Simple Chess by Stean

Is this the first book to help you understand positional chess. I am lost on the subject.

RR, you always help me. Thank you. There is a looooong group of posts on this sight which is truly over my head.

Do you recommend any books? Need to have in kindle cause of eye problem.

That is all right . :)

Simple Chess may be a bit advanced for you. It assumes the reader is of at least 1800 in strength, so he does not go over basic concepts but right into the meat of positional play.

You may want to start with Test Your Positional Play (Ponzetto/Bellin). The first few chapters explains the basics of positional play and then the rest of the book is a test with multiple choices on which move you think is best. Only one move is correct, and while the others look good, there is a tactical flaw in each enough for that move to fall apart soon. I think this is a great book for starting out with positional understanding while keeping your tactical eye exercised. 

How about the book by Dan Heismann on positional chess ? Would that be a good introduction as well ?

I have not read the Dan Heisman book on positional chess, so I could not tell you my opinion on this.

Michael Stean's book is a work of genius. In simple and straightforward fashion he explains the basic mechanics of positional play. I love the book. It was one of the first I read. I would say 1500+ players will benefit from it.

I actually think the Ponzetto/Bellin book is more advanced (this is 1800+ stuff) as one has to think about the positions and some familiarity with the basics of positional play is expected.

However, I think Chernev's old classic "The Most Instructive Games of Chess" is probably the best way to start learning positional chess.

Otherwise, tactical play and study is a must for any beginner. You wont understand positional play if your tactics are below 1500 level. 

How about chess strategy for Club players by Herman Grooten - can it be used as an introduction to positional chess ? Maybe some DVD or training softwares as well for introduction ?

That is very helpful, Mehulgohil. Thank you. I started reading Stean a while ago and didn't understand it, which frustrated me given how people rave about it. I'll stick with Chernev for a while. 

According to your ratings you should focur more on tactics as you can see here http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/improvement-in-chess-according-to-elo

What is the easiest book on positional chess? In Kindle please.

I still stand by the Ponzetto/Bellin book. At the very least, when you look up the answers in the tests it will give an individual explanation of each choice - why one was correct and the other two were wrong.

The first chapters do give an introduction to positional play, so that should give at least some hint on what to look for during the tests.

What about " a chess course for post beginners. A course in positional training" by solovsky

Srokovski and it is in kindle.

An introduction?  No.  It's quite a bit advanced for it just to be an introduction.  I firmly believe that the best introduction to positional chess is annotated master games by writers such as McDonald, Chernev and Giddins.

Instead of Simple Chess which is too advanced For me now , what about reading Srokovski's .A Course for Post Beginners: a Course in Positional Training? It is written for Kindle

Does anyone have the book

book by Srokovski'? I read about it and it seems perfect for me who is not strong enough to tackle Simple Chess yet. What do you all think?

Holy crap.  I just realized you are 400 on Tactics Trainer.  The last thing you need to be doing is finding a book on positional chess.  Tactics are the language of chess.  If you don't speak the language, you won't understand anything about it.

That said, a good book on "positional chess" is Chernev's Logical Chess: Move by Move.  It's a great book.  Annotated master games by authors like Chernev, Giddins and Mcdonald are a great way to learn positional chess.  But it's all for naught without a proper foundation.

Pick up Bain's Chess Tactics for Students and drill those problems over and over until you can do 85% of them in 15 seconds or less (NM Heisman method).  Yes that means repeating them and "memorizing" the patterns. Don't ask for any books about any other subject matter until you can do that.

Tactics are the "you must be this tall to ride this ride" of chess.

In all fairness to me, my first iPad made me "punch" several times on Tactic Trainer . But my game,

Rating has fallen from 600 to 340 . I am working on a tactics program on kindle as fast as I can. So that book will be too premature for me since I should not even be thinking about positional chess. Still I want it!