Any Middlegame chess book suggestions?

I struggled in my middlegame a lot. I don't have a clear 'plan' and I start to blunder and just lose. I want to get a middlegame chess book but I can't seem to choose which one. Any Suggestions?

I recommend IM Jeremy SIlman's 4th edition book, How To Reassess Your Chess. This is a classic and great for teaching middlegame ideas.

The only drawback is that the lowest rating puzzles in this book are 1400 if I recall (and the hardest over 2300 or something like that), so this book might be slightly above your level right now.

It is still a great book for middlegames though, so I say you have two main options:

1) Wait until you are higher rated (maybe 1400+ chess.com rating) before reading this book or

2) Read it anyway and understand that some of its teachings will require more effort for you to grasp or some of it might need to be revisited when you reach that rating anyway.

I had a similar experience when I first read My 60 Memorable Games by Bobby Fischer. I was 1600 chess.com level at the time, but probably would have been better if I was 1800+ to read that book. I knew the book was slightly above my level when I read it though. It didn't bother me; I just knew it would take me longer to read.

Without a doubt check out.....Weapons of Chess by Bruce Pandolfini.

Bruce breaks down the midlegame into different components, e.g., minority attack, isolated d-pawn, bishops of opposite colors, blocked centers, etc. He gives diagrams to show the concepts and then uses words, rather than reams of variations, to explain the ins and outs of what's going on.

Good Positional Chess, Planning & Strategy Books for Beginners and Beyond...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/introduction-to-positional-chess-planning-strategy

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell

NB: "How to Reassess Your Chess" by Jeremy Silman would be very challenging for the typical 1200-rated player. I suggest to wait and check it out once the player reaches 1500-1600 Elo or higher. Better that the OP study Silman's "The Amateur's Mind" prior to HTRYC.

Simple Chess: A great explanation of strategy, making it very easy to understand. You have it on YT as well: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUrgfsyInqNbkyiwPSSBQ6ALkkccKItPE

Zürich 1953 - Bronstein

GM Larry Evans' method of static analysis - Chess Forums - Chess.com

Read my posts # 4, 7 to 10 and (especially) 12; and play over the three sample games.

As mentioned already by others: "Weapons of Chess" by Bruce Pandolfini. Really great book.

You go so fast it is difficult to follow.

I removed all the fillers from videos so as not to waste anyone's time. To learn from them, pause at critical moments, think about the position, and continue the video.

The Inner Game of Chess by Andrew Soltis!

I would recommend Andy Soltis's 'How To Choose A Chess Move' and Simple Chess (both by John Emms and Irving Chernev)

"The Art of the Middlegame" (Keres and Kotov), and Euwe's "Strategy and Tactics"/"Judgement and Planning", are useful classics.

The MG books that I've worked through, learned a lot and liked were books by Pachman, Gelfer, Gelfand, Baburin, and Sokolov.

I learned a lot of MG play through annotated game collections of Fischer, Botvinnik, Keres, Smyslov, Geller and Euwe.

Chernev has 2 books [Most Instructive..., and Capa's greatest ...] that I wish I'd started with long ago and I wish I'd also started with 'Simple Chess'.

That's what comes to mind now. - Bill