All About Chess Books! | A Grandmaster's Guide

In this video, I take you through the process of how to efficiently learn from chess books.

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[KrypticKrisp]

Books that Daniel recommended:
1. Chess Strategy for Club Players by Herman Grooten (~$23)
2. Mastering Positional Chess by Daniel Naroditsky
3. The Complete Manual of Positional Chess by Konstantin Sakaev & Kostantin Landa (~$20+$20)
4. My System by Aron Nimzowitsch (~$20)
5. Silman's Complete Endgame Course by Jeremy Silman (~$18)
6. How to Reassess Your Chess by Jeremy Silman (~$24)
7. Mastering Chess Strategy by Johan Hellsten (~$23)
8. Mastering Opening Strategy by Johan Hellsten (~$23)
9. Mastering Endgame Strategy by Johan Hellsten (~$27)
10. Chess Evolution 1: The Fundamentals by Artur Yusupov (~$25)
11. Chess Evolution 2: Beyond The Basics by Artur Yusupov (~$30)
12. Chess Evolution 3: Mastery by Artur Yusupov (~$22)
13. Improve Your Chess Pattern Recognition by Arthur van de Oudeweetering (~$21)

[Saturosian]

"A lot of people go into the process of reading a chessbook wanting to put a checkmark in the box that says "I read this book." And, you want to keep in mind why you're reading this book. You have to be reading the book with the express purpose of wanting to take as much information that's in the book, and funneling it into your brain. I have been guilty of this; reading this book and patting myself on the back and saying "I read 40 pages of the Karpov book today, like, look at me!" But then I would ask myself, well, who am I doing this for? Did I learn 40 pages of material, or did I just put a checkmark next to it?"

- GM Naroditsky

The whole video was worth it for this reminder.

[snaggerdoodle]

When you find the right move with the completely wrong idea:
I'm something of a chess player myself

[dangallagher]

Love hearing Naroditsky's calm, collected teaching voice interrupted by a THANKS FOR THE 10 GIFTED DAMN GURLLL

[GMBethHarmon]

25:36 The book recommendations found in his Twitch chat's Moobot command:

OPENING THEORY
- FCO: Fundamental Chess Openings - Paul van der Sterren

MIDDLEGAME
- Art of Attack in Chess - Vladimir Vukovic
- Chess Strategy for Club Players - Herman Grooten

ENDGAME
- 100 Endgames You Must Know - Jesus de la Villa

TACTICS
- Chess Tactics for Champions - Susan Polgar & Paul Truong

[self-righteousideologue]

For beginners to intermediate I recommend Logical Chess, Move by Move. It literally takes a bunch of games and explains every move, why the player moved there, what's the point behind them, etc. Thought for sure it would be on this list

[renobgm]

How absolutely humble of you to mention your own book and state it's nowhere near the best. Subscribed

[trashlrd]

I enjoy the Move by Move series of books since the format directly quizzes you constantly about the material being demonstrated. Really gets your noggin joggin.

[lucasoscar]

I swear GMs have a fetish with backwards knight moves, even better if it involves a 3 move reroute 😂

[Dudebug]

I didnt know i needed this, but I've never clicked on a video faster. Thanks Danya!

[jamesfrazier]

I watch Daniel to REALLY learn comlexities of chess, because he's so clear and will actually walk through the thought process and cover harder concepts

[Tikorous]

Daniel saying "Yes, Geller" is my sleep paralysis demon

[_Iam_]

I am so proud of myself, I found the right move in the first minute, and I did arrive at the same conclusion as Daniel about targeting the e5 pawn. I think watching a lot of Karpov's best games and reading his books is paying off.

[TheRealRussell]

@7:10 it became readily apparent to me that to find the best move you have to understand the important features of the position. If you don't understand a position, you'll never even consider a move like Nc1. But as soon as you pointed out what was important, the move Nc1 was just obvious. Until you pointed out the important feature though I wasn't sure of what plan to make. I even considered f5, which might just be horrendous. I'm ashamed of myself.

I will say this though, this video has seriously motivated me to put work in with some of these high level positional books. I think I'm starting with Chess Strategy for Club Players and The Complete Manual of Positional Chess. I've already briefly looked at them and I think I'll really like them. Maybe they can live up to my favorite book, Simple Chess.

Thanks again Danya, well, Danya from a couple years ago. I hope you're finding motivation to make videos still.

[Drawfill]

I've asked for a video on chess books that you liked. So glad you decided to do it!

[jakub]

John Nunn's "Understanding Chess Middlegames" is also a brilliant book

[EoL]

Can we just appreciate one thing: Reading a chess book takes time 😌 I needed to hear that.

[Dmswitched]

That positional chess book was one of the first I read and my first introduction to just how good Karpov was.

[southernrun]

Great breakdown that helps in addressing the challenge that chess books can bring

[jhmvicta]

The prophet wrote books since his early years