

What a lot of chess authors do is that they try to act as smart as possible. What makes a great chess book for beginners? Now that you’ve read my chess beginner book recommendations, I’m going to dig a bit deeper into exactly why these books will help you with your ranking. This book alone helped med to beat almost all players below 1500 ELO in an endgame – and I’m not even joking. I was totally unaware of the importance of studying endgames before I bought this book. Photo: Sustainability Matters (lichess)Īnd the more you learn about how complex end games are, the better chances you have in such positions. Still not sure what an endgame situation is? Let me illustrate that for you. Or both players have a queen + rock and some pawns left.

That could for instance be that both players have a rook and some pawns. The endgame refers to when both sides have a few pieces left. However, it’s a quite unique and delicate piece that might be helpful for some of you. I was not certain whether I would recommend this chess book.

In a hurry? Here’s the top 3 chess books for beginners on Amazon.“Oh god, NO! Not another chess article on Sustainability Matters Daily!!!” Click to save this post on Pinterest Table of Contents After all, I bet no one is reading this article thinking: However, once I got something super useful to share, I decided to do it regardless. This isn’t an article about any environmental topics. And this is, after all, a website about sustainability. Well – it’s because it’s an environmentally friendly material to make chess boards out of. PS! If you ever need a physical chessboard, I’ve written an article about the best wooden chess boards available. And that has a lot to do with reading the right chess books: 🙂Īs you can see, I’ve gone from being a ~600 rated player to become a ~1250-1300 player at blitz games. And those that I will strongly NOT recommend you to buy. This article both contains books I can recommend. I bought about 10 chess books from Amazon when I started to get serious about my chess. Or…at least, I’m trying to be.īeing inspired by quite many YouTubers (more on that later), I decided to dig deep into chess.
