brabusslr20 Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 Hi all,I'm an amateur,but i love chess.My chess abilities it strong second category maximum,but I want to increase them.I have gathered a lot of chess books last time,and I want to begin them study.Unfortunately, i don't know which I should study first Sad( Here list of my most curious book is : openings 1.)Emms-Attacking with e4 2.)Joe Gallagher - Play the King's Indian - A Complete Repertoire for Black 3.)Robert Bellin & Pietro Ponzetto - Mastering the King's Indian Defense 4.)Sam Collins - An Attacking Repertoire for White 5.)Chess Ebook Emms, John - Play the Open Games as Black 6.)Danny Kopec - Mastering the Sicilian 7.)John L. Watson - Play the French9 new 8.)Jonathan Rowson - Understanding the Grunfeld 9.)Rogozenko, Dorian - Anti-Sicilians 10.)Yasser.Seirawan.-.Winning.Chess.Openings 11.)Kasparov - Sicilian Scheveningen (3rd ed, 1991) 12.)C. Ward - Starting Out - The Nimzo-Indian 13.).Joe.Gallagher.-.Starting.Out.-.The.King's.Indian 14.)Khalifman, Alexander - Opening for White According to Anand vol1&2 15.)Starting Out Closed Sicilian 16.)Mark Dvoretsky - Opening Preparation 17.)Dvoretsky, M. - School of Chess Excellence 4 - Opening Developments 18.)Tim Harding, Janis Vitomskis & Martin Bennedik - The Total Marshall 19.)Palliser-_Play 1.d4 20.)Aagaard_Lund-_Meeting 1.d4 21.)Davies__N._-_The_Dynamic_Reti 22.)John Emms - Easy Guide to the Ruy Lopez 23.)Ideas Behind chess openings 24.)Gary Lane - Beating the French 25.)Jon Speelman & Neil McDonald - Modern Defence 26.)John Nunn - Understanding Chess Move by Move 27.)Colin McNab - Catalan I wanted to pay attention that I'm 1.e4 player,after 1...e5 i like to play ruy lopez,and against 1...c5-closed sicilian Strategy,tactics,middle game 1.)Danny Kopec - Test, Evaluate and Improve Your Chess 2.)Pafu - The Defense Game 3.)Pafu - The Center Game 4.)Simon Williams - Improve Your Attacking Chess 5.)Heisman, Dan - Looking for Trouble - Recognizing and Meeting Threats in Chess 6.)Roman Pelts & Lev Alburt - Comprehensive Chess Course, Vol. 2 7.)Gennady Nesis - Tactical Chess Exchanges 8.)Angus Dunnington - Can You Be a Positional Chess Genius 9.)Dunnington, Angus - Starting Out - Defensive Play 10.)Andrew Kinsman - Improve Your Middlegame Play 11.)David LeMoir - How to Become a Deadly Chess Tactician 12.)John Emms - Simple Chess&More simple chess 13.)Sunil Weeramantry & Ed Eusebi - Best Lessons of a Chess Coach 14.)Baburin - Winning Pawn Structures 15.)School Of Chess Excellence 3 - Strategic Play Vol 09 (Mark Dvoretsky) 16.)Dvoretsky, M. - School of Chess Excellence 2 - Tactical Play 17.) Aagaard, Jacob - Excelling At Positional Chess 18.)[Nimzowitsch,.Aron].My.System.(21st.century.ed) 19.)Mikhail Shereshevsky - The Soviet Chess Conveyor 20.)Suetin - Plan like a grandmaster 21.)Jonathan Tisdall - Improve your chess 22.)John Nunn - Secrets of Practical Chess 23.)Carsten Hansen - Improve your positional chess 24.)Alexander Kotov - Chess Tactics 25.)Alexander Raetsky & Maxim Chetverik - Alexander Alekhine - Master of Attack 26.)Mark Dvoretsky - Secrets of Chess Tactics 27.)Mark Dvoretsky - Secrets of chess training 28.)Hans Berliner - The system (scanned by Dendix) 29.)Valeri Beim - How to Play Dynamic Chess 30.)Larry Christiansen - Rocking the Ramparts - A Guide to Attacking Chess 31.)Eduard Gufeld - Exploiting Small Advantages 32.)Abrahams-Technique of chess Here I've a lot of problem,which book(books) is9are) the best for me,because I've a lot of gaps here in my game abitilty Endings 1.)Edmar Mednis - Practical Rook Endings 2.)M. I. Shereshevsky & L. M. Slutsky - Mastering the Endgame, Vol.2 - Closed Games 3.)Capablanca Best Chess Endings 4.)Pachman, Ludek - Chess Endings for the Practical Player 5.)Dvoretsky, M. - School of Chess Excellence 1 - Endgame Analysis 6.)Ian Snape - Chess endings made simple 7.)Pandolfini's Endgame course 8.)Bernd Rosen - Chess endgame training 9.) Emms-Survival guide to rook endings 10.)Viktor Korchnoi - Practical Rook Endings 11.)Karsten Mueller & Frank Lamprecht - Fundamental Chess Endings 12.Nunn-pracical rook endings again my problem is which of them Ishould study first... So, which books are fairest for 1800-1900 player like me??What begin from? Opening strategy or endings??Which books did You study?I apologize for my english, I'm teaching it still Cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Javier Posted September 8, 2007 Report Share Posted September 8, 2007 Personally, I'd recommend that you sell all your opening books. Next step would be to select a good strategy book from your library. Unfortunately, you don't have Michael Stean's "Simple chess". So, I'll recommend "My system". Dont just read it, work hard on it, add your own notes, annotate some games, PROVE that you understand what it's all about. That's it. Just one book. It couldn't be simpler! But it's not the book that matters... it's what you do with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brabusslr20 Posted September 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2007 I've got only 2 books of John Emms:"Simple chess" and "More Simple Chess" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Javier Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 Michael Stean's book has nothing to do with John Emms. (I mean they're completely different books, they obviously have a lot to do with the topic ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelBaker985 Posted October 9, 2015 Report Share Posted October 9, 2015 Hello, I am a newbie in playing chess and I have to do an assignment writing about chess. I have found GRANDMASTER OF CHESS: THE EARLY GAMES OF PAUL KERES by Paul Keres in my library. Have you read it? Maybe you could say me if it is too difficult for a newbie or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Javier Posted October 22, 2015 Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 Yes, I think that book is definitly too advanced for a beginner... I'd go for "My System" or "Logical chess move by move" or other beginner manuals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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