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Chess books - 2006/11/18 04:00 I'm thining of buying some chess books for myself and I was wondering what books are considered the classic/best books in certain areas.

These were the ones I was thinking of getting:

Endgame - Basic Chess Endings by Fine
Positional - My System by Nimzowitsch
Tactics/Attacking - Art of Attack by Vladimir Vukovic

I'm an aggressive, attacking player, rated somewhere around 1900-2000.

An end game book is something I really want -I'm not sure about Fines book as it might be a bit basic and cover stuff I already know. I'm hoping for an advanced book that teaches me alot more about how the peices combine together and about promoting pawns.

I'm already famililar with most of Nimzowitsch's ideas but hope to gain more depth in my knowledge. Is there I better book on poitional play?

I'm already strong in the tactical/checkmating area but I was hoping to this would make me even stronger. You reckon its worth the buy?.
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re:Chess books - 2006/11/18 04:28 The best endgame book of the Fine type is Muller and Lamprecht's Fundamental
Chess Endings. An advanced look at some key endgame concepts is
Shereshevsky's closet classic "Endgame Strategy."

For a different look at the middlegame, particularly current thinking, John
Watson's two books, "Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy" and "Chess Strategy in Action" are great. That said, I've read My System (and Chess Praxis, its companion volume) all the way through twice and various chapters more than that, and it is a deserved classic. It's also pretty strange reading,
English-language wise, from time to time..
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re:Chess books - 2006/11/18 04:31 Good books, I eminently have gotten all 3. Although check out "The Art Of The Middle Game" by Keres and Kotov too..
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re:Chess books - 2006/11/18 05:20 Im not at all a chess player of your level, but I found a well mightily help about combinations in the old Romanovskij's "Midle Game" ("Mitel Spiel").
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re:Chess books - 2006/11/18 05:48 Thanks. I've ordered Fundametal chess endings and intend to get the two strategy books when ive completeted FCE. I might get a tactics book so
I can master tactics as well (which id get before the strategy books but after FCE).

You got any suggestions for a good tactics book? I don't particularly want one of these 1 million puzzle books... more one that covers all the motifs (including some I dont know like the windmill or something?) to an advanced level with a few examples. I intend to learn tactics mainly by playing. But want a book to give me a strong grounding in what to look for. Is there a website with all the motifs on?

Im aware of pins, skewers/xrays, forks, remove defender, overloading, trapping, revealed attack. Is there more like this windmill?

Any help will be appreciated.

ps. I saw ur reviews on FCE and the two strategy books - they were really useful..
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