Next book?

I am going to finish polgars brick in about 1-2 weeks.  Any advice on what book i should pick up next?  Polgars book has realy helped me win a few games with fancy mating combinations.  Anyone have a favorite tactics book that they could recomend?

                  I am just halway through a book:

               CHESS  

                 for the Gifted and Busy

by Grandmaster Lev Alburt and Al Lawrence

It is a short course for beginner to expert and cover all basis.

          Copyright is 2012  USA is under $20.00

I finding it repeats many of the thing I already knew, but it also covers many things I had omitted from other books that I have.

Like most people that buy books I used to skip and jump here and there missing things that I thought I would come back and get later, but I never have really finished one whole book.

The book comes with a url that can go to and add a lot of other on line material, and it is free.

With this book and the new year I made a new years re-solution that I would finish this book completelly.

    It says right on the front cover that I will be an                    EXPERT doesn't it?

My System by my namesake, the great Aron Nimzovitch. It is not a tactics book but I think it would help you by just making you aware of various strategic and tactical motifs if nothing else, and I'm sure you'd get a lot more out of it than just that. If you can pick up the old original edition cheap (first link) go ahead unless you can't deal with English Notation, the new and improved edition is in AN. (2nd link)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000VBI36G/ref=sr_1_2_up_1_main_olp?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1326526293&sr=1-2&condition=used

http://www.amazon.com/My-System-Totally-Principles-Classics/dp/9197600539/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1326526293&sr=1-1

do you want to learn about attacking, pawn play, openings, endgame, middlegame, more tactics??? my favorite books are annotated game collections because they teach everything

edit: oh i see you said tactics book, my bad. dan heisman back to the basics tactics gets good reviews and he suggests nunn's learn chess tactics after his book. a book i want to try is 1000 checkmate combinations by victor henkin. amazon says "khenkin"

I prefer chesstempo.com for tactics over a book.

I prefer CT-Art over chesstempo. While it's not free, there is a good mix of easier pattern building tactics and harder problems which will build calculation ability.

But why not try a book on positional play this time?

CT-ART is a good option.  The last 200 problems are very challenging.  ChessOK just released a version is an enhanced interface and additional material - endgames if I remember correctly.

Just buying a book is not the magic move chess players make. It takes much more than that.

Here is a post that I wrote about that.

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/chess-books-will-they-improve-you-or-me