There have been a few beginners books posts over the past day or so, have a scroll through the beginners forum. Two I recommend are Chess Tactics for Students by Bains which teaches tactics and therefore how to solve puzzles. Logical Chess by Chernev which is a collection of fully annotated GM games aimed at beginners and early intermediates that teaches important principles.
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MarkGrubb wrote:
There have been a few beginners books posts over the past day or so, have a scroll through the beginners forum. Two I recommend are Chess Tactics for Students by Bains which teaches tactics and therefore how to solve puzzles. Logical Chess by Chernev which is a collection of fully annotated GM games aimed at beginners and early intermediates that teaches important principles.
I'll have to take a look. Thanks!
Dec 15, 2020
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On a casual level, I got a lot out of Pandolfini’s “Chess Openings: Traps ad Zaps”. Make sure you get the original, the follow up sequel wasn’t nearly as good.
Good Chess Books for Beginners and Beyond...
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/good-chess-books-for-beginners-and-beyond
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MarkGrubb wrote:
There have been a few beginners books posts over the past day or so, have a scroll through the beginners forum. Two I recommend are Chess Tactics for Students by Bains which teaches tactics and therefore how to solve puzzles. Logical Chess by Chernev which is a collection of fully annotated GM games aimed at beginners and early intermediates that teaches important principles.
Nitpicking - Bain. It's a good tactics workbook. Logical Chess Move By Move is good as well.
Dec 15, 2020
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There are many great chess books out there for beginners (and a few absolute stinkers). The best book is one that you can relate to and is easy to read. One of the best I have found for beginners and the one I most relied on when I resumed chess a few years ago (I bought about 10 books), was Play Winning Chess by GM Yasser Seirawan.
The reason I enjoyed this book so much was because of his self-deprecating, humorous writing style. Pretty much all beginners' books are going to cover the same thing, so it's important to enjoy the book you're reading. Some of this "stuff" can be dry. Yasser makes it fun and enjoyable. I learn much more when having fun.
A few other of his books to consider after Play Winning Chess, are Winning Chess Openings, Winning Chess Tactics and Winning Chess Strategies. The openings book is a great book for beginners. The other two can wait until you have a bit of experience and have become familiar with the basics of the game and how the pieces move.
Good luck. By the way, Yasser has some great videos on You Tube for all levels of experience. Here's one for absolute beginners. (It's also pretty funny, he explains how he accepted a "loss" in one of his first tournaments even though it wasn't checkmate!!) Audio improves a few minutes in. If you like the video, you'll love the books.
Hi everyone. I recently discovered Chess. I find it to be a ton of fun, and it creates a new way to think! Right now, I am probably around 500ish, but I want to get better. Does anyone have any good reading material for beginners that could potentially help me improve?