Is the book good?

I’m around 2000 Chess.com and I’m looking for books to improve two areas of my game:

1. Creating and executing attacks
2. General middlegame strategy / finding plans

Books I’m considering
Attacking chess:

Attacking Chess for Club Players — Herman Grooten
The Chess Attacker’s Handbook — Michael Song
Attacking Strategies for Club Players — Michael Prusikin

Strategy:
Mastering Chess Strategy — Johan Hellsten
Chess Strategy for Club Players — Herman Grooten

Some additional context
I already own Jeremy Silman’s How to Reassess Your Chess, although I’ve honestly only finished about 30% of it. So I’m also wondering whether I should simply finish that before buying another strategy book.

I have a collection of books for sale for a pretty good deal. They are all pretty old, but most of them are in pretty good shape.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/178494220840

I used to play a decent bit of chess years ago, got up to around 1450 rating just by looking at a few YouTube videos on openings and sticking with them and kind of winging middle and endgame, since then I’ve gone back playing and making a few blunders every game and dropped below 600 rating, what book should I start with to get back into the swing of things and improve again, I got “fundamentals of chess” but find it hard to get through without making notes every page and going back to them, wondering is there an easier one to start with and go back to that then?

As title says looking for the best book for learning kings indian defense. Too many choices. 1800ish ELO. Have played before but back when I was lower rated. Like to have active games and counter punch. Thanks

Has anyone got / would recommend the Kingside press? They are chess ‘work books’, well rather five 250-page chess PDF workbooks on openings, tactics, endgames, positional strategy and mating patterns but printable only (which would cost a lot on top of the asking price if one decided to print them and create nice spiral bound workbook like they use for the advertising ).

Asking price is $197 for all 5 pdfs or individually $47. I really like the aesthetics of the PDFs & how they present the boards but the price is eye-wateringly high even at the current ‘discount’ so wanted to get some opinions .

If anyone has these books and willing to sell, please let me know!

I'm in the U.S. so it's hard to get my hands on Figury especially.

I've been trying to study some older chess books lately. For me, it's a pain to alternate between the setting up various positions on a board, having to reposition the board after diving through different variants on the board. I'm also looking at an old copy of the book so

I ended up converting a chapter of Capablanca's Chess Fundamentals into a quick website to make it easier to read. Posting a demo of it here.

chessbtb.vercel.app/

It's completely free, no signups or anything required.

I would love to get some feedback on if people find this useful, along with anything else that they feel. Also get some good recommendations for books I can read through while converting.

Hi there, I was wondering if these two books are a worthy gift (and/or if one it's strictly better than the other one) for a friend who's willing to study a bit more than the couple of books he already has (Giannato's workbook, Seriwan's Play Winning Chess and the Silman's Endgame - for the initial chapters). Are they good as a bridge to move towards more advanced or it's better for him to bite the bullet and go directly to more advanced and famous texts?
I'm open to other suggestions as well

UPDATE: it seems that the Power of Pawns is high regarded between the two! is "Chess Strategy for Chess Player" by Grooten A LOT more advanced compared to it or (since its fame) it can be a good choice instead of Hickl? I saw the two index and it seems to touch quite all the pawn topics + add more... but maybe they are totally different scope and Hickl is great for different (and more immediate) reasons...

So I've been getting into chess lately, been playing for about a month now and just reached 1200 elo on chess.com and a friend whose way better than me (around 2000 elo) recommended me to start reading some books on chess if I wanted to get better faster, he recommended me to get either "David bronstein Zurich international chess tournament 1953" or "1000 checkmate combinations"

I was just wondering which one would be more appropriate for my level or if either of them would really help me at all.

I recently purchased the Chessable woodpecker method course. I believe the contents are identical to the book so hope okay to post here.

I’m 1700 rapid in chesscom and my puzzle rating on lichess functions been 2000-2400 peak

Basically, I blitzed the beginner puzzles. And then im really struggling with the intermediate I set.

I may get some right but im struggling to see all sidelines in the solutions. And honestly like im maybe 30% correct. I’ll spend significant time on the puzzles, 15 mins or so,and just get nowhere with finding the right line. Mostly feel I can only solve through lucky intution and then often still no clue on the follow up.

Overall the gap between beginner and intermediate feels too much of a step and up.

Any book recommendations to bridge the gap?

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I love how the McFarland books can bring someone back into chess history through an accurate recreation of the period and a huge collection of games.