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Re: Chesspub members best chess books
Reply #16 - 06/10/09 at 10:18:23
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1. My 60 Memorable games - Fischer
2. Winning with the Najdorf - King
3. Essential Chess Endings - Howell
4. Endgame Strategy - Shereshevsky
5. Reassess your Chess - Silman
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5. Chess for Tigers - Webb

Caveat: Haven't had time yet to read Bronstein's Zurich '53 or Tal's Life & Games (they are both top on my "to do" list)
  
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Re: Chesspub members best chess books
Reply #15 - 06/10/09 at 09:08:41
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- The life and games of Mikhail Tal - Tal
- Dreihundert Schachpartien - Tarrasch
- De Koning: Schaakstukken - Donner
- Practical Chess Endings - Keres
- Questions of modern chess theory - Lipnitsky
  
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Reply #14 - 06/10/09 at 02:14:51
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1. 1953 Zurich International Chess Tournament by David Bronstein
2. Art of the Attack by Vladimir Vukovics
3. Think like a Grandmaster by Alexander Kotov
4. Essential Chess Endings by James Howell
5. My 60 Memorable games by Bobby Fischer
  
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Reply #13 - 06/10/09 at 00:05:27
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In no particular order: 

Larsen's Best Games
Perfect Your Chess
Grandmaster Chess Move by Move
Tal's Best Games
Fire on Board

- No opening Manuals included, though if I had to it would change the list.  Grin
  
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Reply #12 - 06/09/09 at 22:29:59
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1. Dvoretsky/Yusupov: Positional Play
2. Silman: How To Ressess Your Chess
3. LB Hansen: Secrets of Chess Endgame Strategy
4. Bronznik/Terekhin: Techniken des Positionsspiels im Schach
5. Aagaard: Attacking Manual 1

This is my list today; If you asked me tomorrow, it could be five different books! There are just too many to choose from. Seems like today I'm into positional play and not so much into openings, game collections, or tactics...
  
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Reply #11 - 06/09/09 at 20:15:19
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1 60 memorable games Fischer
2 My System  Nimzovich
3 Botvinniks Analysis and critical Works (3 volumes)
4 tal life and games
5 Most Instructive Games ever played   Chernev
6 New york 1924 Alekhine
  
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Reply #10 - 06/09/09 at 18:02:00
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!- Anything and everything by Cecil Purdy
2-Predator at the Chessboard (Vols 1 &2)
3-The Chess Tutor by Leslie Ault
4-The Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess
5-Chernov's Logical Chess Move by Move

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Re: Chesspub members best chess books
Reply #9 - 06/09/09 at 11:18:24
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Euwe: Praktische schaaklessen
Van Perlo: endgame tactics
Uhlmann: winning with the french
Euwe-Alekhine 1935
Donner: The king
  
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Reply #8 - 06/09/09 at 09:38:12
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1. Mastering the endgame by Shereshevsky & Slutsky (actually 2 volumes)
2. My System by Nimzowitsch
3. Chess for Zebras by Rowson
4. Learn from the Legends - Chess champions at their best by Marin
5. The life and Games of Mihail Tal by Tal
  
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Re: Chesspub members best chess books
Reply #7 - 06/09/09 at 09:19:54
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1.  Complete games of Bobby Fischer - Wade (2 books)
2.  Zurick 53 - David Bronstein
3.  Flank openings Raymond - Keene (a revolution in the 70)
4.  Aventures et mésaventures en milieu de jeu - Kurt Richter
5.  Larsen's Best Games of Chess - Larsen 
  
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Re: Chesspub members best chess books
Reply #6 - 06/09/09 at 08:25:34
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1) Chess Informants 1-103
2) Forcing Chess Moves
3) Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual
4) Grandmaster Repertoire 1.d4: Volume One
5) Van Perlo's Endgame Tactics

I'm not sure if the Chess Informants count as one book or more than one, but since all Informants are available as one, I would argue that all issues are the equivalent of one item.

I could have included the New In Chess Yearbooks as well, although since the Yearbooks are not available all as one item (ie they are all separate, unless the Informants on the CD), this would be stretching the definition of a singular 'book' too far.

Edit: I changed my mind for no.5, from 'The Sveshnikov Reloaded' to 'Van Perlo's Endgame Tactics'. Thanks to Willempie for reminding me of the latter.
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Re: Chesspub members best chess books
Reply #5 - 06/09/09 at 07:30:09
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#1) My System/Chess Praxis/Blockade - Aaron Nimzowitsch
#2) Opening for White According to Kramnik (Series) - Alexander Khalifman
#3) Play the French (1st, 2nd, 3rd Editions) - John Watson 
#4) Practical Chess Endings - Paul Keres
#5) Play the Nimzo-Indian Defense - Svetozar Gligoric

This amounts to more than 5, but it has a lot to do with how it is structured in my mind.

The books are ranked in terms of how much I got out of them, although admittedly I am missing book 4 of the Khalifman series.
  
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Re: Chesspub members best chess books
Reply #4 - 06/09/09 at 05:27:29
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1.The amateurs mind Jeremy Silman
2.Reassess your chess Jeremy Silman
3.Middlegame I & II
4.Fischers approach to chess
5.Chess for dummies by Daniel King
  
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Re: Chesspub members best chess books
Reply #3 - 06/09/09 at 04:58:38
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Crapov wrote on 06/08/09 at 23:05:49:
I'll start with my best 5:

Bronstein: Zurich International 1953
Fischer: My 60 Memorable Games
Soltis: Soviet Chess 1917-1991
Tal: My Life & Games
Burgess et al: The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games



P.S. I really want to include the Kasparov: My Great Predecessors series but since it more than one book...  What do you think?


Bronstein's, Tal's and Fischer's book is already in my top 5.  my other two favorite books are:  Bronstein's Sorcerer's apprentice and Tal's Tal-Botvinek championship book. 
  
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Re: Chesspub members best chess books
Reply #2 - 06/09/09 at 01:14:36
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1.  My 60 Memorable Games - Fischer
2.  Zurich 1953 - Bronstein
3.  100 Selected Games - Botvinnik
4.  Grandmaster of Chess - Keres
5.  Larsen's Best Games of Chess - Larsen
  
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