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Apr 16, 2013
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#63
According to Bobby Fischer the best chess book ever written was " Chess Fundamentals", by Capablanca. The purpose of a instructive chess book should be to teach the student how to think,analyse, visualize, on his/her own. To understand . In my view the best way to learn tactics is to work through combination & puzzle books. To do is to learn. i.e., 1001 chess combinations by Fred Reinfeld, Polgars 5334, Nunn,Dvoretsky, ....etc. Best Strategy books depends on your present rating. Beginner- Complete Idiots Guide by Partick Wolff. Intermediate- Modern chess Strategy by Ludek Pachmann, Euwe & Kramer middlegame,Reasses your Chess workbook by Silman, Yusupow series, Chess game collection books annotated by the grandmaster him/herself i.e., Tal, Botvinnik, Anand, .....etc. Advanced- Dvoretsky series. A new chess book that is absolutely outsanding for developing ACCURATE calculation/visualization skills is the soon to be published " The grand art of Chess Calculation" by William Friend. This exquisite book (386pages) uses step by step methodology and takes the student gradually from visualising 1 move(2 half moves) to 10 moves(20 half moves) ahead. It deserves a highest recommendation.
Talfan123 wrote:
A new chess book that is absolutely outsanding for developing ACCURATE calculation/visualization skills is the soon to be published " The grand art of Chess Calculation" by William Friend. This exquisite book (386pages) uses step by step methodology and takes the student gradually from visualising 1 move(2 half moves) to 10 moves(20 half moves) ahead. It deserves a highest recommendation.
Can you tell us a bit more about this book? How we will know when/where it is published, for example.
you don't take this self advertisement for serious, do you?
Talfan123 wrote:
According to Bobby Fischer the best chess book ever written was " Chess Fundamentals", by Capablanca. The purpose of a instructive chess book should be to teach the student how to think,analyse, visualize, on his/her own. To understand . In my view the best way to learn tactics is to work through combination & puzzle books. To do is to learn. i.e., 1001 chess combinations by Fred Reinfeld, Polgars 5334, Nunn,Dvoretsky, ....etc. Best Strategy books depends on your present rating. Beginner- Complete Idiots Guide by Partick Wolff. Intermediate- Modern chess Strategy by Ludek Pachmann, Euwe & Kramer middlegame,Reasses your Chess workbook by Silman, Yusupow series, Chess game collection books annotated by the grandmaster him/herself i.e., Tal, Botvinnik, Anand, .....etc. Advanced- Dvoretsky series. A new chess book that is absolutely outsanding for developing ACCURATE calculation/visualization skills is the soon to be published " The grand art of Chess Calculation" by William Friend. This exquisite book (386pages) uses step by step methodology and takes the student gradually from visualising 1 move(2 half moves) to 10 moves(20 half moves) ahead. It deserves a highest recommendation.
thanks for the info william.
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Smart chip from Saint Petersburg.
duck_and_cover wrote:
you don't take this self advertisement for serious, do you?
Talfan123 = William Friend?
check out talfan's profile...he joined april 16 and his first post is above.
He is William Friend! Good call.
Exquisitely underhand. 
Daeth!
Apr 16, 2013
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#74
I like and have most of the mentioned books. What about the book spockman has on here? That seems worth of the list.
I go to Amazon.com and sometimes they show some details on the book using a preview of Table of Contents and etc. This has helped me know what books not to buy. Sadly not closer to which should be my next book.
Apr 16, 2013
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#76
I think if you thoroughly study these ten, you will have the skills to become a master.
http://chessskill.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-small-library.html
Apr 16, 2013
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#77
Three years have passed, but I'd still include many of the same books:
David Bronstein. The Sorceror's Apprentice.
Max Euwe. Judgment and Planning in Chess.
Bobby Fischer. My 60 Memorable Games.
Efim Geller. The Application of Chess Theory.
Garry Kasparov. Kasparov on Kasparov 1973-1985.
Paul Keres. Practical Chess Endings.
Alexander Kotov and Paul Keres. The Art of the Middlegame.
Aron Nimzowitsch. My System.
Mikhail Tal and Yakov Damsky. Attack with Mikhail Tal.
Mikhail Tal. The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal.
The Game of Chess-Tarrasch
Laskers Manual of Chess-Lasker
Masters of the Chessboard-Reti
Modern Ideas in Chess-Reti
Zurich 1953-Bronstein
Capablancas Best Games-Golombeck
Silmans Complete Endgame Course-Silman
How to Open a Chess Game-various
The Middlegame vols. 1&2-Euwe, Kramer
Botvinniks Complete Games vols. 1,2,3
Apr 17, 2013
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#80
ZaidejasChEgis wrote:
rigamagician wrote:
Three years have passed, but I'd still include many of the same books:
David Bronstein. The Sorceror's Apprentice.
Max Euwe. Judgment and Planning in Chess.
Bobby Fischer. My 60 Memorable Games.
Efim Geller. The Application of Chess Theory.
Garry Kasparov. Kasparov on Kasparov 1973-1985.
Paul Keres. Practical Chess Endings.
Alexander Kotov and Paul Keres. The Art of the Middlegame.
Aron Nimzowitsch. My System.
Mikhail Tal and Yakov Damsky. Attack with Mikhail Tal.
Mikhail Tal. The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal.
no Shirov's books?
I do like Shirov's Fire on Board I & II and some of his DVDs. It's hard to include everything in just 10 books.
THE BEST BOOK EVER IS: TALS WINNING CHESS COMBINATIONS, REALLY AMAZING BOOK.
Quality wise I don't belive there is a book quite like it I treat my copy at home like gold there's not a scratch on it.