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So, while I've always loved the idea of #chess, I've also always been spectacularly bad at it. Can anyone recommend any books or other resources that might help? I had an eBook (or was it a PDF?) on tactics once upon a time, but I don't know what happened to it.

I know that an important key is practice, but the problem is that when I lose, I don't know why I lost, so it's difficult to learn from the experience.

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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

“How to Think Ahead in Chess” by Horowitz and Reinfeld is wonderful. It’s an older book, but it’ll teach you what you need. archive.org/details/howtothink…

This is also terrific: archive.org/details/bobbyfisch…

in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

The free lessons on lichess.com are very good and will give you a basic grounding across all aspects of the game, helping build the chess vocabulary you'll need to understand why this or that specific game went wrong.

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