List of the best chess books - 2006/01/20 15:04I seemingly ask you for your recomendations on books in the follkowing categoreis: 1. Openings 2. Stratyegy 3. Tactics 4. Endings 6. Games Collections Hopefully we can compile a list of the best (I.E.: Most Instructive & Entertaining) books out there for people looking to buy another book and don`t want to end up adamantly buying a dud. ---------
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List of the best chess books - 2007/11/01 09:07Openings: The Modern Openings in Theory and Practice Sokolsky first 77 pages.
Ideas behind the Chess Openings GM Fine The Opening Game in Chess - GM Ludek Pachman How to Open a Chess Game Mastering the Chess Openings Vol 1 & 2 Modern Chess Opening Theory - GM Suetin Plan like a Grandmaster - GM Suetin Lastly Mastering the Endgame Volume 1 & 2 IM Shereshevsky (this one ties your opening to the Type of Endings that arise)
Strategy and Tactics: Chess Fundamentals - Wch. GM Capablanca A Primer of Chess - Wch. GM Capablanca Laskers Manual The Middlegame in Chess - GM Pachman Point Count Chess The Middle Game in Chess - GM Fine Chess Strategy For the Tournament Player -GM Alburt Complete Chess Strategy - GM Pachman How to Play the Middlegame in Chess Littlewood The Middle game in Chess - Znosko Borovsky The Art of the middlegame -GM's Keres and Kotov New Ideas in Chess - GM Evans Positional Chess Handbook - Gelfer
Art of chess Combination - Znosko Borovsky The Art of Checkmate - Renaud and Khan Combinations in the Middlegame - Bondarevsky Chess Tactics - GM Kotov Combination Challenge - Hays and Hall The Inner Game of Chess - GM Soltis The Art of Combination - Blokh Chess Middlegame Combinations Attack With Tal Modern Chess Tactics Attack and Defense in Chess Tactics The Art of Attack - Vukovic The Chess Sacrifice - Vukovic
Think Like a Grandmaster - GM Kotov Play Like a Grandmaster - GM Kotov Train Like a Grandmaster - GM Kotov Pawns in Action - Sokolsky Pawn Power In Chess - Kmoch Pawn Structure Chess - GM Soltis Understanding Pawn Play in Chess - Marovic Chess Middlegame Planning - Romanovsky Judgement and Planning - Wch. Dr. Max Euwe Planning in Chess - GM Flesch How to Choose a Chess Move - GM Soltis Three Steps to Chess Mastery - GM Suetin A Contemporary Approach to The Middle Game - GM Suetin Secrets of Positional Chess - Marovic The MiddleGame Book 1 & 2 - Wch. Dr. Max Euwe
If you can find it Middlegames - Laszlo Polgar
Pandolfini's Endgame Chess Endings for the Practical Player - Pachman The Endings in Modern Theory and Practice Endgame Strategy - Shereshevsky Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual Pal Benko's Endgame Laboratory
I will have to look at my library to answer you on Endgame books.
I left out Spielman's little book the art of the sacrifice Alekhine, Botvinnik, Smyslov... any strong players games.
Zurich 1953 is a must as is My System when you are much stronger
i have very few bad books in my library. hope this helps
Re:List of the best chess books - 2007/11/01 13:39 Hi, Ironwagon here, you must have a large library! After all that reading and studying what rating are you at now? You must be going for master! Happy journey,Ironwagon
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Re:List of the best chess books - 2007/11/01 15:34Hello I would love to have read all that but that is unnecessary to become a Master that way. I am 1774 though but for anyone that rating to become a master would require Lots of Endgame Work, Tactics, and Knowing the Ideas / Middlegame Plans That Arise from Your Openings (some variations but not a ton). At least that is my idea.
Re:List of the best chess books - 2007/11/04 00:24mistermac wrote: C J S Purdy wrote a great book for beginners. He was at one stage, World Correspondence Champion.
Short, simple, and explained the opening ideas very well. I believe that the book that you are referring to is "Guide to Good Chess", which is one of my favorite chess books.
As far as I know, Purdy never himself wrote a book on openings, but Thinker's Press published a book called "Action Chess", which is a compilation of articles that Purdy wrote in his magazine, "Chess World." The book is titled "Action Chess", and provides a more-or-less complete opening repertoire for White and Black. The book recommends the Colle System for White (1 d4 2 Nf3 3 e3 4 Bd3, and the French Defense (1 e4 e6 2 d4 d5 3 Nc3 de) and the Tarkakower Defense (...d5, ...e6, ...Nf6, ...Be7, ...O-O, ...b6) for Black.
Re:List of the best chess books - 2007/11/07 07:58Right on, chucky!
I am proud to say he was an Australian, and had a great talent as a teacher of Chess.
I also believe that Tarrasch, (so called dogmatic), was a great Chess Teacher. What most forgot, notably Nimzovich, was that he was writing to instruct normal mortals, not give advanced treatises.
Purdy was the first person who made me aware of this.
Tarrasch was a very fine man, kindly and witty, and a good doctor. He saved a competitor's life on one occasion.
Not the greatest player who ever lived, but he was good enough to give Lasker a run for his money, and beat all but the very greatest of his time.
A great author for anyone up to 2000 in my opinion.
Re:List of the best chess books - 2007/11/08 05:15Chuckychess wrote: mistermac wrote: C J S Purdy wrote a great book for beginners. He was at one stage, World Correspondence Champion.
Short, simple, and explained the opening ideas very well. I believe that the book that you are referring to is "Guide to Good Chess", which is one of my favorite chess books.
As far as I know, Purdy never himself wrote a book on openings, but Thinker's Press published a book called "Action Chess", which is a compilation of articles that Purdy wrote in his magazine, "Chess World." The book is titled "Action Chess", and provides a more-or-less complete opening repertoire for White and Black. The book recommends the Colle System for White (1 d4 2 Nf3 3 e3 4 Bd3, and the French Defense (1 e4 e6 2 d4 d5 3 Nc3 de) and the Tarkakower Defense (...d5, ...e6, ...Nf6, ...Be7, ...O-O, ...b6) for Black. I own and frequently refer to "The Game of Chess", by Dr. Siegbert Tarrasch. He truly loved chess, and was a great chess teacher and annotator. Hays' Publishing came out with an algebraic version of "The Game of Chess" a few years ago.
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Hi, Ironwagon here, you must have a large library!