How can I become a better chess player?
A couple of good books to start with are Susan Polgar’s “A World Champion’s Guide to Chess” and “Chess Tactics for Champions”. You can get them online of course, but they’re usually available at a decent book store, like a Barnes and Noble or Books a Million. Yasser Seirawan has a great series of books out as well, but they’ll take longer to go through than Polgar’s two books… Seirawan’s books, if you decided to check them out, should be studied in the following order: 1) Play Winning Chess (a beginner’s book, you might be able to skip this one if you’re familiar with the stuff it covers). 2) Wining Chess Endgames 3) Winning Chess Tactics 4) Winning Chess Strategies 5) Winning Chess Openings 6) Winning Chess Combinations 7) Winning Chess Brilliancies But I’d recommend Polgar’s two books first. Very easy to follow the action, and she does a great job of explaining things.
