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Can someone recommend excellent books and/or tutorials to learn chess? I know only basic rules, but no tactics/strategy/opening/etc.
by slig 10y ago
Can someone recommend excellent books and/or tutorials to learn chess? I know only basic rules, but no tactics/strategy/opening/etc.
- tomsthumb 10y agoFor tactics I've never seen anything better than chess tempo [0], which is free, or for a small yearly subscription you can absolutely go nuts breaking down tactical themes and combinations of themes, and the tracking is very good. I did several thousand tactics puzzles there and it helped quite a bit. For books, Beginners Mind by Jeremy Silman is pretty good, as is his endgame book. Logical Chess by Cherenev is also a great introduction to how skilled people think about games but takes a different approach than Silman. [0] - http://chesstempo.com/ http://chesstempo.com/
- rocqua 10y agoI learned a lot from the tutorials by Joshua Waitzkin in Chessmaster: Grandmaster Edition. I heard that lichess has some puzzles as-well, but never tried them.
- asbjoos 10y agoTactics: https://en.lichess.org/training https://en.lichess.org/training Video library: https://en.lichess.org/video https://en.lichess.org/video
- tetraodonpuffer 10y agofor books starting from scratch or nearly from scratch, I have enjoyed the "winning chess" series by Yasser Seirawan
- ctchocula 10y agoI found http://www.chesscademy.com http://www.chesscademy.com pretty helpful. It takes a MOOC approach to chess, while keeping things fun and manageable.