I'm looking for a good trap book. Any recommendations? Now remember, I'm not looking for a crappy book, only a good one.😛
I play the French against e4 and have started playing Kosten's Dynamic English as White. Against d4 I don't have a defense that I always use. I mention this because doing the google search it seems trap books are based on openings.
Thanks!
correct traps are not located later in the game, they call those tactics. A book of traps is not very usefull. It just shows poor opening play and how to capitalize on it. Usually one can calculate what will happen if they take a piece or move one of their own. There is a book called opening traps and zaps but I've never read it. I think its a waste of time, there are little traps with d4 and much more traps per say for black against e4 because they tend to lead to tactical rich games.
Seirwan books look nice. I've thought about picking up a couple of those books. The titles I'm considering are:
Winning Chess Tactics, revised
Winning Chess Brilliancies
Winning Chess Combinations
Play Winning Chess
Does anyone know what order I should get the books or what order to read them in? Or does it matter?
Play Winning Chess is book 1.
It teaches how the pieces move all the way up to basic strategy.
Winning Chess Tactics is book 2.
It has examples of all the different tactics that can come about.
Winning Chess Strategies is book 3.
This explains about making plans and long term goals (rather than the combinations in the previous volume).
Winning Chess Brilliancies (was originally book 4 ... now there are a few more on openings and endings).
It is really just a grandmaster game collection with excellent annotations. It's not really part of the study program (although it certainly helps).