Must read books to become a better chess player - IM V. Saravanan 

Sagar - thanks for doing this. Enjoyed talking to you so much, and it is nice that majority of those see this enjoy it!

Every book he pulls out “this is my favourite book”

Tals 100 Best games Life and games of Mikhail Tal kasparov- test of time/ kasparov on kasparov (recommends latter between the two ) move first, think later (talks about the idea of really absorbing a lot of games to get better) The King chess pieces, J H Donner From London to Elista - Evgeny Bareev & llya levitov (Kramnik Games) Python Strategy Tigran Petrosian Nigel short games DVD Anands My career GrandMaster preparation series by Jacob Aagaard Vanher Haiden solving DVD The Joys of Chess Christian Hesse The chess Mind Jerald Abraham Chess for Zebras and Seven Deadly Chess Sins - Johnathan Rowson The Soviet Chess School by Alexander Kotov and Mikhail Yudovich Endgame books mentioned (for beginners) Practical Chess Endings- Paul Keres 100 Endgames You Must Know: Vital Lessons for Every Chess Player -Jesus De la Villa more advanced, mastering endgame vol 1 and 2, endgame strategy - Mikhail Shereshevsky Endgame strategy Mikhail sherevsky Mastering the endgame 1 & 2 Mikhail sherevsky soviet chess conveyor Mikhail sherevsky (beginner) For friemnds & colleagus Mark Dvoretsky The creative genius Mkihaiil Chigorin capablanca Manual of chess Emanual Lasker Grandmaster Chess Strategy Jurgen Kaufeld & Guido Kern : What Amateurs Can Learn from Ulf Andersson's Positional Masterpieces the stress of chess- walter brown (great games if you like Kasparov) profession: chessplayer grandmaster at work by Vladimir Tukmakov understanding chess by william lombardy Timmers TItans book of year award 2017 creative chess -amatzia avni sychology of chess -amatzia avni (He talks about going in these books/ games in order to get a good understanding of fischer) how fischer plays chess- levy, my 60 memorable games, than complete games, Bobby Fischer(complete games)- mueller Fischer World Champion: The Acclaimed Classic About the 1972 Fischer-Spassky Match - Timman & Newway He has pretty much everything from Mark Dvoretsky and talks extremely high of him. Saying the analytical manual from his is the most difficult tactic book around - school of chess, practical chess pawn structure chess - soltis (likes this better than Chess Structures and says he has some problems with that book but doesn't go into it.) . test and improve your chess - lev alburt Winning Chess Middlegames - Alexander Babuleh getting good at 1 pawn structure & using this method to master in other openings (surya ganguly) Winning Chess Middlegames - Ivan Sokolov positional strategy on nimzo indian pawn srtucture - Ivan Sokolov Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy- John watson chess strategy in action - John watson road to chess improvement- alex yermolinsky (how to analyze your games) Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 - David Bronstein (talks highly of because of the great insight it offers) 200 Open Games - David Bronstein pal benko my life, games and compositions san luis 2005- alik ershon igar nar (this book is second best to Zurich) chess is my life - anatoly karpov (karpov plays chess like symphony /spends spider webs for his opponents to get trapped in)

Saravanan voice is perfect for narrating documentaries and explanations in general

The first RU-vid video I’ve watched for half hour straight. Wow!! What a man!!!

This is not a complete summary of every book mentioned, but most of the main ones he went into detail about or took out of his shelf. Winning Chess Middlegames- Ivan Sokolov test and improve your chess - lev alburt road to chess improvement- alex yermolinsky (how to analyze your games) The Soviet Chess School by Alexander Kotov and Mikhail Yudovich (book he had growing up because not much were available) kasparov- test of time/ kasparov on kasparov (recommends latter between the two ) move first, think later (talks about the idea of really absorbing a lot of games to get better) pal benko my life, games and compositions Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953 - David Bronstein (talks highly of because of the great insight it offers) 200 Open Games - David Bronstein san luis 2005- alik ershon igar nar (this book is second best to Zurich) chess is my life - anatoly karpov (karpov plays chess like symphony /spends spider webs for his opponents to get trapped in) tal's 100 best game and life and games of mikhail tal (says Tal is the best human to play chess and that these are some of the best books) JH Doner The King Chess Pieces (best chess books when it comes to stories) From London to Elista - Evgeny Bareev & llya levitov (Kramnik Games) Python Strategy - Tigran Petrosian (wishes Petrosian wrote his own best game collection as we would have a whole other understanding of chess today) The Joys of Chess- Christian Hesse (great book to keep you inspired and in love with the game) The Chess mind- Gerald Abrahams the stress of chess- walter brown (great games if you like Kasparov) professoion: chessplayer grandmaster at work by Vladimir Tukmakov understanding chess by william lombardy creative chess -amatzia avni Grandmaster Chess Strategy: What Amateurs Can Learn from Ulf Andersson's Positional Masterpieces (He talks about going in these books/ games in order to get a good understanding of fischer) how fischer plays chess- levy, my 60 memorable games, than complete games, Bobby Fischer(complete games)- mueller Fischer World Champion: The Acclaimed Classic About the 1972 Fischer-Spassky Match pawn structure chess - soltis (likes this better than Chess Structures and says he has some problems with that book but doesn't go into it.) Chess for Zebras and Seven Deadly Chess Sins - Johnathan Rowson. Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy- John watson Endgame books mentioned (for beginners) Practical Chess Endings- Paul Keres 100 Endgames You Must Know: Vital Lessons for Every Chess Player -Jesus De la Villa more advanced mastering endgame vol 1 and 2, endgame strategy - Mikhail Shereshevsky He has pretty much everything from Mark Dvoretsky and talks extremely high of him. Saying the analytical manual from his is the most difficult tactic book around. He also has the Grandmaster preparation series by Jacob Aagaard

