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What chess books I am going to study in Q1/2010
In my previous post Chess goals for 2010 I mentioned the most important directions which I would like to go to improve my chess this year.
To achieve an improvement it is necessary to study chess games and/or books. As probably many of you, I have quite good chess library, but I have not go through all my books. So once I am goign to take chess seriously this year it is good to create a list of books I would like to read and/or play through. Of course, the list of books should be corresponding to my training goals.
One of them is “improvement in chess endings” and in positional play in general.
I choose three books for this purpose:
- Selected games 1969 – 1977 by Anatoly Karpov (more than 50 deeply anonated Karpov’s games)
- Chess endings – Essential knowledge by Yuri Averbakh
- Chess strategy for club players by Herman Grooten
And because I would like to avoid to losing “tactical eye” I will go through Chess Training Pocket Book II by Lev Alburt and Al Lawrence – great selection of tactic puzzles.
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January 7th, 2010 at 6:19 pm
I to have a chess library and i have only read a handful of them.
I have the knowledge waiting to be learnt,but not enough or
no time to read them.
Good luck.
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June 30th, 2010 at 5:37 am
Study books not only 2 learn the game but 2 enjoy it 2;THIS IS D KEY 2 CHESS IMPROVEMENT.
The important thing is 2 acquire such a baggage of positional chess ideas that u are never ever left wandering in the ecpanse of middlegame;As far as my experience Dvoretsky’s books are best suited for this purpose;
Ofcourse sharpening and widening ur opening repertoire and learing the basic endgame of every section are important 2;On the openings i would recommend using some reliable GM’S DVD training and as per endgames either BATSFORD CHESS ENDINGS or DVORETSKY’S ENDGAME MANUAL{might be a bit 2 tactical but that much interesting 2}