Author: Rupesh
Date: 20:49:19 07/09/03
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Hi Andrei,
If your aim is to improve your playing strnegth primarily then i will highly
recommend the following books: Also before i produce the list i would suggest
that you use most of the following books as a workbook.
1. "Fundamental Chess Endings" by Karsten Muller, Frank Lamprecht, John Nunn(
This is a copy from your list, but a great book)
2. "Ideas behind chess openings" by Rubine Fine
( Thought provoking book)
3. Chess recipes from Grandmaster's kitchen by GM Valeri Beim
4. Reasses your chess by IM Simlan
5. Modern Instructive masterpieces by Stohl
6. Think Like a Grandmaster by Kotov
I think these books together cover all parts of the games and are most lucidly
written. I have read most of the books from your lists and i must warn you that
schools of chess excellence books series are very uninteresting and may bore
you. Besides i also doubt the efficacy of these books when compared to the list
which i have produced. Also compared to "Road to chess improvement", I would
rather urge you have to have a look on "seven chess sins" ...a book written on
chess psychology.
If you have more time and money, I desperately want to recommend
7. Inner Game of chess ( I forget the author's name)
If you can read, the book numbered 2,3,4 and then 6th. After that if you use 5th
numbered book to play the games themselves, believe me it will be a revolution
for you as youtr thought process would have transformed by then.
Do let me know if you have any clarification or you want to give any feedback.
Amitesh
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
>"Pawn Structure Chess" by Andrew Soltis, Andy Soltis
>"IMPROVE YOUR CHESS NOW" by Jonathan Tisdall
>"The Road to Chess Improvement" by Alex Yermolinsky
>"Fundamental Chess Endings" by Karsten Muller, Frank Lamprecht, John Nunn
>"Tactical Play: School of Chess Excellence 2" by Mark Dvoretsky
>"Strategic Play: School of Chess Excellence 3" by Mark Dvoretsky
>"Understanding Chess Move by Move" by John Nunn
>
>Could you recommend some more books that would match my goal ?
>
>Many thanks,
>Andrei
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