Book Recap #30- 10 Underrated Chess Books for Different Ratings Levels, with FM Carsten Hansen 

This episode was recorded at Suite Recording Studios in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey and is also available with video on the Perpetual Chess YouTube channel.  Chess Books Recaptured returns, this time to discuss 10 books for the price of one! My guest co-host is FM Carsten Hansen, who returns to the pod to join me in selecting and discussing different chess books for different chess experience levels. Carsten is a prolific author, the book reviewer for American Chess Magazine, and a Chess Life magazine columnist. In addition to a lot of book talk, we discuss Carsten’s chess-improvement efforts and OTB plans, and a few of his recent collaborations with IM Cyrus Lakdawala. There is always so much to learn from Carsten, and I am confident we have selected worthwhile book recommendations for chess enthusiasts of many backgrounds.   02:00- How do we define an “underrated” chess book?  04:30- Aside from reading chess books, who are some of our favorite chess content creators? Mentioned: IM Levy Rozman, GM Daniel Naroditsky, IM Andras Toth, IM John Bartholomew, GM Daniel King, Chess Feels, C Squared, Chicken Chess Club, Ladies Knight with Isabella Choko  8:30- Book #1- Open Files by Uhlman and Schmidt  12:00- Book #2- Arkell’s Endings by and GM Keith Arkell   16:00- Book #3- World Chess Championship 1948. Contact the translator, Jan Verendel via his website: https://verendel.com/ 18:00- Book #4- Fundamental Chess: Logical Decision Making by GM Ramesh 23:00- Book #5- Learn to Play Chess Like a Boss by GM Patrick Wolff  Mentioned: Episode 189 with GM Patrick Wolff   Perpetual Chess is brought to you in part by Chessable.com. Check out their latest courses here: https://www.chessable.com/courses/all/new/ 27:00- Book #6- Instructive Chess Miniatures  by FM Alper Efe Ataman  30:30- Book #7- Rewire Your Chess Brain by IM Cyrus Lakdawala  Mentioned: Episode 197 with IM Cyrus Lakdawala,  Endgames Studies 101 on Chessable 37:30- Book #8- The Giants of Strategy by GM Neil McDonald  42:30- Book #9- Positional Chess by IM Shaun Talbu