![]() ![]() I rewired whole networks of brain cells with a few of Dvoretsky's books (painful but gainful). Chess is a fiendishly difficult game (in case you didn't know). Later on I dusted off a few old openings but I forget the theory in no time I'm a professional educator so trust me on my next comment: you MUST extend youself if you want to improve. As simple as that! Honestly that's all I did - I haven't had time for anything else. I went from being about 2000 (and in real danger of slipping down to 1800ish for the rest of my days) in my mid-thirties to 2150 by about 40 (or so) by studying the middle game. If you're addicted to buying endless openings books try 'How to Build Your Chess Opening Repertoire' by Giddens. But in fairness to Yasser Seirawan - and the American market out there - he does a great job at explaining nearly any aspect of chess so if he's written a one-volume openings book I'm sure it would suffice. Actually, it would be better to understand the openings, so I'll suggest 'Understanding the Chess Openings' by Sam Collins. Well, all you need is a playable middlegame, so nearly anything will do. Did I forget something? Oh yes, openings. Two or three excellent ones in circulationĥ. Endings book 1: Essential knowledge type. Any decent tactics software package - as long as its as least as good as CT ART 3.0 (which I whole-heartedly recommend by the way - its helped me get worse more slowly if you see what I mean!)Ĥ. I'd plump for 'The Mammoth Book Of The World's Greatest Chess Games' by Burgess, Nunn and Emms rather than collections of Alekhine's, Botvinnik's, Fischer's or Kasparov's games - we want our hero to have a well-rounded education.ģ. Any reasonably well annotated 'best games' collection. Or older books like Capa's 'Fundamentals' or one of Pachman's more comprehensive titles (the latter are probably better than Silman's but not so accessable).Ģ. I think that categories of books (and software - as I'm planning to cheat a little) are more improtant than particular titles.ġ. While I'm kind of thinking what the blue-and-white-striped b1 is thinking I think that Jono and Davidflude have points that can't be ignored - remember the aim is to get our boy to master strength, not 1700 strength. ![]()
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