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Thanks Kostya

Hi Kostya , what chess set is the one you have in front of you?

What are your thoughts concerning “On the Origin of Good Moves” by Willy Hendricks? I thought it was pretty decent.

Learning how to read chess but it's mostly on the to-do list. Do they have big letters?

I rarely leave comments, but I have to here. I know this guy is an IM and way better than me, but I can speak from empirical evidence. This is the God's honest truth. I read My System in one weekend. I would not recommend reading it that fast, but my USCF rating increased from 1375 to 1677 in one month. I was never officially a 1400 or a 1500, so I think it's the best book ever. Maybe it was a combination of things but that speaks for itself. I played in some a game 30 event that was like 4 separate tournaments in a weekend where I won my class 3 out of 4 tournaments. I was second in the other. I played in a couple other more standard tournaments as well.

I am 66 years old. I played chess because of Bobby Fischer, thus "Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess" was my first purchased chess book. It cost less than $5 in 1972 when it was new. Since that time, chess books have come a long way. The Soviet chess books were not available in the U.S. until after the Soviet Union fell in 1992. I never read "My System," but a buddy who did later developed the ability to crush me in 5 minute blitz chess. Besides the Bobby Fischer-named book, I learned chess from Fred Reinfeld's "The Complete Chess Player" (borrowed from public library) and from two Irving Chernev books, "Winning Chess" and "Winning Chess Traps." In the mid-1970's, I borrowed Chernev's "The Chess Companion," "The Fireside Book Of Chess" by both Chernev and Reinfeld, and "The Chess Sacrifice" by Vladimir Vukovic from libraries. But I became overly dependent on "Chess Openings, Theory And Practice" by I.A. Horowitz. Notice that I don't name any end game book or positional chess book. My high school chess team won using TRAPS. My idea of a winning end game was to be up a pawn or more with only kings and pawns on the board. To this day, I cannot checkmate a lone king with a knight, bishop and king! I once had to do it in a 5 minute blitz game and instead flailed until my flag fell.

That's Razvan right there

Thanks for this video helps give some incite of what good reasons for a chess book is and should be with out opening a single book in what you should do if you write a chess book,give me a couple of years and the first part of the name is jbird❤😊

Thank you

Where does 'Chess for Dummies' fit in this list?

pretty overrated "my system"?... this is a god-less society.....

"Move First, Think Later" by Willy Hendriks, which promotes the anti-Kotov method.

Got to be danish

very nice, last two games were just amazing. thank you

Very helpful video. I calculated Bxf2, Kh2, Bxg3, Kxg3, g5 going for an attack. I checked with engine, Kh2 is the best defence for white but I shouldn't sac the bishop on g3.

Thank you. Kindly we need advice About visualisation any app?

I think it is very important to not put arrows in a visualisation exercise video.

Personally I found Fisher's book practically useless. But remaing 3 books I found very useful.

What about Nd4 play by white?

So, he lived with an IM then he hired a GM. Quite a head-up for us normal people.

Tip the King over. The King has fallen. Shake hands and say good game. This is the Old School way to doing things.

1. Silman did not follow his "method" on the book samples... 2. Kotov has not defined what a plan is on his books.. ????????

Very instructive game. TY)

Excellent instruction! Your style is concise but packed with context and content! That makes you an excellent teacher! Your natural gifts as an instructor show forth brightly and sets you apart from others on UA-cam. Well done! I will look for your other content to see your other valuable lessons. I just started to learn chess 3 months ago at age 69. You are helping me grow and understand. I have only played 2 humans so far and was soundly defeated both times on lichess. Looking forward to growing…

I take notes when i watch your videos

Roberto Grau's books are underrated.

Finally s Line against h3. I hatr Makagonov

Q1: I dont know my style yet, do i chose it or do i figure it out? if so then how do i figure it out? Q2: im going through a book you recommended jacob-aagaard-excelling-at-chess-calculation-capitalizing-on-tactical-chances. you said that you should only count the times on when you are calculating not reading a chess book or watching videos. How would i go through the book and start calculating while tracking the amount of time i only spent of calculating. What types of books do i read to only focus on calculating and critical positions? Can give me a selection of books that only have critical positions of bobby fisher or other great players.

Very helpful!

00:00:13 Keep track of all the games and concepts you study during practice by recording notes or saving games for later review. 00:02:09 Write down your solutions when working on calculation exercises instead of relying solely on mental calculations. 00:03:30 Review the solutions for any chess problems you miss to improve pattern recognition and understanding. 00:04:10 Review the opening after a blitz or bullet session, especially if you faced difficulties, to avoid repeating mistakes. 00:06:24 Always use your brain and thinking skills when analyzing positions, even when using an engine, to deepen your understanding of the game.

00:01:10 Change your attitude and mindset towards your goals. 00:01:40 Shift from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset to take more risks in your gameplay. 00:02:25 Play more aggressively and dynamically to learn and improve, even if it doesn't always work out. 00:03:37 Learn new openings to explore different positions and enhance your gameplay. 00:05:30 Engage in training with a partner to enhance your skills and practice new openings. 00:06:15 Solve endgame studies regularly to improve your calculation ability and creativity. 00:06:52 Challenge yourself with tough problems to enhance your calculation skills. 00:07:04 Play more principled chess against higher-rated players without fear. 00:07:11 Be open to taking risks and always aim for a win in every game. 00:09:48 Explore new ways of playing positions to gain an edge over opponents. 00:10:58 Work with a coach to gain confidence and overcome hurdles in your progress. 00:11:36 Focus on long-term improvement rather than individual tournament results. 00:12:32 Practice new openings extensively to gain confidence in playing different positions.

