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@ danny
it has been a year, since your first post,
-what do you think of Amateur's Mind now, have you completed much of it?
-did you get the HTRYC 4th ed.,
Life has been far busier and challenging since I wrote that post. I can't devote hardly any time to chess though I think about it a lot, sometimes wish I never discovered this addiction that I can't constantly feed.
I think Amateur's Mind is okay, but probably better if one has played in tournaments with a consistent repertoire to be able to apply those principles and learn from positional mistakes in the context of a particular opening and the emotional low of a blunder-filled OTB loss. I got HTRYC 4th ed, have not read it.
I liked Seirawan's books, but they are not better than Silman's. Silman has no tactics book, but there are much better one's out there than Yasser's. Of Silman's books I liked "Amateur's mind" and indeed loved his endgame course. I dropped HTYC (4th) because it seemed unwieldy. The single author who helped me most was Dan Heisman. Back to basics: Tactics, The Improving Chess Thinker, A Guide To Chess Improvement all proved to be real gems.