These are really good advance chess books.
Chess Strategy for Club Players by Grooten
Mastering Chess Strategy by Hellsten
How To Play Chess Endgames by Muller
That endgame book my Muller is a strategic endgame book. You will leanr how to handle many strategic endgame positions.
To really get the benefits from these books, you must play all tha games in a real chess board or online board.
"Techniques of Positional Play" by Valeri Bronznik and Anatoli Terekhin is an excellent advanced book.
thanks for replies. how do i know these are best?, any references?, are the writers GM or IM?
GM Jacob Aagaard, GM John Nunn, GM Matthew Sadler and GM Jonathan Tisdall all recommend IM Mark Dvoretsky, one of the trainers of Vladimir Kramnik and former world #3 Artur Yusupov. Dvoretsky's most popular book is probably Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual, followed by Secrets of Positional Play (with chapters by Kramnik, Yusupov and Bareev) and Dvoretsky's Analytical Manual, but almost all his books get rave reviews.
GM Jonathan Rowson, Tisdall and Watson recommend Mihai Suba's Dynamic Chess Strategy. GM Nigel Davies and Nunn recommend Paul Keres and Alexander Kotov's The Art of the Middlegame. Davies and Tisdall recommend Kotov's Think Like a Grandmaster. Davies and GM Jan Timman recommend GM Mikhail Botvinnik's One Hundred Selected Games, and GM Alexander Beliavsky recommends Botvinnik's Best Games in 3 volumes. Nunn and Rowson recommend GM Alex Yermolinsky's The Road to Chess Improvement. Rowson and Watson recommend Jonathan Tisdall's Improve Your Chess Now.
Botvinnik, Dvoretsky, Rowson, Sadler and Yermolinsky to some extent share a philosophy that the way to get better is to analyze your games, and work to eliminate your weaknesses.
that book is "secrets of positional play: school of future champions" ?
More advance chess books.
Chess Structures: A Grandmaster Guide
http://www.amazon.com/Chess-Structures-A-Grandmaster-Guide/dp/1784830003
Improve Your Chess Pattern Recognition
Techniques of Positional Play
that book is "secrets of positional play: school of future champions" ?
Yes. I think Dvoretsky and Yusupov et al released a book in 1996 with Batsford called Positional Play. Secrets of Positional Play - School of Future Champions 4 seems to be a revised version of the 1996 book with a chapter by Maxim Dlugy on novelties added. Secrets was published by Edition Olms in 2008.
Chess Informants are great books for advanced players. 1000 Best of the Best is the best game collections book and must not be ignored by advanced and expert players.
The Kasparov bookd, on chess history, modern chess and on Kasparov are wondrous. Advanced, but great.
Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors I-V
On Modern Chess Revolution in the 1970's
On Modern Chess Kasparov vs. Karpov 1975-1985
On Modern Chess Kasparov vs. Karpov 1986-1987
On Modern Chess Kasparov vs. Karpov 1988-2009
Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov Part I 1973-1985
Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov Part II 1985-1993
Garry Kasparov on Garry Kasparov Part III 1993-2005
all published by Everyman Press. Hundreds of annotated games.
Thanks IM, i am AIM too. one thing i don like is like in chess for zebras book, there are too much writing on psychology and other life struggle topics related with chess,we don want texts but chess ideas and analysis. How can one remembers all this; haha.
I haven't read Imagination in Chess in depth, but at first glance, it seems to be a collection of chess puzzles and solutions, like Volokitin's Perfect Your Chess or Hort and Jansa's The Best Move.
I actually kind of like Rowson's armchair psychology, but he does stray far from chess at times.
I believe in books in a way that one can learn 100s ideas/techs which is not possible in 100 articles or GM videos because of unavailability. Also digital books can be carried in phone and read in convenience. So Any one suggest some Advanced chess books plz, I already read watson's chess strategy in action... and nunn's some advanced books...