Thoughts On Jeremy Silman's How To Reassess Your Chess 4th Edition?

Any Thoughts On The Book And If It Is Worth Buying Any Book recommendations?

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I think you should take a look at the other 50 posts about it.

https://www.chess.com/forum/search?keyword=reassess+4th

Like most other chess books, it has value but only if you actually put in active work using it. A mere read-through is of limited use. It appears on FIDE's official list of recommended books.

http://trainers.fide.com/recommended-books.html

 

Thanks Will Do

It’s a bit dogmatic and impractical but gives food for thought.

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I think a lot of the positions are quite contrived. Like showing the advantage of a bishop versus a knight, it's in a completely locked position where black has no counterplay but a gaping hole near the king.

I think some of the "contrived" positions demonstrate the concepts being discussed in a very clear, easily understood way. If you can't show a contrived position that shows the advantage of a Knight over a Bishop (or vice versa) how are you ever going to show it in "real" positions. Such positions certainly exist in the book, but are a minority.

It is just like examining a dead critter in the lab. Living critters are more complex, but understanding the dead critter helps you understand the living critter (and is a whole lot easier to work with).

"How to Reassess Your Chess, 4th Edition was designed for players in the 1400 to 2100 range." - IM Jeremy Silman (2010)

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708095832/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review769.pdf

https://www.silmanjamespress.com/shop/chess/how-to-reassess-your-chess-4th-edition/

I would recommend you Mastering Chess Middlegames. You can find it in Chessable. If money is not a problem you can also purchase the video, it is really a great way to improve middlegames. In the video a strong player is asking questions about the positions to a weaker player. The great thing about this book is that you will review it using spaced repetition (as in all other books in Chessable).

I have JS’s books, and I like them and worked through some chapters in a club. However, since I began to learn in Chessable I am working exclusively with books published there. Repetition is the key of improvement, and in Chessable you have a great motivation to learn everyday.

But at the moment I focus more on tactics. After I learned consequently the book 1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners in Chessable I could improve my game from something like 1550 to something close to 1700 (Daily Chess) in the last 30 days. The longer I repeat my tactics in Chessable, the more I spot tactics in my own games. Now I began to learn a book with 1001 mates in one after I read an interview with a Swiss GM that he also do mate in one (among others) before a match.

https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/9017.pdf

I like anything by Silman. Definitely worth buying.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R3OCI46Z3QZEVL/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1890085138