Every books are good
Chess Books For 1800 rated player
Sort:
Dec 7, 2021
0
#3
RaufUsSabid7 wrote:
Every books are good
no like there must be some really good books
Currently I am reading one. Chess tactics for Champions by Polger recommended by my coach. However silmon's book on imbalance is good one
Dec 7, 2021
0
#6
Fayez58 wrote:
Currently I am reading one. Chess tactics for Champions by Polger recommended by my coach. However silmon's book on imbalance is good one
ok
ActionVolt wrote:
plz suggest some good chess booKS!
of which type?
Dec 7, 2021
0
#8
SamPokemon wrote:
ActionVolt wrote:
plz suggest some good chess booKS!
of which type?
middlegame
Dec 8, 2021
0
#9
ActionVolt wrote:
plz suggest some good chess booKS!
Chess structures: a grandmaster guide
Amateur to IM
How to become a Candidate master
Good Chess Books for Beginners and Beyond...
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/good-chess-books-for-beginners-and-beyond
Dec 8, 2021
0
#13
B1ZMARK wrote:
The woodpecker method
Anything by Yusupov or Aagard
+1 reading Aagard's Positional Chess rn and its quite interesting
Dec 8, 2021
0
#14
- Aron Nimzowitsch - My System & Chess Praxis
- Jonathan Hawkins - Amateur to IM
- Jeremy Silman's Complete Book of Chess Strategy
- Burgess, Nunn and Emms - The World's Greatest Chess Games
- Lev Alburt's Chess Training Pocket Book
- Mikhail Tal - Botvinnik v Tal 1960
- Max Euwe - Judgement and Planning in Chess
- Dan Heisman - A Guide to Chess Improvement
- Dan Heisman - The Improving Chess Thinker
Dec 8, 2021
0
#15
Effectively there are 5 types of study or "food groups":
- Tactics
- Positional play
- Endings
- Openings
- Reviewing games
My recommended reading list:
- Woodpecker method - tactics covered.
- Mastering Chess Strategy - positional play covered.
- 100 endgames - endings partially covered
- Openings - don't study them unless you have a problem from one of your games
- Game review - not covered by books
Get them on Chessable and do the repetitive learning. At the end you'll know 90 endgames, 900 game changing combinations played by or against world champions, and probably 600 game changing positional plans from master games. If my experience with the Woodpecker method is anything to go by, the game will start to feel much easier.
Try to get your puzzle rush survival score to 50.
Review your own games at least with an engine within a week.
Be careful with KevinOSh's list - My System is notorious for being hard to internalise and 2 game collections is one too many but all may be excellent. He's also 100 points higher elo than me...:-)
Dec 8, 2021
0
#16
I would recommend the following for an 1800 - By the time you finish these 8 books if you take them seriously (probably a 2-3 year project), you'll be ready for even further advanced books:
1 - Bishop V Knight: The Verdict
2 - Forcing Chess Moves
3 - The Secret Life of Bad Bishops
4 - Techniques of Positional Play
5 - Improve Your Chess Pattern Recognition
6 - Train Your Chess Pattern Recognition
7 - Chess Lessons (Author Vladimir Popov)
8 - Mating the Castled King
Dec 9, 2021
0
#17
Was #4 by Aagard @ThrillerFan? I'm reading one book on positional chess by him but not sure if it had that title...
Dec 9, 2021
0
#18
It looks like ThrillerFan is referring to https://forwardchess.com/product/techniques-of-positional-play (not available on chessable tho).
Authors are Terekhin, Keilhack and Bronznik.
plz suggest some good chess booKS!