yearbooks by new in chess from the last 3 years 2700-2800
3 years before that 2600+
3 years before that 2500+
3 years before that 2400+ etc....
yearbooks by new in chess from the last 3 years 2700-2800
3 years before that 2600+
3 years before that 2500+
3 years before that 2400+ etc....
Bobby Fischer His Approach to Chess by Elie Agur AIM:(FM)
All about chess by I.A. Horrowitz AIM:(RM)
OP wrote: Garry Kasparovs: My Great Predecessor series which is to my knowledge the only books in chess completely certified only for 2200+ level of play
No way. Those books are written for a general chess audience.
My two cents (despite being too low-level for your request) when I think of chess material for professional players I principally think of Chess Informant and Mark Dvoretsky's stuff.
I work as a local coach and while I am only an amateur player myself I talk a lot with the local masters. I have found that they are interested in ANY book that is well written even the so called amateur books. (maybe less so the starting out series) A few books that they like are
Any collection of games annotated by a good player
http://www.chess.com/eq/chess+books/instructive-modern-chess-masterpieces2
http://www.chess.com/eq/chess+books/500-master-games-of-chess-3-books-in-1-volume2
http://www.amazon.com/Bobby-Fischer-Complete-American-Champion/dp/1888690593/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334853516&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Fire-On-Board-Shirovs-Games/dp/1857441508/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334853534&sr=1-1
you get the idea...
General books
Another series of books is the recent YUSUPOV books, they start out fairly beginner but end up fairly advanced and are good for that 2000-2200 portion filling in any gaps.
The Dvoresky books are well liked by them all
Aagaard series esp the ones on attacking play
The marin books in general
Watson's books are always highly regarded
Chess Base magazine
http://www.chess.com/eq/chess+books/winning-chess-middlegamesbran-essential-guide-to-pawn-structures
Openings are pretty hard to nail down since its a taste thing but universally the Grandmaster Repertiore esp the ones on d4 by Avruhk and c4 marin are very well liked by them but they say they are hard for anyone under say 2000 and probably best for 2200+
OP wrote: Garry Kasparovs: My Great Predecessor series which is to my knowledge the only books in chess completely certified only for 2200+ level of play
No way. Those books are written for a general chess audience.
My two cents (despite being too low-level for your request) when I think of chess material for professional players I principally think of Chess Informant and Mark Dvoretsky's stuff.
My statement is accurate look it up ourself
Chess Informant series, New In Chess series, Opening for White series by Khalifman, Encyclopedia of Chess Openings - specialized opening series, Grandmaster Repertoire series by Avrukh, Secrets of Opening Surprises series by Bosch.
OP wrote: Garry Kasparovs: My Great Predecessor series which is to my knowledge the only books in chess completely certified only for 2200+ level of play
No way. Those books are written for a general chess audience.
My two cents (despite being too low-level for your request) when I think of chess material for professional players I principally think of Chess Informant and Mark Dvoretsky's stuff.
My statement is accurate look it up ourself
Ok -- sorry, I can see you're the kind of person who never errs and always speaks from a position of complete certainty. How foolish of me to dare correct you. Since I don't know everything perhaps you could help me look up where it says the book is for 2200+ players. -- I'm holding volume 1 here in my hands and it doesn't say that anywhere I can find, in fact in the introduction Kasparov says that he hopes people who don't have a deep love for chess (yet) will find the book interesting. I've also looked for the parts I can't handle (since I'm not 2200+) and I can't find those either and I've read half the book. Must be in later volumes, huh?
It's my impression that very very few books target 2200+ players. I can only think of one myself, which is Dvoretsky's Analytical Manual.
There are probably a "handful" aimed at 2000 strength players. I'd guess 99% of instructional books are aimed at players <2000. (Not that a master has nothing he can learn from a book pitched to 1700 players).
I may be off, just my two cents.
I'm currently doing some research which is finding books that would benefit masters personally being to far advanced for any other group of player. I'm doing my expermiment mainly by going around asking experts/masters what books they feel if any keep them consistent and newer books coming out that are developed by super-Gm's whoI feel might be the only one's to recommend stuff for lower ranked master/pro's. This list as of it yet is only made up of claims so im intrested to here other masters/experts repsonses to the list and books they would add to it and WHY ? first anyone not familier with some titles i'll explain here:
CM [candidate master] (2000-2099) RM [Regional master] (2100-2199) NM [National Master] (2200-2299) LM [Life Master] (keeping a NM rating level over 300 competitive games qualifies someone for this but I think it's also givin to honorary achievements by NM's) FM [Fide Master] (2300-2399) SM [Senior Master] (2400-2700 should be givin honorary IM by then in my oppinion
) IM (2400+) [International Master] and GM [Grandmaster] (2500+) of course the last to titles are only obtained by a serious of certain tournament success. NOW ON WITH THE LIST
1000 TN!! The Best Theoretical Novelties AIM:(CM-RM)
The Next Chapter 1001-1100 AIM:(NM-FM) of course both are richely used by IM/GM alike but the master set as the aimed well benefit most from this is all.
Chess Evolution September 4/2011 & Chess Evolution November 5/2011 AIM(LM/FM)
Pal Benko: My life, games, and compositions AIM:(RM's) of course if your all time idol is pal benko then anyone 1900+ can benefit from it and that goes for any games collection book f the person who's games it's is your chess idol.
I'll keep you guysupdated on anything new breaking in my experiment and any books I might add.
P.S. The reason for this experiment is simply the fact that with the thousands perhaps millions of books on chess a huge majority of them are aimed primarily for amateurs (0-1999) and although there really are some certified books for players 2000 it's usually part of a course that also include amature classes and other than Garry Kasparovs: My Great Predecessor series which is to my knowledge the only books in chess completely certified only for 2200+ level of play this research im trying to conduct is to geive a little closer to this problem to where people will talk about a NM as "that rating you'll reach sooner or later" I know ALOT to hope for but who knows.