Next book after Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess?
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The answers to OP's query are here...
Good Chess Books for Beginners and Beyond...
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/good-chess-books-for-beginners-and-beyond
Of course it is up to the player to decide which and how many of the recommended books to read. It is a matter of what one wants to learn and how deeply one wants to pursue learning it. I have simply provided a list of possibilities with occasional suggestions to help guide the reader in the process of book selection. I own hundreds of chess books (I've been collecting for three decades) and am very familiar with every book that I have recommended in my lists - there are several articles containing book suggestions in my blog. These articles and book recommendations are the result of years of extensive, time consuming research. I am confident that all of the recommended books are useful, and more importantly, instructive, in various degrees, for their intended purpose.
@RussBell I was looking for a basic chess opening book. I read your blog/list and bought Discovering Chess Openings by John Emms. I am one who is grateful for your list. I understand what @IIama45 was saying about reading 4, 5, 6, etc books, but I agree with you about it being up to the person in terms of how many books they want to read. I will definitely not read most of the books you recommended. I really just don't need that much info. I will only read two other books you recommended and that will be enough for me to get where I want to go. Anyhow, I appreciate you and your blog.
@MCH818 -
Thank you for the kind words. I appreciate your comments.
My attitude in choosing books for my lists is that it is better to suggest too many than too few. I simply leave it up to the reader to make their own choices. And it got to the point while creating the list that I kept finding good books that deserved to be on the list no less than books that were already on the list. So the list grew as I continued to identify excellent, very instructive books.
Of course I understand that no one is about to attempt to read all or even a high percentage of the books in my list. That is not practical, nor is it the point of the list. Browse it, if you see something of interest, check it out. If not, no harm, no foul.
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@llama45 -
Not to worry. You're entitled to your perspective, particularly if it is honest and intended to be helpful. In fact this is the spirit of my book lists.
When I make a recommendation to read book X and then follow up with book Y, etc. it is simply that based on my familiarity with both books I feel this would be the optimum order (as opposed to reading Y first followed by X) in which to read them, assuming one might be interested in reading them both. In other words, I'm recommending not only books to read/study, but also, in some instances, what I consider to be a preferred order in which to read them, based on my knowledge of their content.
So my recommendations should be taken as if you choose to read a selection of books on a specific topic, say for example positional-strategic chess, then here is the order in which I suggest they be studied. Of course, if you prefer to read Y first and skip X altogether, then by all means go ahead and feel free to ignore my (good) advice.
In the case of my chess book recommendations, you may feel that that there is little point in recommending any beginner book be read before any other beginner book. But this is not necessarily true. For example Play Winning Chess and Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to Chess are both beginner books. Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide is an introductory, very broad overview of all facets, aspects of chess (the endgame is only superficially discussed) which I would recommend every beginner become exposed to as soon as possible. I would not recommend Seirawan's Play Winning Chess be read as a first chess book because it is concerned with the positional-strategic concepts of Force, Time, Space and Pawn Structure. I don't believe that such concepts should be the initial topics for one new to chess be exposed to.
A beginning player should first be introduced to fundamental chess concepts and principles with an emphasis on basic tactics prior to being exposed to positional-strategic concepts in isolation. In my list I present books that deal primarily with tactical elements of chess first and foremost. Within the topic of tactics, I then suggest those books in the order of easier, most elementary to more complex tactics to follow.
This is the kind of thinking that went into my recommendations for the order in which to read all of the books in my list. That is, my deep appreciation of the content of each book and how it would best fit into a more easily absorbed progression, for the assumed skill and knowledge level of the intended audience.
On the other hand, there is no compulsion to follow any of my recommendations or advice. And that's ok too. In that case, whichever book tickles your fancy, go for it!
Bobby Fischer Teaches chess has been hiding in my attic for years from a family member who gave it to me. I'm doing all of the tactics in the book and I'm getting very comfortable with bank rank mates. I also picked up understanding chess move by move by John Nunn but Im not a fan of the style of the book.
Are there any recommendations for next book to improve my chess game without it being too advanced?