Originally posted by likeforestGoing over My system by Nimzo, right now.
Name a couple of your favorites (ones you have acctually finished).
This time with a dictionary.
Its amazing how much more you understand, when you bother to look up all the words, you dont understand.
Read it a few years ago, didnt remember squat.
Next i'm going to go over the games, and annotations in a new perspective
Irving Chernev, 1000 Best Short Games of Chess was the first chess book I read.
I.A. Horowitz, Chess Openings: Theory and Practice; David Levy, Karpov's Selected Games; and Wijk aan Zee Grandmaster Chess Tournament, 1975 took the place of homework in high school.
My game began to improve instantly when I read Renaud and Kahn, The Art of the Checkmate, and more slowly, but also more certainly, after Yasser Seirawan, Winning Chess Strategies; Peter Romanovsky, Chess Middlegame Planning; and the pair by Jeremy Silman, The Amateur's Mind and Reassess Your Chess.
Originally posted by zebanoI picked up this book this summer and immediately started working through it. I like his explanations, and recommend it for anyone struggling with John Nunn's Understanding Chess Move by Move. McDonald's book is somewhat more accessible (or less advanced).
Neil McDonald - Chess : The Art of Logical Thinking
I found both entertaining and instructive McDonald's explanation of 1.e4 in game after game, never repeating what he had written in a prior game, but building upon and expanding the original comments.
Originally posted by WulebgrActually I got rather annoyed with that. Give me 2 or three moves sans worthless comment and then get into the good stuff.
I picked up this book this summer and immediately started working through it. I like his explanations, and recommend it for anyone struggling with John Nunn's Understanding Chess Move by Move. McDonald's book is somewhat more accessible (or less advanced).
I found both entertaining and instructive McDonald's explanation of 1.e4 in game after game, ...[text shortened]... g what he had written in a prior game, but building upon and expanding the original comments.