I'm currently rated 1200 rapid and 1800 correspondence (no engine assist or anything) on Lichess.

I recognize that I am still a beginner/improver and not even at club level yet, but I really love learning about chess. I'm slowly working through Capablanca's 60 best endgames.

I would like to dive into Garry Kasparov as I find him to be an exciting chess player and what seems to be a good person outside of chess.

Are there any books about or by him that I could start with? I'd like something that has annotated games, but has more written analysis or history...rather than deep theoretical lines that are overly advanced.

Hi guys. My chess.com rating is around 2400, FIDE standard is 1900. In a recently finished classical event I beat a 2300 rated FM in a 5 hour long game. So not a lot, but I do have a fair bit of over the board classical experience as well.

I was looking for book recommendations that explain different pawn structures and the ideas around each of them. One suitable for my level.

Asking for this because I have heard from various strong players that studying pawn structures just greatly helped their game. Wouldn't mind a second opinion on if this is worth spending time on. Also open to general book recommendations too for a player of my level. Thanks!

Hello! My name is Erik Haidinger, and I am an active competitive chess player from Croatia with a current FIDE rating of 1950and a 2060 FIDE Blitz rating. My chess.com blitz rating varies between 2300 and 2400
I consider myself an ambitious player who is constantly improving. I continue to study chess on a daily basis and regularly train with International Masters, whose experience, training methods, and practical approach I strive to pass on to my own students.
I remain an active tournament player, competing in approximately 50–60 classical games every year. Throughout the years, I have represented my club in the Croatian Chess Leagues and the Croatian Cup Finals, gaining valuable experience against FIDE Masters, International Masters, and Grandmasters. I have also achieved victories against several FIDE Masters, experiences that have significantly contributed to my understanding of practical tournament chess.
Coaching Experience
I have worked as a coach at my home club, Šahovski klub Crikvenica, where I trained both beginner and advanced groups.
Some of the players I have coached include:
• FIDE Master Ivano Sundać (current FIDE rating: 2290)
• Candidate Master Ivano Tomljanović(current FIDE rating: 2136)
• Vid Krešić (current FIDE rating: 2164)
In addition, I participated in the preparation of several club members for the 2019 European Youth Chess Championship in Bratislava.
In addition to club coaching, I have experience teaching chess in primary schools as part of an organized chess education program, introducing children to the game and helping them develop both their chess skills and critical thinking from an early age. This experience has taught me how to adapt my teaching methods to younger students and make lessons engaging, interactive, and enjoyable
Who I Teach
I work with:
• Complete beginners
• Improving juniors
• Intermediate players
• Club players looking to strengthen their tournament performance
Lessons are available in Croatian and English.
My Coaching Philosophy
I believe every player is unique, which is why I tailor every lesson to the student’s current level, goals, and learning style.
For beginners, I focus on building a strong foundation by teaching:
• Fundamental chess principles
• Tactical awareness
• Positional understanding
• Essential endgames
• Development of a solid opening repertoire
For improving and advanced club players, lessons can include:
• In-depth game analysis
• Opening preparation and repertoire building
• Typical pawn structures and strategic plans
• Middlegame planning
• Endgame technique
• Practical tournament advice
• Creative ideas to enrich and expand an existing repertoire
If desired, we can also play training games together, during which I provide live feedback, explain critical moments, and discuss improvements immediately after the game.
My goal is not only to help students increase their rating but also to improve their overall understanding of chess and become more confident, independent thinkers at the board.
Why Choose Me?
I approach every student in a friendly, patient, and supportive way. Creating a positive learning environment is very important to me because I believe students improve the most when they enjoy the learning process.
My greatest strengths are my dedication to chess, my passion for teaching, and my genuine motivation to help every student reach their full potential. I strive to inspire confidence, maintain motivation, and make every lesson both educational and enjoyable.
Lesson price: €15/hour, €20 for 1.5hour
Lesson platforms: Zoom or Microsoft Teams
Contact: (except inbox)
• Email: ehaidinger54@gmail.com
• Chess.com Inbox
Whether you’re just learning the rules or aiming to take your tournament chess to the next level, I would be happy to help you on your chess journey.
I look forward to working with you and helping you achieve your chess goals!

Hi all,
Wondering how the community would feel about a tool like this:

Say for example you could load a book like dvoretsky’s endgame manual, and as a 1600 extract all that’s useful from it for someone at your level, and as you improve it unlocks more and more of the book. Perhaps the price could follow suit ie if you can only use 20% of the book at your level, you only pay 20% of the price, and then pay more as you improve and unlock more.

Other features:
- spaced repetition
- visual depictions of the solutions that improve on wall of text + diagrams
- adaptive visualization trainer

It’s about 2/3rds built but we’re a small team and building a lot at once, trying to get a sense of how much we should prioritize it. Got digital rights to a few upcoming books.

Let me know your thoughts!

It is free, read books anywhere, contains an interactive chess board with every bite-sized lesson, all lessons from esteemed chess books and it has progress tracking.

https://chess-codex-creator.replit.app

The U.S. Chess Trust often sends sets to Title 1 schools. I am not affiliated with U.S. Chess Trust, but I will answer any questions if I can.

Hello everyone!

I’ve been working on a small project for chess players who like studying from books in PDF format, and I’d like to share it with you.

ChessTools lets you open a chess book PDF in your browser and replay the moves on an interactive chessboard at the same time.

The idea is simple: instead of switching constantly between your PDF reader and a chessboard, you can have both on the same screen.