OMG... This is One Of The Best Videos 'Ive Ever Watched!.... Thank you... What a rich and delightful conversation on chess and chess books. Thank you. Love this two guys... The transcript to this two videos Should be a book... Enjoyed it so much...

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this. It’s therapeutic in a sense.

If you have watched this video till the end, (even more than once) you know this is the most important chess video on youtube. Grateful for Chessbase India and IM Saravanan for sharing this gem

His enthusiasm is intoxicating.

Watching this after he comes on live with chess base India

This is such an interesting interview. IM Saravanan is an engaging personality. I have watched the entire clip several times. I find the comments about improving by playing game collections vs targeted training to be enlightening.

I have about -1100 books and over 100 dvd’s on chess; and, I agree with his basic underlying philosophy. Nice interview. Mick

Wow! Watched the video straight through. His enthusiasm held my attention from the beginning.

This interview by IM.. Saravanan is amazing. I love the way this guy goes about his business... Fantastic!

Great interview with a chess scholar who has a lot of interesting things to say, really enjoyed it and a couple of books that I hadn't considered before!

Excellent work! One of, if not the best Chessbase India videos I have viewed. Thank You.

This person is cool ..good to listen to him ..I was thinking of watching a cool movie but this man turn my attention ..and i was listening to him until end .. Nice Thoughts .. !

I think this is the best book list I've ever seen. Mainly it's how personal it is. Great books, but really appreciate his intimate knowledge and sharing his personal experience.

what a fantastic video. awesome IM. inspirational, educational, motivational. Tough to excel at all three. he makes me want to be a better player.

One of the best and most useful video by chessbase india

Would love this to be a series.

This was really beautiful interview :') Thank you Saravanan Sir for expressing your feelings and ChessBase India for producing this

one of the best I have ever watched on RU-vid!! Thanks Sagar!

What a great video. What a generous and gentlemanly, class act for sharing his time and bringing us into the discussion.

Really feels Great to have such a Book Knowledge and Library ...I really became eager to come and meet you !! Thanks for sharing !!

I didnt expect to watch this whole thing but you can really feel his passion for the game which makes it super interesting!

Wow, thanks so much for taking the time to do this Sagar and for sharing it with all of us. Very enlightening!

Congratulations! a great interview on the secrets of learning to play good chess from IM Saravanan chess learning system or method!

I really enjoyed this, thanks so much. We as chess players are continually bombarded with media, for this and that. It is now clear from this, that there is no 'magic bullet' for success, or no one book that will make you great, it is the whole journey through many great chess books, and the work you put in. Above all your love for the game that is most important. Thanks to Saravanan for sharing his thoughts.

Amazing interview! I wonder why I couldn’t find it before, but glad that I finally did

I enjoyed every minute of the interview! i hope he makes his own channel and do book reviews of old (classics) and new books.

This is wonderful! Great conversation.

This is very inspiring. Thank you so much!

Great video. Very inspirational and informative. Not just for chess players, but for lovers of books in general.

Amazing that he has collected such diverse fascinating chess books and brilliant that he has read almost all of them!👌You have surely piqued my interest in Chess.

Came here to watch it after watching Anish’s comment this as his favourite video.

Wonderful and insightful comments and interview. Please have more of this in the future.

One of best video of this channel. and huge respect for this guy. i request u to upload his knowledgeable content every week if possible. im his fan now

Truly Sravnan is our Encyclopedia in chess World. One question How he categorised chess books in bookshelf, because, he was retrieving the books was amazing. Finally Sagar many thanks, introducing Indian Chess Gems to the ordinary chess fans like me. Thanks again

Thanks for this video. It is very insightful. Makes perfect sense to feed your brain good chess and it absorbs it. His remarks about Gregory Kaidanov were interesting. I've seen Kaidanov play and he really rattled a lot of players when they realized they had drawn him in an upcoming round. His chess shows a deep, beautiful understanding of the game.

Thanks for doing this. I really hooked to the process.

Very charming and even somewhat rewarding interview. My thanks.

