How many books do you have going at one time?

<p><p><p>How many books are you studying at one time? What are they? I am revamping my chess study. Right now I plan to have 1. Two tactics books (one of Susan polgar and another either weteschnik or avenbakh -either of those will be a stretch for me) 2 a good strategy book ( Probably simple chess by stean. Or seirawan's strategy but I'm not Oexcited about studying it.) 3. Several puzzle books including The Complete Chess workout, 606 puzzles for chess nuts, and the one by pandolfini with over 300 problems (for a quick run through.) 4. Better chess for average players by Tim Harding, teach yourself better chess by Bill hartson, and review some of Purdy's books as he I'd my favorite chess writer. 5 finish Soltis' Studying Chess Made Easy and anything that seems like a fun but helpful read. What do you think? Do you have problems choosing which books to study? Stwils </p></p></p>

I got about 3 books in process..I basically played before without realizing all the theory and only started to understand them during the last month while joining chess.com.  My last purchase book is practical Endgame Play-mastering the basics.  The other focuses on the standard openings with e4e5 , and the other is tricks and traps or something like that.....finally broke the 900 ..., next goal 901 :)

I have problems actually studying the books i have

I'm working through Maxim Blokh's Combinative Motifs, have mostly shelved Susan Polgar's Tactics book (started putting the tactics into the computer and haven't went back to it yet). I have started and stopped on a number of other books too. One I've been meaning to get completed is Igor Khmelnitsky's Chess Exam.

I'm in various stages of a few other books, though I often just pick them up and go through certain subjects/sections when I have a little spare time.

I'm studying the amateur's mind by Silman. It's an incredible boost because it makes me use a thinking process which previously I didn't have.

  I have three going at once, and they are: (awaiting drumroll):

   FCO(Fundamental Chess Openings)-Paul van der Sterren

   Silman's Complete Endgame Course - Jeremy Silman

   Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games - Lazslo Polgar

and sometimes I'll look at: Bobby Fischer: The Career and Complete Games of the American World Chess Champion

I'm not sure what you are asking. What is DS?

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I try to have as many Fred Reinfeld books as possible open simultaneously.

1,000

I hop around too much. I'm doing my very best to just stick to one right now - My System by Aron Nimzowitsch, published by Quality Chess.

I have over 60 chess books, but none by Fred Reinfeld. I've heard his name pop up too many times. Which book of his should I purchase first?

4 at any one time:

1. Tactics: Test your chess IQ first challenge (need to get back to it keep using the tactical trainer instead...)

2. Middle game: How to Reassess Your Chess Workbook. 

3. Endgame Silman’s Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner to Master

Currently on 1800-1999 section

4. Fun: Fire on the Board - Shirov

Ah, I wondered if that was what you meant.

The book is a collection of tactics puzzles, laid out 6 to a page, some puzzles have both white to move and black to move on the same puzzle (each is treated as a separate puzzle with the same starting position and they may be different difficulties and themes). The version of the book I have is the one called Combinative Motifs on the cover and Combinational Motifs on the spine with a 2009 publication date. It has 1206 actual diagrams with approximately 1400 overal puzzles.

The solutions in the back are all in Figurine Algebraic Notation. That link goes to the Wikipedia descrpition of that if you don't know what it is (I couldn't remeber the exact term so had to look it up).

My Three All Time Favorite and Best Chess Books in order of fondness are:

 "Reassess Your Chess 3rd Edition" by Silman

 "Amateur's Mind" by Silman

"Chess Training Pocket Book: 300 Most Important Positions and Ideas" by Lev Alburt

Those are the best, most enlightening, and most thoroughly enjoyable chess books I have ever read.  Honorable mention to Eric Schiller's "Encyclopedia of Chess Openings" which I bought almost 10 years ago and got alot out of that book over the years.

On my hit-list is "The Art of Attack" which I've heard rave reviews about lately from a couple friends crediting the book with their recent performance rating improvements of nearly a couple hundred points OTB.

I am reading The Game of Chess by Seigbert Tarrasch, and Chess Thinking by Bruce Pandolfini.

I'm currently in the process of reading:

Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day

Fred Reinfeld, How to Play Winning Chess

...and in the last year I finished:

Susan Polgar, Chess Tactics for Champions

Rhonda Byrne, The Secret

Charles Westbrook, The Kabalion Key

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Any book worth working through is worth giving your full attention (tactics books aside of course).  I would suggest one at a time.