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I'd highly recommend "My System" by Aron Nimzowitsch. A deep dive into positional play instead of specific tactics http://www.amazon.com/My-System-21st-Century
by pytrin 13y ago
I'd highly recommend "My System" by Aron Nimzowitsch. A deep dive into positional play instead of specific tactics
http://www.amazon.com/My-System-21st-Century-Edition/dp/1880673851 http://www.amazon.com/My-System-21st-Century-Edition/dp/1880...
- gregwebs 13y agoseconded. No single book made a greater difference in my playing level. Reading this at a relatively young age made me a far better positional player than everyone else around me.
- Codhisattva 13y agoThis is a great intermediate level book. Definitely read Reinfeld and study the SCO and then get into this one. Tactics!
- sireat 13y agoMy System was my second chess book. I bought it in an underground book market in a forest for 10 roubles when I was a 9 year old. It is a great book and without it I would have struggled to reach FM, but it is a little bit too advanced for a first book. I'd say it is a good 4th or 5th book. I'd say something like Lasker's manual of chess would be better suited as a first book. Perhaps one of the other starter's volumes from Seirawan, et al would fit the bill.