Roast my Chess Book Collection

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A nice book collection. Which ones have you read?

I've started playing Chess 4 months ago at the age of 50. I've created a website to monitor my Journey: ChessIsWar.com . I've peaked at 568, try some Gambit openings and went on a losing streak. Also, I've set my opponents search to: -25 to Any to be sure to face stronger opponents. Right now, I'm playing on Lichess, time to get back on track. After a winning daily session (4 points/4) I will get back to Chesscom. And I will probably set my opponents search setting to: -100 to +200.

Gothamchess book from cover to cover. The first book I've bought. An excellent, easy to understand, and fun to read book even for complete beginner as I was. I've started playing Chess only 4 months ago.

I've done 19 Chapters of EFCW tactics book. I've done Polgar Bible first 321 tactics. But Puzzle Rush Survival is way more effective for me than any tactics book.

Read a First Book of Morphy and Rapid Chess Improvement from cover to cover except for the game collection.

I've played over a few games in the Fischer book. Not my thing, and I don't see how it can be useful for me in the short term.

Red all the bulletpoints in The Amateur Mind. All pearl of wisdom.

And I've red some parts of the other books daily. I really enjoy leafing through my Chess books every day before bedtime.

I can't get anything out of the Amature Mind, but endgame book was useful

Nice collection. Which of those have you actually "studied". Not read but actually studied?

That's about 16 chess books more than I have...

Personally, i just loved reading Modern Chess Openings and learned a lot from visualizing the lines in my head. Silman is great. I also loved the collection of Bobby Fishers games. He has very similar humor to mine, so I enjoyed hearing his thoughts about his games. Really, read less to get the grind in, read more for enjoyment and falling in love with chess. You'll learn a lot more from that passion than you will from forcing yourself to read something you don't want to read.

When I quit chess 6+ years ago I gave away all of my chess stuff. Now that I have gotten back into it and hired a coach. I had to invest in books again. So now my "library" consists of the following. Chess Structures. A Grandmaster Guide. Chess Strategy For The Club Player. Dynamic Chess Strategy. The Art of the Middle game. I also like invested in software and Roman's Lab.

Books will be useful at some point, but they can’t help you if you’re blundering your pieces. You just don’t see your opponent threats. Just concentrate on basic things: which pieces are attacked and which pieces are defended. If it will require to spend 5 minutes on move then do it. Dońt care about losing on time, care about not blundering your pieces. Once you stop blundering pieces, then studying of the books starts to become beneficial.

Great books and Levy's book ;-)

A number of great books! A few I have not seen before, too, which is even more interesting. Can you tell me a bit about the visualization, cognitive chess, and blindfold chess books?

Oh, the only thing missing is annotated game collections such as this classic: https://www.amazon.com/Chess-Logical-Thinking-First-Move/dp/0713488948/

Mostly exercise books. Somewhat of a deception, since they barely teach you anything about Blindfold Chess. My next book is this one: https://www.chessiswar.com/blindfold-chess-history-psychology-techniques-champions-world-records-and-important-games-by-eliot-hearst-and-john-knott/