Wow! First time seeing this. This was an amazing video, Sagar and Amruta! Will look for more of Mr. Saravanan's videos. Brings back memories of my childhood self reading books about Karpov's games. Whetted my appetite for reading chess books again. :)

Fantastic!! Makes me want to study right now.

Wow! As someone already pointed out, the comment about games collections being better than targeted learning was quite enlightening. I'll try it out and see the outcome. Thanks.

Thank you so much. Such a wonderful and rich discussion on fantastic chess books. A true joy to watch.

Excellent video which helps us understand the road to chess mastery. Any one can travel this road depedning one one's passion and time.

Not to forget the other part of the equation: Chessbase India which has made this interview possible. So please keep on the good work.

I purchased a book after watching this video. Thank you!!!

This was fantastic. Many thanks to you and Mr. Saravanan for taking the time to do it.

That ‘Soviet Chess School’ he shows is actually a redacted and updated version of the original ‘Soviet Chess School’ which was 3 times the size of this later book that he has. There is also another book called ‘Soviet School of Chess’ by Robert G Wade published in UK.

😍what an collection. Thank you Sagar shah , chess base , IM saravanan

What a great mind! I have neglected books on a given player's career which I'm now very interested in fixing. Also the point of _having a drive_ being a result of _developing or nurturing that drive_ is such an undervalued insight when focusing on a goal. Thank you IM Saravanan and ChessBase India.

Excellent book collection and some deep knowledge in content of the books...

Shashi Tharoor of Indian Chess!

Fascinating! Thank you very much sirs.

Awesome video , this encourages me to buy books , I will surely take it as my reference

Great video! Thanks for sharing!

Great video guys, keep it up !

Sagar ji, this is your best video

Amazing video, thank you!

Highly enjoyable to listen to. Highly knowledgable person. Could listen to more from him.

Seen the complete video today, probably this is the best video from the great Sagar Sir

Thank you for this amazing video!

Good going,Sagar.Watched the whole video without pausing!

wow i havent enjoyed a youtube video in general as much as this in a seriouisly long time! thank you so much for visiting this very interesting man and asking him questions on our behalf!

I like this guy and his views of chess! Great video! Did he really read them all? Hats off! I mean it takes time to work through a chess book in my experience and requires a lot of energy. I have a half-decent library of chess books myself. Honestly, I'd be lying if I said I have read them all from cover to cover.

As a Jamaican, it was hard for me not to see the USAIN BOLT book on Mr Saravanan's shelf

simply amazing ..Thanks sagar and sarvana..

This is the first time I'm hearing Saravanan. He has a very nice, deep, resonant voice and nice way of speaking.

Very interesting. Thanks for making video.

The more you know about chess the more you understand how much work you need to do in order to improve, the part when he say that to players were blindfolded and they study Kasparov analysis by heart, it's mind blowing, Im a Syrian man who learn chess as an adult but honestly day by day I realize how Indian chess is facinating and how smart these guys are, all love and respect to indian chess❤❤

Very nice explanation given by IM, really like the collection.

I loved this video. Fantastic talk.

Enjoyed the helpful and profound views..

Thanks for this wonderful session

Thank you so very much for this video!!!!

Excellent suggestions about how to improve your game with great books!!!!!

Saravanan, tell us about the book you had on the Sicilian Pelican variation...and the exploits you had playing this variation..🙂

his enthusiasm is contagious, i think i will keep reading my modest book collection

Great video, in the digital age, books are still my favourite recourse. Thanks

Very interesting to hear about all these great books. Good strategy to hide the best books in the back :)

this videos deserve more likes and views.

This is an absolutely awesome interview, I can't believe I just discovered this. I just have one question, why is he so apologetic about reading Aagard's books?

Books are good if a coach isn't available. It will let you play at a decent level good enough for a coach to notice. Something is better than nothing.

Very good and deep interview. This IM unlike most chess players is very good in talking ! I can hear him talk all day ! Tell us the name of the Indian grandmaster who used Great Predecessors !

Nice video...but I think ending was not so good it was confusing as the motif was to get people know about good books and all ...if there would be list at the end of the video like for ending this books and for best games this...now you can make article of that and write it there

Thank you!

Everyone's aproach towards chess should change after watching this interview... Enjoy playing and studying chess rather than trying to focus on goals to go up the rating ladder

If I'm not wrong 1994 National A was at Hyderabad Boat Club. I happened to be present for few rounds. Mr. Nasruddin Ghalib was the chief arbiter.

Such passion..

remember people...kasparov....had 25 top RUSSIAN GM;s.....analyzing for him...when his talent was recognized...FISCHER..did it all by himself.

I was just about to watch the second part of this session and I am not sure if IM Saravanan talks about it in that but I really wonder his opinions on Geller's "Application of Chess Theory" which I stole from my former trainer and devoured it at the time. Another one is Korchnoi's My Best Games Collection with two volumes, one for White and one for Black.

Really nice collection of books

Great guys!

One of the best interviews

36:23 There's a kid!

Hope I can meet him & learn from him.It would be a great achievement

Thank you very much from Saudi Arabia