The correct order to read winning chess series

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Beach_lad

hello all I recently bought Yasser Seirawan winning chess series books and I wanna know the correct order to read this series please it will be great help if someone tells me correct order to read this series happy.png

chess_ideas

these are your books ?

RaheelAsif8887

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Beach_lad
chess_ideas wrote:

these are your books ?

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chess_ideas

I have pdf file but I read them when I want so that i can do both so I better think if you are a strategical player then read the strategy book too much and if you are  tactics  player then read the tactics books a too much ( this advise is from a 11 -12 year old boy so take the elder people advice )

Beach_lad

Ok

Danthedude67

even if you read in any order the information will stay in your mind right?so it is your wish

E4orce

Cool books dude! q=)

chess_ideas
Thalapathy_64 wrote:

Ok

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Beach_lad
E4orce wrote:

Cool books dude! q=)

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Beach_lad
spideysuper1234 wrote:

even if you read in any order the information will stay in your mind right?so it is your wish

Yea you are right but I just wanna know the correct systematic order that's all

Beach_lad
chess_ideas wrote:
Thalapathy_64 wrote:

Ok

if my advice helped i will be so happy

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chess_ideas

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Xanitrep

If you read the introductions of the various books, he gives the publication order by referring to certain ones as "book three" or "book five" and so on. The order that he gives is:

1. Play WInning Chess

2. Winning Chess Tactics

3. Winning Chess Strategies

4. Winning Chess Brilliancies

5. Winning Chess Openings

6. Winning Chess Endings

7. Winning Chess Combinations

However, in the intro to book seven, he talks a little about the series as a whole and about reading order.

He says that he originally wanted to create four courses: openings, middlegames (split into tactics and strategies), and endgames, but that the publishers wanted an intro book (Play Winning Chess) first. The Brilliancies book is meant to be a capstone at the end of the course, and the Combinations book is an addition to the middlegame section.

He says "While Play Winning Chess was meant to be read first and Winning Chess Tactics second, Winning Chess Brilliancies was meant to be read last. The other books could be read out of turn."

Beach_lad

@Xanitrep thanks a lot,you helped me a lot by sharing such important information about the series thanks again happy.png

Hafez_Bakr

I think read at first strategies , then read winning chess , so you can understand winning chess ideas after you grasp right strategies 

 

Beach_lad
Hafez_Bakr wrote:

I think read at first strategies , then read winning chess , so you can understand winning chess ideas after you grasp right strategies 

 

Thanks for your suggestion by the way series Is of 7 books 

joelcato

Play Winning Chess first because it's the easiest in the series and is really meant as an introduction. Nominally, Chess Tactics should be second, but in my opinion, there are so many other tactics books ((like Susan Polgar's Chess Tactics for Champions or Waitzkin's Attacking Chess) that that one is superfluous. So I would place Winning Chess Strategy next. Endings, Openings, and Combinations are superfluous for the same reason I gave above - there are better books on Endings, like Ilya Rabinovich or Silman's Complete Course (first two parts), and openings is anyways something you can save for last. So I would say Winning Chess Brilliancies should be your next one because it's a nice annotated game collection in the style of Chernev's Logical Chess, and arguably a bit easier. 

So in summation, the order I'd read them is:

1. Play Winning Chess

2. Find some other tactics books to study 

3. Winning Chess Strategies

4. Winning Chess Brilliancies

5 Find some other endgame books to study

6. Just skip opening books altogether.

Ranak_Jategaonkar

The order I read them in was:

1. Play Winning Chess
2. Winning Chess Openings
3. Winning Chess Tactics
4. Winning Chess Endings
5. Winning Chess Strategies
6. Winning Chess Brilliances