Chess book recommendations needed!
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jtmccann15
Aug 25, 2020
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What’s your list of top 5 chess books of all time. Newer the better especially if it’s an opening book.
Here's my five choices . . . I've given away over 110 books from my library . . .
The first one is the best for beginners . . .
The best and important book to actually read & play out . . .
This fischer book is great for everyone . . .
Great book Algebraic notation for quick one page puzzles . .
A complete repertoire for black & white covering E4, D4 openings . . .
Probably best for over 1900 rated players . . .
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Aug 25, 2020
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Thanks man...maybe one day I’ll have a huge collection like you lol. I’ve come across Silmans endgame book a lot in my searching I’m definitely gonna get it.
Aug 26, 2020
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#4
"Understanding the Chess Openings" - Sam collins (might be outdated)
"Silman's endgame course" - Jerry Silman
"Logical Chess, move by move" - Irving Chernev
"Attack with Mikhail Tal" - M. Tal and Iakov Damsky (might have spelled Damsky's name wrong)
opening books
Aug 26, 2020
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#5
Ripley_Osbourne wrote:
Any book with "Fischer" in it, in not fit for beginners. There is just plain nothing for beginners in Fischer's games.
Endgame book for beginners, and strategy books for beginners is good.
Thanks for the advice. Although I do plan to get Fischer’s My 60 memorable games in the near future. And Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess was great I’m sure you weren’t meaning that book isn’t good for beginners. Any other specific recommendations? Beginner books, but Intermediate books would be fine as well.
Aug 26, 2020
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#6
SNUDOO wrote:
"Understanding the Chess Openings" - Sam collins (might be outdated)
"Silman's endgame course" - Jerry Silman
"Logical Chess, move by move" - Irving Chernev
"Attack with Mikhail Tal" - M. Tal and Iakov Damsky (might have spelled Damsky's name wrong)
opening books
K thanks. You’ve talked about Emms before right? I’ve found a couple of his books I’m leaning toward as well
Good Chess Books for Beginners and Beyond...
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/good-chess-books-for-beginners-and-beyond
From a theoretical standpoint, I love Gawain Jones’ books on the Dragon, which provide all the Dragon theory you’ll need and more, as well as a nice introduction with some themes and annotated games. From a non-theoretical standpoint, I really like Ilya Smirin’s KID Warfare, which has like 49 (I think) annotated games, including many of Smirin’s own, many of which are against really strong players like Kramnik, Korchnoi, etc. He shows a lot of spectacular ideas that really help a player understand the KID. Of course you probably need a theory-based book as well (Bologan and Kotronias both have good ones)
Aug 26, 2020
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jtmccann15 wrote:
SNUDOO wrote:
"Understanding the Chess Openings" - Sam collins (might be outdated)
"Silman's endgame course" - Jerry Silman
"Logical Chess, move by move" - Irving Chernev
"Attack with Mikhail Tal" - M. Tal and Iakov Damsky (might have spelled Damsky's name wrong)
opening books
K thanks. You’ve talked about Emms before right? I’ve found a couple of his books I’m leaning toward as well
Emms? No, I Dont have any of those
Aug 26, 2020
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#10
RussBell wrote:
Good Chess Books for Beginners and Beyond...
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/good-chess-books-for-beginners-and-beyond
Yeah that’s a good list I was looking at those yesterday
Aug 26, 2020
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FizzyBand wrote:
From a theoretical standpoint, I love Gawain Jones’ books on the Dragon, which provide all the Dragon theory you’ll need and more, as well as a nice introduction with some themes and annotated games. From a non-theoretical standpoint, I really like Ilya Smirin’s KID Warfare, which has like 49 (I think) annotated games, including many of Smirin’s own, many of which are against really strong players like Kramnik, Korchnoi, etc. He shows a lot of spectacular ideas that really help a player understand the KID. Of course you probably need a theory-based book as well (Bologan and Kotronias both have good ones)
Cool I’ll check em out thanks. Haven’t learned much about KID yet it’s on the list. The very long list 😂
Aug 26, 2020
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#12
"The Inner Game of Chess" - Andrew Soltis
"Bishop V Knight: The Verdict" - Steve Mayer
"Chess Lessons" - Vladimir Popov
"Queen's Gambit Declined" - Matthew Sadler
"The Wonderful Winawer" - Viktor Moskalenko
Aug 26, 2020
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#13
Below 1000 elo, my system by nimzovitch I recommend.
Above 1000 elo, any chess book written by a Russian
Above 1000 elo, any chess book written by a Russian
Aug 27, 2020
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#14
olJoshie1 wrote:
Below 1000 elo, my system by nimzovitch I recommend.
Above 1000 elo, any chess book written by a Russian
Above 1000 elo, any chess book written by a Russian
Lmao I’ll keep that in mind
Aug 27, 2020
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#15
ThrillerFan wrote:
"The Inner Game of Chess" - Andrew Soltis
"Bishop V Knight: The Verdict" - Steve Mayer
"Chess Lessons" - Vladimir Popov
"Queen's Gambit Declined" - Matthew Sadler
"The Wonderful Winawer" - Viktor Moskalenko
Finally some suggestions I haven’t heard of yet thanks a lot. Btw Id ordered Sadlers QGD already it just came in yesterday. Diving into it was a tad harder than I anticipated my annotations skills need improvement it’s been pretty slow going so far. A great opportunity to get better at it obviously
Aug 28, 2020
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First of all you should watch classical games more. Especially I recommend Capablanca, Alekhine, Karpov.
Also I want to leave a link here, where you can find commented classical games by Grandmasters.
https://chessmood.com/course/chess-classical-games
Aug 28, 2020
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mockingbird998 wrote:
First of all you should watch classical games more. Especially I recommend Capablanca, Alekhine, Karpov.
Also I want to leave a link here, where you can find commented classical games by Grandmasters.
K thx for the advice. I watch a lot of agadmator I like him a lot. You think that’s good enough?
Aug 28, 2020
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#19
jtmccann15 wrote:
mockingbird998 wrote:
First of all you should watch classical games more. Especially I recommend Capablanca, Alekhine, Karpov.
Also I want to leave a link here, where you can find commented classical games by Grandmasters.
K thx for the advice. I watch a lot of agadmator I like him a lot. You think that’s good enough?
Watching only classical games no, it's not enough. But it's must-watch.
https://chessmood.com/courses Check out their other courses too. I think these courses can easily replace some books.
Aug 28, 2020
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mockingbird998 wrote:
jtmccann15 wrote:
mockingbird998 wrote:
First of all you should watch classical games more. Especially I recommend Capablanca, Alekhine, Karpov.
Also I want to leave a link here, where you can find commented classical games by Grandmasters.
K thx for the advice. I watch a lot of agadmator I like him a lot. You think that’s good enough?
Watching only classical games no, it's not enough. But it's must-watch.
https://chessmood.com/courses Check out their other courses too. I think these courses can easily replace some books.
Okay great I’ll check it out thanks