Learning Chess

Chessmaster 10th Edition -- Having a computer program is a must for practice( and a little learning)
Chess-Become an aggressive gambiteer-tactician with only 10 books
- Baco says: "I recommend only the essential books needed for this.Each area of the game is covered, though tactics naturally get more attention.If you've never read a chessbook before start with Patrick Wolff's 'The complete idiot's guide to chess',then move on down the list."
- asr: we buy List books as we advance our rating ( mostly in the order of this List)
- asr: I agree with this list mania author Baco because, I read above Patrik Wolff book and it is best first book as Baco pointed, so I validated Baco's recommendations. I assume same must be true with all Baco Recommendations in the List Mania.
- asr: what a great time/money saving using Amazon List mania. I spent so much time in finding books on chess this List helped finally. Only thing is there are many lists on a given subject ( chess , nutrition etc..) you need to validate ONE of List author recommendations by knowing/experiencing ( book or prouduct ) so that you can be sure of rest of the List mania items.

Next Level Books:Next level books recommended by many List are:
Practical Chess Exercises: 600 Lessons from Tactics to Strategy - I had this book very good
How to Reassess Your Chess: The Complete Chess-Mastery Course
The Reassess Your Chess Workbook
Art of Attack in Chess
- Rapidly improve your chess to Class D -- this List aggress with Baco List, see List author comments: 1100 rated player who drastically improved in 2 months ( on this page)
- Best Chess books that will improve your game -- this List shows books with high review ratings
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Here is review talks about different Chess books on problems puzzles
A fine addition to a crowded field
-- you can search book names in amazon to get links for books
If you are looking for an exercise set from which to train your tactical muscles, there is no clearly better choice. The closest competitor is [Emms], which has 1001 positions (including two known pairs of duplicates), and a roughly similar structure. I would say that those two are the front-runners. [Blokh] has 1206 positions, many of which are solvable with either player to move; it differs also in that the exercises are sorted by theme and labeled by difficulty; it costs a bit more, too. The old potboilers by [Reinfeld] have 1001 positions each, sorted by theme but not by difficulty; the binding and print are marginal, but they cost much less, too. If you want to mix your tactics problems with strategic/positional/defensive ones (a good idea), you should go with [Cheng]'s 600 positions, or the 300 in [Alburt]. Now, all of the above are appropriate for the wide intermediate range. Advanced players might prefer [Gaprindashvili] or [Nunn]; [Volokitin] looks great, too, though I have only skimmed it. I am less familiar with the books aimed at beginners, but I can recommend [Heisman]. [Sukhin] doesn't quite compare with these books since many of its 1000 puzzles are concerned with historical chess variants, and this is not something many readers would expect or want.

Blokh, Combinative Motifs
Emms, The Ultimate Chess Puzzle Book
Reinfeld, 1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate; 1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations
Cheng, Practical Chess Exercises
Alburt, Chess Training Pocket Book
Gaprindashvili, Imagination in Chess
Nunn, John Nunn's Chess Puzzle Book
Volokitin, Perfect Your Chess
Heisman, Back To Basics: Tactics
Sukhin, Chess Gems