otherwise, save the extra money, and keep in mind that this term is helpful to assist you in deciphering positional features. but to give credit where credit is due, I will recommend, silman, euwe and pachman as books that will help you build an overall picture assessment of a position and Silman ONLY makes the cut, because he uses them term imbalances. To be fair to all the authors, there are so many facets of chess strategy, that it can be hard to write a whole book on them. Jonathan Speelman credited the Euwe books for his success as a GM. I think these books are great, but the notion that they are better than Euwes or Pachmans I would completely disagree, and would go as far as to say that for a positonal sense Euwe and Pachman are better.
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it seems to me that the Groot book trys to have a more global approach to chess strategy by revising principles established by steinitz.
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they have a lot of positions and its true they are modern.
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Groots, and Hellstens books are good books. what silman does is explain things through a basically, silman coined term: imbalances.Įuwe and Kramer state static and dynamic features. this book does a good job at verbalizing strategy. i dont want to go so into it but the book can even be confusing for players at some levels. really? my system is played out my system teaches us that there are positional elements, and nimzowitsch goes as far as to stating some principles but they are not really all considered positional elements. Might be too advanced, but as far as strategy, even for middlegame strategy i rate the book highly.Īll the books mentioned here are of good quality, although there are some differences let me give you my two cents on some of them. This is a great post that helped me decide to buy some books I needed back in 2011. There's a long section on "The Dynamic Centre" that explains a lot of Open Sicilian strategy quite well (The English attack, Keres attack and Yugoslav attack feature prominently). I have the Marovic books but haven't studied them very systematically. Acually that's the reason I never studied Pawn Structure Chess: I've felt I could always find the same information and more on each of the individual openings/structures in more recent, up-to-date sources.
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The old Batsford "Mastering the." series of opening books.Įach of the mentioned, while more specialized than Soltis, could be very useful if you play the openings/structures in question. Kindermann/Dirr: Französisch Winawer Band 1, 7.Dg4 0-0 (guess.) Jansa: Dynamics of Chess Strategy (Mostly Ruy Lopez, Grünfeld, Sicilian Scheveningen) Sokolov: Winning Chess Middlegames (various structures that arise mostly from Queen's Gambits and Nimzo-Indians) Baburin: Winning Pawn Structures (IQP and Hanging Pawns positions) There are similar books to Soltis' that are more limited in choice of openings/structures. We're really in a golden age of chess publishing right now. Finally I'll throw in one that was published but somehow failed to get mentioned here eight years ago: Power Chess With Pieces: The Ultimate Guide to the Bishop Pair & Strong Knights by Timman.
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And the most recent attempt at a "bible" of positional chess is the no doubt good 2-volume The Complete Manual of Positional Chess: The Russian Chess School 2.0 by Sakaev and Landa. Davorin Kuljasevic has done consistently good work on opening repertoires and has now published a promising-looking book on compensation called Beyond Material. For regular club players there's The Power of Pawns by Hickl.
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Gelfand: Positional Decision Making in Chessīesides, Ivan Sokolov is putting out one middlegame book after another, with no sign of slowing down. I gather at least these recent books deserve a mention here (not that I've studied any of them yet, but they're in my ever-growing long-term study plans.):Īagaard: Grandmaster Preparation: Positional PlayĪagaard: Grandmaster Preparation: Strategic Playĭvoretsky: Recognizing Your Opponent's Resourcesĭvoretsky: Maneuvering: The Art of Piece Play By now we might as well ask if there are any decent English-language novels in print! Apropos the thread title: There have been so many highly praised books on all sorts of middlegame topics the last few years.