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I am new. any books I should read?
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Aizen89 wrote:
Thank you. I will try to play slower games but I like the excitement of the fast ones thanks I should re think my play
Anything by Jeremy Silman will likely be good. That said, you should focus on learning from your mistakes. For instance, if you play a game, look at what's going wrong:
Here's your latest game:
There are dozens of mistakes here, and it would take a long time to go through them, but let's just take the very first big mistake: why did you play 3... Bf5? After 3. Nc3, you need to look at how White's pieces move and what the reasoning is behind said move. Looking at it, you will find that your pawn on d5 is now under attack twice, but only defended once (by your Queen). Instead of 3... Bf5, which only drops the pawn if White wants it, consider a supporting move like 3... e6 (so you now have that defending the pawn) or playing 3... d4 or playing 3... dxc4 or playing 3... Nf6. What does each of these moves do? How do they set up your position for the rest of the game? If you don't know, btw, 3... d4 is the best move.
Also, one other very important thing that you should drill in your head: DON'T PLAY FAST TIME CONTROLS AND EXPECT TO GET BETTER!!! Yes, you can use fast time controls to practice being in time pressure and that's fine, but if that's a big part of your play, you're wasting time. Instead, the slowest games you should be playing are G-10, and something like G-15 is even better.
Aizen89 wrote:
Anything by Jeremy Silman will likely be good. ...
"How to Reassess Your Chess, 4th Edition was designed for players in the 1400 to 2100 range." - IM Jeremy Silman (2010)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708095832/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review769.pdf
https://www.silmanjamespress.com/shop/chess/how-to-reassess-your-chess-4th-edition/
https://web.archive.org/web/20140626180930/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/heisman06.pdf
Might want to consider Amateur's Mind by Jeremy Silman.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708094419/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/ammind.pdf
https://www.silmanjamespress.com/shop/chess/amateurs-mind-the-2nd-edition/
WackChiRain wrote:
Best book for beginners in my opinion is "Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess." Read that through 2 or 3 times for starters. After that... check out the authors Silman and Seirawan as they have lots of resources for beginners that I always found good. Another one is Lev Alburt who has a very good series of books for starters. And of course play lots of slow games and avoid fast time controls.
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess was the most help of any book for me. I have read it a couple of times a few years apart and it always spiffs up my game just a little. Bobby was a champ.
I like the excitement of the fast ones
yeah thats a problem most of us have 
try to play some long games, but also play some short games you need to enjoy yourself too and keep doing tactics puzzles every day. its better to not do many but every day than 2 hours but once a month. i see you got diamond so you should check out the tacticstrainer on chessdotcom
Naa, just kidding, Jeremy Silman’s books are great, especially how to reasses your chess editions, maybe Siliman’s complete endgame course or Bobby Fischer teaches chess.
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Squidward18Q wrote:
k3yp4y wrote:
thank you everyone. I will play everyday.
War and Peace is a really good book. Try it out.
I owned it once but now it is gone with the wind
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Pikelemi wrote:
Squidward18Q wrote:
k3yp4y wrote:
thank you everyone. I will play everyday.
War and Peace is a really good book. Try it out.
I owned it once but now it is gone with the wind
That thing is so heavy it must have been pretty windy...
thank you
Joey9999 wrote:
... maybe Siliman’s complete endgame course or ...
http://theweekinchess.com/john-watson-reviews/theres-an-end-to-it-all
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708103149/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review594.pdf
https://www.silmanjamespress.com/shop/chess/silmans-complete-endgame-course/
I'd deffinitely recommend some of the interactive books
https://www.chessable.com/chess-structures-a-grandmaster-guide/course/14540/
https://www.chessable.com/knights-on-the-attack/course/16475/
"... Chess structures: A Grandmaster Guide is not a primer of positional play; for that, try Michael Stean's Simple Chess, Herman Grooten's Chess Strategy for Club Players, or Silman's ... How to Reassess Your Chess. Instead, you might think of Chess Structures as positional chess 'finishing school.' ..." - John Hartmann
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/chess-structures-a-grandmaster-guide/
https://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/Flores_Rios_Chess_Structures-excerpt.pdf
Jul 3, 2019
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BusyNight wrote:
Avetik_ChessMood wrote:
Check out what Grandmasters recommend
https://chessmood.com/we-recommend
this looks like very good advice! but its written by GMS so i guess it makes sence lol. I did notice no books on openings but i guess thats not important now anyway
About openings it depends what do you play, e4 or d4, is your style aggressive or positional?
