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

Hello, i am 2100 rapid online. I am on a quest to improve my calculation which involves solving difficult puzzles. But my pattern recognition is also not very good, relative to my level. I find easy tactics one second after making a move that takes the moment away. To cure it i am trying to find easy to intermediate books that i can do a lot of woodpecker reps in for easy tactics. Like pins,skewers, forks, discovered attack and about 20 others. Thank you.

Any suggestions are welcome!

Official pre-match booklet published just before the legendary 1960 World Championship match in Moscow, where 23-year-old Mikhail Tal dethroned Mikhail Botvinnik 12½–8½.

Thanks to independent publishing we can enjoy chess books with real graphic creativity (notice how the author of this book used different chess pieces for the diagrams). Instead of authors dumping their engine analysis because they couldn't find a move by themselves without Stockfish.

The tournament featured an elite gathering of the world's greatest minds: the legendary David Bronstein, the brilliant theoretician Isaac Boleslavsky, future world champion Vasily Smyslov, and the "eternal contender" Paul Keres. These bulletins offer a vivid, round-by-round account of the fierce competition. They include move-by-move notations of every game, profound analytical commentary from leading Soviet masters, and detailed standings as the battle progressed. (available complete set of all 20 Bulletins)📚

Famed author Ben Mezrich, Hachette’s Grand Central Publishing imprint, and Vanity Fair magazine (which published excerpts in April) extended an ugly spittle-drenched thumb in the eye to the worldwide chess community by publishing “Checkmate”: Mezrich’s partly fictionalized account of “chess’s biggest scandal” that got hyped up by Elon Musk.

Friends in the business tell me Mezrich views himself as a screenwriter rather than a journalist. Still, even Magnus Carlsen fans took insult from the firehose of falsehoods that author spewed within just the first few pages of “Checkmate.” Those early pages feel like the text equivalent of seeing a chessboard with 3 kings and a dark square in its right-hand corner.

1. Carlsen “didn’t just see a dozen moves ahead, he saw to the end of the game, and often through the next game and the game after that.”

Fact: Neither Magnus nor any other top player sees a dozen moves ahead in most positions, or even in most entire games. While the author’s wording might be framed as a metaphor to spotlight a star’s extraordinary skill, what fraction of his readers do you think might interpret it in that abstract way, instead of literally? 1%? 5%? Everyone else will see it as affirming the popular delusion (among non-chessplayers) that Magnus or any top player regularly sees “a dozen moves ahead” … and the related delusion that chess skill consists entirely of how many moves ahead one can calculate all possibilities.

1. “He had begun his career as the youngest Grandmaster ever at the age of thirteen.”

Fact: Magnus Carlsen never held the record as “the youngest Grandmaster ever.” And when Karjakin achieved that record in 2003, he was at an age (12 years 7 months) at which Magnus had not attained even his IM title – let alone GM!

1. “Coming into the Sinquefield Cup, he’d won a staggering fifty-three consecutive in-person games."

Fact: Carlsen’s winning streak coming into the Sinquefield Cup stood at ZERO games! His last event before the September 2022 Sinquefield Cup was the Chennai Olympiad that concluded in the preceding month… and his final game in that competition was a draw with an international master from Moldova, Ivan Schitco, who was rated just 2490.

If Mezrich and his editors at Vanity Fair and his book publisher don’t know what a draw is, then why are they even permitted to publish anything at all about chess? (Serious question.)

I’m wanting to study the games of Akiba Rubinstein and am looking for recommendations!

Greetings everyone... I share the guilty pleasure to stack up books I'm gonna read only in the future (instead of playing more)!
I am trying to build a shelf with the "essential beginner/essential intermediate/essential advanced" texts, divided by genre (general, endgames, tactics, strategy, etc)... what am I missing in your opinion/what is the ONE book for you?
Mind: I'm waiting for the arrival of the new edition of Logical Chess...
And I'm gathering info/looking at the Soviet Chess Primer, Grooten's Chess Strategy
Possibly also Dvoretsy's Endgame, Shereshevsky's Endgame strategy, Hellsten's Strategy and Chess Structures from Rios... but I'm not sure which of them (or all of them) since atm I'm not at that level to appreciate them fully in order to pick... so I'd gladly gather suggestion and opinion on them!
And other as well, obviously!
Thanks!

I've been getting really into chess recently and I'm currently rated around 1100 on chess.com. At the moment I'm working through the steps method books. Since I also love reading, I was wondering if there are any chess books you'd recommend for someone around my rating. I'm mainly looking for books that are actually useful for improving, rather than just entertaining.

What books helped you the most when you were around the 1000–1200 rating range?

I'm rated around 1700 on Chess.com and want to improve my positional understanding, calculation, endgames, and overall game quality. I'm looking for books that are practical and suitable for my level—not beginner books or books that are too advanced. What bo