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Some new additions to the chess library over the past few months:
- Dvorestky's Analytical Manual by Dvoretsky
- My 60 Memorable Games by Fischer
- How Chess Games are Won and Lost by Lars Bo Hansen
- Secrets of Chess Endgame Strategy by Lars Bo Hansen
- Questions of Modern Chess Theory by Lipnitsky
- How to Play Chess Endgames by Muller & Pajeken
- Mastering Chess Openings Vol. 3 by John Watson
I have volumes 3 & 4 of Edition Olms versions of Dvoretsky's School of Future Champions en-route at the moment along with a copy of Jansa's Dynamic Chess Strategy.
Lipnitsky's work and Fischer's collection are the 2 new additions that I am most looking forward to working through.
I keep sneaking them in when the wife isn't paying attention 
'Karpov's Collected Games' by David Levy, 'The World's Greatest Chess Games' by Graham Burgess, Dr John Nunn and John Emms, 'Zurich International Chess Tournament 1953' by David Bronstein, 'The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal' by Tal, 'The Road to Chess Mastery' by Max Euwe and Walter Meiden, 'Mastering the Chess Openings' Volumes 1 and 2 by John Watson, 'My System - 21st Century Edition' by Aaron Nimzowitsch, 'Chess Praxis - 21st Century Edition' by Aaron Nimzowitsch, 'The Art of Planning in Chess' by Neil Mcdonald, 'Plan like a Grandmaster' by Alexei Suetin, 'Think like a Grandmaster' by Alexander Kotov, 'The Amateur's Mind' by Jeremy Silman, 'Capablanca's Best Chess Endings' by Irving Chernev, 'The Ultimate Chess Puzzle Book' by John Emms and 'Silman's Complete Endgame Course' by Jeremy Silman. 16 books in total.
In 50 years I collected over a hundred, mostly game collections and tournament books, but books I have actually read:
100 Selected Games-Bovinnik
Reshevsky on Chess-Reshevsky
Zurich 1953-Bronstein
Chess Endings-Griffiths
Middle Game-Pachman
60 Memorable Games-Fischer
My Best Games-Tartakower
My Best Games-Alekhine
The rest became bathroom books. My favorite though is a collection of Al Horowitz’ Chess Review magazines from the ‘40’s and ‘50’s that were given to me.
Anything by C.J.Purdy is great!!! Also, its not a book, but the site www.logicalchess.com is helpful for all aspects of chess learning. Sometimes a good chess book is better than a woman. A good chess book feels nice to hold, it doesn't ever nag, and it can help you win chess games, also a good chess book, oh perhaps i have gone off topic!!! but that's a good future topic LOL
I agree on Purdy. I read through a collection of games he annotated that I had borrowed from a friend. His works are on my list of things to look out for.
I'm almost all the way through Neil McDonald's Chess: the art of logical thinking and I have really enjoyed playing through the games. Before that I worked through Nunn's Understanding Chess Move by Move. I would recommend both of these game collections.
I have only one of these. Guess?
I am planning to buy these. But i have no time to read a single book nevertheless i will purchase
My fantasy
only have one, not sure how others would rate it though. 'Beginners guide to winning chess' by fred Reinfeld.
By the bedside:
Excelling at Technical Chess by Aargaard
In the car (cuz I was too lazy to take it up to my apartment when I got off work!)
My Great Predecessors: Korchnoi and Karpov
In the study:
My Sixty Memorable games by Fischer
The Life and Games of Mikail Tal by THE MAN!! (Tal!)
Starting out: King's Indian by Emms
100 Best Games Of Chess by Botvinnik
Henry Nelson Pillsbury by Pope
MCO by de Fermian
Starting out: The Grunfeld by Aargaard
Dangerous Weapons: The Sicilian by Emms and Palliser
I Play Against Pieces by Gilgoric
American Grandmaster by Benjamin
Understanding Chess Move by Move by Nunn
SIlman's Complete Endgame Course by Silman
Dvoretsky's Endgame course by umm, Dvoretsky
Pawn Power in Chess by Kmoch (not really mine, friend is letting me borrow)
Rethinking the Chess Pieces by Soltis
Amateur's Mind by Silman
Chess Strategy for the Tournament Player by Albert and Palatnik
Chess Training Pocketbook I and II by Alburt
and Chess Is my Life by Korchnoi!
if I've forgotten any it was purely unintentional!
Sure, tomorrow I'm going out to buy a bargain book tomorrow morning that I know the local used bookstore has in stock but after seeing some of the lists above I feel a lot better knowing there are others who are in the same boat as me, or if I you don't mind me saying, are even more compulsive.
Sharkpoet, how do you like the Gligoric book?
snits wrote:
Sharkpoet, how do you like the Gligoric book?
That is one of the many I have not gotten around to read just yet. Have you read it? If so, what are your thoughts?
I have so many it would take a whole day to type them out. So, instead I will list my top 5:
1. The Art of attack in chess by Vladmir Vukovic
2. The entire Winning Chess collection by Yessiar Seriean.( I have all of them.)
3. Attacking Chess by Josh Waitzkin
4. Silman's complete endgame course
5. 112 Greatest games of chess by Vishy Anand, John Nunn, and John Emms
sharkpoet wrote:
snits wrote:
Sharkpoet, how do you like the Gligoric book?
That is one of the many I have not gotten around to read just yet. Have you read it? If so, what are your thoughts?
No, unfortunately I haven't read it. I'm thinking of adding it to the collection.
only one now, I have only been playing for 6 months though.
The Idiot's Guide to chess openings
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commmon sense in chess ---by emanuel lasker
the one im reading was printed in 1896.. its still pretty helpful though
Let's see, I have...
The Flexible French, by Viktor Moshkalenko
The Dynamic English, by Tony Kosten
Chess Traps: Pitfalls and Swindles by I.A.Horowitz
The Scandinavian Defense by Curt Hansen
The Vienna Game by Gregory Huber
The Dynamic Reti by Nigel Davies
The Bb5 Sicilian: Detailed Coverage of a Thouroughly Modern System by Richard Palliser
The French Advance by Sam Collins
Chess Fundamentals by Jose Capablanca
The Dutch Stonewall by Boris Schipkov
The Leningrad Dutch by Boris Schipkov
The Sicilian Dragon by Andrew Martin
Dealing With d4 Deviations: Fighting the Trompowsky, Torre, Blackmar-Diemar, London, Stonewall, Colle & Other Problem Openings. by John Cox
Dangerous Weapons: The Sicilian by John Ems and Richard Palliser
Dangerous Weapons: The Nimzo-Indian by John Ems, Chris Ward and Richard Palliser
The Catalan Opening by Mihail Marin
The Caro-Kann by Zoran Petronijevic
The Budapest Gambit by Dmitrij Oleinikov
Starting Out:
Ruy Lopez
King's Indian Defense
Slav & Semi Slav
Rook Endgames
Queen's Gambit Accepted
Pirc/Modern
Nimzo-Indian
King's Indian Attack
1.e4!
The Scotch Game
Closed Sicilian
Play e4e5!
Play the Queen's Gambit
The Najdorf Sicilian
Gambiteer 1
Unfortunately, I am a much faster purchaser of Chess Books than I am a reader of them.
the point of this thread was to enjoy looking at what books others had collected, it seems to have come down to chest-beating over who owns the most books.
If you have a chess book collection, just list it here and enjoy :-)