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1. #BEST BEGINNER CHESS BOOKS HOW TO#
2. #BEST BEGINNER CHESS BOOKS FULL#
3. #BEST BEGINNER CHESS BOOKS SERIES#

And of course, Michael Stean's book is an instructional classic. In fact any chess book by John Emms is generally worthwhile - he is one of the better chess authors. Emms' books (in 2 volumes) are also worthwhile. Read Michael Stean's book before reading Emms. Same title, similar subject matter (chess instruction from the perspective of positional concepts), but different books. Is "Simple Chess" by Michael Stean different than "Simple Chess" by John Emms? Sorry but I have the one by Emms and thought it was pretty challenging as a novice. Openings for Amateurs by Pete Tamburro (2014)Ĭhess Endgames for Kids by Karsten Müller (2015)Ī Guide to Chess Improvement by Dan Heisman (2010) Winning Chess by Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld (1949)īack to Basics: Tactics by Dan Heisman (2007)ĭiscovering Chess Openings by GM John Emms (2006) The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played by Irving Chernev (1965) Logical Chess: Move by Move by Irving Chernev (1957) A year from the time he just learned the moves he became our team's first board.Simple Attacking Plans by Fred Wilson (2012) However, he saw right through the traps and we were somewhat surprised how far he had come in 6 months. We thought cheap opening traps were enough for an advantage.

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Yes, we were full to cheap traps - a majority of our team (and school league for that matter) were in the u1400 range at the time. Yeah, we were dickish and had the gall to proclaim "how is your endgame knowledge gonna help you when we beat you in the opening. We all laughed at him when he told us this. He was taught that the end game was the most important part to learn. He was told the Ruy Lopez was a very important opening to study, not just to play it, but the ideas of all facets of the game came out from that one opening. Then I think he took a couple of lessons and the teacher set him straight. We taught him the moves and then proceeded to crush him on every turn. When I was in high school, I knew of one guy who was an absolute beginner.

Learn from my mistake in that regard - I wasted way too much time studying openings. That won't help your overall playing strength. You'll occasionally use the internet or a games database to look up specific opening moves that come up in your games, but don't sit and read anything about openings.

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Study how to play middle games and endgames that result from the opening. I'll disagree with the previous posters recommending anything to do with openings. This one's a good followup to Logical Chess. After tactics, studying lots of complete master games, well annotated in words, rather than just move variations, is probably the next most important study. Chernev's Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played. Tactics puzzles are the best study you can do at low-intermediate levels, and this is probably the 2nd best beginners book of them.ĥ. Now I need to think a little to come up with 2 more. Probably the single most commonly recommended book for beginners, and with good reason. Pandolfini's book was the best available at the time, but Silman has far surpassed it.ģ. So for instance, Silman walks you through the simplest pawn only endgames first, and then gets into more complex pawn endgames in later chapters, whereas Pandolfini throws them all at you at once and just hopes that you'll remember it all.

It's divided up based on what order you need to learn things, rather than just grouping all endgames with the same pieces together. I agree with the previous poster about having an endgame book in your first 5, but this one's better than Pandolfini, because of how everything's presented. In my mind, this one replaces the older John Bain's Chess Tactics for Students as the best first tactics book for a beginner, though Bain would still be a decent choice.Ģ. Right now I probably play an 800-1200 level endgame (OTB I'm a little over 1500 USCF) and I'm benefitting from the Just the Facts endgame book. The book also has a GREAT anti-French section-as far as I know, it is the only book that goes at the French with the intention of cracking it. It really helped me, and it really teaches you how to convert an aggressive-looking postion into an advantage. Despite being an opening book, I read it to help with my middlegame planning and attacking. I play the Veresov myself entirely because of Cyrus Lakdawala's A Ferocious Opening Repertoire. Then I'd recommend using the internet to decide upon an opening repertoire, and then read some opening books. There's stuff in there to help players of all levels. The Mammoth Book of Chess is something I've found very helpful.

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I've heard good things about a series of books that lists grandmaster games and gives answer choices for which move the GM played, you answer and then it explains.