Not my favourite book, but a really "readable", not so well known book I am reading right now is: Stuart Rachels "The Best I Saw in Chess". An autobiography with plenty of good chess anecdotes.
Other books I like include:
- Rowson: "Moves that matter" and his other books
- Hendriks: Move first, think later
- Silman's Endgame book
- Soltis' book on endgames
- Ward: "It's your move"
- Tal's "Life and games"
- Polgar's autobiography
A few of the books that have been mentioned while useful arent that fun to read. Kotov Think like a grandmaster and Nmzo's my system feel more like reading a textbook. Something more fun yet still instructive would be pretty much anything by David Bronstein. His 200 open games is still one of my favvorites. Mikhail Tal's Life and games is one of the most entertaining ones out there. Then there is the my great predecessors series by Kasparov and five crowns by serriawan.
The world's worst chess book:
The Grand Tactics of Chess: An Exposition of the Laws and Principles of Chess Strategetics, the Practical Application of These Laws and Principles to the Movement of Forces: Mobilization, Development, Manoeuvre, and Operation
- by Franklin Knowles Young
The world's worst chess book:
The Grand Tactics of Chess: An Exposition of the Laws and Principles of Chess Strategetics, the Practical Application of These Laws and Principles to the Movement of Forces: Mobilization, Development, Manoeuvre, and Operation
- by Franklin Knowles Young
For me it is: "Die Theorie der Eröffnung - Königsindischer Angriff" by Heiko Eggers. (Fortunately just available in German language.). 5% pseudo-scientific reflections on opening theory + 95% junk data, literally copied and pasted from chessbase without even editing out the English annotations.
I'm getting a lot out of "A Guide to Chess Improvement" by Dan Heisman. It offers lots of good advice and training on *how to think* and how to develop a training plan, among other things.
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