Re: Current Skill You Are Developing
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James, my rating is over 1600.
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Any recommendations on picking up chess semi-seriously for the standard person who knows the basics but hasn't played since high school study hall and never really put much effort into true strategic chess thinking?
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My System - Nimzovich
Logical Chess Move by Move
Capablanca's Best Chess Endings
Art of the Middle Game - Keres and Kotov [ftw!]
Art of Attack - V. Vukovic
Seirawan's Chess Tactics
Silman
Chess Fundamentals - Capa
Seriously, just pick up a very good endgame manual, and middlegame book from above, and study tactics, tactics, tactics if you are a beginner. If you can't spot knight forks, pins, skewers, and 3-move mates in advance, you'll always be hopeless. Avoid any openings book until you can play 4 and 5-piece endings correctly and win virtually all won positions easily.
As for me, I'm developing my spin move immediately followed up by left-handed crossover for easy layups in transition {i'm a righty}.
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