Possibly helpful:
Simple Attacking Plans by Fred Wilson (2012)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708090402/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review874.pdf
Logical Chess: Move by Move by Irving Chernev (1957)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708104437/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/logichess.pdf
The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played by Irving Chernev (1965)
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/most-instructive-games-of-chess-ever-played/
Winng Chess by Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld (1949)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708093415/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review919.pdf
Discovering Chess Openings by GM Johm Emms (2006)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627114655/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen91.pdf
Openings for Amateurs by Pete Tamburro (2014)
http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/05/review-of-pete-tamburros-openings-for.html
Chess Endgames for Kids by Karsten Müller (2015)
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/chess-endgames-for-kids/
A Guide to Chess Improvement by Dan Heisman (2010)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708105628/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review781.pdf
Hi,
I would love to get your advice and some directions for learning. I'll try elaborate on what exactly I am looking for.
During my years in university and professional career, which involves a lot of learning all the time, I kinda found the strategy that works best for me, to learn, understand and be effective at something. However I understand that this strategy is not for everyone and is related to personality types, character preferences and so on.
So I kinda wish to get back to chess learning after very long time and would love to apply my strategy to chess and in some way, I see it as a hobby that is even more interesting for me than just getting good at chess.
What I believe I want
Books, video trainings, online resources concentrated on very concise and to the point "abstractions". Specifically I would love to find systematic organized collections of resources for:
Also, my rant
I am really disappointed that many teaching materials don't cover most of this. For example you may read whole book to only find one or two helpful "tricks" or "signals". Basically from my perspective (from the way I like to study things), you have to do a heavy lifting and book is just garbage containing few golden pages. I want to pay for resources where someone did this heavy lifting for me.
Also I am somewhat disappointed with live lessons - they all push for this old school "doing it hard way" methodology e.g. look at puzzle for hours and your brain will become better. I am not against puzzles in general, but first of all its very time inefficient if you are just hobby player. Secondly and more importantly using it alone is very poor method from psychological point of view, it favors strong perceivers which I am not. My view on this is- if doing puzzles, then each puzzle should have a lesson behind it e.g. tactical puzzle with lesson "Exposed King + Unprotected Piece = Fork" - you learn what to look for next time!