Chessbooks

Hey guys. Out of curiosity I want to buy a chessbook and I wanted to hear which books you liked. I know that at my level of play the most important hting is to not do mistakes, but I would still be curious. Is my system good?

It's okay, mainly for the annotated games at the end, but there are many better chess books. Take a look at Silman's Complete Endgame Course, the last chapter in Seirwan's Winning Chess Openings, or read through Winning Chess Strategies. These books are packed with information that can take years to absorb.

I really like Artur Yusopovs chess school books. These are really like a nice complete textbook of learning chess that starts at about your level with the first book. These have been my favorite chess book purchases.

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Books such as "My 60 Memorable Games" by Bobby Fischer or "Alekhine's Best Games" by Alexander Alekhine are good. These books break down how these players at a higher level thought about chess, and could get you closer to recognizing a similar mindset.

Reasses your chess vol 4. Amateurs mind,Winng chess tactics, These three will keep you occupied for atleast a year and you will ipeove in all aspects of the game.

"I wanted to hear which books you liked"

One-Hundred-and-One of My Best Games of Chess by Fredrichk Yates

My 50 Years of Chess by Frank J.Marshall

The Chess Career of Rudolf Spielmann : 1903 - 1926 by Jack Spence

Carl Schlechter's Best Games of Chess by Tom Crain

Queen Sacrifice by Iakov Neishtadt

The Chess Sacrifice by Vladmir Vukovic

The Middle Game in Chess by Zonosko Borovosky

Study Chess with Tal by Mikhail Tal and Alexander Koblencs

Sacrifice and Initiative in Chess by Ivan Sokolov

The Magic Tactics of Mikhail Tal by Karsten Muller and Stolz

Nezhmedtdinov's Best Games of Chess by Rashid Nezhmetdinov

Chess Tactics for Advanced Players by Yuri Averbakh

1000 Checkmate Combinations Victor Henkin

Half Hours with Morphy by Paul Morphy

Paul Morphy by Geza Maroczy;

The Best Chess Games of Boris Spassky Boris Spassky by Andrew Soltis

De La Bourdonnais Versus McDonnell, 1834 by Cary Utterbeg

Tal Botvinnik 1960 by Mikhail Tal

Alexander Alekhines best Games of Chess by Alexander Alekhine

Boris Gelfand My Most Memorable Games by Boris Gelfand

The Basis of Combination in Chess by Julius Dumont

The Art of Sacrifice by Rudolph Spielmann (original version)

100 Soviet Chess Miniatures by P.H. Clarke

Vassily Ivanchuck 100 Selected Games by Kalinchenko

1000 Best Short Games of Chess by Irving Chernev

Judit Polgar's books (all three of them)

The Golden Treasury of Chess by Francis J. Wellmuth

The Chess Games of Adolph Anderssen by Sid Picard

Karlsbad International Chess Tournament 1907 by George Marco and Carl Schlechter

The last book is the crown jewel of Chess books in my library it's a reprint from 2007 but it's a beautiful hardcover book and extremely valuable to players around the world I take good care of it.

Wow thank you all very much:). Now i have got a reading list, that I will enjoy.

...somehow the first book coming to my mind is :

Chess for Tigers - S. Webb ;)

Hey just throwing my two cents, as topics about chess books come up up regularly in here.

I think "My system" is a classic book every beginner should go through at least once, even it is not sufficient to understand strategy going on in modern chess.

In that regard, "Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy" by John Watson is a nice complement to that particular book, as Watson often revises Nimzo's statements according to what modern chess has brought since. Basically, "My system" is a good book but games presented in it are often stereotypical and too one-sided, unlike most gm-level nowadays in which one side accepts a structural disadvantage against a dynamical one. This book has been pretty mind-opening for me at least. Totally recommended.

Speaking of other books about middlegames, I also spent quite some times with Ludek Pachman books about tactics and strategy. The english translation of the books titles must be something like modern chess strategy and modern tactics (?), but I cannot say for sure. It used to be a 5 books series (3 for strategy, 2 for tactics), but it seems like this work has been merged into fewer volumes nowadays, so I can't recommend a good recent version of it.
I remember studying "Pawn Power In Chess" by Hans Kmoch as well.