input needed: Best tactics book for improvement

I wasn't making fun of you when I posted the request for a chess book, I really do have it. Just making sure you didn't take it the wrong way. If you want me to prove it, just look at my rating.

thanks for the input ryan :)

Some suggestions (mostly too advanced for me so try to look for your self first!): (The older books are not computerchecked of course, so part of the training is to do the proof reading; finding more than one solution, refuting solutions and so forth...) --Martin Weteschnik's New revised edition (as metioned by others). --Chess Exam and Training Guide: Tactics by Igor Khmelnitsky (to see if you have it all covered) --Invisible Chess Moves- Discover Your Blind Spots By Yochanan Afek and Emmanuel Neiman --Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games by Laszlo Polgar --John Nunn's Chess Puzzle Book, New Enlarged Edition (best ever according to one local IM) --Tactical Targets in Chess, Volume 1 - Getting a Decisive Material Advantage By Pongo --Targets in Chess, Volume 2 - Mate Combinations By Pongo (These two are used daily by IM with rating 2758 on tactics trainer.) --Test your chess IQ - Grandmaster challenge by August Livshitz (step down in the series if you want someting a bit easier) --The ChessCafe Puzzle Book - Test and Improve Your Tactical Vision [and maybe: --Excelling at Combinational Play by Jacob Aagaard --Excelling at Chess Calculation by Jacob Aagaard --Chess Tactics for Advanced Players (Averbakh) --School of Chess Excellence 2 - Tactical Play by Mark Dvoretsky] Eager to hear your opinion on A Course in Chess Tactics by Bojkov and Georgiev! It was the first one that popped into my mind when I read your post. Good luck, and please share experiences with any books; good or bad. (Does anyone know why all spaces disapeared? - bug in the ChessCom software or Browser problem?)

And a personal tip regarding training with tactic trainer: What about getting the success rate much better and see what rating you can manage. Treat every position as if it was a tournament game. Then you would like closer to 100%?

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First of all a tactics rating means crap.  Secondly get CT-Art 3 and go through the problems.  Excellent software.

Welcome! Anytime! :)

Regarding CT-ART 3 as mentioned by others: It has been expanded to CT-ART 4 with about 1,000 extra exercises and newer interface. There are pros and cons regarding new/old interface(!) The positions in CT-ART 3 is from the book --Combinative motifs by Maxim Blokh if you prefer them on paper.

And sorry, forgot this one!: -- PERFECT YOUR CHESS by Andrei Volokitin & Vladimir Grabinsky

I've gotten up to 2750 on tactics trainer. Im going over "Forcing Chess Moves" by Charles Hertan right now, Im pretty sure it would benefit you as well. However a book that would for sure benefit you, and one I want to buy, is http://www.amazon.com/School-Chess-Excellence-Tactical-Play/dp/328300417X/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_T1?ie=UTF8&coliid=I21LXB7A7225LI&colid=1TXIIC98HTOFF School of Chess Excellence: Tactical Play by Mark Dvoretsky.

If you believe yourself in tactics, i would suggest John Nunn's puzzle book, Imagination in chess, Perfect your chess, Tactical Play by dvorestsky. I picked all of them from suggested books (i have seen them most) And i can gurantee you will have hard time solving these books. ( I know because before i gave up chess 2-3 years ago i had around 2600 rating in TT here but having hard time solving puzzles in these books. Actually i just looked on John's Puzzle book and i dont think i can calculate anything beyond the simplest ones)

I was about to forget but seen the book next to John Nunn's book, John Emm's The most amazing chess moves of all time is also excellent book as well. If you want a bit easier for start, i would advice Christian Kongsted's Beat the grandmasters.

Shuttlechess your rating is higher then most of the peple who are making suggestions, you would know better then most of us.

I don't know about you guys but when I do Tactics puzzles on tactics trainer I don't feel like I spot things as well as I do in games. 

Encyclopedia of Chess Combinations

Chess Middlegames (Laszlo Polgar)

encyclopedia of chess combinations (fourth edition) 

perfect your chess by volokitin 

Grandmaster preparation: calculation by jacob aagaard 

Beat The Grandmaster by Kongsted.

Forcing Chess Move

Imagination in Chess

to the OP you've come a long way, let's keep it up

Thanks, shuttlechess92 for this tips of books and topic.

But Now i am working for latest version of encyclopedia of chess combination 5 This is Nice book and i am also giving a link for free download.

http://libgen.io/ads.php?md5=E7B44451F6A8AE4490C1D649B3C6A07D

Whats a chess tactic 

Check Improve Your Chess Tactics available in Chessable and other books there.

The cool thing is the possibility to review the exercises using spaced repetition. Things you get right you will see more rarely, the puzzles that you get wrong you have to repeat soon. With this system you will know all tactics.

If you are also looking for opening repertoires and endgames you will find very good stuff there. Recently a repertoire based on 1.e4 for white was released by Logozar, one of the best books I ever saw. Also the books by GM Colovic are great ( a complete repertoire against everything but 1.e4, based on the QGD).

By the way, they have a 30 days guarantee, so it is risk free. There is a video by John Bartholomew reviewing the book on tactics.
Good luck!

Logozar trained tactics in Chessable and got very good. He was recently over 3500 in tactics in chess.com.