Author: Omid David Tabibi
Date: 11:50:27 07/09/03
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On July 09, 2003 at 14:25:55, Andrei Fortuna wrote: >Greetings, > >Time has come to refresh my chess books collection and I am about to place an >order at Amazon. Still I am a bit undecided about what books to buy. My playing >strength is around 1700 on FICS and I am interested especially in books from >which I can extract knowledge regarding structures/rules that can be used in a >chess engine in evaluation. As a secondary objective I am interesting in >improving my playing strength. For example books like "Pawn Structure Chess" by >Andrew Soltis looks very promising. > >My current book list looks like this at the moment: > >"Modern Chess Strategy" by Ludek Pachman I have read this book in French, and I don't know French at all! This book was so interesting that I just followed the diagrams and variations, and when necessary read French text using a French-English dictionary! >"Pawn Structure Chess" by Andrew Soltis, Andy Soltis The Bible of pawn structures theory is the book "Pawn Power in Chess", by Hans Kmoch >"IMPROVE YOUR CHESS NOW" by Jonathan Tisdall I have never liked books with such titles (improve X now, learn X in 24 hours, learn X in 21 days, etc). I think you can forgo this book. >"The Road to Chess Improvement" by Alex Yermolinsky >"Fundamental Chess Endings" by Karsten Muller, Frank Lamprecht, John Nunn My favorite endgames book is "Practical Chess Endings", by Paul Keres. >"Tactical Play: School of Chess Excellence 2" by Mark Dvoretsky >"Strategic Play: School of Chess Excellence 3" by Mark Dvoretsky Haven't read the above two books, but Dvoretsky and Yusopov's books are usually great. >"Understanding Chess Move by Move" by John Nunn > >Could you recommend some more books that would match my goal ? The must reads: My Syetem, Aron Nimzowitsch Think Like A Grandmaster, Alexander Kotov Play Like A Grandmaster, Alexander Kotov Secrets of Practical Chess, John Nunn Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy: Advances Since Nimzowitsch, John Watson > >Many thanks, >Andrei
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