Best books in these subjects?

Recently someone here on chess.com was kind enough to go through some of my games and see what I'm doing wrong and well it turns out I'm terrible at endgame planning, defending, and finding plans in different pawn structures other than Dutch positions as black and hedgehog positions as white. So keeping all of this in mind, does anyone have any good book recommendations for endgame strategy (other than shreshevsky's endgame strategy book as I'm already in the middle of it), defending, and how to play different pawn structures. Thanks in advance for any recommendations

How to get somebody to do that for me? 

Reassess Your Chess, The Amateur’s Mind, Silman’s Complete Endgame Course.

just ask the person who went through your games lol..

There are a couple of books by Dvoretsky that will help you to get stronger at defense, but as is normally the case with his books, they involve a lot of hard work to get through them (I haven't gotten far through either of them yet).

• Recognizing Your Opponent's Resources: Developing Preventive Thinking by Mark Dvoretsky (Russell Enterprises)
• Attack and Defence: How Creative Though Develops in a Chess Player by Mark Dvoretsky and Artur Yusupov (Batsford Ltd)

Both of these books take a long time to study and it may be better to wait until you are nearer 2000 level before going through these, but if you have loads of motivation and determination by all means give them a go now.

Thanks!

Thanks for the recommendations Kevin! I do think I'll wait a bit on those books though as like you said they're more for the 2000+ level. It's good to keep them in mind for the future though

If we're being honest a lot of the lessons here on chess.com are nothing to special, maybe going through them could help but in my honest opinion I prefer books as you're forced to go through them on your board, and they typically are much more in depth than the 10-20 minute lessons.

Here's my two cents.

STRUCTURES: The best pawn structure book out there is Chess Structures: A Grandmaster Guide by GM Mauricio Flores Rios. 22 chapters, and he discusses the major, and some minor, thematic ideas in each structure. Then presents a series of games that emphasize most of the themes. Chess University uses this book for their 1950+ rated players (and perhaps some of the folks below that level, but I took it in their 1950+ year long course...fun getting group lessons from people like Anand). I'm not involved with Chess University, but was one of their students for a few years...a while ago.

Choice 2 (much more detailed, a couple years older) is "Winning Chess Middlegames: An Essential Guide to Pawn Structures" by GM Ivan Sokolov. I'd say this book is pitched to a higher level audience than the first book I mentioned.

ENDGAMES: Silman has a good book that says what you must know from the 1200 level up to the master level. Breaks it down by 1200-1400, 1400-1600, ... Very straightforward. GM John Nunn also has an excellent endgame book.

Shereshesky's book is quite good.

There is an essential Rook Endgames book out there, but I cannot find my copy at the moment. Also used by Chess University.

DEFENSE: Older, lesser known book of merit is "The Art of Defense in Chess: by GM Andrew Soltis.

ATTACK: "Art of Attack in Chess" by Vladimir Vukovic should be part of any learning program..

But two more approachable books are "Clinch It!" by IM Cyrus Lakdawala (the easiest read, and a fun read...recommended to me by my IM coach) and "Sacrifice and Initiative in Chess" by GM Ivan Sokolov. The latter book is occupying my middle game studies at the moment...very insightful for the sacrificing of pawns and sometimes even pieces for the initiative (and direct attacks as well, but initiatives are for more interesting because they can be so difficult to evaluate).

IM Mat (Mateusz) Bobula might be a person to investigate. He puts out weekly blogs with general pointers (I found one of them VERY useful for improving my visualization and calculation skills), and at one point was allowing people to tell him what their opening repertoire was and he would offer some brief pointers if their repertoire "made sense". We chatted for a while (I told him my repertoire over the last decade plus), and I ended up dropping the Semi-Slav from my studies (for now) as it doesn't fit with the rest of my opening repertoire, or my style preferences.

A book my Aagaard I have not seen! I must see!

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For endgame strategy, the best book (IMO) is...

Secrets of Chess Endgame Strategy by Lars Bo Hansen

For the generalized pawn structures of the major opening systems and their implications for overall game planning, the best book (IMO) is...

Chess Structures A Grandmaster Guide by Mauricio Flores Rios

Otherwise, for specific endgame books, you might check out (search 'ending' and/or 'endgame')...

Good Chess Books for Beginners and Beyond...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/good-chess-books-for-beginners-and-beyond

Thank you so much those all sound interesting so I'll look into them!

Thank you so much Kevin for all the recommendations! Rio's book has been mentioned multiple times on this thread so I am definitely gonna take a look into it! Sokolov's book also sounds good, but if it's for a higher audience I'll wait a bit before I pick it up.

Silman's book is a must read for me, and I've heard some good things about Nunn's book as well so I'll look into them too.

The art of defense should be a must read for me to as my defensive skills suck (I'm not joking if anyone puts a little pressure on me, I typically have a dead lost position two moves later xD)

All the attacking books sound very interesting too as there's nothing funner than attacking

I haven't heard of the 1st book actually, it sounds good though and I desperately need to work on my endgames xD

The 2nd books has been recommended in most of the posts here so I think it should be a must read for me

There’s also the classic Pawn Structure Chess by Soltis, just for even more general stuff on pawn structures. For IQP specifically, there’s Baburin's Winning Pawn Structures.

As for endgames, you might also benefit from Shereshevsky's two book series Mastering the Endgame, which is more specifically about tying openings to the endgames they typically lead to. So, in addition to learning more about pawn structures, you also would get a feel for which structures will lead to favorable endgames, and when you should try to keep some pieces on the board, as well as which pieces. I haven’t worked through the two volume set myself but that’s what it appears to promise, anyway.

I haven't heard of the pawn structure books you recommended, but they sound interesting so I'll make sure to check them out!

The Shreshevsky books I also haven't heard of, but those sound really interesting and helpful!

Thank you so much for the recommendations !

I have a real life copy of the Soltis book, I will say it's good but there's a reason everyone talks about the pawn structure book by GM Mauricio Flores Rios 

It's Superior.

I've heard that Road to the Expert Title is good