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The best chess product I bought is a book, "Why Lasker Matters", by Andrew Soltis, because the secrets of his success remain a mystery. I quote : " Soltis reveals the winning formula behind Lasker's phenomenal achievements ; he analyses the tricks, traps and techniques behind Lasker's winning moves and makes Lasker's methods accessible to today's players." And yes, I do have more books, both on Lasker and as references, but trying to understand his fighting spirit is great ! One cannot imitate him, but only stand and wonder..., my chess hero !
Aug 10, 2012
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#24
I would add
My Monroi allows me to keep good score and easily upload my tournament games for later study.
The ipad app "Chess Opening Trainer" allows me to train on my openings anywhere I go.
Not Bought but The free ui ChessX and free engine stockfish allow me to study chess on my mac with a very nice user interface without having to boot into windows. -- www.box.com/chessx
Few years ago i bought CMX (chessmaster Xth Edition), he teched me all what i must know to start adventure with chess.
Shadowknight911 wrote:
5334 Chess Puzzle book by Polgar (the dad not one of the sisters)
Good book for mates and how to look for them. But it is all Mates and wished the book had covered Tactics and Winning Combinations.
I looked at that book, but didn't fancy doing a few thousand mate in ones.
Scottrf wrote:
I looked at that book, but didn't fancy doing a few thousand mate in ones.
The book has only 300 Mate in 1.
msjenned wrote:
Scottrf wrote:
I looked at that book, but didn't fancy doing a few thousand mate in ones.
The book has only 300 Mate in 1.
Whatever the number is it was too many.
1-chessmaster 11
2-chessbase11
3-artur yusupov book by chess quality
1. Chessbase product, Chessbase 11 and Fritz 13 (current)
2. book by John Nunn and Jeremy Silman
3. Chess.com Video!
4. GM Smirnov "The Grandmaster Secret" http://bit.ly/RENgMC
5. CT-Art Tactics
How about "Backgammon," by Paul Magriel? or "The Backgammon Book," by Oswald Jacoby and John Crawford?
Aug 10, 2012
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#33
My Reccomendations:
For Beginners- 5334 problems, Combinations and Games, by Laszlo Polgar
Basic Endgame skills - Silman's Endgame course
For Tactics(and also endings)- Middlegame& Endgames by Laszlo Polgar
Opening Preperation- Many books[according to my repertoire] and ofcourse chessbase11 for reference games
Strategy- Pawn Power in Chess
Endgames[Deep Knowledge]- Encyclopaedia of chess endings
Engine- Deep Fritz 12, Houdini 1.5&2.0
Online Playing- Chess.com, Playchess.com
The things that helped me most
Tactics trainer here and on chesstempo.com
Kotov think like a grandmaster
Capablanca chess fundamentals
A lot of slow games 30min+ here and on FICS
Playing over master games ( guessing the moves of black and white )
Capablanca Chess fundamental .. very good chess book for beginner indeed. For ending, i love to watch Daniel Rencsh Mastering Rook Endgame video training in chess.com!!
How come you advertise the Smirnov Chess Teacher, did he send it to you for free?.
The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games
New Expanded Edition-Now with 125 Games
By: Graham Burgess, Dr. John Nunn, and John Emms
With a foreword by World Champion Vishy Anand
http://www.amazon.com/Mammoth-Worlds-Greatest-Chess-Games/dp/0762439955/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1344636806&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=wordl%27s+greatest+chess+games
Aug 10, 2012
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rahim_me_123 wrote:
My Reccomendations:
For Beginners- 5334 problems, Combinations and Games, by Laszlo Polgar
For Tactics(and also endings)- Middlegame& Endgames by Laszlo Polgar
I haven't managed to spend much time with these books yet (I only recently managed to obtain the latter two - and not cheaply either), but I think that anyone who can manage to get through all 14,000+ problems (between the three books) would be a pretty fierce player. If I was starting out again I would be purchasing these books at the start.
Aug 10, 2012
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fredm73 wrote:
May I put in a plug for the program I wrote for my own training, which is free in the download section of chess.com: GuessTheMove.
This is a very good program to use to for going through games. I can't say for sure that it will improve my chess (but, I suspect it will help a lot) as I have only been using it for a couple weeks. I do find that it helps me concentrate and put more effort into the games I go over (which I go through with GTM and then read the comments in whatever book the game is found), and the pgn file that keeps track of positions I screw up reminds me of what positions I play poorly so that I know where to divert my efforts.
Aug 10, 2012
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#40
I haven't managed to spend much time with these books yet (I only recently managed to obtain the latter two - and not cheaply either), but I think that anyone who can manage to get through all 14,000+ problems (between the three books) would be a pretty fierce player. If I was starting out again I would be purchasing these books at the start.
well.., i hav completed 2. now working on the third book. I like these books a lot[helped me increase 350 elo] so i recommended them:)
@fredm73 you can! how you do it