Which books can help me improve my chess ?

@tpr thx i will try these books

Have you looked at comprehensive courses yet?

You have:

1. Seirawan's Winning chess series <----- 4 books recommended. 1. Play winning chess, 2. tactics 3. strat 4. Brilliancies
2. Yusupov's building chess series <-- This one I think is huge. Like 20 books.
3. Lev Alburt's Comprehensive chess course <--- I think this is 7 books.
4. Igor Smirnov's remote chess academy <--- This one if you don't mind more expensive videos.

Personally I did 1 and 4, but I don't think it matters which route you choose. Also if you choose 1, you can mix up a bit like I did and do 1 and 4, and even add Silman's "How to reassess your chess" around 1700 and they go well together. I would not take the "Thinking system" in Silman's book all that seriously unless it REALLY REALLY speaks to you. Not that it's bad, just not everyone can do it effectively.

I would also recommend that you obtain 1001 brilliant sacs and combo's by Reinfeld (Ignore computer analysis. The thing you are learning is themes not how to refute the book)

And I would also recommend obtaining a fully annotated book of games by any author who actually fully annotates. I think the most popular is still Alekhine.

Hello, @enpassant1000

This is not meant to be unkind but you might consider thinking of yourself as a beginner, irrespective of how long you have been playing chess. This will provide a more realistic framework for your path to improvement and help you stay away from things that are above your head and will remain so until you overcome certain basic hurdles, first of which is understanding chess fundamentals and playing safe and solid chess. My opinion? 1- Open a free Chessable.com account and go through SmithyQ's free ""Smithy's opening fundamentals" (www.chessable.com/smithys-opening-fundamentals/course/21302/). It will be the only book you will need for a while...

Regards, Pix.

Books are somewhat overrated. Don’t expect too much.

Make a chess table out of books, then you can read and play chess at the same time.

Given your rating, you don't need books. What you need is to train yourself to spot undefended pieces, direct threats, basic checkmating patterns, and basic tactics (forks, pins and skewers). One training method I know for this is to look at puzzle positions, and, before solving the puzzle, stop and stare at the position for a while; count the number of checks available; count the number of defended pieces, the number of undefended pieces; count the number of captures available; then solve the puzzle. Repeat until you see improvement. (Eventually you'll learn how to look at a chessboard properly, and then the moves which *don't* hang material will become much more natural than those that do.)

It also helps to know how to win K+P vs K, and when that ending is a draw. For that, you still don't need a book; you can find any number of online freely available resources for an ending this simple. Perhaps try St Louis lectures on YouTube.

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Good lord! If I had to do that at 900-1000 I think I would have quit chess.

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@enpassant1000 on your level, you don't need books, but a good basic tactics training. If you like books, take same book with tactics, good authors are Alburt, Seirawan, Nunn. And just do them over and over again, until you know every position in the book by heart. Then you'll improve significately.

@MeWantCookieMobile I never said you have to do it. Another way to improve is to just play games. Obviously that's much slower, though.

In my opinion, it really shouldn't come as a surprise that the quickest ways to improve are not the most interesting/fun. The upshot of following through on them, however, is that the games of chess you will play as a result will probably be a bit more fun, and you might win more games ("might" because in practice nowadays we all play online and are paired almost exclusively with players our own strength, so the increased win percentage will be temporary until your rating settles again).