Fundamental chess patterns (50 or 100 or 300 or 500 etc.)

Hello, as I am heartly convinved about the importance of pattern recognition in chess I am looking for a comprehensive list of the most important position (of whatever kind and from whatever stage of the game) to "internalize". Rodolfo Pardi offers 50 such positions in his "Fundamental Chess Patterns". Do you know any sensible lists which are a bit bigger - like 100 fundamental positions, 300 f.p., etc.?

This may not pass your "sensible" criteria, but figured I'd post Coach Heisman's take on it anyway (from his website):

8+ tactics books which together may contain 97% of the ~2,000 basic  tactics patterns (*= good three to start):

• Chess Tactics for Students                             - John Bain* (can do repetitively - see above)

• Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess                        - Bobby Fischer and Margulies*

• Starting out: Chess Tactics and Checkmates - Chris Ward*

• Winning Chess Strategy for Kids                   - Jeff Coakley (a great author)
• The Chess Tactics Workbook                         - Al Woolum
• Back to Basic: Tactics                                  - Dan Heisman (use cleaned-up 2nd printing)
• The Winning Way                                         - Bruce Pandolfini (more difficult to find)

• Power Chess for Kids                                   - Hertan - a helpful book about how to find basic forcing moves, easier than Hertan's also very good Forcing Chess Moves; check out his helpful essay "Adventure and Sportsmanship" on p.13, but his key exception on p.19 has exceptions itself!

Well, 2000 patterns is okey, but I would prefer to have it in portions, like 100 you should know first, 200 you should know in the second turn... It would be really difficult to me to try to internalize 2000 pattern for once.

Yeah, I'd love to see some lists like that too.  This is all that I'm aware of though.  Maybe someone else has some thoughts?

Oh wait, there's this course on the Chess Mentor.  Might even be worth a month of diamond membership to nail this one down:(135 is the # of lessons)

You don't need to absorb 2000 in one go. I mean, you go through a good tactics primer, such as Bain's, and you play/digest it. Maybe go over it a second time, then try another book and so on... That's what SK has been doing with great success so far.

If you look for tools to gradually and systematically learn, please have a look at my blog entry. I think the tools I've listed fit the bill as well :

http://www.chess.com/blog/hicetnunc/resources-for-systematic-training

Basically, the Russian guys have collected the relevant examples...

Keep in mind you aren't going to learn patterns by name and be able to recite them from memory.  It's not like learning the capitals of 2000 countries.  It's just something you're going to absorb over time at a subconscious level.   Most of them are more ideas than anything specific.

So don't feel overwhelmed at the idea of "learning 2000 patterns".

http://www.amazon.com/GM-RAM-Essential-Grandmaster-Chess-Knowledge/dp/0938650726

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1003578

Getting some of those Yusupov books for x-mas, looking forward to using them.  Have you read any of them?

@ Daimonion

Currently working to more or less memorize the 216 blue diagrams in Dvoretsky's endgame book.  He considers them must know positions.

it's ridiculous for an 1100 rated player to worry about this, just play more

I disagree. Learning simple patterns and solving simple puzzles can help your chess a lot.

Done Orange 1, some chapters of Orange 3, Blue 1 and Green 1, though I wouldn't recommend these to the OP just yet.

I'm about one-third of the way through the first Yusupov book. I find the difficulty level varies widely from position to position and chapter to chapter.

Which is OK and maybe even a good thing, but I had expected a nine-volume series arranged in order of increasing difficulty to be more carefully calibrated.

The examples seem more arbitrary than the test positions, so I don't sweat the former and concentrate on the latter.

I have went through all three orange books once. I did poorly on many of the chapters on openings and most of the positional chapters. Fairly well on the rest. Overall, I passed all the final tests.

I think they are pretty good overall and plan on continuing the series at some point, though I really need to go back over the chapters I did poorly on first. I also spent less time than I probably should have on them (1st three books in approximately 1 year's time).

That's always been on a list of books I was interested and looking at, but I've never gotten around to it.

Actually, this is EXACTLY what an 1100 rated player should do if he wants to get better.

I have it on my list for postions to do Stokyo exercises on. My understanding is that is it just complex positions for study and that is basically it. No solutions, suggestions, etc.

I was going to use it for that exact purpose.

I think the Tactical Motifs section of Chesstempo.com is a great place to start. 

Thank you very much for your responses - they are all very helpful. I will try to search through the programs/books you suggest and see what works well for me.