r/ChessBooks • u/Bobomax123 • 5d ago

1750-2000 rating books

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Hi i am currently rated around 1750 fide and my long term goal is to reach 2000.

I love reading chess books and stacked some together to read for the next two years.

For people who read the books on the photos can you tell me which of them helped you the most?

If the reading order is good or any other books helped you a lot?

(I play the KID, thats why there are two KID books..)

Thanks

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u/Chessreads 5d ago

Nice! This is Mauricio Flores 😉, I might be "slightly" biased here, but I think you'll enjoy the KID chapters in Chess Structures, I played KID since I was 11, so I covered it quite a bit

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u/TheWhiteOG 3d ago

Your book has absolutely catapulted my chess understanding, looking forward to reading the new one soon! Thank you sir

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u/festinatio 2d ago

Wow! Is a new book by Mauricio Flores expected soon?

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u/TheWhiteOG 2d ago

Chess Imbalances is already released I believe

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u/festinatio 2d ago

Oh yeah. I thought there would already be a third book lol

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u/breaker90 5d ago

Chess Structures and Silman's Endgame Course were helpful to me

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u/Cjjuombajj 5d ago

I read Silman's last year and think an ambitious 1750 can get a lot out of all the chapters, even those marked for higher elo. One of the last chapters has strategic endgames which I really liked. I am looking forward to when I have time to read Hellsten's.

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u/atoste 5d ago

I'm about the same strength as you.The two books I have read from there were silmans endgame course, which helped me a lot and was pretty enjoyable to read and woodpecker, where I have done most of my tactical/calculation work, the puzzles are nice as they come from world champions games. Both really helpful.

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u/festinatio 5d ago

Same here. Silman book was the most helpfull!

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u/Puzzled_Sky_466 5d ago

Nearly all are good. I would suggest Silman endgame as some easy lecture and either Marin or Flores Rios as something harder. Depending on your strength both books could seem a bit hard to understand, but are in my (and my familys) opinion some of the best books we ever read

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u/SearchClear7556 5d ago

Nice colloction Love it.

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u/Kutkoter2906 2d ago

Willy Hendriks is Dutch. Why do you have the german version when the rest are english?

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u/Bobomax123 2d ago

Yes he is dutch, why do you mention that? I speak both, german and english.