Good book for positional chess problems

Hi any recommendations for ways to study positions and analyse them. A book would be better as I spend too much time on screens. Cheers!

I don't know any books but chessable is good

check Boris Gelfand's books. i think there are some books written by him specially on positional chess which are quite big and worth it. Nimzowitsch's book 'My System' is also a must read classic.

Thanks

@Aqua_sama said in #3:
> check Boris Gelfand's books. i think there are some books written by him specially on positional chess which are quite big and worth it. Nimzowitsch's book 'My System' is also a must read classic.

"Test Your Positional Play" by Bellin and Ponzetto is excellent. I'm not sure if it's still in print, but one of the used book websites should have it. The authors give a middle game position and offer 3 possible plans, with the reasoning for each. You decide which one is best, and then look at the authors' analysis to see the correct answer. It's a very instructional method.

"Test Your Chess Skills" by Guliev is also very good, as is "Strategic Chess Exercises" by Bricard. Both are still in print as far as I know. A careful study of any one of these books, or even better all 3, is guaranteed to greatly improve your ability to assess a position and find a good plan.

Edit: I checked thriftbooks.com, and the Bellin and Ponzetto book is in fact available for $7.99.

Strategic play and Positional play by Aagard, Attack and Defence too. Masterpieces!

It's better if you can be more specific regarding which difficulty level of the positional bookmaterial. Boris Gelfand's and Jacob Aagaard's books are for example very advanced and only for high-rated players.

I agree that Aagard's books are only for advanced players but I can't complete agree that Gelfand's are (his first book at least).

My system is a classic but it's not the best thing out there. It was just revolutionary at the time (100 years ago) but it's really not that good for the typical amateur nowadays as it's a little abstract and dogmatic. I still recommend reading it but it's not actually the best use of your time if you're just trying to improve.

I hear Johan Hellsten's books recommended a lot, I haven't actually read them myself but it's something I've heard people get a lot of great results with.

I actually like Peter Romanavsky's book a lot, the English version is "Soviet Middlegame Technique", I also like Zurich 1953 (great example of older books that outshine "My System" in terms of practical application).