Book for a 1000 player

Can anyone suggest a book for me? No jokes please.

I would like to break thru and get to 1100.

Thanks

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Pandolfini's Untimate Guide to Chess.  by Bruce Pandolfini.

Also, it is never too early to begin endgame study, so consider 

Silman's Complete Endgame Course From Beginner to Mater by IM Jeremy Silman.  It begins with a beginner rating of 999.

My suggestions below assume you already:

• drill tactics daily on the computer; and
• incorporate the appropriate sections of Silman's Complete Endgame Course.

Though any of the below books can be read independently of the other and technically in any order, here is my roughly ideal order of reading (I, of course, being the greatest provisionally-rated-1014-USCF-player of all time, and that is no joke):

1. Susan Polgar's World Champion's Guide to Chess;
2. Lev Alburt's Comprehensive Chess Course vol I & II;
3. Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to Chess;
4. Ward Farnsworth's Predator at the Chessboard I & II;
5. Susan Polgar's Chess Tactics for Champions; 
6. Dan Heisman's Back to Basics: Tactics.
7. Patrick Wolffe's Idiot's Guide to Chess (some very hard problems for the "idiot", but his "verbal" explanations are good)
8. Bruce Pandolfini's Weapons of Chess (beginner strategy/pawn play)
9. Jeremy Silman's Complete Book of Chess Strategy (<1400-level strategy).
10. Dan Heisman's Best of Novice Nook (good practical stuff but I believe is better after the above books have been read/digested).

Bold-face = best

See you when we play for the world championship in 2023, my new bitter frenemy.

I think you would do better if you picked out a beginner book for each of the main areas of chess: tactics, strategy, endgame, opening.

A good start would be:

Martin Weteschnik - Understanding Chess Tactics

Seirawan - Winning Chess Strategies

Silman - Silman's Complete Endgame Course

I have heard good things about all of those books, but aren't they a bit advanced (except the <1400 sections of Silman's Endgame Course) for we the 1000's?

Bobby Fischer teaches chess.

Chess in a nut shell.

Gonna have to disagree with you. This is little more than a "basic mates" exercise book, and teaches absolutely nothing about long term strategy, which is what a chess beginner needs most, IMO.

This book is quite possibly the most awesome book ever written.

Silman writting the most awesome book ever??

He must have had lots of help.

Haven't read the book. Silman is more a writer than a chess genious as most of his books are colaborated.

Gonna have to disagree with you.  Long-term strategy is "what a chess beginner needs"?  What is wrong with the long term strategy of checkmate? 

A 1000 rated player will never get better unless he/she gets better at tactics.  I know I was once rated 1000.

So basically any tactics book aimed at your level.

Also underrated is Chessmaster.  The lessons by Josh Waitzkin are worth the price of the program alone.

Capablanca's "Chess Fundamentals"

Nimzovitch's "My System"

Irving Chernev's "Logical Chess Move by Move"

Chernev "Logical Chess Move by Move"

Heisman "Back to Basics - Tactics"

Silman "Complete Endgame Course"

That´s enough for at least 6 months or so. If you really study these three books, your rating will defenitely go up. Chernev´s book is great for the beginner, no matter what some people say about it.

After you finish these books, you should consider:

McDonald "Chess:The Art of Logical Thinking" and

Nunn "Learn Chess Tactics"

Strategy refers to positional chess, mates are tactics. Both are important but Bobby Fischer teaches chess, as far as I know, is not a conclusive work of chess tactics or strategy - it certainly does not live up to Fischer's reputation.

Capablanca chess fundamentals. But for 1000 rated player just play and enjoy the game you will end up learning by yourself

Yes, but don't you need a store of tactical/mating patterns (and basic endgames?) to understand the kinds of positions you need to aim for or avoid in your positions?

The book that turned me from being completely hopeless to being bordering on the mediorce was Chris Ward's "Starting out: Chess tactics and checkmates".  Walks you through the basics of pins, forks and suchlike, with plenty of diagrams and no patronising.  Recomended!