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I'm pretty bad at chess but I think you could probably spend less than $100 and have all the technical materials you need to get quite good at chess (one book o
by internetman55 8y ago
I'm pretty bad at chess but I think you could probably spend less than $100 and have all the technical materials you need to get quite good at chess (one book on middle games, tactic puzzles collection (software or book), endgame book, maybe opening book) and probably only really need to study the tactical one for quite a while. My friend went to paid chess tutoring programs as a kid and said they just solved tactics puzzles and then played each other
- Mediterraneo10 8y agoThe vast majority of books I noticed at my local bookshop were dedicated to different openings or certain subcategories of those openings. Batsford, I think, is the most famous publisher of these.
- internetman55 8y agoAgain I'm bad at chess but that sounds like mostly a waste of time until you're already very good from what i understand. That stuff might be entertaining to learn but if you're rated like 1500 I doubt you're losing cause your oponents are getting out of the opening with a 1/4 pawn advantage. And it takes a lot of study to get to the point where you worry about that (imo)