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lanceuppercut_239
diskamyl wrote: 

 oh please, enough of the bobby fischer teaches chess book. It's probably the worst tactics book I've ever seen, I'm in total shock that it's such popular on this site. 

The book even has got nothing to do with Bobby Fischer! They have just used his name, not even with permission!


 There is no reason to take such a hostile tone here. I recommended that book because I found, personally, that it really helped me when I was a beginner. It teaches you to look for back-rank mates and removal of the guard tactics, and other simple mating patterns.

Perhaps most importantly, it teaches you via diagrams and arrows rather than long strings of chess notation - which can be very intimidating for beginners. 

I don't care how involved Fischer was in creating the book. It helped me personally, so I passed on the recommendation. Maybe you didn't like it, fine, but there's no reason to act so arrogant. 


likesforests

I took a look at Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess (studied 100 frames in 10 minutes) and it does seem like a great entry-level mate and tactics book especially for those who are adverse to chess notation. Lots of arrows, no-mate examples, real games, etc.

Of course, if you're an intermediate player and know chess notation it's going to be next to useless even for review. (For review purposes I would prefer a book with more diagrams / page, less text, and algebraic for solutions like Laszlo Polgar's 5334).


theturtlemoves
I'd recommend the Mammoth Book of Chess, it covers practically everything, endgames, middlegames, openings, and defence and attack, and miscellaneous other things.Smile
JCoombs1972

Nasica I have read "How to Reasses your chess". several Times and Yes it is a great book to begine with. although I would reccommend reading this book over a span of a year and really soaking in the material if you can, this way your skills will begion to materialize alot atronger and more solid than before. I read this book for the first time over the year of 1994 and by 1995 I took my old chess clubs championship at a score of 3-0.