the kingside give him so much trouble that he must play very accurately to draw. I’m looking forward to the next time I get Black against him.