Yes, I have read all of the books I have, and only then buy more.
Have you EVER really finished reading any Chessbook??
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From Tobermory distillery, aye i have visited that hallowed shrine, personally my favourite is Bunnahabhain.
greenfreeze wrote:
I like watching chess DVDs.
I watched the following chess dvds and my chess rating skyrocketed up from 1320 to 1850 within 4 months. I think it was the knowledge that these dvds covered because it had common chess positions and material that occur frequently in games.
The nice thing about DVDs is that used DVDs are pretty much as good as new DVDs because they play well. But Used books look worse than new books and the spine can be broken too.
These DVDs are what I watched:
Foxy Volume 17 (Caro Kann Defense)
Foxy Volume 45 (Sicilian Dragon)
Foxy Volume 48 (Dutch Stonewall)
Foxy Volume 56 (Win with 1...d6 Part 1)
Foxy Volume 57 (Win with 1...d6 part 2)
Foxy Volume 58 (Combat Chess #1; Ten Lethal Weapons)
Foxy Volume 62 (21st Century Weapons)
Foxy Volume 121 (Dzindi Indian Volume 1)
Foxy Volume 122 (Dzindi Indian Volume 2)
Foxy Volume 123 (Dzindi Indian Volume 3)
Foxy Volume 135 (Stonewall & Colle Zukertort)
Crash Test Chess Volume 1: Using the Initiative
Crash Test Chess Volume 2: Think Outside the Box
Killer Endgames Part 1 (with GM Nick Pert)
Killer Endgames Part 2 (with GM Nick Pert)
Do they come with any written material or PGN files etc?
Dec 12, 2014
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Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
Wow, my comment gets pushed to another page even on another thread. lolz.
Dec 12, 2014
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pfren wrote:
Every chess book I've ever had was read cover to cover- including the bad books (some 40% of the 700+ I own).
Impressive! 
Your title, too!
the books that have helped me most were
1. Logical chess - Irving Chernev
2. Simple chess - Micheal Stean
3. Pawn structure chess - Andrew Soltis
4. 1001 winning chess combinations - Fred Reinfeld
5. Predator at the chess board - Farnsworth
6. Understanding Chess Tactics - Weteschnik
7. The search for chess perfection - Purdy
8. Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur - Euwe
9. Chess mastery by question and answer - Reinfeld
10. Modern opening chess strategy - Golombek
The only repertiore books that i can recommend for my level,
1.e4 for the attacking player - Emms
The dynamic English - Kosten
Caro Kann - Houska
all others were either to advanced or too boring
The most enjoyable books I have read to date were
1. Masters of the chess board - Reti
2. Modern ideas in chess - Reti
3. Chess study made easy - Soltis
4.Tigran Petrosian - his life and games - Vasiliev
5. Reykjavik 1972 - Fischer v Spassky - Golombek
6. How to think ahead in chess - Harrowitz/Reinfeld
7. Rapid chess improvement for adult players - De La Maza
8. A first book of Morphy - Del Rosario
9. Guide to Good Chess - Purdy
10. Play 1.b3 - Nimzo-Larsen - a friend for life - Odessky
The absolutely most despicable chess book that I have in my collection is
Everymans - The petroff defence -
Yes Reti was an amazing author with an incredible writing style. I also liked Kotov's style, it has a certain zing to it. Sometimes I even consciously replace because with due to the fact that and such to try sounding more like Kotov 
Yeah, sounds like part of the marian series.
Have any of you read Alex Yermolinsky's The Road to Chess Improvement? I have and enjoyed the way he speaks to his readers - it's like he talks to you like a friend or coach. The book contains some very helpful advice and surprising insights.
i liked reading the maze funner
Chess books are the most unread of all literature, good intentions when you buy them, then they gather dust. One exception is the Oxford Companion To Chess.....I have read it page to page and used it as a reference for 30 years, it's great entertainment.
Why don't you finish books?
I want a better life.
I had intended on reading more in life even before I fell in love with chess but now that I have and I've started reading material on the subject, I'd really like to have comprised a list as impressive as yours sometime down the line. That's a lifetime worth of chess knowledge and fantastic food for the brain.
There are many that I would like to read but have not, Bronsteins book on the famous 1953 tournament 'The sorcerers apprentice', Chess Praxis by Nimzoveitch, My great predecessors by Kasparov etc
The problem with chess books is that they need a narrative as well. For example, some of the best moments of Fischers 'My sixty memorable games' are in the narrative, when he describes how Sherwin pushed the a pawn out with his pinkie. Some of Capablancas best writing comes when he is boasting how great his endgame play is and how he 'mowed down' everyone at the Manhattan chess club. Yes the games are instructive, but a chess book needs more. I have Karpovs my best games, but its a rather dull book because it provides little in the way of narrative, excellent for chess, but a rather dull read. Opening books are like that as well, for example I have Quality chess, Experts v the Scicilain, the analysis is excellent but the narrative poor, it therefore makes for a dull read.
To compensate for this dryness, some authors split the chapters up into very short articles, Purdy does this with his books, just a few pages and you are on to a different topic, as does Odessky.
Just place a chess book at the side of your bed and you will read many chess books before you know it, provided they engage your imagination in some way :D
" I have Karpovs my best games, but its a rather dull book because it provides little in the way of narrative"
I have to disagree, the narrative is one the board itself and one can see and learn from Karpov's incredible mastery of the game. His sense of coordination, ability to weild a space advantage, and endgame technique are simply fantastic. He also puts up incredible and tight defense, even winning objectively drawn positions since the opponent loses the thread and winds up losing.
TheGreatOogieBoogie wrote:
" I have Karpovs my best games, but its a rather dull book because it provides little in the way of narrative"
I have to disagree, the narrative is one the board itself and one can see and learn from Karpov's incredible mastery of the game. His sense of coordination, ability to weild a space advantage, and endgame technique are simply fantastic. He also puts up incredible and tight defense, even winning objectively drawn positions since the opponent loses the thread and winds up losing.
I suspect its a matter of taste.
Much depends on the level of focus one brings to books or DVDs.