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What books would you recommend for learning strategy/calculation?

For anyone who wants to know what the London System looks like in the early stages of the game, I have a link that I will share with you from a game I just played with a new user here on Lichess, just now.

@heallan said in #20:
> Anything on the London System ...
Maybe try First Steps: the Colle and London Systems by IM Lakdawala.
I see many recommendations on 'Chess Structures', and the reviews and description sound really interesting to me. I'll get it! :D

Thank you all so much for the help!
@PranavRamesh8

Very good books have already been suggested in this thread!

However, one really outstanding book has not yet been mentioned here, which will greatly help you to better understand strategic connections:
"Chess Strategy for Club Players" by Herman Grooten

Herman Grooten is a Dutch IM and was/is chess coach to the grandmasters Loek van Wely, Jan Werle, Twan Burg, Wouter Spoelman, ...

His classic and modern games and game fragments are very well selected and clearly annotated.
I personally think this book is excellent and have benefited greatly from it.
You can try to download phone application "reality check" you are just trying to play the best moves in position from master practice after that you can analyze position with engine, and you will have some rating which depends from your performance.

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