Hi, I am looking to improve myself with some chess books and I am looking into arthur yusupov books and I heard some of my friends says the books are difficult and it's not recommended for my level lichess 2100+ and fide 1600+.
I need some opinion and advice, just tell me or ask me anything. I keep having trouble manuevering winning position and time controlling. Thanks!
Yusupov is good.
Fundamental Chess Endings - Müller & Lamprecht
The Method in Chess - Dorfman
i highly recommend Capablanca's Best Chess Endings: 60 Complete Games by Irving Chernev. It's been very helpful for me.
Daniel Naroditsky - "Mastering Positional Chess"
John Nunn - "Secrets of Practical Chess"
@IEatMerci said in #1:
> Hi, I am looking to improve myself with some chess books and I am looking into arthur yusupov books and I heard some of my friends says the books are difficult and it's not recommended for my level lichess 2100+ and fide 1600+. ...
"... about the level of the difficulty. This was quite hard to evaluate and some of the material shoots over the target of 1500 etc. ... I probably got the estimate a bit wrong, but at least I tried. ..." - GM Yusupov
Perhaps best to look at available online samples and come to one's own conclusion.
Build up your Chess 1
The Fundamentals
https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/Build-up-Your-Chess-1-exceprt.pdf
Hey, thank you all for the suggestions! I really love it! I will check it out all of those books
Maybe, you can find something useful at https://lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/i-need-advice?page=2 .
for middlegame i really liked silman's how to reassess your chess. it teaches you to think in terms of imbalances rather than just memorizing patterns, so it actually sticks. not a light read but it's the kind of book where you start seeing your own games differently after a few chapters.
for endgames, 100 endgames you must know by jesus de la villa is genuinely excellent. it's not overwhelming like dvoretsky, it focuses on the practical endgames that actually come up and explains them clearly.
the thing i found really helpful alongside books is annotating my own games. i use movebookchess.com for that, you can write notes right on the moves and share the analysis. going back to your own games with silman's imbalance framework in mind is honestly where the improvement clicked for me.
for middlegame understanding without theory: silman's "how to reassess your chess" is the classic. it breaks down imbalances in a way that actually changes how you think about positions.
for endgames: de la villa's "100 endgames you must know" is the most practical. not comprehensive but covers the patterns that actually come up in real games at club/amateur level. capablanca's "chess fundamentals" is also surprisingly good for endgame thinking despite being old.
the thing that's helped me as much as any book is annotating games where i hit structural positions i don't understand. i use movebookchess.com for saving those positions with my own notes, then later reading about that structure in a book and updating the notes. that combo of hands-on confusion followed by targeted reading sticks way better than just reading linearly.
**Znosko-Borovsky's middle game book** is great, depending on your rating I guess. I benefitted from it a lot, but there was no online anything I didn't live near any tournaments to even try to get a rating. I found the whole book useful and well structured.
I picked it up after getting stuck in **My System** which I probably should reopen. Before it got over my head I really got a lot out of it. The second half was a bit beyond me at the time.
**Dynmic Chess Strategy by Suba** was over my head but the writing was great and I really enjoyed going over his games even though I didn't really get what he was doing. I ended up playing better, spotting I guess the dynamic potential in the position more than my previously very static focused pea-brain was looking for.