What's the best chess positional book?

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FieryHeart wrote:

Python Strategy by Tigran Petrosian

http://sagarteacheschess.blogspot.com/2015/09/python-strategy-book-review.html

http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/PythonStrategy-excerpt.pdf

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M4xP0wer wrote:

Im not a chess or chess book expert - but I own the following book and really enjoy it - have noticed it improved my score a couple hundred elo so far - and its on a lot of others lists as an excellent positional play book:

 

Pawn Structure Chess by Andrew Soltis

I agree that Soltis's book is excellent. It took my understanding of chess to a new level. As a follow up, I recommend Chess Structures: A Grandmaster Guide by Mauricio Flores Rios. It's better organized than Soltis and covers some additional structures. One of the best features in Flores's book is the attention paid to pawn structure transformations. 

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Jishnu_Chatterjee wrote:

The latest book by Boris Gelfand.

https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/dynamic-decision-making-in-chess/

http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/DynamicDecisionMakinginChess-excerpt.pdf

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1stKnight619 wrote:

... Chess Praxis. ...

http://dev.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Chess-Praxis-77p3819.htm

https://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/ChessPraxis-excerpt.pdf

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ryan_duan_06 wrote:

@stevenstarmantis Try morphy's games of chess. That's a really great book.

I think that book is only available in descriptive notation (1 P-K4 P-K4). For a modern book with a little bit more of a focus on instruction, one might try Morphy: Move by Move by Zenón Franco.

https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/7625.pdf

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One of the best ways to learn about positional chess is to study the best games collections of 

Rubinstein, 

Capablanca, 

Botvinnik, 

Smyslov, 

Petrosian, 

Fischer, 

or 

Karpov.

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SmyslovFan wrote:

One of the best ways to learn about positional chess is to study the best games collections of Rubinstein, Capablanca, Botvinnik, Smyslov, Petrosian, Fischer, or Karpov.

https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/7573.pdf

https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/7128.pdf

https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/7297.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708234322/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review734.pdf

http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/PythonStrategy-excerpt.pdf

https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/7548.pdf

https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/7529.pdf

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I have my system mixed with chess praxis. It uses older types of English though

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Salterton wrote:

Euwe & Kramer's two Middlegame books.

in the furure i would like to read these two books serie

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It's good as they say.