Answers.Body: <p>As alluded to in <a href="https://chess.stackexchange.com/a/40074/26335">this answer</a>, Seirawan has two useful books that are wonderful for beginners.</p>
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  <li><p><a href="https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/1857443314" rel="nofollow noreferrer" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><em><strong>Play Winning Chess</strong></em></a> covers the fundamentals very well, focusing on concepts such as Force (material), Time (tempo), Space, and Pawn Structure. Targeted at the beginner level.</p>
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  <li><p><a href="https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/B004Y6AI30" rel="nofollow noreferrer" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><em><strong>Winning Chess Strategies</strong></em></a> is the perfect introduction to positional ideas for beginners. Very useful for beginners struggling to find ideas to generate candidate moves. Includes positional puzzles.</p>
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Answers.Body: <p>Beginners don't really need to understand the middle game. You mostly just need an understanding of basics and tactics to move beyond the beginner stage. Seirawan had a series  with a couple of books on the middle game. That's probably plenty for beginners.</p>
  <p>Once you start pushing for 2000, Nimzo's <em>My System</em> and Silman's HTRYC are good.</p>
  <p>If I were teaching middle-game planning to a beginner, I would just say, pick a target and point all of your pieces at it. The target can be the king or a weak pawn or a hanging piece or whatever. If you don't know what to do, just improve the mobility of your pieces. Most middle-game planning comes down to increasing mobility anyway.</p>
  
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Body: <p>What are some great middlegame chess books that are for beginners that will help me to improve my middle game in chess? There aren't a lot of books on the middle game.</p>
  
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Comments.Text: By the way, there's hardly any middle-game books targeted at beginners since if youre studying the middle-game you probably arent a beginner by definition.
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Title: What are some middle game chess books that are good for beginners?
ThreadText: # What are some middle game chess books that are good for beginners?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2022-06-30)
  
  What are some great middlegame chess books that are for beginners that will help me to improve my middle game in chess? There aren't a lot of books on the middle game.
  
  **Tags:** learning, books, beginner, middlegame, recommendations
  
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  > **username_1**: By the way, there's hardly any middle-game books targeted at beginners since if youre studying the middle-game you probably arent a beginner by definition.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2022-06-30. Score: 1
  
  As alluded to in [this answer](https://chess.stackexchange.com/a/40074/26335), Seirawan has two useful books that are wonderful for beginners.
  
  * [***Play Winning Chess***](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/1857443314) covers the fundamentals very well, focusing on concepts such as Force (material), Time (tempo), Space, and Pawn Structure. Targeted at the beginner level.
  * [***Winning Chess Strategies***](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/B004Y6AI30) is the perfect introduction to positional ideas for beginners. Very useful for beginners struggling to find ideas to generate candidate moves. Includes positional puzzles.
  
  [![Image with book covers](https://i.sstatic.net/Q4lWH.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/Q4lWH.png)
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2022-06-30. Score: 0
  
  Beginners don't really need to understand the middle game. You mostly just need an understanding of basics and tactics to move beyond the beginner stage. Seirawan had a series with a couple of books on the middle game. That's probably plenty for beginners.
  
  Once you start pushing for 2000, Nimzo's *My System* and Silman's HTRYC are good.
  
  If I were teaching middle-game planning to a beginner, I would just say, pick a target and point all of your pieces at it. The target can be the king or a weak pawn or a hanging piece or whatever. If you don't know what to do, just improve the mobility of your pieces. Most middle-game planning comes down to increasing mobility anyway.
  
  
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