Summer reading list

Currently my list is as follows:
1)Dvoretskys Endgame (1st Chapter done then left the book)
2) Ramesh RBs Calculation (4 Chapters done without level 5 positions and left)
3)Chess Structures by Flores Rio (A few chapters from between are done)
4) My 60 Memorable games by Fischer (around 30-40 games done in last 5 years)

I've been doing these books simultaneously so now I feel I should start 1 book (Fischers) and finish it and continue doing that one by one

The Luzhin Defense and Steven Zweig’s the Royal game.

@kindaspongey said in #19:

I think that most of us follow book discussions with the help of a board. Some claim to use two boards, but I have a hard time believing that anybody actually does that.

Hmm how’s using two boards better?

@Thymeflies said in #1:

Just picked up Chess Structures by GM Flores and the Hellsten Mastering Chess trilogy (Openings, Strategy, Endgames) on my coach’s orders: “less bullet, more reading.”

Who is your coach? How is it going

@FreudChicken DM’d you :-).

@FreudChicken said in #18:

@ThunderClap ... Reason why I never picked up a chess book is I'm quite bad at visualising positions so I'm worried I'd have trouble visualising the moves. Do you have any tips for that or is there any exercise i can practice with?
@kindaspongey said in #19:
I think that most of us follow book discussions with the help of a board. Some claim to use two boards, but I have a hard time believing that anybody actually does that.
@FreudChicken said in #24:
... Hmm how’s using two boards better?
Suppose that you are exploring 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bc4 Nf6 4 Ng5 d5 5 exd5. You get two boards to that position. Now you start reading about 5...Nxd5, and you just use board #2 to look at 5...Nxd5 lines. (To be honest, I suspect that I would need more boards just to do that properly, but let's ignore that for now.)
Anyway, eventually you are satisfied with (give up on) your understanding of 5...Nxd5 and use board #1 as a reference to help you restore board #2 to the position after 5 exd5 and begin using #2 to look at 5...b5 lines. Then, maybe, you use it to look at 5...Nd4 lines, and so on.
Eventually, you get to the last option that you want to look at after 5 exd5. Suppose that this is 5...Na5. You perhaps take both boards to the 5...Na5 6 Bb5+ position and begin using board #2 to explore 6...Bd7 and then 6...c6.
Does all this seem unbelievably cumbersome? Yeah, it does to me, too.

@lizani said in #3:
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The Nemesis by Efim Geller

I'll take a look. Geller was a genius, but not so successful against the clock. He had plus records against Botvinnik, Smyslov, Petrosian, and Fischer, went even against Tal. and a losing record only against Spassky. According to my calculations, he also compiled a record or 86 wins, 89 draws, and 37 losses from the black side of the King's Indian Defence.

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?pid=15712&playercomp=black&opening=E60-E99&title=Efim%20Geller%20playing%20the%20King%27s%20Indian%20as%20Black

From Mastering the Spanish by GM Danny King and NM Pietro Ponzetto, here is an actual paragraph where the reader might perhaps use 2 boards as an aid to understanding.
"... A line that is conceptionally similar to the Steinitz Variation is 3 ... Nf6 4 0-0 d6 5 d4, for example: 5 ... Bd7 6 Nc3 Be7 7 Re1 exd4 (forced, because the tension in the centre cannot be maintained with 7 ... 0-0? because of 8 Bxc6 Bxc6 9 dxe5 dxe5 10 Qxd8 Raxd8 11 Nxe5 Bxe4 12 Nxe4 Nxe4 13 Nd3 f5 14 f3 Bc5+ 15 Nxc5 -- if on the tenth move, Black had played 10 ... Rfxd8, White would now win with 15 Kf1 -- 15 ... Nxc5 16 Bg5 Rd5 17 Be7 Re8 18 c4 and White wins) with a situation similar to the previous one. ..."
Take both boards through 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 Nf6 4 0-0 d6 5 d4 Bd7 6 Nc3 Be7 7 Re1 0-0 8 Bxc6 Bxc6 9 dxe5 dxe5 10 Qxd8, use board #2 to look at 10...Raxd8 11 Nxe5 Bxe4 12 Nxe4 Nxe4 13 Nd3 f5 14 f3 Bc5+ 15 Nxc5, then continue, with board #1, to look at 10 ... Rfxd8.

• My System
• Silman's Complete Endgame Course