Over rated book discussion - very helpful! Think you.

My first book I read was my system... It skyrocketed my game. Such a beautiful book. Don't listen to this random IM who doesn't even know what good books are. The books he has read are good the books he can't afford are bad.

The "Bobby Fisher" book is good for beginners. It's full of puzzles structured according to themes such as back rank mates and combinations and such. It was my first chess book as a kid learning chess.

Shirov's gamee is truelly fantastic and shows how good he was at calculation. But what Karpov did in the last game is absolutely amazing. Black must have felt like someone with cancer in his final days. A painful slow death and there's nothing to stop it..

Kostya makes a very valid point. I sometimes use sites to solve puzzles, and have noticed they often don't play out the most testing lines, at least from the human point of view. It's unrealistic, because it's like the engine assumes you know the refutation in important side lines.

One book I enjoyed playing through was "Chess Fundamentals" by Jose Capablanca. It's not mentioned much nowadays, but it has useful material that can easily be absorbed by the average player.

The rating appropriateness of books I think needs stressing. I read and tried to read books so far over my head most of my life (I'm old). Only after the internet did I get a sense of what books I should have read, should be reading, and where my time was poorly spent. The big books that helped me were Logical Chess by Euwe, a few years later his ending book, The Middle Game by Znosko-Borovsky, Nimzo's pamphlet Blockade, and though it was way over my head Dynamic Chess Strategy by Suba. The latter, though I wasn't really understanding it, I did play better from it. But, mostly I studied checkmate puzzle books, not tactics, just mate. All I ever did was want to find checkmate and that's no way to really play chess. The middle game book tempered that a bit.

Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess is a perfect first book because it can be finished quickly by the complete novice. Fischer was justifiably proud.

Lev Alburt’s comprehensive chess series books are fantastic. Those 7 books from the comprehensive chess book series, in addition to his two opening repertoire books, make a fantastic one author book collection that could get a player to at least the expert level. When my brother passed away I inherited about 50 books from him. He had a lot of these other books you mentioned. I have all the end game books you mentioned but Lev Aulburts book Just the Facts is the easiest to read with the least amount of words per diagram. He is friends with dvoretsky and this book it kind of like taking only the most common examples from that manual, reducing the amount of words and notation, but adding more diagrams per end game technique. By far the easiest to read: I spent some time thumbing through all of the chess books I inherited from my brother, and I have definitely decided on strictly sticking to these Lev Alburt books until I finish the entire series. My intent to try to improve from around 1400 to at least 1800. Even though I am already an intermediate player I decided to start with the first volume where he teaches basics like how the night moves. This is because each section has visualization problems that have improved my ability to see the prices move in my mind. His writing style is sort of lazy in comparison to Silman, which I saw others have complained about in reviews. But in general I find that he uses many of the examples that are used in the other books but with much less words and notations per a digram. The first two intro books in the series they give a solid foundation for basic chess. His follow on books cover tactics, one on attacking & defending, a strategy book, and the endgame book. These plus the opening books you should do last are all much easier to read per the amount of chess knowledge you will receive than the other books. All of his books sort of have a mid 90s windows 95 feel to them. And Lev’s a lazy writer when it comes to prose which I find to be fantastic. I don’t care if the books kind of look like they were thrown together over the weekend with his fellow soviet chess defectors in a dusty motel room somewhere. Because if you don’t want to read 2 pages to say what can be said in 2 sentences these books are the way to go. You will want to get the second editions of the later books in the series because he fixed some errors that were not as easy to find as they were later with stronger engines. There are probably still a few mistakes as I found one puzzle in the tactics book that is suppose to be a win white. But there is some crazy computer move where black doesn’t take back an obvious recapture while being surrounded by white pieces. And you chase the white king around the entire board with your queen until you can get the queen back close to the black kind to force a draw. But I had to have stockfish on 22 depth to find that, and realistically the example still makes perfect sense the way it is explained if your not at grandmaster level.

Hi McLovin! Jk. Excellent job on the quality titles for becoming a titled player. :)

I’ve read all the bad books except Dvoretsky. None of the good ones except Bobby’s 60 Games. That explains why I suck.

Bobby Fischer's "My 60 Memorable Games" is a great book though I've heard it was mostly ghost written by Larry Evans.

I saw Re2 but I wasn't sure what to do after Nd4 interfering with the queen and unpinning the rook. I thought I couldn't just consider it solved before sorting out this defence.

I learned chess from Seirawan's series. Winning Chess Strategies was terrific.

Thank you very much, I wish I took your advice...I instead bought the Mammoth book of Chess and a tactics book and an endgame book and another book but I think if I had taken your advice it may have helped me more.

loved the video

IMHO, My System is a must read for chess players. My game took off after I worked through it.

This is why ur only IM

I absolutely loved bobby fischer teaches chess!