Can somebody give me advise on what chess books i should read?

Question

I am uscf rated about 1300. And I need help on getting chess books that will make me a better player.

Answer 1

Do you have Jeremy Silman's "How to Reassess Your Chess" and "The Amatuer's Mind" ?

If not, you should definitely check them out. Those are must-haves for every serious player's library.

I like "Win at Chess" by Ron Curry as well...it's a nice one-volume guide to strategy and tactics.

You could also check out Yasser Seirawan's "Winning Chess" series.

"Logical Chess, Move by Move" by Irving Chernev is excellent. Takes you through 33 Grandmaster level games, and explains EVERY move.

"Why Lasker Matters" by Andrew Soltis is a great book as well. Soltis annotates about 100 of Lasker's games in this book.

"My System" and "Chess Praxis" by Aron Nimzovitch should also be part of every serious player's library.

"Learn Chess Tactics" by John Nunn is an excellent tactics source.

Lev Alburt's "Comprehensive Chess Course" is a seven volume series... you won't need all seven books, because I think the first book is a "How to play chess" thing, which you obviously won't need.

Vol 1 is "Learn Chess in 12 Lessons"...you don't need that one.
Vol 2 is "From Beginner to Tournament Player"... I don't have this one, I'm assuming you might not need this one either.

The rest of the books, I have...but I just got them not too long ago..they appear to be pretty good, but I haven't reviewed them thoroughly yet..

Vol 3 is "Chess Tactics for the Tournament Player"
Vol 4 is "The King in Jeopardy" (this book is about attack and defense).
Vol 5 is "Chess Strategy for the Tournament Player"
Vol 6 is "Chess Training Pocket Book"...this book contains 300 of the most important positions and ideas, along with complete solutions. It's a handy little thing.
Vol 7 is "Just the Facts"...this is an endgame study book.

Seems like it's a pretty good series, and again, you obviously won't need to bother with the first volume, and probably not the second either.

Bruce Pandolfini has some good books out there... "The ABC's of Chess", "Weapons of Chess", "The Chess Doctor" and several "Chezzercises" books....

At your level, the thing you should probably concentrate most on is tactics. Don't worry about memorizing opening lines at this point, that will come later. Game by 'class' level players are most often decided by tactical ability, or lack thereof.

CT-Art 3.0 is a great tactical software package...contains over 1,200 tactical puzzles for you to solve...if you don't guess the right move, the program will then give you a clue, using a simplified 5x5 boad with the key pieces on it... if you don't get the right answer then, it will draw some arrows highlighting key pieces and squares... it's a really nice program...and it comes with the "Crafty" engine, so it will play a nice game with you as well.

Good luck to you!!

Answer 2

there are lots of of chess books that any checklist is going to be notably arbitrary. right this is what i could propose: Chess fundamentals, by J.R. Capablanca the recommendations at the back of the Chess Openings, by Reuben super the sport of Chess, by Siegbert Tarrasch My device, by Aron Nimzovich 500 grasp video games of Chess, by S. Tartakower Chess grasp as against Chess newbie, by Max Euwe Logical Chess: circulate by circulate, by Irving Chernev Play triumphing Chess, and different books from the sequence by Yasser Seirawan

Answer 3

There are many books.
Search them on google or yahoo...
But you will also find sited from which you can make skills and tactics. Thats also good.