Does anyone have any reccomendations for chess books?

I have been wanting to imrpove, and am looking for a chess book to learn more concepts and practice my skills. Does anyone know or recomend what chess books to buy?

@Aadvik09 Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual. Great book on endgames - really instructive and helpful.

thanks

The woodpecker method. You can get it on chessable and it has a lot of tactics exercises to "woodpeck", so chances are that if you dilligently do the exercises in the book, your tactical awareness will increase .

@ProvisionalRating said in #2:
> @Aadvik09 Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual. Great book on endgames - really instructive and helpful.

You want a guy who is rated 1548 rapid to read Dvoretsky?? I am 2200 Rapid and I am no where near ready for Dvoretsky!!

Start with something you'll actually benefit from. Simple tactics books. One movers, two movers, 3 movers, etc. Chess tactics for Champions by Susan Polgar is a good one at your level. Woodpecker will be too hard for you right now. Save it for later.

If you want to start looking at Endgames, which is not a bad idea, start with Silman's Complete Endgame Course, so you can learn basic king and pawn endings that will be immediately useful to you and will help you immediately play the endgame much much better. You'll learn Opposition, Triangulation, Outflanking, etc. And you'll be able to form a wonderful foundation for yourself in terms of endgame play, which you can later expand upon by reading stuff like Shereshevsky.

Hope this helps.

@ProvisionalRating said in #2:
> @Aadvik09 Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual. Great book on endgames - really instructive and helpful.

That is meant for pros. I read within 2 years or so.

I like "Move First Think Later" and "Chess for Zebras".

@Aadvik09 said in #1:
> I have been wanting to imrpove, and am looking for a chess book to learn more concepts and practice my skills. Does anyone know or recomend what chess books to buy?
ill recommend a chessable course that isnt a book. its anish giri najdorf and dragon sicilian courses. u can also get 1 hour long versions for free

for beginers the one move and two move puzzles books are good

Have to agree with CM Sarg0n... Chess For Zebras by GM Jonathan Rowson is the most eye-opening book I have ever read. Now, if you haven't read any chess books until now, then I would recommend starting of move by move :). Logical Chess Move By Move by GM Irving Chernev or Understanding Chess Move By Move by GM John Nunn is an excellent way to start your journey of since the books are very well written, moves are very well explained and they are written for Class players which means there are no 5 computer lines for each move polluting the book. Then, as you get more experience and get better I recommend going over the books such as I Play Against Pieces by GM Svetozar Gligorić, My 60 Memorable Games by GM Robert J. Fischer, Life & Games Of Mikhail Tal by GM Mikhail Tal himself and so on. Game collection books are the best way to improve in chess since you will inevitably absorb certain ideas. After all of that add the books by Mikhail Shereshevsky to your collection and you are good to go to claim your FM title. To tell you the truth though, I would stay away from the books like Dvoretsky's Engame Manual and such. People that recommend this kind of books probably never opened them but heard them being mentioned by another chess player who also didn't open them, let alone read them. I never read any such books and I never plan to. I really love chess, but that is a divorce after the first problem arises. Go easy and read what you like. You can absorb ideas from many chess books, however not all chess books are equally good. #GEN_W#