Advice me a good book to improve myself in chess
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess by GM Wolf.
So many books ? what do you want to learn ?
keep playing it takes a life time !
Anything by Silman would be a good choice
Mar 2, 2018
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#8
Silman's reassess your chess would good for you in strategy. For overall improvement buy aagard or dvoretsky books, they are cheap and offered good value for price.
I'm reading logical chess move by move and learning a lot
Good Chess Books for Beginners and Beyond...
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/good-chess-books-for-beginners-and-beyond
Possibly of interest:
Simple Attacking Plans by Fred Wilson (2012)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708090402/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review874.pdf
http://dev.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Simple-Attacking-Plans-77p3731.htm
Logical Chess: Move by Move by Irving Chernev (1957)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708104437/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/logichess.pdf
The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played by Irving Chernev (1965)
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/most-instructive-games-of-chess-ever-played/
Winning Chess by Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld (1948)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708093415/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review919.pdf
Back to Basics: Tactics by Dan Heisman (2007)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708233537/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review585.pdf
https://www.chess.com/article/view/book-review-back-to-basics-tactics
Discovering Chess Openings by GM John Emms (2006)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627114655/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen91.pdf
Openings for Amateurs by Pete Tamburro (2014)
http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/05/review-of-pete-tamburros-openings-for.html
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/openings-for-amateurs/
https://www.mongoosepress.com/catalog/excerpts/openings_amateurs.pdf
Chess Endgames for Kids by Karsten Müller (2015)
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/chess-endgames-for-kids/
http://www.gambitbooks.com/pdfs/Chess_Endgames_for_Kids.pdf
A Guide to Chess Improvement by Dan Heisman (2010)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708105628/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review781.pdf
Studying Chess Made Easy by Andrew Soltis
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708090448/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review750.pdf
Seirawan stuff:
http://seagaard.dk/review/eng/bo_beginner/ev_winning_chess.asp?KATID=BO&ID=BO-Beginner
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708092617/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review560.pdf
https://www.chess.com/article/view/book-review-winning-chess-endings
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627132508/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen173.pdf
http://www.nystar.com/tamarkin/review1.htm
WisdomIsAge wrote:
jambyvedar wrote:
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess by GM Wolf.
hahaha
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708110052/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review587.pdf
In a previous discussion, someone reported a passage from Pawn Power in Chess by Kmoch: "The lengthening of the rearspan is often favorable, inasmuch as the expansion of territory behind the pawn increases the freedom of the pieces. By the same token, the shortening of the frontspan limits the freedom of the opposing pieces."
I'm not exactly a big fan of that sort of writing, but there nevertheless seems to be a widespread opinion that the Kmoch book is worthwhile.
"... [Pawn Power in Chess] should be on everyone's list [of favourites]. ..." - GM Nigel Davies (2010)
Another point of view:
"... Hans Kmoch’s Pawn Power in Chess is considered a classic by many. Nonetheless, most people found it daunting and confusing, given its weird terminology. Also the scope of the book was more theoretical than practical; not an easy book to read and study with. ... must be frustrating to read and study from for those rated below 1700. ..." - Stephen Ham (2000)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708110136/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review249.pdf
Mar 2, 2018
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#16
Too pedantic; tao te ching shifts your entire paradigm of chess understanding.
Aagard
http://www.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/Grandmaster-Preparation-Calculation-77p3705.htm
https://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/CALCULATION-excerpt.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708091636/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review869.pdf
https://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/PositionalPlay-excerpt.pdf
https://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/StrategicPlay-excerpt.pdf
https://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/Attack&Defence-excerpt.pdf
https://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/EndgamePlay-excerpt.pdf
Dvoretsky
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708085131/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review303.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708233203/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review333.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708110249/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review578.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708085153/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review693.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708103913/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review748.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708233815/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review399.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708234012/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review656.pdf
Amateur's Mind by Jeremy Silman
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708094419/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/ammind.pdf
How to Reassess Your Chess (4th ed.) by Jeremy Silman
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708095832/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review769.pdf
