old hardcover tactics books?

Originally posted by chessisvanity
I noticed that i haven't seen any old hardcover tactics books...

was there any?

being hardcover is the key word here.

Sure. I own several: 1001 Checkmates, 1001 Sacrifices, The Combination from Philidor to Karpov, The Basis of Combination in Chess, Art of the Checkmate, The Art of Attack, The Art of Chess Combination, Encyclopedia of Chess Middlegames, Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games. These are only the ones I can recollect from my own library, which the majority of which is packed up.

Originally posted by chessisvanity
I noticed that i haven't seen any old hardcover tactics books...

was there any?

being hardcover is the key word here.

I personally think you need to calm down! You're obviously frustrated at your lack of progression but flitting around in a haze of ideas for improvement really isn't going to do you any good.
You constantly change your ideas for opening play, as if one opening is really any better than another, it was only last month you were singing the praises of the Hippo staing you'd found the key to Nirvana. Then you change again to another opening and now it's a tactics book.

Books can only ever give you ideas. no book is ever going to add hundreds of points to your rating and openings are all a matter of preference. learn one and stick with it for more than a week and you may find some improvement! try analysing a few of your games and maybe a book of chess problems.
i'm sure improvement would come if you started some kind of structured training rather than hoping for one opening or a book to play the game for you.