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My games - chess learning path

Dear lichess community members,

Given some of my games, can you suggest which book should I study ?





I think everyone's method of learning is different, so you will ultimately have to find something that both A) increases your positional and tactical understanding but also B) is fun for you.

I personally found Jeremy Silman's books were incredibly useful for a "big picture" view of how to look at chess analysis. I still use his methods, and I started learning from them when I was about 1200-1400.

I think famous player game collections are a great way to get better. Hide the moves and "play" as the winner and try to analyze (without too much computer help) why the moves were made.

I would not focus on openings at all really. Endgame study is always useful but can be dry.
Honestly dude I'd just practice lichess puzzles. Learning basic tactical patterns and practicing them is like learning and memorizing basic words so you can eventually read a (short) book. What I mean is, you're going to struggle to get much out of reading chess books until you can recognize pretty quickly what the author is trying to explain or show in a chess position.
Good luck!
To answer your question: Logical Chess: Move By Move (Chernev) and Winning Chess Strategies (Seirawan).

I would also have some advice how to improve, but I'm not sure if you want to hear it.
I liked the first game, very entertaining.
The problem for me here is that you don't give me anything to work with really. 3 wins with grave tactical blunders by your opponents and I think you've won the queen in all three of your games?
Is that really how you would like to display your weaknesses? Because that is probably what you want to work on, I guess. You could also improve on your strengths of course.
Really I wouldn't know how to help you here in terms of books, I could only give you general advice, especially since you are giving 3+0 blitz games, it's hard to really judge on positional mistakes and stuff. Maybe an experienced player or coach could, who knows.
@WildTiger I am obviously not the OP, but why would you think these books are the right ones for them and what would be your further advice on improvement? Just curious. If they don't want to hear it I sure would, haha.
There are many ways you could chose-
• Know more about Prophylaxis, exchanging, defense, piece arrangement, etc. -- 'My System'
• Endgame -- Jeremy Silman's Endgame Course ,
Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual
• Games -- Logical Chess, Alexander Alekhine's Best Games
And also, read Artur Yusupov's Books for more attacks, defense and common tactics and strategy understanding.

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