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Reddit mentions of Understanding Chess Move by Move
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The Chernev book is awesome, one of my favourites.
In a similar vein Nunn's Understanding Chess Move by Move is brilliant.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Understanding-Chess-Move-John-Nunn/dp/1901983412
Also CT-ART 4.0 (android and iOS) is cheap and imo the gold standard for thematic tactics training :).
Other books I own and like.
Fundamental Chess Openings (covers a lot of ground explaining the goals of each without reams of variations).
Laskers manual of chess (oldie but goodie - get the new edition).
Positional Decision Making in Chess Gelfand).
Try not to buy too many books until you've read and got what you can from each, also revisit them once in a while because as you improve you'll find stuff you didn't see/understand first time around.
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The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games
Understanding Chess Move by Move
Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953
Tal-Botvinnik 1960
Alekhine My Best Games of Chess, 1908-1937
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My new years "chessalutions" (if you will) was to do more study and play more. Unfortunately I have not done the latter as much due to work but I am hitting the books more and enjoying reading through Understanding Chess Move by Move by GM Dr. John Nunn. May look to do more tournaments but for the time being I am focusing on my job (I am a hotel manager so it is pretty busy all the time 24/7) and once I get that under control I can focus my attention on chessing.
In no particular order:
The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games
Understanding Chess Move by Move
Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953
Tal-Botvinnik 1960
Alekhine My Best Games of Chess, 1908-1937
Botvinnik Best Games trilogy
I make study programs all the time. I like designing them for myself and testing them; usually they're very effective. It all depends upon how much time you have to spare. Self Study is key; I wouldn't waste my time with a coach, unless you can find a magical coach. I tried one and I hated it.
I'll break everything down by category and include some books.
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Tactics: I'd just use Chesstempo.com for tactics. Don't waste your money on the paid version; it's not necessary. I just imagine that eventually you'd be able to buy a book with the money you waste on ChessTempo and a book is a permanent resource that you could have with you for the rest of your life. When you get really good like 1900uscf+ as far as books go, I'd say try out Paata Gaprindashvili's book, Imagination in Chess.[http://www.amazon.com/Imagination-Chess-Creatively-Foolish-Mistakes/dp/0713488913] It's a complete Titan of a book and the puzzels are EXTREMELY difficult.
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Positional/Strategical play: I usually recommend Jeremy Silman's Reassess your Chess 4th edition, but Lately i've been recommending John Nunn's, Undersatnding Middle Games, because Jeremy Silman's writing is really fun the FIRST or SECOND time you read through it, but he has a lot of jokes and other nonsense he prattles on about, so it becomes really burdensome to read through over and over... Be warned, I only have a Kindle Sample of John Nunn's book, but It looks much more serious and perhaps even superior.
As far as practicing the skills you gain from one of those two books, I'd like to recommend Jeremy Silman's Work Book. I'd probably say Buy Nunn's book and then buy the Silman work book. The workbook has a crash course on "Silman's" imbalances, and I think that'd probably be sufficient.
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Endings:
There are some amazing endgame sources out there, but I'd probably stick with Jeremy Silman's Complete endgame course. [http://www.amazon.com/Silmans-Complete-Endgame-Course-Beginner/dp/1890085103/ref=pd_sim_b_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=1N286TXXYT32NB4SY38C]
If you want a much more serious and a much heavier book you can try Fundamental Chess Endings[http://www.amazon.com/Fundamental-Chess-Endings-Karsten-Muller/dp/1901983536/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1406648960&sr=1-9&keywords=chess+endgame+books]
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Openings: I'd probably just stick with general openings for now. Studying openings in depth takes up an enormous amount of time. ENORMOUS. If you study them in depth, you'll have no time for anything else unless you literally sit at home for 8 hours a day just doing nothing.
