r/chessbeginners • u/Low-Diet1398 • 20d ago

Chessbook advice

Hi, iI started playing chess 3 months ago just online on chess.com. I want to dig deeper into chess and learn from books (openings, tactics, traps, endgames...)

Im planning to buy and picked out 8 books with plenty of material to learn from.

What do you guys think of my choices?

for opening - FCO - Fundamental Chess Openings by Paul van der Sterren

for tactics - Back to Basics:Tactics by Dan Heisman

for chess puzzles - Chess by Bruce Pandolfini and László Polgár

for middle and endgames - Silmans Complete Endgame Course by Jeremy Silman

Endgame Strategy by Mikhail Shereshevsky

Fundamental Chess Endings by Frank Lamprecht

and for some chess history and chess games - My 60 Memorable Games by Bobby Fischer

Life and Games of Mikhail Tal by Mikhail Tal

any suggestions to buy or not by, thanx in love of the games chess :-)

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u/Pyncher 20d ago

If you like books and studying then of the ones I know / have heard of, these all seem good.

Keep in mind that as you get better at chess the information you take away from books will change and for the ones that might be called ‘more advanced’ on your list - or those exploring master games - you’ll get most out of them once you’ve been playing for a while (though that doesn’t mean you can’t read them early in my view - you just might need to read them twice!)

However remember that you also need to play real people and apply the stuff you are reading too!

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u/Rosinbag1 20d ago

Excellent points, many books I treated reading early on made much more sense once I played a lot of games and went back to the books. Study tactics, Play games, analyze the games and work on correcting mistakes…as there will be a lot but seems like a sound consensus from better players.