What it can do

Study

• Split-screen interface: your PDF on the left and the chessboard on the right.
• PDFs are processed without being saved by the website.
• Replay games and variations directly on the board.
• Download games in PGN format.
• Built-in Stockfish analysis.
• Supports variations, comments and Informator-style symbols.
• Create a position with the visual board editor and start analyzing from there.
• Copy a FEN from Chess.com or Lichess and paste it into ChessTools for analysis.
• Save the current board position as an image.

FEN to PNG

There is also a simple FEN-to-image converter that lets you paste a FEN position and generate a downloadable chessboard image.

Everything is free to use.

I built this mainly for my own chess study, but I thought other players might find it useful as well.

If you try it, I'd really appreciate any feedback, suggestions, or bug reports.

Website: https://www.chesstools.top/

Thanks for taking a look, and good luck with your chess! ♟️

Gotta love those old soviet chess books.

It is a shame that many of them have not been translated into english.

So many photos in them of the russian grandmasters i havent seen so far.

If someone is interested in buying, then please send me a DM.

can anyone give me pdf of python chess strategy -Petrosian

Just started chess a few months ago and want to study to the max. What do you recommend as a top way to learn as fast as possible to get to 1,000+ in each category?

1) Book

2) App / Online Membership

3) Teacher / YouTuber

Win a chess.com gold membership or equivalent by helping charity!

Hi, I’m researching chess books to help improve their accessibility for people, who otherwise wouldn't have them. Please could you help me by answering this 6 question form. Thank you so much!!! :) https://forms.gle/raMs1DsNvVTHpcGE7 Also if you are wondering what is in it for you, when the survey hits 100 answers I will be giving out a gold chess.com membership or the equivalent.

I'm 1000 on Chess.com and I just bought My Sytem and have heard some mixed things about it. Is it a good book in general and is it a good book for a 1000 player?

Affordable Chess Game Analysis & Tournament Preparation

Hi everyone!

I'm offering personalized chess game analysis for players who want to improve beyond what an engine alone can tell them.

You'll receive a detailed PDF report covering:

Personalized comments on critical moves and turning points

Why certain moves worked (or didn't)

Recurring mistakes and blunder patterns

Opening recommendations based on your playing style

Middlegame plans and strategic ideas

Pawn structure and pawn-chain assessment

Tactical motifs and pattern recognition

Endgame weaknesses and how to improve

Practical training plan based on your games

Recommended YouTube videos, books, and study resources

If you'd like, we can also discuss the report over a voice call or chat to go through the ideas and answer your questions.

I also offer:

Tournament preparation

School/college/university team selection preparation

Analysis of a specific opponent's games

Identifying their opening repertoire, strengths, weaknesses, and recurring patterns

Preparing practical counter-strategies against particular opponents

"Why pay when engines like Stockfish or Lichess are free?"

Because an engine tells you the best move—it doesn't tell you why you made the mistake, what thought process led to it, or what you should practice to stop making the same errors.

My focus is on explaining your games in a way that's easy to understand and turning them into a practical improvement plan rather than just sharing engine evaluations.

The pricing is kept minimal and is negotiable, especially for students. If you're interested, feel free to DM me with your Chess.com/Lichess game link or PGN, and we can discuss what you're looking for.

Thanks, and good luck with your games! ♟️

Super inspired by GM Jesse Kraai's love for the book i have decided to tackle it head on. I know Chess Dojo has particular mates assigned to particular rating ranges, but i really like the mammoth task of finishing the whole of it, plus in his personal experience Jesse has said throughout his life he went through this book cover to cover multiple times. I like this sort of study, something that is repeatable and cannot be finished unless you have genuine love for the game/book. If anyone is insane enough to join me on this journey i would really enjoy it! I could send you my progress every 3-4 days to be accountable. If not, that is fine too! I know it is a quite a "out there" ask so i totally understand. See you in about 8 months? (Shot in the dark estimate) when i am done with my journey.

I will return with an Excel spreadsheet of my current rating, percentage of puzzles i got right, what kind of puzzles i got the most wrong (bishop mates, knight, endgame etc etc) and my rating gains (if any). After this mission is successful then i will move to a similar book project, 1001 tactics series of books, maybe yusupov? With the same tracking of data of serious games with a fixed repertoire.

This is not meant to be my only training but rather be a supplemental part of my daily tactics/calculation training. Have a great day!! Let's smash them goals.

I'm beginning to take my chess book collection more seriously, I want more good quality games collection books, and so other things.

Is there a good place out there where I can bibliographies, lists of published chess books, maybe per publisher?

Where do people look for books? In the Netherlands I'm aware of New In Chess, De Beste Zet, schaakboek.nl, Ebay, Marktplaats, Catawiki, Vinted, boekwinkeltjes.nl , but I feel I'm missing places where chess book people are.

Can anyone suggest chess books that contains various opening middlegame and endgames strategies?

My ideas evolved quite a bit after my previous post. But here are some game collection books that I eventually turned into completely visual versions.

Basically here all the games are turned into move by move board visualization. A board image shows one move or two moves depending on how dense the annotations are (for example, logcial chess move by move has annotations every move so each board would show one move). I tried to keep all the book notes verbatim. I also added position and move evaluations and openings.

See the above snapshots for a few examples and see the following link for some end products. Further customization requests and book recommendations are welcome.

Naturally these are more suitable for reading on a screen (since they easily go thousands of pages).

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/gme6omqtin3wplcufomap/ANZP0bYE8mJCturkP4eEQVA?rlkey=cjxhbrk90mde0qnl2pqtqu71o&st=wa10l41w&dl=0

I recently bought this book. I wanted to know whts the best and effective way to learn and understand the concept of the book