I'd like to direct you to Roman's Lab on Youtube.com:
2.Or you can watch this one(it's the 1.d4 video series), which I used in tournaments vs 1700-2000uscf and was extremely successful [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX9Ax29jZ1k]
For black? It's harder, I don't know any good videos like there are for white. You could try wikipedia and play something safe like Caro-kann vs e4 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caro_Kann_Defense] and vs d4 play something safe and reliable like Queen's Gambit Declined [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Gambit_Declined]
The only problem with those openings is that it's hard to lose and it's also hard to win, so they're not too dynamic and it may be hard to find a plan as a beginner. Many people say do the Nimzo vs d4 and the sicilian vs e4, but they can be much sharper and a lot easier to lose with if you don't know what you're doing. I always preferred solid over dynamic tight rope walking; it's kind of a pain.
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I'd also recommend an annotated chess book, so that you can go over the games and basically round up all the above training.
I like Franco Zenon:
1.The Art of Attacking Chess[http://www.amazon.com/Art-Attacking-Chess-Zenon-Franco/dp/1904600972/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1406649342&sr=1-2&keywords=franco+zenon+attack]
2.Grandmaster Secrets: Counter-Attack! [http://www.amazon.com/Grandmaster-Secrets-Counter-Attack-Zenon-Franco/dp/1906454094/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_z]
Both by Franco Zenon. Also great is: "How Karpov Wins." [http://www.amazon.com/How-Karpov-Wins-Second-Enlarged/dp/0486278816/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1406649393&sr=1-3-fkmr0&keywords=how+to+win+like+karpov]
Some people also recommend John Nunn's "Understanding Chess Move by move" but i've never even looked inside of it before: [http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Chess-Move-John-Nunn/dp/1901983412/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1406649416&sr=1-2&keywords=Chess+move+by+move&dpPl=1]
Also Check out the Saint Louise Chess Club on youtube. Ben Finegold and Akobian offer the BEST annotations on the games. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjZiy6FqqyE)
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Conclusion: well, it's long as hell, but that basically sums it up. As far as applying all these things to study you can do something simple like
Monday-Sunday (this is Mon,Tues,Wed,Thurs,Fri,Sat, AND Sun) Do like 10-20 Tactical puzzles on Chess Tempo, and 2-5 Silman's Workbook puzzles everyday.
Every 2 or 3 days do 1 game out of Franco Zenon's Book or Karpov's or whatever Annotated resource you have. (Studies show masters and the better chess players spent the most time looking at master games)
On Friday-Saturday-Sunday: Study your openings and Endgames
This should be enough to provide you with very rapid and substantial improvement. You pretty much get what you put into it. If you get a coach, all he is going to do is open a book like one of the above mentioned ones and just do exercises out of it, or something very similar. Except you have to pay him like $50-$100 an hour, when you could just buy the ENTIRE book for like $15 or $20 ONCE and you have the ENTIRE information for a lifetime.
Understanding Chess Move by Move
A fine book that hasn't been mentioned yet: [Understanding Chess Move by Move] (http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Chess-Move-John-Nunn/dp/1901983412/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1376777162&sr=8-3&keywords=John+Nunn), John Nunn - Chess is a game of ideas, and this book does a fine job of explaining how top-level chessplayers think. One of his best books...
http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Chess-Move-John-Nunn/dp/1901983412/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1419124644&sr=8-1&keywords=nunn+chess+move+by+move
I think this book beats Chernev since it has more modern games, engine checked and no silly writing for repetitive moves like castles ( everyone who read Chernev's book knows what I mean ).
I think going through a complete game collection would be your best bet. This will introduce you to opening ideas, positional themes, tactics, endgames, etc. All in the package of complete games. I wouldn't branch off into books on specific topics until you've consumed a more general book of well annotated games.
I highly recommend either of these for a good second book:
Logical Chess: Move by Move
Understanding Chess Move by Move
Both books annotate every single move in the game, which is very useful to the beginner. I think one big "a ha!" moment in the development of a chess player is the true realization that every move is important and these books highlight the fact that there is an idea behind each and every move in a game played between high level players and the books explain those ideas thoroughly.