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Recently I have gotten interested in chess, and I want to learn more about it. Please suggest me any book about it— history, introduction or strategies, it is up to you!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The sexist cover alone makes this book a collector’s item: it is wrong in so many ways. Nevertheless, I gained a couple of hundred elo points by analyzing the positions that are in it. If you are relatively new to chess, studying tactics will pay off big time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reassess Your Chess and Amateur Chess by Jeremy Silman are both great

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I would add pawn power in chess

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

On introduction, I recommend

Chess Course by Praful Zaveri

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bobby Fisher Teaches Chess is pretty good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Agree, it's pretty good.

[–] Polydeukes 1 points 1 year ago

Not a theoretical piece but some prose suggestion. As a chess player myself I absolutely adored Chess: A Novella by Stefan Zweig.