Help for study program

Hi, I have these books:

-Understanding Chess Move by Move (John Nunn)

-Silman's Endgame Course (Jeremy Silman)

-How to Reasses your Chess & Workbook (Jeremy Silman)

-Pawn structures chess (Andrew Soltis)

-Learn chess tactics (John Nunn)

-Back to Basics: Tactics (Dan Heisman)

-Understanding chess middlegame (John Nunn)

-1001 deadly checkmate (John Nunn)

I need some advice for a study program, in what order should I study them, ecc...

I would start with "Back to basics: Tactics", "1001 deadly chackmate" (for pattern) , begin to study endgame book and "How to reasses your chess", what do you think?

sounds about correct. start with reinfeld's book, simultaneously look at silman's book. i would also recommend adding van perlo endgame tactics.

i have doubts about silman's reassess your chess because it deals mostly with closed positions and strategy disregarding open positions and tactics.

It doesn't really matter. What that matters is that you put in hard work calculating stuff. You need to make a serious effort in calculating variations, because that's 90% of chess.

Take a book like Understanding Chess Move by Move (I love this book by the way). Set up the mainline moves (the ones in bold). Then every time there's a variation you try to make an effort in calculating: that involves seeing the moves in your head. Without touching the pieces. You just try to picture the position in your head after 1 move, 3 moves, 6 moves etc. until you're able to follow the whole variation and seeing the resulting position in your head and still have the vision to agree to the assessment of the position by the author (e.g. if it ends up with "and white has a winning endgame" you need to be genuinely convinced that it is so).

This is going to be an absolute nightmare at first and you could spend 1 hour on few pages. But that's what's necessary if you're serious in getting stronger.

Now there's plenty of books and authors, Silman for example, that try to sell you the silver bullet telling you that by knowing this particular strategic theme, or this opening, you'll be able to win games without effort. When you don't win you'll go buy even more books, and so on.

Eventually you'll end up with 50 chess books that you skimmed through, but none that you actually used. A book is just an instrument, like a barbell if you're a powerlifter. Doesn't matter how many you own, or if the one you have is top of the line; what that matter is how hard you use it.

It doesn't talk about just closed positions.  This isn't accurate at all.  It discusses chess strategy and breaking down a chess position.  It does not discuss tactics simply because it is not a book about tactics.  Your statement is completely wrong.

if you read through silman, recurring statements like .. 'the center is closed' .. importance of space etc.. recur. so i guess it talks about that sort of positions. not positions with say a mobile center or vanished center where tactics outrule strategy. it is a book about strategy and a good one at that i find.

Again.  Completely wrong.  

And if you actually read silman's book he does touch on when you should be looking for tactics.  He dedicates a whole chapter to strategy on when your opponents king is in the center, which is a situation where you should be looking for tactics.  Another chapter is devoted torwards the importance of the center and maintaining it.  Have you even read this book? lol

i have read about half of it and skimmed through the whole of it to see the contents. i had mixed feelings about it but now i think i should re-read it.

however, i do not believe he gives much importance to tactics which kind of makes the book unbalanced. there is a token section of about 5-10 pages for 'rules of combination' but little more.

it is a good book for strategy and i give it credit for that.

euwe and kramer's book 'the middlegame' is by far the most superior book on the middlegame but silman does deserve some credit for the aspect of the game he handles. it is not a manual for chess but is a good guide for strategic/positional play.

Yes, is a book only on positional play, and Silman write this in the introduction. So, why continue to argue? And Euwe's book is criticized by John Nunn because it's too old

Excellent point.  You're simply implying that because silman wrote a book on positional play, he thinks its more important than tactics.  which is simply ridiculous.  

I am also looking for a relevant study program.  I have access to alot of books at the library.  I wasgoing tocheckout Van Perlo's book, but I thought itwas above my level.

Oh yeah, before I forget. Are we talking about the 3rd or 4th edition of Reassess?

Thank you!  I'm known for skipping around, because my attention doesn't stay focused.  We'll see how I do.