What chess books I am going to study in Q1/2010
In my previous post Chess goals for 2010 I mentioned the most important directions which I would like to go to improve my chess this year.
To achieve an improvement it is necessary to study chess games and/or books. As probably many of you, I have quite good chess library, but I have not go through all my books. So once I am goign to take chess seriously this year it is good to create a list of books I would like to read and/or play through. Of course, the list of books should be corresponding to my training goals.
One of them is “improvement in chess endings” and in positional play in general.
I choose three books for this purpose:
- Selected games 1969 – 1977 by Anatoly Karpov (more than 50 deeply anonated Karpov’s games)
- Chess endings – Essential knowledge by Yuri Averbakh
- Chess strategy for club players by Herman Grooten
And because I would like to avoid to losing “tactical eye” I will go through Chess Training Pocket Book II by Lev Alburt and Al Lawrence – great selection of tactic puzzles.
Photo by andreasnilsson1976.
Related posts:
- Two chess books from The Prodigal Pawn
- Chess goals for 2010
- ACIS of Caissa: Maybe It’s Not What to Study, It’s Whether We Need to Study at All?
- Chess Training Pocket Book II – Lev Alburt, Al Lawrence
- We don’t like to show off, but…
- More on how to study and improve in chess by Purdy
- 50% summer sale of chess books
- ACIS 2010
- New Training Packages: for Beginners, for Club & Intermediate Players
- 72% chess players are focused on study of openings
