Book recommendation?

Originally posted by gaychessplayer
Winning with the Modern by GM David Norwood is one of my favorite chess books. He's a very good writer, and he played the Modern exclusively (I think) for about a decade before he wrote the book. The book is also very honest (unlike most repertoire books). If a line that he recommends is looking a bit shaky for Black, he tells you that up fr ...[text shortened]... ysis that's what you'll find. If Black is slighlty worse off, Norwood will tell you so.

Hey gaychessplayer dude, it might have been your illustrious self that advocated this book, if so i aplogise to Paul and thankyou, really, what an awesome recommendation!

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
Hey gaychessplayer dude, it might have been your illustrious self that advocated this book, if so i aplogise to Paul and thankyou, really, what an awesome recommendation!

I'm glad you like to book so far.

BTW, I bet you didn't know that David Norwood sends me a check for $10 every time I recommend his book on a message board. 🙂

Originally posted by gaychessplayer
I'm glad you like to book so far.

BTW, I bet you didn't know that David Norwood sends me a check for $10 every time I recommend his book on a message board. 🙂

lol, he must be running at a loss, the book itself was barely ten bucks but worth every cent/penny!

Originally posted by hatfinch
Hi,

I'm thirty two years old, and though I played a little chess at school with friends I never really got interested in it until I found this site a couple of years ago. I decided to get as good as I could without reading any chess theory, just by trying to work everything out from first principles. I seem to have reached my ceiling just short of 1500. anyone have any recommendations? Preferably in print in the UK.

Thanks in advance,
Hamish

I would suggest. "My System" by Aaron Nimzovich. I'd recommend this one to anyone under 1800

Thank you all very much for your responses! I look forward to reading some of your recommendations soon.