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I'd be surprised if most people here had less than 100 chess books.
The FIDE trainers published 100 (and top-20) recommended English, German, Russian, and Spanish books for trainers: http://trainers.fide.com/recommended-books.html (Looks like FIDE improved their website too)
It mostly games collections and endgames (no openings). I think the list is for a good/active player too. It is definitely not a complete list - no Canadian authors :D
The FIDE trainers published 100 (and top-20) recommended English, German, Russian, and Spanish books for trainers: http://trainers.fide.com/recommended-books.html (Looks like FIDE improved their website too)
It mostly games collections and endgames (no openings). I think the list is for a good/active player too. It is definitely not a complete list - no Canadian authors :D
Thank you very much for that link!
As a precision, the first 100 books are for "trainees", i.e. students. The last 20 are for trainers and all are found on the trainees' list. Some entries represent multiple volumes such as all 5 of Aagaard's "Excelling at" series.
An immediate quarrel I have with it is the absence of Jonathan Tisdall's excellent "Improve Your Chess Now". I don't understand how it didn't make the list. I suppose it's inevitable to disagree with choices on a list like this.
Plus, there's nothing by Fred Reinfeld or Eric Schiller, so I have to say the methodology employed is deeply flawed. :)
The FIDE trainers published 100 (and top-20) recommended English, German, Russian, and Spanish books for trainers: http://trainers.fide.com/recommended-books.html (Looks like FIDE improved their website too)
It mostly games collections and endgames (no openings). I think the list is for a good/active player too. It is definitely not a complete list - no Canadian authors :D
I am missing four of the entries on the trainees list and four of the entries on the trainers list. One of the items, "Developing Chess Talent" is something that I hoped to add from Strategy Games but I haven't seen it on the website or in the store. I know that Larry tried to order it. I'm not sure if he ever got it or they just flew off the shelf when he did.
An immediate quarrel I have with it is the absence of Jonathan Tisdall's excellent "Improve Your Chess Now". I don't understand how it didn't make the list. I suppose it's inevitable to disagree with choices on a list like this.
I have to agree with you on that one.
Two other books that belong on that list are "The Road to Chess Mastery" by Euwe and Kramer and "Winning Pawn Structures" by Baburin. They are both out of print and that is probably why they don't appear on the list.
I was lucky enough to recently find a copy of the former which I originally read as a library book when I was about 13 or 14. In the second case I unfortunately balked at paying $60 for a used copy only to see the price for used copies soar to the $200 range shortly thereafter. At this point I am hoping for a reprint or a lottery win.
Last edited by Vlad Drkulec; Thursday, 24th February, 2011, 02:02 PM.
Two other books that belong on that list are "The Road to Chess Mastery" by Euwe and Kramer and "Winning Pawn Structures" by Baburin. They are both out of print and that is probably why they don't appear on the list...
I may be wrong, but I don't think the Euwe book was ever available in algebraic description. I'm sure that was a criteria.
The Baburin book was the subject of some business problems between the author and publisher. That's one of the reasons it didn't find a wider audience.
I suppose it's inevitable to disagree with choices on a list like this.
Even lists disagree what to include - Russian, English and German lists are not the same. Example Russian has several books by Seirawan, but English none :D
The Russian list is structured - for novice, openings, endgames, etc.
The German list is filled with magazines (links to their websites) for trainers :D
Well, just to name one example: I have Dvoretsky's endgame manual. It'll take me years to figure that one out. So a few books like that can last a lifetime.
Not that small since his first item is Chess Informant 1 to 106!
I think he is proud to have them :) A person who would start to buy only now, may go backwards to 101 and then get a 1-100 CD :) or simple ignore old ones.
Anyway as openings manual I would recommend Mastering the Chess Openings by Watson (4 volumes), and then get more specialized books. IMHO, they are better than the MCO.
My collection is somewhere between 110 and 130 books. I bought all these books in the ambition of increasing my level of play, not to collect for collectors sake. I have only acquired maybe eight books in the past two to three years as birthday presents so technically I haven't bought a book in at least three years.
I think an interesting question to ask is how many of their books have the collectors read cover to cover. I can honestly say that I have only read about ten front to back. Interesting reads that I am failing to but still trying to finish are 'Improve your Chess Now' by Jonathan Tisdall ; 'How to Calculate Chess Tactics' by Valeri Beim; and 'Silman's Complete Endgame Course' by Jeremy Silman. I give these books two thumbs up. Does anyone know of any good recommendations on how to study chess?
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