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title: Chess
description: Chess is the classic game of strategy. You will learn openings, tactics, endgames and positional play, how to study games and use engines, and a training path from beginner to club strength.
category: personal-development
subcategory: life-skills
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/chess
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# Chess

Chess is the classic game of strategy. You will learn openings, tactics, endgames and positional play, how to study games and use engines, and a training path from beginner to club strength.

## Available Resources

3 Books • 1 Websites

## Books

### 1. Silman's Complete Endgame Course

**Author:** Jeremy Silman (IM)

The endgame reference slot. Endgame theory sorted by rating band, so a player studies only what their current strength requires and returns as they improve. Runs from basic mates through rook endings to master-level material, roughly 530 pages.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1890085103?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** chess, endgames, rook-endings, chess-improvement

### 2. How to Reassess Your Chess (4th Edition)

**Author:** Jeremy Silman (IM)

Silman's imbalance framework — minor-piece quality, pawn structure, space, material, initiative — reframes position assessment as a search for imbalances rather than a hunt for good moves. Dense, exercise-heavy, aimed at players pushing past 1400. Silman supplies an explicit mental model for evaluating any middlegame.

**Difficulty:** Advanced | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1890085138?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** chess, positional-play, imbalances, middlegame, position-evaluation

### 3. Logical Chess: Move by Move

**Author:** Irving Chernev

Thirty-three complete games annotated on every single move, with the reasoning spelled out rather than assumed. The classic bridge from knowing the rules to understanding development, piece activity, and kingside attacks. Explaining every move is the whole pedagogical point, so it teaches a thinking habit rather than move memorisation.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0713484640?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** chess, annotated-games, chess-principles, development, kingside-attack

## Youtubes

### 1. Building Chess Habits

**Author:** Aman Hambleton (GM)

GM Aman Hambleton plays from a 400 rating upward while binding himself to an explicit, tiered ruleset, unlocking new rules only as the rating climbs. The narration turns vague advice into a checkable thinking routine for club-level play.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjxDD7HNNThftJtE0OIRFRMMFf6AV_69

**Tags:** chess, chess-improvement, thinking-process, speedrun, club-play

## Websites

### 1. Lichess

Free, ad-free, open-source chess server whose training stack covers the whole improvement loop: guided basics, endgame and tactical drills, rating-adaptive puzzles, opening explorer, Stockfish game review, and shareable annotated studies.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://lichess.org/

**Tags:** chess, chess-puzzles, tactics-training, opening-explorer, game-analysis

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