Also as theory grows fast, I believe openings books are getting very old.
So in chessmood I create video courses about openings and edit +add new videos each time, there something happens in the theory.
At your rating level, you need to learn basic checkmates and elementary tactics. Two old books by Bruce Pandolfini fit the bill:
Beginning Chess (300 exercises with ten pieces or fewer)
Pandolfini's Endgame Course (begins with basic checkmates and then moves on to simple endgames)
Also, before you read anything else, consider Jose Capablanca, Chess Fundamentals.
"... 'Chess Fundamentals' ... does not deal so minutely as this book will with the things that beginners need to know. ..." - from Capablanca's A Primer of Chess
"... For let’s make no mistake, what ground Capablanca covers, he covers well. I enjoyed reading Capablanca’s presentation of even well-worn and standard positions. ...
Still, when compared with other instructional books for beginners and intermediate players, Capablanca’s Chess Fundamentals would not be my first choice. Other books cover the same or similar ground with a less confusing structure and more thoroughness. The following works come to mind as equal or in some ways superior: Lasker’s Common Sense in Chess; Znosko-Borovsky’s series of books; and Edward Lasker’s Chess Strategy. Later works that equal or surpass Chess Fundamentals would include Reuben Fine’s Chess the Easy Way and any number of Horowitz tomes.
Capablanca’s work has historical interest and value, of course, and for that reason alone belongs in any chess lover’s library. But there are better instructional books on the market. Certainly the works of Seirawan, Silman, Pandolfini, Polgar, Alburt, etc. are more accessible, speak a more modern idiom, and utilize advances in chess teaching and general pedagogy, etc. ..." - David Kaufman (2007)
https://web.archive.org/web/20131010102057/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review564.pdf
GM Avetik_ChessMood wrote:
… as theory grows fast, I believe openings books are getting very old. ...
For a player below 1000, does it make much sense to be very concerned about growing chess opening theory? Is there anything that needs to be changed in a book like Discovering Chess Openings?
"... For beginning players, [Discovering Chess Openings] will offer an opportunity to start out on the right foot and really get a feel for what is happening on the board. ..." - FM Carsten Hansen (2006)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627114655/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen91.pdf
kindaspongey wrote:
"... 'Chess Fundamentals' ... does not deal so minutely as this book will with the things that beginners need to know. ..." - from Capablanca's A Primer of Chess
I'm sure that's fine too. Chess Fundamentals is sometimes easier to find. Both books are in print, updated with algebraic notation. Some newer editions have added information of dubious value.
I've taught hundreds of beginners over the past twenty years. What I appreciate most about Capablanca's Chess Fundamentals is the manner in which he sequences the material--checkmates, endings, tactics, openings, repeat, ... whole games. That's the process I use with my students. It works.
The marginalia in my copy highlights some of the errors that I've found as I read it with a chess board in front of me.
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Good Chess Books for Beginners and Beyond...
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/good-chess-books-for-beginners-and-beyond
also...
Play mostly longer time controls, including "daily" chess, so you have time to think about what you should be doing - blitz and bullet chess may be fun, but at this stage of your development they will do little to promote your rapid improvement or your understanding of how to play correctly.....
https://www.chess.com/article/view/longer-time-controls-are-more-instructive
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627052239/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/heisman16.pdf
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/how-blitz-and-bullet-rotted-my-brain-don-t-let-it-rot-yours