One of the hottest topics you can find in a chess tournament hall is how to keep training and practicing chess while having commitments such as a full-time job (as well as a family, and more).

In this article I will discuss with you a set of books that I believe are the best ones to work through in order to improve one’s tactical and calculation ability.

If you are like me, with a full-time job, family and lots of other commitments, then you may want to carefully select the chess tournaments you play in.

Chess coaching for kids was the subject of a few posts of mines already.

In this post I want to share with you my favorite picks for playing and practicing chess, as far as books are concerned.

In the following pages I want to share with you my top-choices for learning and practicing chess.