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Chessreads is a platform for chess book reviews from a perspective of an improving player. I started playing chess in 2016, and, ever since reading my first chess book, I kept taking notes on everything I’ve read. Chessreads is the result of almost 9 years of playing chess, reading chess books, and creating chess content.
The books on Chessreads are divided by category (opening, middlegame, endgame, etc.), and by difficulty (beginner, intermediate, advanced, master). That way you can filter them according to your current strength and according to what you think you have to work on the most. Each book is given two separate scores: readability and usefulness. The readability score represents how difficult it is to read the book without using a board. A book with 10/10 readability is a bedtime story, a book with 1/10 is a puzzle book full of variations. Readability doesn’t represent the quality of the book. Usefulness is a measure of how useful the book is for chess improvement within the topic it covers. Books with a high usefulness score should help you improve quicker than those with a low score.
New reviews will be published weekly. The books on Chessreads are divided by category (opening, middlegame, endgame, etc.), and by difficulty (beginner, intermediate, advanced, master). That way you can filter them according to your current strength and according to what you think you have to work on the most.
Chessreads answers the question: “Which chess books should I read?”, that many people have. Whether you’re a beginner, an intermediate player, an advanced player, or a master, you can easily find out what to read by simply filtering the books.