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Kyu13

As said, I search a chess book. Languages that I understand : French, German and English. forums.png
I search a book about tactics or Endgames. gold.png
Thank you all very much. tournaments.png

ShadowCellen

I haven’t read it, but it says it is a good book: Silman's Complete Endgame Course 

ShadowCellen

Hope this helps happy.png

Achim_Lackner

Danke , vielen Dank .

RAPHAEL1127

J'en ai un: le grand atlas des échecs. Il parle de tout. De la base, des débuts, des milieux et des fins de parties. Il y a les ouvertures les plus connues et des analyses à la fin. J'espère que ça t'aidera.

HauptsacheMatt
Kyu13 hat geschrieben:

As said, I search a chess book. Languages that I understand : French, German and English. 
I search a book about tactics or Endgames. 
Thank you all very much. 

Guck dir mal die Tigersprungreihe an. Die sind sehr gut. Ich nutze die selbst und habe auch ein paar Freunde die das Buch benutzen und die haben genauso wie ich einen Elo-Sprung gemacht.

Isengard1

The tactic book ,,The Woodpecker method" of Axel Smith and Hans Tikkanen is very good

chequeredlife

There a lots of great books on both tactics and endgame that were published in recent years, and of course some classics. So the choice is really vast. I will try not to overdo it, and limit myself to just a couple of suggestions.

A. Tactics: 

1. There's a sequel to a book you already know wink.png : 1001 Chess Exercises for Advanced Club Players by Frank Erwich.  

2. The Art of Combination (better known as CT ART) by Maxim Blokh.  It's more useful in the digital format, with different levels available. This was the first chess course I absolutely fell in love with. 

3. Encyclopedia of Chess Combinations by Chess Informant. A bit more demanding in the advanced part, but very nice. 

These are tactics courses with good structure, organized by combinational motifs. With the digital editions, you should have the choice to also solve the puzzles in random order - at least with the latter two courses.  

None of these books is too easy, but with your astonishing progress, you need to raise the bar for yourself!

B. Endgame:

1.  Silman's Complete Endgame Course is a good one as a gentle introduction that gives you instant results. It is unique in the approach: based on your rating, you get a list of typical endgames that you need to know to get by at your level. From what I can remember, you get clear explanations on how to proceed and a couple of exercises. Terrific as your first endgame book, or as a quick refresher. 

  2. 100 Endgames You Must Know by Jesus de la Vila. Again, focused on what's most needed on the board. I would read this after Silman (and possibly after my next recommendation).

3. Essential Endgames (a compilation of three books published by Everyman Chess, the books deal with pawn, rook, and minor piece endgames). All start from the very basics and provide some of the best explanations I came across. 

4. Mastering Basic Rook Endgames by Mikhalchishin. A bit more in-depth, focusing on the easier and most important positions of the most common type of endgame. 

5. Chess King Learn/ChessOK/Convekta endgame courses - great training materials, very instructive examples... but the explanations are sometimes lacking. Part of them are just perfect, as for the other part... I remember having stumbled across two or three positions where I was unsure why the moves were played. The commentary said "and the rest is clear" or "and the outcome is obvious" . So this would be great if you already have the knowledge or have another source of explanations. 

Sorry for the long post - hope it helps anyway happy.png

 

Orciety

100 Endgames You Must know by Jesus something(i can't remember the last name)

RussBell

Good Chess Books for Beginners and Beyond...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/good-chess-books-for-beginners-and-beyond

tygxc

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"I search a book about tactics" ++ "Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess" - Fischer
or Endgames.  ++ "Fundamental Chess Endings" - Müller & Lamprecht

zone_chess

I like Nimzowitsch's My System. It's very hard! And full of tactics.
You could read the original version.

Max Euwe's books have good puzzles. For example finding stalemates in losing positions 8 moves down a line.

 

zone_chess

About the Woodpecker method, I found this:

The quick explanation of the Woodpecker Method is that you need to solve a large number of puzzles in a row; then solve the same puzzles again and again, only faster. It's not a lazy shortcut to success – hard work is required.

Have I now not just read the book?

technical_knockout

Art of Attack & Polgar's 'bedtime' book.

PTX187
Kyu13 написал:

As said, I search a chess book. Languages that I understand : French, German and English. 
I search a book about tactics or Endgames. 
Thank you all very much. 

Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual FastTrack Edition

 
 
 
technical_knockout

silman's 'complete endgame course'.