Hi all,
i own only six chess books:
"Win with the London System" by Johnsen/Kovacevic
"Learn Chess Tactics" by Nunn
"1001 Deadly Checkmates" by Nunn
"1... b6" by Lakdawala
"Amateur To IM" by Hawkins
"Das Schachspiel" by Tarrasch
The latter i bought when i was 14 and started with chess - about 46 years ago.
The rest i bought in the last half year or so after i joined lichess.org.
Should be enough for the next years and i'm convinced that less is more.
But i don't have any game collection.
Some say that i should have at least one. This seems to be plausible.
But there are so many. And their layout is sometimes poor, bad readability, bad usability.
Or their level is extremely high. And so on. Not to forget that these books are often quite expensive.
Thank you very much in advance for any recommendation.
Best regards, Karl
P.S.: And please don't worry about the title of the book by Hawkins - i'm aware that i'll never become an IM ;-)