Originally Posted by
Christopher Mallon
I have a bunch already, but have there been any recent books that are great for people looking to improve from say 1500 to 2000+?
Thanks.
Being a master that's not into too heavy study anymore, I don't buy middlegame/improvement books much anymore (not that many tell me anything essentially new to me). However a book that's quite instructively annotated that's fairly recent is 'The Nimzo-Indian move by move' (Emms, Everyman 2011). It may help a player even at that level to improve, at least somewhat, since besides giving notes on whole games, the book's about an opening that just about everyone plays one side or the other of.
A book that's not recent that is instructional concerning all phases of the game is 'Secrets of Practical Chess' (Nunn, Gambit 1998). Probably helps even that skill level of a reader, again, if you don't have it already.
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