I read many of his books and I liked them. but to me (and I've said this a few times in other forums) by far the best book for anyone rated approximately 1300 or UNDER is "the idiots guide to chess" by patrick wolff. his writing style is superb, he explains things in an extremely clear style. this book is appropriate for those who have never played a game OR for those who want to improve many aspects of their game. it is not only for the pure beginner. but anyone over 1300 or so probably would get little out of it and anyone over about 1400 almost certainly will already know the material.
Yasser Seirawan's Winning Series recommended reading sequence
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Seirawan's books all build on each other, so the best follow-up to Play Winning Chess is Winning Chess Tactics.
The best way to study chess is to first try to memorize all variations in Alekhine's defense, like I did, and than move to Catalan and than to Grunfeld Indian. You'll get to 2000+ in no time...and remember, don't mention this to anyone, it's the secret formula
Feb 2, 2009
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Yeah defs tactics is the easiest then I would move to opening then strategie.
I'm in the middle of his ending book and his opening book. After I finish them will it really be nessesary to read his tactic, stratigy, combo book's? Right now I'm going through a book called "Complete Chess Workout" or something like that. It's straight up puzzles, with solutions at the end of the book with sucinct explination and various lines (at the end of the book.) I'v noticed Improvement. Do you think Yesser Sierwan's book on tacktics would still be useful?
Good call. Any recomendations on other books after I finish his series? Also just to reiterate the original posters question what order should I read them in? I'm already a good ways through both winning endgames and winning openings. I believe there are three or four other books Stratigy, Tactics, and Brilliancies? Again are all these books nessesary? (I know you recomended the Tactics book.) I'm not quite sure what the Brilliancies book is about. Another question is: what book would mating pattern recognition (i.e. anastasia's mate, llegal's mate) fall into? Tactics?
Thanks for the reply and sorry for all the questions.
This guy has a good list for a complete comprehensive course.
He suggests L. Polgar's 5334 Problems and Chernev's Logical Chess after Seirawan's Tactics and Strategies.
Thaks that sounds great.
Feb 3, 2009
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my suggested order of seriwan books:
play
tactics
strategy
best games (or whatever that one is called)
endings
openings
It's an excellent series. I would read them in this order: Play, Tactics, Tactics, Tactics, Strategy, Endings, Openings. Tactics are really important! 
freezenyr wrote:
I read many of his books and I liked them. but to me (and I've said this a few times in other forums) by far the best book for anyone rated approximately 1300 or UNDER is "the idiots guide to chess" by patrick wolff. his writing style is superb, he explains things in an extremely clear style. this book is appropriate for those who have never played a game OR for those who want to improve many aspects of their game. it is not only for the pure beginner. but anyone over 1300 or so probably would get little out of it and anyone over about 1400 almost certainly will already know the material.
ouch, I'm getting an enjoyable read out of it. First chess book I've spent more then 5 minutes looking at. It's nice to get some formalization on ideas I trusted my instincts on...pretty sure it's being useful to me :)
Feb 7, 2009
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I agree with freezenyr to 98%!
I am rated arround 17-1800. I am 3/4 through Wolff's "complete Idiots Guide to Chess". I have found it an easy read (great language and way of explaining things) and very usefull covering many areas of chess.
For me this book was superior (even at 3/4) to "Play winning chess" by Seirawan.
any one share free download link of Yasser
Oct 5, 2019
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I really enjoyed the 4 books I have from GM Yasser Seirawan. Easy to read and very informative.
There are seven of them:
http://seagaard.dk/review/eng/bo_beginner/ev_winning_chess.asp?KATID=BO&ID=BO-Beginner
http://www.nystar.com/tamarkin/review1.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627132508/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen173.pdf
https://www.chess.com/article/view/book-review-winning-chess-endings
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708092617/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review560.pdf
Oct 6, 2019
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My experience going through them so far is that play winning chess is an excellent primer for people starting out. Winning chess tactics isn't that great a tactics book and should probably get another. Winning chess strategy is excellent. Winning chess endings is also very good, but can probably use Silman's endgame course if you prefer.
Hello everybody,
I'm currently reading Winning Chess Openings by Yasser Seirawan, but I'm having a hard time understanding it. So I was wondering, should I read, for example, Winning Chess Tactics before Winning Chess Openings? Or some other book so I can better understant the openings? This leads me to another question. Wich is, in your opinion, the correct reading sequence of Seirawan's Winning Series? I have already read the Play Winning Chess book.
Thank you