Chess Improvement: 5 Best Books for Advanced Players!

Here is my collection of the Best Chess Improvement Books for players of roughly 1400 to 1800 ELO!

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For any who are curious — these are the books that I am currently working through or recently worked through as a 1600 player, which I found to be the most instructive in improving my game as I chase my next goal of reaching ELO 1800.

#5 — The Woodpecker Method by Axel Smith & Hans Tikkanen

The Woodpecker Method is one of those books that every chess player either loves or hates. What that means is that every high level chess player seems to have tried it out… personally, I’m probably somewhere in the middle. It’s a tactics book and a very time-consuming (although not pointless) approach to tactics training. If you perform the Woodpecker Method with the diligence & discipline demanded in the program’s guidelines — then you will improve at Chess. Although, if you devote that much time, energy, concentration & intentionality to any rigorous Chess Tactics study…