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StacyBearden

Jul 10, 2007

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I just finished reading "Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess" and I loved the format. It's great for people like me who are starting to take chess seriously. What is the next book I should read? Give me some ideas, people.

BrianN

Jul 10, 2007

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Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner To Master - Jeremy Silman

As a new player it's best to begin with the endgame first, know the basic mates and how to win a K+P v K endgame, then you can move into tactics and the middlegame. This guy's well respected, you can get this or a similar endgame book; you could always try to reserve something like this at the library. Good luck!

MWeinreb

Jul 10, 2007

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New to these parts, but thought I'd throw in a plug for my book, The Kings of New York, about the championship chess team at Edward R. Murrow High in Brooklyn. I doubt it's going to help improve your chess game, but I hope it provides something of an interesting outsider's view of the world of competitive chess and those who inhabit it. You can find more at my website, http://www.michaelweinreb.com

End of plug. Enjoy your reading, Stacy--as a hopeless patzer, I, too, found "Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess" to be very helpful.

JackBauer

Jul 11, 2007

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You should read "Chess Openings for Juniors". That's what I read right after Bobby Fischer's book. It made a great follow-up.

Chessbuff

Jul 11, 2007

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I second the motion on Bobby Fischer teaches Chess. It's the book I recommended to my son after I taught him the moves. The book introduces the reader to the many wonderful tactical possibilites of the game. I am not sure what is next after that.

travis1010

Jul 11, 2007

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I did not like Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess. It was my first chess book too. It only teaches back rank tactics though. A book like Winning Chess Tactics is much better for someone starting out.

StacyBearden

Jul 11, 2007

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#7

Those are some GREAT answers. Thanks to everyone so much. And you know, I never even CONSIDERED the local public library! I should have...don't know why I don't use our library more often. We have a nice one here in town. Thanks again to everyone!

alec94x

Jul 11, 2007

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If you want to be up and playing Chess well in a short period of time

I'd suggest Edward Laskers Modern Chess Strategy and 1001 Chess sacrifices

and combinations and1001 brilliant ways to checkmate by Fred Rienfeld.

ccarroll

Jul 11, 2007

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The general consensus is that solving tactics problems yields the fastest impovement. As far as chess books go I hate most of them in general. With chess books, you must either drag out the chess board or enter the moves (and variations) into a program like Chessbase in order to follow the examples. Much better for me and easier is the interactive online problems you can find such as the ones at Chess Tempo. Also, if you are new and just starting to train I will highly reccommend Chessmaster 10th edition. It comes with a great interactive training section and can be picked up (used online) for about the price of a chess training book.

verusamo

Jul 11, 2007

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I would reccomend the "Winning Chess" series by Yasser Seirawan. I am still reading the first one, but it is amazing and a lot of other people on this site told me that it was a very good book, as is the whole series.

Hugh_T_Patterson

Sep 4, 2007

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The Winning Chess series takes you through a great deal of training in a logical manner. I love his teaching style as well. I've been going through his 'Winning Openings" and I love the fact that he teaches from early games where he was all over the place. It makes you feel like there is some hope for your own game (or at least me)!

tbirdtird

Sep 4, 2007

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#12

I think ChessMaster 10th edition is the best deal going for new and experienced players! You can learn all the basics, and much more.

Etienne

Sep 5, 2007

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#13

Just picked Silman's Re-asses your chess, and it looks great!

Paul-Lebon

Sep 5, 2007

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#14

ccarroll wrote: With chess books, you must either drag out the chess board or enter the moves (and variations) into a program like Chessbase in order to follow the examples. Much better for me and easier is the interactive online problems you can find such as the ones at Chess Tempo...

I concur wholeheartedly. For a short while I was lugging around chess books and a travel chess set, with which to do the problems. Then saw a post Erik made about Chess Mentor, and that was that! I use the tutorial section of Chessmaster 10 as well, but Chess Mentor has more problems, more annotation and its smaller and more convenient to use on the go, just doing a few problems here and there. Chessmaster 10 isn't the fastest loading program...

HorribleTomato

Apr 20, 2018

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Chessbuff wrote:

I second the motion on Bobby Fischer teaches Chess. It's the book I recommended to my son after I taught him the moves. The book introduces the reader to the many wonderful tactical possibilites of the game. I am not sure what is next after that.

Yay! Bumping the OLDEST CHESS.COM THREAD!

CHESSBUFF is noted for being online for OVER 10 YEARS! But I haven't seen him around...

Waredude

Apr 20, 2018

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#16

I cannot believe that you actually did it!

IanChetto

Apr 21, 2018

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#17

My system, an absolute must, theres a guy on youtube who reads the whole book, each chapter, and explains alot of what nimzo was writing about, my opinion my system is one of the greatest works on the subject, search my system on youtube, im sure its still there, post back with feedback. Cheers.

IanChetto

Apr 21, 2018

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#18

Sorry to clarify My System by Aron Nimzowitch