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What Order Should I Read Jeremy Silman's Books In
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Apr 23, 2017
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Yeah, I can understand that. It's my tactics that are messing me up. I already have a good understanding of Silman's Imbalances which I learned from an old youtuber The Backyard Professor. I heard he never got good because he never worked on tactics. I have been talking to an older guy that used to be an expert player and he gave me a book called Win at Chess by Ron Curry. I've been working out of that book, do you know if it's a good book to work out of?
Apr 23, 2017
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Yeah I know I read that one forum about him. He did teach me the basics of the imbalances.
Apr 23, 2017
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zac_howland I have a book called Chess Tactics for the Tournament Player by GM Sam Palatnik would that be good?
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Ashton_Yeager wrote:
I have Jeremy Silman's How to Reassess Your Chess, and Amatuers Mind. What order should I read them in? I have Silman's newest 4th edition of reassess.
The excellent teacher and writer Dan Heisman, in one of his notes to comments on his articles wrote: "
You are correct that you would read Amateur [The Amateur's Mind] (way) before How to Reassess Your Chess."
I recently bought The Amateur's Mind (2nd Ed.), How to Reassess Your Chess (4th Ed.) and the Reassess Your Chess Workbook (1st Ed.). In the '90's I went through the about 200-page 1st Edition of Reassess fairly quickly and bought copies for the high school team I coached. Today, the 4th Ed. is 658 pages, the Workbook 423 pages, and they will take a lot of time to properly study. So if the experts are saying Amateur (443 pages) should go first, I'm going to do that, hoping it magnifies the hard work in the other books.
By the way, I bought the books at the beginning of 2017 at Amazon.com, Reassess new for $27.34 (free Prime shipping), the Workbook used "like new" or "very good" for $1.01 plus $3.99 shipping, and Amateur "like new" or "very good" for $6.39 + $3.99 shipping. All of the books look new.
Apr 23, 2017
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Any order you want, because they will both give you almost no improvement, at your current level.
None of this stuff will seriously help you improve. If you want to improve, make friends with the best chess players you know. Play practice games against them all the time, show them your games, analyze their games with them, and eventually you'll absorb the things they have to offer you. In the meantime, there are a million sites to practice tactics, including chesstempo and chessemerald.
The Silman books are fine. But it's almost assuredly not positional play that's holding you back. Having read the books (as well as knowing the types of people who usually buy these books), I can tell you I highly doubt anyone has seriously gained any significant amount of rating just by reading these.
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Apr 23, 2017
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dpnorman wrote:
None of this stuff will seriously help you improve. If you want to improve, make friends with the best chess players you know. Play practice games against them all the time, show them your games, analyze their games with them, and eventually you'll absorb the things they have to offer you. In the meantime, there are a million sites to practice tactics, including chesstempo and chessemerald.
The Silman books are fine. But it's almost assuredly not positional play that's holding you back. Having read the books (as well as knowing the types of people who usually buy these books), I can tell you I highly doubt anyone has seriously gained any significant amount of rating just by reading these.
Of course you no body gets a significant amount of rating just by reading the books, because you have to take what you are learning and actually apply it to your game. That is when you actually improve.
You are 13, you will be fine. Just practise by playing chess. Make sure not to hang pieces and you can reach 1000 on rapid I think.
Apr 23, 2017
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Ashton_Yeager wrote:
dpnorman wrote:
None of this stuff will seriously help you improve. If you want to improve, make friends with the best chess players you know. Play practice games against them all the time, show them your games, analyze their games with them, and eventually you'll absorb the things they have to offer you. In the meantime, there are a million sites to practice tactics, including chesstempo and chessemerald.
The Silman books are fine. But it's almost assuredly not positional play that's holding you back. Having read the books (as well as knowing the types of people who usually buy these books), I can tell you I highly doubt anyone has seriously gained any significant amount of rating just by reading these.
Of course you no body gets a significant amount of rating just by reading the books, because you have to take what you are learning and actually apply it to your game. That is when you actually improve.
That's what the BYP did.
Apr 23, 2017
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MickinMD wrote:
Ashton_Yeager wrote:
I have Jeremy Silman's How to Reassess Your Chess, and Amatuers Mind. What order should I read them in? I have Silman's newest 4th edition of reassess.
The excellent teacher and writer Dan Heisman, in one of his notes to comments on his articles wrote: "
You are correct that you would read Amateur [The Amateur's Mind] (way) before How to Reassess Your Chess."
I recently bought The Amateur's Mind (2nd Ed.), How to Reassess Your Chess (4th Ed.) and the Reassess Your Chess Workbook (1st Ed.). In the '90's I went through the about 200-page 1st Edition of Reassess fairly quickly and bought copies for the high school team I coached. Today, the 4th Ed. is 658 pages, the Workbook 423 pages, and they will take a lot of time to properly study. So if the experts are saying Amateur (443 pages) should go first, I'm going to do that, hoping it magnifies the hard work in the other books.
By the way, I bought the books at the beginning of 2017 at Amazon.com, Reassess new for $27.34 (free Prime shipping), the Workbook used "like new" or "very good" for $1.01 plus $3.99 shipping, and Amateur "like new" or "very good" for $6.39 + $3.99 shipping. All of the books look new.
I have Dan Heisman's book The Improving Annotator From Beginner to Master. He says that you should annotate your games and it will help you to fully understand your mistakes and help you be able to fix them. I was wondering if Jeremy Silman or Dan Heisman has written books on chess tactics?
Apr 23, 2017
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Cherub_Enjel wrote:
Ashton_Yeager wrote:
dpnorman wrote:
None of this stuff will seriously help you improve. If you want to improve, make friends with the best chess players you know. Play practice games against them all the time, show them your games, analyze their games with them, and eventually you'll absorb the things they have to offer you. In the meantime, there are a million sites to practice tactics, including chesstempo and chessemerald.
The Silman books are fine. But it's almost assuredly not positional play that's holding you back. Having read the books (as well as knowing the types of people who usually buy these books), I can tell you I highly doubt anyone has seriously gained any significant amount of rating just by reading these.
Of course you no body gets a significant amount of rating just by reading the books, because you have to take what you are learning and actually apply it to your game. That is when you actually improve.
That's what the BYP did.
I've heard many different opinions about BYP and I think that the reason he failed is because he never worked on his tactics. He never made a single video on tactics, and that is how I know. I'm believe that if he would have worked hard on tactics and positional play he could have become a good chess player.
Possibly of interest:
Simple Attacking Plans by Fred Wilson (2012)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708090402/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review874.pdf
https://www.newinchess.com/Shop/Images/Pdfs/7192.pdf
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 (1949)
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
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/excerpts/OpeningsForAmateurs%20sample.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
Seirawan stuff
http://seagaard.dk/review/eng/bo_beginner/ev_winning_chess.asp?KATID=BO&ID=BO-Beginner
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
Dan Heisman has written an excellent book on tactics....
"Back to Basics: Tactics"...
https://www.amazon.com/Back-Basics-Tactics-ChessCafe-Chess/dp/1888690348/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1492995962&sr=8-5&keywords=dan+heisman+chess+books
other books by Heisman..
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_4_11?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=dan+heisman+chess+books&sprefix=dan+heisman%2Caps%2C204&crid=3PL871SF9NFC
I want any advise on English opening, the Benko and the Alekhine defence.
Cahob wrote:
I want any advise on English opening, the Benko and the Alekhine defence.
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I have Jeremy Silman's How to Reassess Your Chess, and Amatuers Mind. What order should I read them in? I have Silman's newest 4th edition of reassess.