I really want to get I book on chess strategies. I can’t always use the Internet for learning chess, and I feel like I learn better from books than from videos. Do you guys have any recommendations? Thanks!

I’m also a beginner.

the bird's oppeing

Heyyyy

if you want to play agressive and creative i recommend you "bobby fischer teaches chess" nice book

Old Benoni defense

Ooh thanks!

#3 birds opening is the goat

Old wombat defense

try jeremy silmans imbalances book, and maybe also his endgames book (it may not have B+N, but its good!)

Good Chess Books for Beginners and Beyond...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/good-chess-books-for-beginners-and-beyond

The Steps Method by Rob Brunia and IM Cor van Wijgerden

I would recommend a more general book geared towards beginners like Play Winning Chess by Yasser Seirawan, or How to Win at Chess by Gotham Chess. You don't need a book that is specific to a certain part of the game yet (except maybe on tactics). Silman's Endgame book is great, but based on your rating, only the first chapter would be of any use to you until you get much stronger as a chess player.

Great info…Thanks!

I recommend Irving Chernev’s books:

Logical Chess Move by Move and

The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played

I've been saying the same thing for decades now: There are three chess books every beginner needs to read, and they've (mostly) been mentioned in this thread already. But I'll explain why to get all three.

1. Logical Chess: Move by Move by Irving Chernev. This was the standard recommendation for beginners when I started playing 25 years ago. It'll teach you about piece development, improvising in the opening with a plan towards the middle game, and just show you some good play.

2. Silman's Complete Endgame by Jeremy Silman. What's the point of getting ahead in material if you don't know how to finish the resulting endgame? Silman's book is one of the best instructive books, on any subject, that I've ever seen. Instead of just throwing all the information at you like most endgame books, he walks you through the parts you need to know immediately in the first chapter or two, then tells you to put his book down and just play and study other things for a while before coming back for more. This lets you absorb his material much more naturally than any other endgame book I've tried to study.

3. A good book of beginner tactics puzzles. I'm not so picky about which one, as I am with the first two choices, and I've heard Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess might be a good pick for this, though it might not have enough puzzles for practice after teaching you what to look for. Personally, my first book of this type was John Bain's Chess Tactics for Students, though my current recommendation would be Dan Heisman's Back to Basics: Tactics, which I think has since replaced Bain as the better book of this type. It's worth noting that Heisman himself was the one who recommended Bain's book to me, before he wrote his own. But the point here is to learn all the basic tactical patterns, and then train on lots of puzzles to get good at spotting them. You'll want to pick one of these books and go through all the puzzles over and over until you can spot the solutions instantly.