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dunne YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 6 Location: http://freeshell.de/~dunne/ Joined: 05/14/16	Re: Favourite chess book Reply #7 - 05/14/16 at 14:11:32	Post Tools	Print Post
	Kmoch's Pawn Power in Chess is outstanding. His nomenclature takes a bit of getting used to, but it is worth the effort. I soon found myself when reading other chess books thinking stuff like "ah, of course, he establishes a head duo" or "Black needs a lever here". If that's Greek to you, read the book!

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ErictheRed God Member Offline USCF National Master Posts: 2534 Location: USA Joined: 10/02/05	Re: Favourite chess book Reply #6 - 05/11/16 at 17:42:37	Post Tools	Print Post
	There are a lot that I loved; here are some of my favorites: The Art of Sacrifice by Spielmann Pawn Structure Chess by Soltis Positional Play by Dvoretsky Rate Your Endgame by Mednis and Crouch Chess Duels by Seirawan


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Larsen_fan Full Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 111 Location: at the board Joined: 02/23/11 Gender:	Re: Favourite chess book Reply #5 - 05/11/16 at 15:52:32	Post Tools	Print Post
	Some of my favorites: Opening: Starting out the accelerated dragon. Game Collection: The Judith Polgar triology (beautiful chess and a facinating read). Puzzlebooks: I love positional puzzles so it would be Test your positional play by Bellin and Ponzetto. Middlegame: Move first think later (laugh and learn). Endgame: Van Perlos endgame tactics / Rate your endgame bu Mednis and Crouch. DVD: I do not have many but realy enjoy attacking with the Pirc by Bojkov. regards, Larsen_fan


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david YaBB Newbies Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 5 Joined: 05/11/16	Re: Favourite chess book Reply #4 - 05/11/16 at 05:00:01	Post Tools	Print Post
	The Power of Pawns, Jorg Hickl really opened my eyes to the potential of pawns, took my game to a whole new level


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Keano God Member Offline Money doesn't talk, it swears. Posts: 2928 Location: Toulouse Joined: 05/25/05 Gender:	Re: Favourite chess book Reply #3 - 12/18/15 at 22:52:33	Post Tools	Print Post
	Zurich International Chess Tournament 1953 - Bronstein


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RoleyPoley YaBB Moderator Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 746 Location: London Joined: 12/29/13 Gender:	Re: Favourite chess book Reply #2 - 12/18/15 at 22:26:28	Post Tools	Print Post
	Chess for tigers is one of my favourites too! Ward's winning with the Dragon and Gallagher's winning with the Kings Gambit also up there.

	"As Mikhail Tal would say ' Let's have a bit of hooliganism! '" Victor Bologan.
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JEH God Member Offline "Football is like Chess, only without the dice." Posts: 1456 Location: Reading Joined: 09/22/05 Gender:	Re: Favourite chess book Reply #1 - 12/15/15 at 16:31:37	Post Tools	Print Post
	My personal favourites: 1. How to Open a Chess Game by Larry Evans, Vlastimil Hort, Paul Keres, Svetozar Gligoric, Tigran Petrosian 2. Learn from the Grandmasters by Raymond Keene 3. Chess for Tigers by Simon Webb

	Those who want to go by my perverse footsteps play such pawn structure with fuzzy atypical still strategic orientations Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, stuck in the middlegame with you
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Paul Brondal Full Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 106 Location: Denmark Joined: 05/20/14 Gender:	Favourite chess book 12/15/15 at 14:58:14	Post Tools	Print Post
	Recently, candidates for the worst chess books were mentioned in another thread. I would like to know which chess books are your favourite ones! Probably the books should be divided into categories because there are IMO so many good books. In general, I'm very fond of books from Quality Chess and love when books contain a lot of good exercises. However, currently I'm reading Dvoretsky's new book Recognizing Your Opponent's Resources and I'm just thrilled. Today, I'm starting the exercises in the last chapter Prophylactic Thinking. The book has excited me so much that I've neglected opening preparation and not read the newest issue of NIC before my next tournament which starts on Friday! Opening: Marin's books on the English. Avrukh's book on the Slav. Game collection: Karolyi's books on Karpov's Strategic Wins Puzzle books: Franco's Giant Chess Puzzle Book Middlegame: The above-mentioned Dvoretsky book. Also find the Grandmaster Preparation series fantastic, especially Positional Play and Strategic Play. Yusupov's green books are very good too but it is mentally tough to have "chess exams" all the time. Endgame: Marin's Learn from the Legends and Villa's 100 endgames you must know. Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual is too tough for me; hopefully I will enjoy it within a few years. DVDs: Pert's DVD on the Solid Slav and Costa's ABC of the English. Haven't seen very many dvd's but find that these two are very good when time is limited. For Christmas some very nice dvd's are just waiting to be opened


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