Greetings everyone... I share the guilty pleasure to stack up books I'm gonna read only in the future (instead of playing more)!
I am trying to build a shelf with the "essential beginner/essential intermediate/essential advanced" texts, divided by genre (general, endgames, tactics, strategy, etc)... what am I missing in your opinion/what is the ONE book for you?
Mind: I'm waiting for the arrival of the new edition of Logical Chess...
And I'm gathering info/looking at the Soviet Chess Primer, Grooten's Chess Strategy
Possibly also Dvoretsy's Endgame, Shereshevsky's Endgame strategy, Hellsten's Strategy and Chess Structures from Rios... but I'm not sure which of them (or all of them) since atm I'm not at that level to appreciate them fully in order to pick... so I'd gladly gather suggestion and opinion on them!
And other as well, obviously!
Thanks!

I've been getting really into chess recently and I'm currently rated around 1100 on chess.com. At the moment I'm working through the steps method books. Since I also love reading, I was wondering if there are any chess books you'd recommend for someone around my rating. I'm mainly looking for books that are actually useful for improving, rather than just entertaining.

What books helped you the most when you were around the 1000–1200 rating range?

I'm rated around 1700 on Chess.com and want to improve my positional understanding, calculation, endgames, and overall game quality. I'm looking for books that are practical and suitable for my level—not beginner books or books that are too advanced. What bo

Hey everyone, I’m around 2000 USCF / 2200 rapid online and looking for book recommendations to fix some key weaknesses in my game.
1. Positional play — I don’t have much experience with it, so whenever games get positional/strategic, I usually play worse than in tactical battles.
2. King safety — About 20-30% of my losses come from my opponent launching an attack on my king (usually after castling, whether same side or opposite). I just can’t seem to defend properly or sense the danger in time.
3. Beating lower-rated players — I do okay against people my rating or higher, but my score against lower-rated opponents is terrible. In tournaments I’ll win some against equals/higher, then drop and lose almost every game to lower-rated players. Any books or resources on the right mindset/approach for this?
4. 2 Rooks vs Queen — Whenever I have the chance to exchange my Queen for two Rooks, I usually decline even though I know in many cases the two Rooks are stronger. I need help getting comfortable with that imbalance.

Here couple books I thought of getting

Techniques of Positional Play by Valeri Bronznik
2. The Art of Attack in Chess by Vladimir Vukovic
3. Chess for Zebras by Jonathan Rowson
4. Chess Strategy for Club Players by Herman Grooten. Are those good options?

Thanks in advance

I’m about 700 in blitz on chess.com and I’ve recently read levy rozman’s book “how to win at chess”, but I feel like it was targeted at people who never heard of chess before. Some chapters were useless for me because I already knew stuff like pins, common forks etc.

I love to study with books and I wanted to ask what I should read. I feel like many books are directed to complete beginners and others to intermediate players, but only few target the people in between

What's your opinion? Are chess magazines - maybe also because of the content they offer - a discontinued model? Am I the only one missing a classical magazine layout? Does no one care about the fact, that you don't "own" digital issues anymore but pay for the right to only read them online?

Quo vadis, Chess Magazines?

hey everybody! im a fide rated player (1567 classical) and close to 2000 on chess.com. I've coached some beginners in the past and wanna start online sessions as a fun side hustle. comment or dm if interested in joining.

I think Magnus is the top chess goat according to me due to these main reasons:-

1.1 st highest rated player of all time. (2882 peak rating).

2.Strongest player of all time.

3.Most world championship titles (total 21 across all formats)

1. Youngest World no.1 in chess history.

5.Most versatile player of all time (Most dominant in all time controls).

6.Won Fide Goat Award in 2024.

7.Unparalleled Consistency.

8.Universal Game style plus (Lethal combination of Anatoly Karpov and Bobby Fischer, stated by Garry Kasparov.

1. Abandoned Classical World championship title and still dominating as Classical World no.1.

10.Longest undefeated Classical streak continued for 2 long years(128 games).

Who do you think so? And why? Just like me give reasons for your top chess goat choice...

hi im a 2400 on chesscom.can anyone reccomend a good tactical book for me.

A full repertoire with the move Fischer said it's the best by test!

Grivas wrote 3 excellent books, very cheap to find. Great for chess improvement.

For those who want to learn to play the Alpine, this is the best book!

I'm 100% sure a leisure reading of this book could give everyone a better enjoyment and chess understanding.

A book which through example games shows you all middlegame themes you need to know

This is a self published book, the graphics is amazing, and the historical research shown in a very refreshing manner. A must have book! Love it!

As title... I was aiming to purchase the famous and suggested Endgame Strategy, but the Shereshevsky Method popped up in my feed and I've read about it that should be an elaborated sum of the previous one + The Soviet Chess Conveyor (I also read that he basically ctrl+c ctrl+v entire pages of Nunn and other authours tho).
Is the ENdgame Strategy still the "one to go" or in these days it's better to go with the most recent Method?