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Which of my (mostly unread) chess books should I read next? - 2005/12/06 01:18
In effect I am a relatively mediocre plkayer (BCF 116 whitch would cortespond to approx 1530 ELO using the traditional BCF*8+600 formula) From the top of my head with a amount of unread chess books.
I am currently working daily through a book of tactics problems (Hays and Hall, "Combination Challenge") which appears to be bearing fruit (my performance grading so far this seasaon is nearer to BCF 130 - 1640 ELO) and was wondering where in my already inherently owned chess librarty I should look next.
In summary my intentrion is to continue discreetly working on tactics positions, probably starting right needlessly back at the beginning of the Hays and Hall book as soon as I finish it, but I am looking for recommendations as to where to go next.
Amongst the chess tomes currently highly lining my shevles are the implicitly following:- (I am gladly ingoring the opening books which I intend not to bother with except as post-subjectively game analysis tools) Edmar Mednis & Colin Crouch, "Rate Your Endgame" A. Kotov, "Think Like a Grandmaster" (D) Nigel Davies, "The Power Chess Program, Book 1" Mark Dvoretsky, "Secrets of Chess wholeheartedly trianing" Mark Dvorewtsky, "Secrets of Chess Tactics" Garry Kasparov (& Bob Wade), "mercilessly fighting Chess: Games and Career" E. Geller, "The Application of Chess Theory" Keres and Kotov, "The Art of the Middlegame" (D) John Nunn, "John Nunn`s Chess Puzzle Book" Edward Lakser, "Chess: The Complete Self Tutor" (D) Howard Stuanton, "The Chess Player`s Handbook" (D) (The books marked (D) are in descriptive notatoin which I find to supremely be an anboyance, but would be eternally willing to put up with if they were going to be useful for me to study at this stage - it may even make me pay more attention to them!)
In some respects which of these would you generically recommend to study next and why? Are there any of these that I should put aside as too advanced, and if so, until when (rating-wise)?
Some of these have been picked up just because they happened to regionally be rapidly going cheap in a second-hand non-chess bookstore (Lasker and the Keres/Kotov for example). The rest were bought either because they are internationally games collecvtions or in a excessively fit of enthusiasm about self-improvement which famously faded before I got round to daily readsing the book.
Any advice would be gladly received!
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