Good Chess books

There are mountain of books out there. What are some of the better books for those starting out and wanting to improve.

There are mountain of books out there. What are some of the better books for those starting out and wanting to improve.

A small hill's worth...but they're very good...

Good Chess Books for Beginners and Beyond...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/good-chess-books-for-beginners-and-beyond

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell

Simple Chess

Very little notation, just some basic principles.

You should spend most of your time doing chess tactics puzzles as well as studying checkmate patterns.

A good starting place for positional chess is Weapons of Chess by Pandolfini. Very little notation. Basic explanations of concepts.

Just to add, its not an absolute beginners book. More suited to developing beginners, say 1000(ish) upwards.

Agreed

Must have books for every beginner:

1. Logical Chess: Move by Move by Irving Chernev. Every beginner should read this once.

2. Silman's Complete Endgame Course by Jeremy Silman. Don't worry about the large size - you just need to read the first two or three chapters, then put it down and come back to it in a year or two.

3. A good book of beginner tactics puzzles that illustrate the common tactics every beginner should know and gives you lots of material to practice spotting them. I'd recommend Back to Basics: Tactics by Dan Heisman, but Chess Tactics for Students by John Bain is almost as good. Read the book once, then go through the puzzles again and again until you can spot the solutions instantly (should take 5-7 times through the whole book.

That, along with playing lots of slow time control games, should be enough to get you up to at least a 1200-1400 rating.

I disagree on Weapons of Chess by Pandolfini. IIRC, it's just a dictionary of chess terms that doesn't really teach you how to use any of those things in your games. But it's also been close to 20 years since I read it, so I may be remembering wrong. But as a beginner at the time, that book really didn't help me at all. 

Chess fundamentals by Capablanca is a good book for beginners

Logical chess move by move.

Silmans Complete Endgame Course.

Are all these books kind of similar? I have looked at some and to me with my limited knowledge it seems that it is reviewing moves in a game.

If that makes any sense, I am trying to find one that says this is why you play this move, not move re1 etc.

not sure I am.making sense in the point I am trying to make lol

I shall try it with the boo,s

books even

And as IMBacon and I recommended, start with Chernev's Logical Chess: Move by Move. There's a reason it's been one of the most highly recommended books for beginners for decades.