New Books in the ChessDojo Training Program 

Great idea!

1. Learn Chess The Right Way Book 3: Mastering Defensive Technique 2. My Opponent's Threats: Piece Safety Training 3. Blunder Busters

Thanks!

@@scottmcmanus1453 you can also check out " Is your move safe " by Dan Heisman

That is a really cool idea - sounds like a feature that the popular chess apps should work on adding... I know this discussion is about books, but personally I like learning by practice with apps.

From the video, it sounds like you provided some great insight!

I bought used copies of Chernev's "Logical Chess" and "Most Instructive Games" and they are both written in descriptive notation. I figured it would just take some getting used to, but by the end of "Logical Chess" I hated it even more than when I started. Good riddance!

@@fallingmasonry good to know 👍

@@fallingmasonry Lol, when I bought Logical Chess, it was a fireside press edition (e.g. out of print reprinted - so it was in descriptive). I needed a board to understand, and this was back in 1993. I think it was the second (and final) chess book I ever read in descriptive. I remember it being a big deal around that time that someone had updated My System to algebraic (one of my friends was raving about it being a must buy at the time). I seem to remember that they updated Logical Chess into algebraic in the early 2000's or late 1990's. Your version can still have value. Just look up the lichess studies for the games and play with that side by side of the book. Should make it barely readable. That book is worth its weight if you are below 1200.

Why is Reindeld unreadable?

@@inguh7041 descriptive notation. Otherwise he’s fantastic and has solid tactical scenarios. Winning Chess: how to think 3 moves ahead. Changed the whole game for me and started beating adults who had taught me the game …

Just got this! I’m super excited to see concepts that aren’t in the other endgame books. Silman or 100 endgames to Know, for example. 😊

Nice! Yeah that’s surprising. Hell I bought that book BECAUSE of chess dojo. Surely that’s still in the mix.

My favorite part is Aron Nimzowitsch vs. Systemsson 1927. Very instructive! lol

Lol same bro

Chess tactics is a bad book, a non curated selection of puzzles from online games. Something you can have for free in 7 different trainer flavors. Why do you want to even overpay for it on chessable? At least on kindle it’s a cheap bad book.

Can’t imagine not using the Chessable

Thanks!

I found the series disappointing. The annotations are not even move by move, and rely far too much on engine analysis for my taste. Many games can be found elsewhere with better (= more instructive) annotations. Anyway, just my 2 cents.

Are you part of the training program? Because as you go up the rating ladder they recommend exactly which WCC's games you should study...

Games from the romantic era reveal tactics that are suppressed in more modern play. If I ever manage to return to serious chess I intend to study games from that era along with beginner tactics books like How to Beat Your Dad. That doesn't represent the Dojo cohort I'd belong in by any means, but I feel like that kind of study would plug some holes in my game.

You can study books in addition to the ones they recommend, so just buy it if you're interested in it :)

Get the one that was updated in the early 1990's for algebraic notation (IIRC, the translation was also updated). There's another book (Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy) that's supposed to be a sequel, but I haven't read it. My personal take would be it's a 1400+ level book, but the person who loved it and advocated it to me back then was around 1200 (and I assume it helped his game), so maybe a lower cohort should have no problem reading it. Chess strategy study has a poor ROI vs. tactics training at these levels so it gets hard to place what level a book like that is. At the minimum, if you read it and are 1200 or below, your opening play will be highly annoying to those of us who spend a lot of time drilling tactics and occupying the center. :D

@@greatdanelegend7001 my question is not about “am I allowed to?”, my question is: at what point if chess growth and learning would I be able to digest it?

@@tychay . I read about half way through Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy - Advances since Nimzo by IM Watson. The book is a tough read due to the lengthy text by the author. It seems like he routinely gets stuck in the weeds and takes forever to get to the point. Its still a good book and I learned a lot from what I read but both books are more valuable for their historic significance, in my opinion, than for their educational content. Watson, himself, explains in the intro that his book is not a procedure manual to improve at chess. But back to Nimzo... He makes some simplistic or blanket statements that are often criticized. Watson's thesis is that concrete analysis beats general principles as laid out by Nimzo. Then Watson goes point by point to dissect Nimzo's book. I agree with Watson although Nimzo has some valid points in absence of accurate concrete analysis. If you want to get a kick out of Nimzo's My System look up the mock game "Aron Nimzowitsch vs Systemsson" (1927). You'll understand why not everyone is fully sold on Nimzo's ideas. But again, I'm not saying that Nimzo's book is useless; just that there are better and more up to date works to learn chess strategy. Recently, GM Alex Fishbein wrote a simplified version called "My System: FastTrack Edition." Perhaps, this new version takes all the good stuff and cuts out the fat out of the original "My System."

Amazon, bro 😎

Books are generally cheap. Many can be found for free online because they are old and out of print. I'm pretty sure you can find good chess books in India at competitive prices within the local markets. If nothing else, buy the pdf versions online which are even cheaper.

What do you mean exactly 🙂

@@ChessDojo Retrograde analysis of how a game could have landed in each of the 4462 key positions given that it is played at each 100 Elo level. For example, the obvious four moves that Black must have played to reach the very first five diagrams are …g6 …Bg7 …Nf6 …0-0.

That's hard to believe considering it was written by Bronstein. Next, you're going to tell me "My 60 Memorable Games" by Fischer is a boring read and "not that good."

These 2 gave me the most improvement by far. I also love chess king chess tactics for beginners, manual of chess combinations, and combative motifs