Book recommendation

Hi all,

i own only six chess books:

"Win with the London System" by Johnsen/Kovacevic
"Learn Chess Tactics" by Nunn
"1001 Deadly Checkmates" by Nunn
"1... b6" by Lakdawala
"Amateur To IM" by Hawkins
"Das Schachspiel" by Tarrasch

The latter i bought when i was 14 and started with chess - about 46 years ago.

The rest i bought in the last half year or so after i joined lichess.org.

Should be enough for the next years and i'm convinced that less is more.

But i don't have any game collection.

Some say that i should have at least one. This seems to be plausible.

But there are so many. And their layout is sometimes poor, bad readability, bad usability.

Or their level is extremely high. And so on. Not to forget that these books are often quite expensive.

Thank you very much in advance for any recommendation.

Best regards, Karl

P.S.: And please don't worry about the title of the book by Hawkins - i'm aware that i'll never become an IM ;-)

Mammoth book of chess best 100 games of all time. Probably my favourite chess book ever!

Reti's Masters of the Chessboard is both educational and inspiring.

@karlgoethebier #1

Game collection : My 60 memorable games, by Bobby Fischer is worth reading, as well is the tourney book of Zuerich 1953.

@achja #4

Yes, i heard and read a lot of good things about this book.

But unfortunately it seems to be a problem to get the right edition.

See www.amazon.de/My-60-Memorable-Games-Strategies/dp/190638830X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1466953650&sr=8-1&keywords=My+60+Memorable+Games which seems to be not the right edition.

Best regards, Karl

@hicetnunc #3

This book looks very promising. Perhaps it is what i was looking for.

Thank you and best regards, Karl

@ AMADAN #3

Ah, this looks pretty good too! It seems that it is out of print but i figured out that a german chess book dealer still has a slightly damaged one.

Thanks for the hint and best regards, Karl

@karlgoethebier #5
Looks fine to me :
www.amazon.com/My-Memorable-Games-Bobby-Fischer/dp/190638830X

Gets almost 5 starts with more than 100 reviews.

Of course people name the very famous ones, but maybe these are not the best for your purposes. I recommend "Modern Chess move by move, Colin Crouch, Everyman Chess 2009". 400 pages for 33 games of elite players, explained not on GM level but on club player's level.
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Reti's "Masters of the Chessboard"
Alekhine's "My Best Games"
Chernev's "The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played"

These classic books are spoken to the average player. Chernev's is best as its 62 games are selected to show specific motifs. Alekhine provides his thought process and is funny at certain points.

Fischer's book is well thought out but is written at too high of a level.

A final thought: if you don't like the type of games played by Alekhine, you won't enjoy reading his book. For example, I didn't suggest Capablanca's "The Immortal Games of Capablanca," because I consider his style of play to be lackluster.